Clear Lake Mirror Reporter

The Garner-Hayfield/Ventura girls moved their record to 6-1, 8-3 with two big wins over Newman Catholic and Forest City.

GHV 63-Newman 29

The Garner-Hayfield/Ventura girls basketball team came out on fire and scorched the Newman Catholic girls (0-7, 0-11) in a 63-29 romp on Friday, Jan. 17, at home.

Clear Lake is well represented on the All North Central Conference and Class 3A All-District baseball teams announced this week.

 The Lions, who finished as runner-up in the NCC with a 15-3 record (30-5 overall), landed four players on the First Team All-NCC list.
 Brock Adams was a unanimous choice as a First Team pitcher, while Pete Swenson was selected as an infielder and Mitch Keeran and Devin Uhlenhopp were both named First Team outfielders.

 Clear Lake freshman Emily Snelling finished as the Class 3A runner-up and helped her team to a third place finish at the State Meet played at Ames June 2-3.

The Clear Lake boys recorded their best finish since 1991 at the North Central Conference Track Meet run Tuesday, May 13 at Lions Field.  The Lions were runner-up with 87-points.  Algona took the title with 175.5 points.  Clarion-Goldfield finished one-half point behind the Lions with 86.50.

Chandler Diercks returned from injury to win the long jump and break Mark Hewitt’s conference record with a jump of 23’ 6”.  Hewitt’s record had held since 1981 at 22’ 10”.