Clear Lake roared back from a 1-0 halftime deficit to tie the score, but ultimately fell 3-1 to Bondurant Friday. 
     “Our guys fought really hard against a team that beat them 9-0 last year, and to only get beat 3-1 was a welcomed accomplishment,” said Clear Lake Coach Matt Wade.
    The coach praised the play of goalie Eric Asbe, saying the senior goalkeeper “played out of his mind this game” and made great save after great save to give the team  motivation to keep fighting.

Conference Tournament
    The Lions met North Polk in the first round of their conference tournament on Saturday.  The Lions battled their opponent to a 1-1 tie through regulation and overtime.  The match ended with a penalty shoot-out  to decide the winner.  
     The two teams  were tied after the first five shots and went to sudden death shots.  Both teams missed their first shot, but Clear Lake made its second shot and goalie Eric Asbe blocked North Polk’s second shot giving the Lions a  5-4 victory in penalties.  In the second round, Clear Lake met Bondurant for the second time in two days.  Again, it was a close match.
    The Lions played hard and the score remained 1-1 until 12 minutes remained in the game.  After the game was stopped for 25 minutes due to a serious knee injury suffered by a senior from Bondurant, it continued and the Blue Jays were able to slip in two goals.  So for the second time in as many days, the score line again was 3-1 in favor of Bondurant.

    The Clear Lake girls bounced back from a shutout on Monday, May 5, to lead in a rain-shortened contest at Waverly and win a tournament opener Saturday.  The Lions  (3-4 overall) continue to position themselves for a run at the conference title and will face Webster City at home May 19, then Gilbert May 23.  That match could be a tiebreaker in the conference standings.

Bondurant 5, CL 0
    Bondurant maintained contol of the ball, holding the Lions to just six shots at the goal in a 5-0 game played May 5.  
    Jesslyn McGrath and Brita Hand took most of the shots for the Lions, but were held scoreless.  The Lion defense gave up shots only when Bondurant out ran them and the ball bounced their way.  Coach Lothar Meyer credited Samantha Faber and Samatha Hicok for doing most of the defensive work.

CL 1, Webster City 0
    Heavy rain and threatening weather forced an early stop to play in Webster City Tuesday, May 6.  Jesslyn McGrath scored at the 34 minute mark for the Lions. That was the only score in the abbreviated contest.
    Coach Lothar Meyer said that due to injury of Erica Lovick, he switched some players around in the match.      
     Brita Hand had seven shots in the game.  McGrath followed with six, while  Hannah Trembeth had  five.  The coach noted he was pleased that young Rachel Kopriva made three shots in the match.
    Diana Wright moved from her defensive back position to mid field and took two shots at goal.
    Allison Schaefer, Samantha Faber and  Laura Fyfe held  the Webster City team at bay with their out of bounds play control. Stacie Olk, as a result, had only 7 saves at goal.
 
Waverly Tournament

    The Clear Lake girls finished as runner-up at the North Central Conference Golf Meet played May 7.  Hampton-Dumont won the NCC tourney with a 376, while the Lions had 401. Clarion-Goldfield rounded out the top three with a 403.
    Hampton-Dumont’s Christy Wittmer paced the field with an (44-36) 80.  Clear Lake’s Madison Fischels was runner-up with an (43-45) 88.
    The remainder of the Clear Lake team was balanced.  Cristina Monson and Kara Mathis finished with 104s, while Morgan Duesenberg and Rachel Hewitt had 105s.  Breanne Mumm followed with a 106.

Triangular
    The Clear Lake girls golf team, as well as its junior varsity squad, showed well at a triangular played with Waverly-Shell Rock and Charles City Tuesday, May 6.  
    The Lion varsity carded a 193 to easily outdistance W-SR with 226 and Charles City with 238.  The Lion JV finished with a 219, compared to 264 for the CC JV.
    Clear Lake’s Madison Fischels was the meet medalist with a round of 44.  The Lions’ Rachel Hewitt and Morgan Duesenberg were runners-up with rounds of 49.  
    Breanne Mumm and Kara Mathis each carded a 51 and Cristina Monson finished with a round of 52.
    The Lions JV was led by Christa Terwilliger’s 51.  Taylor Diehl had a 55, Cortney Monson a 56 and Brittany Mumm a 57 for the team.  Alex Hayes and Sam Horner finished with a 60 and 72 respectively.
    “Our JV finished the season undefeated and was able to defeat our opponents’ varsity several times over the season,” said Coach Fred Wieck.  “This is a great accomplishment for our young girls and bodes well for the future of Clear Lake girls golf.”

