Clear Lake Mirror Reporter

The Garner-Hayfield/Ventura softball team started post-season play on an upswing when they faced Clear Lake (4-23) on Tuesday, July 15, to open the Class 3A Regional Tournament.

It’s on to State for the Clear Lake boys soccer team! The road to State tested the Lions and they emerged victorious and confident in their quest to bring Clear Lake its first soccer title. Clear Lake last qualified for the State Tournament in 2010.

 State tournament play begins Thursday, June 5, at 12:15 p.m. against MOC Floyd Valley (11-5) on field #7 at Cownie Soccer complex in Des Moines. The Lions are seeded number three in Class 1A.

The Clear Lake boys golf team spent much of last week on the links and Coach Bart Smith is challenging his players to begin to put all of their experience together heading into the post-season.

“We competed well in some of our tournaments and won a quad that we were suppose to win, but right now if we don’t turn 

things around and start focusing on things that we have talked about to shoot lower, we are an average team that will stay home during State golf. Putting and chipping is why we haven’t improved our scores.”

Coach Todd Greiman was expecting Monday nights gusty wind to take a toll on his player’s scores, but that wasn’t the case, as the Garner-Hayfield/Ventura girls golf team took top honors at the North Iowa meet.  GHV’s score of 216 topped North Iowa’s 244 and Belmond-Klemme’s team score of 319.

The medals went to the Cardinals.  Kyleigh Slaichert was the medalist with a 50 and Kim Dornbier was the runner-up with a 51.  Rounding out the score was Whitney Watson, 55 and Madee Hejna, 60.  Tamara O’Hara also shot a 60 and Elly Johnston carded a 62.