{"id":3410,"date":"2025-05-24T20:35:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T20:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=3410"},"modified":"2025-05-24T20:35:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T20:35:34","slug":"lady-card-fall-to-no-1-seed-in-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=3410","title":{"rendered":"Lady Card fall to No. 1 seed in quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Clear Lake&#8217;s softball season ends with 10-0 loss to McKinleyville<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MCKINLEYVILLE &gt;&gt; A team with only one senior \u2013 and that senior wasn\u2019t able to play Friday \u2013 did enough to satisfy head coach Scott Schaefers even if Clear Lake\u2019s season came to a definitive end with a 10-0 quarterfinal-round loss in five innings to the No. 1-seeded McKinleyville Panthers in the North Coast Section Division 5 softball playoffs at McKinleyville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe were down, pulled it together, came out third place (in league) \u2026 tied for third place, and made it to the playoffs,\u201d Schaefers said of the Cardinals\u2019 up-and-down 2025 campaign, one that ended with Clear Lake (12-9) being held to a single hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A young squad, the Cardinals\u2019 lone senior, outfielder Emily Gersalia, was unable to play because of Clear Lake\u2019s senior class picnic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m definitely going to miss her,\u201d Schaefers said. \u201cShe had the best attitude ever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McKinleyville wasted no time taking the lead, scoring a run in the bottom of the first before putting the game out of reach with a six-run second inning. The Cardinals struggled to do much of anything at the plate, and it was a bloop single over the second baseman\u2019s head, that off the bat of Aubrey Schweitzer with one out in the top of the third, that proved to be Clear Lake\u2019s only hit, and the team\u2019s only baserunner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cardinals won their final four games during North Central League I play to finish .500 in the league standings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clear Lake returns every starter except Gersalia next season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI started three freshmen today,\u201d Schaefers said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clear Lake pitcher Atiana Patino took the loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cardinals rallied from a 5-0 deficit to beat Albany 6-5 in opening-round action Tuesday in Lakeport. McKinleyville (15-12), which had a first-round bye, advances to the semifinals on Wednesday and will host the winner of a Saturday game between South Fork and Miramonte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clear Lake&#8217;s softball season ends with 10-0 loss to McKinleyville Lake County Sports on Facebook MCKINLEYVILLE &gt;&gt; A team with only one senior \u2013 and that senior wasn\u2019t able to play Friday \u2013 did enough to satisfy head coach Scott Schaefers even if Clear Lake\u2019s season came to a definitive end with a 10-0 quarterfinal-round [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,24,89],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3411,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions\/3411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}