    Patrick Kolker earned medalist honors for the first time this season and led the Clear Lake boys golf team to a Sectional title Friday, May 9.  Kolker fired a 70 to win by four strokes.  Clear Lake outdistanced runner-up Waverly-Shell Rock 297 to 316.  Both teams advance to District play  in Webster City this Friday, May 16.
     Teams competing at Districts will include Waverly Shell Rock, Algona, Jefferson-Scranton, defending State Champions Ballard of Huxley, and the Lions.  The top two teams and the top four individuals and ties advance to the state championships at Coldwater in Ames on May 23-24.
    Clear Lake Coach Eric Perry said he was not surprised to see Kolker step up to lead the team.
    “Patrick has been playing some really good golf this last week,” said Coach Eric Perry.   “Once you start figuring out the greens and your putting, scoring is much easier.”
    Clear Lake’s Josh Witt and Harrison Webb were in a playoff for third.  Both struck the ball extremely well all day and finished with 75s.  Zach Monson carded a 77 for the Lions, as did Chris Lovell.  Brent Tarr had an 81.
    The Clear Lake boys have compiled a record of 40-45 this season.

Monson repeats as NCC tournament medalist
    Zach Monson joined an elite group of North Central Conference golfers last week.  He became only the second golfer to repeat as an NCC tournament medalist.  Monson fired a 68 to lead the Lions to the NCC title.  It was the fourth straight year the Lions have won the conference tournament title.

    The Ventura girls golf team competed on Monday, May 5, at Spring Valley Golf Course.  The Lady Vikes took first place in the meet with a score of 260.  They were followed by Twin River Valley with 265, Woden-Crystal Lake-Titonka had 267 and Corwith-Wesley-LuVerne finished with 305.
    Ventura’s Kellie Tatro and Blair Berhow-Goll were medalists.  Tatro was the champion with a 56, followed closely by Berhow-Goll, who carded a 58.
    Rounding out Ventura’s score was Jena Lunn with an 80, Katie Benzing shot a 66 and Shayna Frederick had an 85.
    The Lady Vikes also competed on Thursday, May 8, at Ridgestone Golf Course in Sheffield. 
    Sheffied-Chapin/Meservey-Thornton won the meet with a 212.  Ventura was one stroke short of topping Northeast Hamilton.  NEH finished with 266 and Ventura ended with a 267.  Rockwell-Swaledale also competed, but didn’t have enough girls for a team.
    Berhow-Goll was Ventura’s top golfer with a 61.  Tatro shot a 63 and Benzing finished with a 66.  Lunn and Frederick shot a 77 and 79 respectively.

    The Ventura boys golf team was only four strokes away from first place when they traveled to Spring Valley Golf Course on Monday, May 5 for a quadrangular.  The Vikings finished with 185 to Twin River Valley’s 181.  Also competing was Corwith-Wesley-LuVerne, which finished with a 192, and Woden-Crystal Lake-Titonka with 214.
    Jacob Berde, of TRV, was the medalist with a 40.  Craig Latsos, from Ventura, was second with a 44.  Ventura’s Shane Hanley wasn’t far behind with a 45.  Rounding out Ventura’s score was Cole Hanley wit a 47, Dalton Berhow-Goll with a 49 and Josh Henely with a 53.
    The team also competed on Thursday, May 8, in Sheffield at Ridgestone Golf Course.  The Vikings finished in third place at the quadrangular with a 192.  NEH took the meet with a 175, SCMT was runner-up with a 185 and Rockwell-Swaledale finished in fourth with a 197.
    Ryan Swensen from NEH was medalist with a 38.  Berhow-Goll led Ventura with a 47.
    Cole Hanley and Josh Henely both had 48 and Shane Henely was next with a 49.  Craig Latsos finished the day with a 50.

