Cardinals drop four games

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The Garner-Hayfield/Ventura baseball team moved their record to 2-12 with four more losses last week.

Lake Mills 7, GHV 4

 The Cardinals dropped a home game to Lake Mills on Monday, June 9.

Clear Lake softball drops first two games

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Algona and Webster City handed the Clear Lake girls softball team losses in the first week of the 2014 season. This week the Lions play four games Monday through Thursday and participate in a tournament at Charles City Saturday. They will be home Monday and Tuesday, June 9 and 10, for local fans to cheer them on against St. Ed’s and Humboldt.

Boys tennis team advances to Sub-State

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The Lions began post-season play Saturday, hosting Denison-Schleswig at the Clear Lake High School tennis courts.  The Lions won, 5-3, to advance to Sub-State against LeMars this Saturday at Fort Dodge St. Edmond.  The winner of the Clear Lake vs. LeMars match will take on the winner of the St. Ed’s vs. Spencer match, with the winning team advancing to the State Team 

Tennis Tournament.

CL 5, Denison-Schleswig 3

Clear Lake girls soccer team tops Lynx

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The Clear Lake girls walked on the Webster City field Tuesday, May 6, knowing it was going to be a challenging game.
“Webster City has always brought out some tough soccer play, and we had to play our best on their home field. The extremely high winds added an extra challenge to the evening,” said Lions Coach Nick DiMarco.

Area well represented at Drake Relays

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The area was well represented at the Drake Relays last week, with both Clear Lake and Garner-Hayfield/Ventura athletes bringing home medals.

 Clear Lake’s Chandler Diercks won the high school long jump title at the Drake Relays Thursday. The junior’s leap of 23’ 10” topped his own school record, which he set earlier in the week at the Lions Relays.

Three shutouts for CL boys tennis team

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 The Clear Lake boys tennis team added three more wins to its season total last week. All three were shutouts.

CL 9, Webster City 0
 The Clear Lake boys tennis team blanked Webster City 9-0 in a home match played Tuesday, April 15.
Same Jones, JJ Theobald, Andrew Davis, Jacob Peterson, Nick Chizek and Ben Mason all convincingly won their single matches. Jones and Chizek each shut out their opponents, 10-0.
The three doubles teams also won by lopsided scores.
Junior varsity players participated in three doubles games and also all won.

GHV boys open track season

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The Garner-Hayfield/Ventura boys track team competed at the Buena Vista College Indoor Meet on Friday, March 21. The meet was optional for team members.
 In field events, Braden Meints tied for fifth in the high jump, with a jump of 5’10”; Nic Tusha was 10th in the shot put with a toss of 42’04”.
 Joel Toppin had a stellar day, winning the 1600 meter run with a time of 4:57.27.

Wrestling team places seventh in State Duals

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The Clear Lake wrestlers placed seventh Wednesday in the State Duals in Des Moines. 

Clear Lake (23-4), the fifth seed in the Class 2A field, started the day matched against the number four seed, Creston-Orient Macksburg (16-0).  The Lions won five of the first six matches, but were defeated 36-32.

GHV girls capture NIC Championship

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The Garner-Hayfield/Ventura girls continue to roll, as they collected three more wins and clinched the outright NIC title with a victory over Newman on Monday.  The Cardinals moved their record to 13-1, 17-3, as they head into Regional competition.  

GHV wrestlers face tough competition at Riceville

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The Garner-Hayfield/Ventura grapplers faced some tough competition at the Riceville Invitational held on Saturday, Jan. 25.  Crestwood won the tournament with 171 points, followed by Forest City with 117.  GHV was sixth with 69 points in the eight team field.

Cade Baker, who wrestles at 160 pounds, was the top finisher for the Cardinals.  Baker opened the day by beating St. 

Ansgar’s Landon Johnson by techincal fall, 17-2.  By virtue of an injury default he claimed second place.

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