{"id":6509,"date":"2026-05-01T20:22:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=6509"},"modified":"2026-05-01T20:22:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:22:26","slug":"cloverdale-breaks-it-open-against-lady-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=6509","title":{"rendered":"Cloverdale breaks it open against Lady Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>11-run fourth inning turns pitcher&#8217;s duel into one-sided affair<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LAKEPORT &gt;&gt; Cloverdale scored 11 times in the top of the fourth inning, helped out by five Clear Lake errors, and the Eagles kept the heat on the St. Helena Saints atop the North Central League I softball standings with a 17-1 win in five innings Thursday afternoon in Lakeport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat doesn\u2019t help a lot,\u201d Clear Lake head coach Scott Schaefers said of the Cardinals\u2019 numerous infield blunder that turned a pitcher\u2019s duel between Cloverdale sophomore Camryn Bird and Clear Lake freshman Sophia Gonzales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSophia was pitching a good game up until then,\u201d Schaefers said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cardinals managed to get eight hits against Bird, one of the top pitchers in the league.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat did we get against her last time, two or three?\u201d Schaefers said of an 11-1 loss to the Eagles when the two teams squared off April 7 in Cloverdale (Clear Lake had two hits). \u201cSo that shows improvement. We hit the ball hard, but some of those found their gloves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amelie Davis went 2-for-3 with a double off the fence as she made a bid for her Lake County-leading sixth home run of the season. She\u2019s currently tied with Kelseyville\u2019s Josie Keithly for the Lake County lead with five. Cali Albaum also went 2-for-2 with a RBI for the Cardinals. Other Clear Lake hits went to Kam Cresto, Atiana Patino, Ashlynn Cruz and Faith McIntire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The loss snapped Clear Lake\u2019s three-game league winning streak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clear Lake\u2019s final three league games are Tuesday in Kelseyville, Friday, May 7 at home against Lower Lake (senior day), and Tuesday, May 12 at Middletown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11-run fourth inning turns pitcher&#8217;s duel into one-sided affair Lake County Sports on Facebook LAKEPORT &gt;&gt; Cloverdale scored 11 times in the top of the fourth inning, helped out by five Clear Lake errors, and the Eagles kept the heat on the St. Helena Saints atop the North Central League I softball standings with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,20,24,89],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6509"}],"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=6509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6510,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6509\/revisions\/6510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}