{"id":10082,"date":"2018-07-10T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=10082"},"modified":"2018-07-12T10:53:16","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T15:53:16","slug":"the-last-outs-for-cal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/the-last-outs-for-cal\/","title":{"rendered":"The last outs for CAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10094\" alt=\"CALGymScreencap\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/CALGymScreencap.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/CALGymScreencap.jpg 448w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/CALGymScreencap-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>February 19, 2001:<\/strong> A screencap of a video pan across the wall of CAL&#8217;s gym in Latimer. The teams depicted were Dows-CAL (the junior high when CAL and Dows were sharing, keeping Dows&#8217; nickname of the Tigers alive), Sheffield-Chapin (sharing with Meservey-Thornton for a decade before that, showing the board&#8217;s age), CAL, Southeast Webster (started sharing with Prairie Valley in 2014), and Ventura (started sharing with Garner-Hayfield in 2012, consolidated 2015).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Coulter-Alexander-Latimer Cadets have played their last regular-season games in any sport. The baseball team <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesrepublican.com\/sports\/local-sports\/2018\/07\/sports-shorts-tigers-fall-to-falcons-in-district-opener\/\">lost 15-5 to North Tama<\/a> on Thursday and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amestrib.com\/sports\/20180706\/prep-roundup-july-6\">lost 5-1 to Roland-Story on Friday<\/a>.\u00a0This is the second time in four years that North Tama was the final conference sports opponent of a district that surrendered its high school (<a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/07\/the-last-outs-for-northeast-hamilton\/\">Northeast Hamilton, 2015<\/a>). CAL&#8217;s final home game, played in Alexander, was a <a href=\"http:\/\/hamptonchronicle.com\/content\/cal-leaves-alexander-field-w\">5-3 win over Janesville<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>CAL was the last high school standing of the last six members of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/iahsaasports\/conferences\/defunct-conferences\/north-star-conference\">North Star Conference<\/a>, which disbanded in 2006.\u00a0CAL will not have a high school next year, entering a whole-grade sharing agreement with Hampton-Dumont.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hamptonchronicle.com\/content\/cal-h-d-boards-choose-school-name-whole-grade-sharing\">The district will be named HD-CAL<\/a>, but for the moment there will be no changes to buildings or uniforms.<\/p>\n<p>CAL&#8217;s district baseball game tonight is against Northwood-Kensett. The winner gets the right to have their clock cleaned by Mason City Newman.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Northwood-Kensett 15, CAL 0 (4 innings).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 19, 2001: A screencap of a video pan across the wall of CAL&#8217;s gym in Latimer. The teams depicted were Dows-CAL (the junior high when CAL and Dows were sharing, keeping Dows&#8217; nickname of the Tigers alive), Sheffield-Chapin (sharing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/the-last-outs-for-cal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10082"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10112,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10082\/revisions\/10112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}