LAKEPORT >> Despite a steady drizzle that lasted through the fourth inning, the Clear Lake Cardinals and Healdsburg Greyhounds managed to complete their scheduled non-league softball game on Tuesday in Lakeport.
Clear Lake won 7-1 in a game where neither team committed an error despite deteriorating field conditions as the afternoon progressed.
“To play in those conditions and not have any errors is remarkable actually,” Clear Lake coach Doug Wingler said.
Clear Lake improved to 2-0 on the season behind Rachel Wingler’s four-hitter and a 13-hit Cardinal attack that included a 2-for-3 day by freshman Sara Ogden, who made her first high school start (in right field). Clear Lake had a 5-1 lead going to the bottom of the sixth when Ogden led off with a stand-up triple into the left-center field gap. The Cardinals went on to score twice in the inning to pad their lead.
Healdsburg took a 1-0 lead in the top of the third but Clear Lake answered with two runs in the bottom half, including a RBI single by Wingler (2-for-4, 2 RBIs) that put the Cardinals ahead to stay at 2-1.
“We started slow but we started to put the bat on the ball in the third,” Wingler said.
Clear Lake pushed its lead to a more comfortable 5-1 with three runs in the bottom of the fifth.
Alicia Ledesma, Shyanne Chapin and Anessa Jack joined teammates Ogden and Wingler with two hits apiece. Emily Psalmonds went 1-for-4 with a RBI on her 18th birthday.
Clear Lake was scheduled to play El Molino in Forestville on Thursday, however with rain in the forecast the two teams will try to get that game in today at 3:30 p.m. in Forestville.
