The Clark boys basketball team closed out the season with a 65-60 win over Stevens. Shawn Gulley led with 28 points , Justin Brickman added 12 and Scotty Carl had 7.  Nathan Josephs and Marcus Hawkins scored 4 points each, Ruben Garcia and Matt Meron added 3 points a piece and Jorden Kite and Kris Sneed each had two points.

It was a tough rebuilding season for the Cougars, but, as always, Coach Steve Sylestine’s team represented Clark well. Best of luck to all the seniors!

Eat. Then eat some more!

You can help support this year’s Project Graduation by feeding you, your friends or your family at Culver’s.  10% of all sales on Wednesday, the 23rd (tomorrow) will be donated back to the Class of 2012.  For more information, visit the Clark Athletic Booster club website.

The Clark Cougars varsity girls basketball team are hanging some big numbers on the scoreboard this year (wins with 99, 78, 75 and 74 points) and the results have them ready for a district title run.  This past weekend, they defeated New Braunfels Canyon 62-50 to win the Cougarette Tournament.  It was their 2nd tournament win of the season as they were champions of the Harlandale tourney.

They start district this week against O’Connor Tuesday evening at 6:30pm.  GREAT JOB, COUGARS!

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!!!

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.

Each week during the football season, Clark Cougar football coaches review game film, stats and the week’s practices and award “Most Valuable Player” honors to their athletes. Thanks to AD/HC Steven McGhee, CCS will be sharing those awards with you. Here are this week’s winner’s from the Stevens game:

OFFENSE

Offensive MVP – Brandon Valle
Back/Receiver of the game – Chase Jones
Lineman of the Game – William Dehart

Offensive Scout Team Player of the Week – Carl Williams

DEFENSE

Defensive MVP – Justin Rost
LB/Sec of the Game – Ryan Rogers
lineman of the Game – Sidney Wegert

Defensive Scout Team Player of the Week – Matt Miller

Special Teams Player of the Game – Nick Gonsalves

Grades paid off for these Cougars!

From ClarkCougarSports.com to all of our student athletes, have a great year, a great season, and thanks for your efforts in the class and on the field.  And take a moment to read this.  GO COOGS!

Paul Rost

Congratulations to Clark Cougar athletic trainer Paul “Doc” Rost on his induction to the Alamo Area of Athletic Trainers Association Hall of Fame.  Taking care of Clark athletes for the past 30 years, “Doc” was also responsible for raising funds, helping design and maintains Clark’s top notch Sports Medicine Facility.

A graduate of Southwest Texas State University (now known as Texas State), “Doc” has been at Clark since 1982 after 5 years in Sequin.  You can find out more about “Doc” and his staff and Clark sports medicine facilites on this website.  Congratulations, “Doc”!

Also of note, T.R. St. Charles, a Clark parent and the Director of Football Sports Medicine at the University of the Incarnate Word, is also an AAATA Hall of Fame member.

The NISD Board of Trustees announced the new principal and assistant principals at last night’s meeting. The new principal is Dr. Jerry Woods, formerly vice principal at Brandeis.  New assistant principals are Jaime Heye, an assistant principal at Hobby Middle School (Go Hawks!) and Robert Martinez, a teacher from Jay High School. More information can be found here.

Congratulations and welcome to the best high school in the district, which is the best district in the city, which is in the best city in the state, which is the best state in the USA, which is the best country on the planet, which is the best planet in the solar system, which makes it the best in the universe!

Austin Wells

Congratulations to these Clark spring sports athletes for their All-Area and All-District honors.