    The Clear Lake boys tennis team wrapped up the season last week with a meet against Oelwein and Waverly-Shell Rock, followed by District tennis play.
    Oelwein posted a 5-3 win over the Lions, but Clear Lake posted a 6-2 victory over WSR.
    Against Oelwein, Luke Humberg, Josh Schneider and Chris Arians got singles wins.  
    Schneider and Arians remained unbeaten against WSR.  Andy Kockler and Logan Williams also got singles wins against the Hawks.  The doubles team of Humburg-Williams and Arians-Schneider also beat WSR.  
    “We played very well in spots which is kind of been how we played the whole season,” said Coach Nick Schauf.   “Consistency is big in tennis. Too often we are beating ourselves.  We did put together some really good matches to come out on top of Waverly.”

    Abby Reese won her singles match, but that was the only victory the Lions took from a quadrangular played at Waverly May 1.  AGWSR and Aplington-Parkersburg also took part in the event.
    Reese won her singles match over AGWSR’s Megan Nederhoff, 10-6.  
    Clear Lake’s Maria Wahl and Morgan Hejna lost a close doubles match to AGWSR, 10-6.  The same duo was also just short of knocking off the A-P team, 10-7.
    Kim Scherber, Kelli Craig, Katie Knutson and Sara Jo Raner also competed for the Lions and played well against some of the better players in the area, said Coach Martha Andrews.
    
CL vs. WC
    Clear Lake battled Webster City in a rain-shortened match May 6.  
    Maria Wahl came back after being down to win her match against Hanna Pint, 10-8.  Morgan Hejna was up by a couple of games, with many deuce games, but the Lynx finished stronger and Courtney Hippen posted a 10-6 victory over Hejna.  
    The singles matches were complete and doubles play was just beginning when the storms started coming in and the meet was stopped.  The score when the meet was halted was 5-1 for Webster City.
    Kim Scherber lost 10-0; Kelli Craig was downed 10-2; Abby Reese lost 10-4 and Sara Raner fell 6-2.
    Junior varsity wins in doubles came from Alicia Mormann and Ann Scherber, 6-4; Sam Quang and Cynthia Wood, 76, 7-4; Niusha Tavakoli and Michaela Lindhe, 6-2; and Chika Chimezie and Ann Scherber, 4-4.

Cheerleading Camp coming to Ventura
     The 2008/09 Ventura varsity cheerleaders will hold a Cheerleading Camp for students in grades kindergarten through 6th.  The camp will be held on Saturday, June 21, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Ventura High School.  The cost is $30 per participant and includes a t-shirt. The cheerleaders will be teaching cheers, jumps and chants.  A performance for parents will be held at 3:30 that day.  Pre-registration is required for releases to signed and t-shirts to be ordered.  Contact Rhonda Clark at 357-7355 for more information.

Advantage Basketball camp coming
     Advantage Basketball camps is now accepting registration for summer 2008 camps to be held at Clear Lake High School, 125 N. 20 St., Clear Lake.  The camp will be held from July 28-Aug. 1 from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily.  For more information visit www.advantagebasketball.com [10] or call Tracy at 641-529-0793 or 1-800-670-0013.  Advantage Basketball Camps are nationally recognized as one of the top ball handling camps in the world since 1986. Advantage Basketball Camps was recently selected by Sports Illustrated Kids as one of the top two camps in the country.

Boys basketball camps announced
    Clear Lake Boys Basketball Camp will be held June 16-19 and 23-26, for boys entering 5th-9th grade.  The camp will be held from 8-10 a.m. at the Clear Lake High School gym.  Cost is $65 if turned in before June 2, after that date the cost is $75.  Entry fee includes a camp t-shirt.  Families with more than one participant will be charged $50 apiece. The camp will be staffed by Kevin Kahler, Clear Lake Varsity Coach and Dave Peters, Clear Lake JV Coach.  Forms are available at the middle school and high school offices.  For more information contact Kevin Kahler at 357-5235 or 641-420-0923.