{"id":5984,"date":"2026-03-21T17:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=5984"},"modified":"2026-03-21T17:19:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:19:44","slug":"lady-cards-fall-12-4-in-tourney-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=5984","title":{"rendered":"Lady Cards fall 12-4 in tourney opener"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Clear Lake grabs early lead before losing to Fortuna at Cloverdale Tournament<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CLOVERDALE &gt;&gt; Clear Lake struck for four runs in the first two innings and a 4-3 lead, but the Fortuna Huskies dominated the rest of the way, beating the Cardinals 12-4 in the opening round of the Cloverdale Softball Tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortuna rallied ahead to stay with a three-run third before adding single runs in the fourth and fifth and four more insurance runs in the sixth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s still early in the season and we\u2019re still working out the kinks,\u201d Clear Lake head coach Scott Schaefers said. \u201cAs long as we keep getting better, that\u2019s the important thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clear Lake (4-2) plays two more games Saturday as the tournament wraps up. The Cardinals open with Piner in an early morning game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Losing pitcher Atiana Patino threw a complete game, allowing 15 hits, striking out six and walking four. She had a much better day at the plate, doubling three times in four at-bats, driving in a run and scoring twice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe was struggling at the plate, so I was happy for her,\u201d Schaefers said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hailey Perez went 1-for-2 with a RBI while Amelie Davis went 1-for-3 with a RBI. Faith McIntire, Ashlynn Cruz and Karsyn Greer had the other Clear Lake hits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schaefers said the Cardinals had their work cut out at the plate as Fortuna\u2019s pitcher was throwing in the high 50s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTheir pitching was pretty good,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clear Lake opens its league schedule on Friday in St. Helena at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clear Lake grabs early lead before losing to Fortuna at Cloverdale Tournament Lake County Sports on Facebook CLOVERDALE &gt;&gt; Clear Lake struck for four runs in the first two innings and a 4-3 lead, but the Fortuna Huskies dominated the rest of the way, beating the Cardinals 12-4 in the opening round of the Cloverdale [&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\/5984"}],"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=5984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5986,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions\/5986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}