The boys and girls varsity basketball teams DESTROYED the Lee Volunteers in non-district action.  The girls started the evening with a 74-24 whipping with Kristen Lye, D’onna Matthews and Kristen Kramer providing the offensive firepower.  The Cougars are now 9-3 on the season.

The boys followed up with a 66-23 victory.  Justin Brickman and Shawn Gulley put up double digits on the scoreboard in the win.

WAY TO GO, COOGS!

Courtesy Steve Lorenz

Cheer on your Cougars Friday night as they make a return to the playoffs at Heroes Stadium against the East Central Hornets. EC finished the season with a 7-3 record and are 10th in the Express News end of season rankings. The Hornets are the second place team in district 28-5A, behind Steele.

Game time is 7:30 – BE THERE!!

GO COOGS!!!

Clark basketball cracked the Express News Top Ten in the second week of the season by jumping off to a strong start. Their 5-1 record includes a five game winning streak after dropping the season opener to a strong Steele team. They’ve since notched wins over Fox Tech (99-13), Antonian (58-38), McCollum (78-23), Clemens (61-50) and Madison (58-50).

Sophomore Kirsten Kramer leads the Cougars in scoring with an average of 14.3 points per game. Sarah Flournoy and D’onna Matthews are both averaging 10.7 points per game.

Up next is the SAISD tournament. Go get ’em COOGS!!!

Tourney update: Clark defeats East Central 71-22. More action Friday and Saturday.

The prestigious Texas Invitational basketball tournament  in Pasadena has become a November tradition for the Clark basketball team and they started things off well with a 58-55 win over Channelview in Thursday’s pool play. The Cougars got off to a strong start leading 21-11 at the end of the first quarter. Leading the team in scoring was Shawn Gulley with 21 and Jorden Kite with 19.

You can keep up with the action in Pasadena on the tournament website. GO COOGS!!

After two years of playoff drought, the Clark Cougars of 2012 will be remembered as the ones who restored Clark, Texas to it’s place in the post season with a 27-26 overtime victory over Warren.  For the third time in as many seasons, the Cougars had to win out in order to make the playoffs and this team, led by seniors who had tasted the agony of defeat, refused to lose and give up.

The Cougars next face East Central Friday evening at Heroes stadium.  CONGRATULATIONS, COUGARS!  Thanks to you – the Tradition of Excellence continues.

Express News article/photos

Steve Lorenz photos

Valle gets accolades

Branden Valle, who rushed for 371 yds. vs. Holmes, has been nominated for Gridiron Legends Player of the Week award, presented by Dave Campbell’s Texas Football on behalf of Cavender’s and Wrangler.  You can make it happen by voting early and often on the website.  You can also find out more on at https://www.facebook.com/GridironLegends.

And when you’re done there, he’s also been nominated for WOAI’s Player of the Week.  You can vote for him here.

Vote.  VOTE.  VOTE!!!!!!  And congratulations, Branden!

Beast

Shootout.  Barn burner.  Words that sometimes adequately describe a game where offense rules and defense drools.  But what happened between Clark and Holmes was more like -well. there aren’t words for Cougar victory that kept playoff hopes alive.  The Cougars defeated the Huskies 56-49 but the bigger story was Branden Valle’s 371 yds. of offense.  On a night when the Cougars couldn’t give up, they didn’t an no one was a better example than the junior running back.

For more on this game, the Express News’ Lorne Chan captures it in this article.