{"id":6089,"date":"2026-03-28T17:55:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=6089"},"modified":"2026-03-28T17:55:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:55:45","slug":"clear-lakes-league-opener-a-15-1-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=6089","title":{"rendered":"Clear Lake&#8217;s league opener a 15-1 loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>St. Helena, three-time defending NCL I champion, overwhelms Cardinals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ST. HELENA &gt;&gt; The St. Helena Saints pounded the ball for five innings, beating the Clear Lake Cardinals 15-1 in a North Central League I softball game Friday afternoon in St. Helena where the vising Cardinals were making their league debut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>St. Helena, the three-time defending league champion, improved to 2-0 in the NCL I standings with virtually no resistance from Clear Lake (0-1, 6-3).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just trying to find our stride and be consistent,\u201d Clear Lake head coach Scott Schaefers said. \u201cWe came out flat and off balance. We hit a lot of weak ground balls. I don\u2019t know if it was us or her (winning pitcher Ada Blanton). We were just off balance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blanton worked the first four innings of the five-inning game, allowing Clear Lake\u2019s only two hits and no runs, striking out two and walking none. She faced just three batters over the minimum during her three innings, allowing a double to Clear Lake\u2019s Amelie Davis and a single to Faith McIntire. Another Cardinal reached base on an error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clear Lake had a 15-0 lead after four innings. The Cardinals avoided the shutout with a run in the top of the fifth against reliever Maycee Farrell, losing pitcher Atiana Patino driving in the run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patino allowed 11 hits and 13 earned runs in her four innings of work, striking out two and walking six.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schaefers said the Cardinals battled but couldn\u2019t do much against the Saints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey kept their hearts in it until the end,\u201d Schaefers said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clear Lake\u2019s home game Tuesday with Upper Lake has been postponed. The Cardinals are scheduled to play Friday in Fort Bragg at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Helena, three-time defending NCL I champion, overwhelms Cardinals Lake County Sports on Facebook ST. HELENA &gt;&gt; The St. Helena Saints pounded the ball for five innings, beating the Clear Lake Cardinals 15-1 in a North Central League I softball game Friday afternoon in St. Helena where the vising Cardinals were making their league debut. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,24,89,59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6089"}],"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=6089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6090,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6089\/revisions\/6090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}