Again.

For the third consecutive outing, the Lynx trailed entering the sixth inning. And for the third consecutive outing, they came to life offensively at the exact right moment to remain unbeaten on the season.

Down 3-0 entering the sixth, WCHS (5-0, 1-0 NCC) put three runs on the scoreboard in its next-to-last at bat to draw even with North Central Conference rival Clear Lake, and then unleashed another three-run flurry in the seventh to turn back the Lions’ upset bid, 6-3.

Call them the Cardiac Kids. Call them the Comeback Kids. Or just call them the team to beat in the NCC, which is why head coach Adison Kehoe and his players know they’re going to take everyone’s best punch on a nightly bases.

Connor Hanson scores the go ahead run for WCHS in the seventh inning against Clear Lake on Wednesday. The Lynx rallied for a 6-3 victory. DFJ photo/Troy Banning

And they certainly took Clear Lake’s on Wednesday.

“This was a team giving us their best shot and they played well,” Kehoe said of the Lions.

Southpaw pitcher Jett Neuberger put Clear Lake (1-2, 0-1 NCC) in a good position through five innings, as he stymied the WCHS offense with a methodical approach, a sharp curve and a lively fastball. The Lynx generated just two hits — an infield single by Trey Lyons and a line-drive single to right by Tyler Olson — through the initial five frames.

“We don’t really see lefties much,” Olson, who went 2 for 3 and matched Neuberger on the mound, said. “He was really working his spin stuff, and it wasn’t just 0-2 curves. He was throwing it 0-1 or 1-0, so it wasn’t predictable.”

Staring at the three-run deficit, WCHS finally got to Neuberger in the sixth inning. Lead-off hitter Ty McKinney jumpstarted the rally with a shot into left for a single, and Devon Stoakes and Olson jumped aboard on an error and walk to load the bases with no outs.

WCHS catcher Devon Stoakes whips the ball to first following a strikeout on a pitch in the dirt, one of 14 for Lynx starter Tyler Olson, during Wednesday’s 6-3 win over NCC rival Clear Lake. DFJ photo/Troy Banning

Two batters later, CJ Hisler used his wheels to beat out an infield single and plated a run to make it 3-1.

Neuberger reached his pitch limit and had to hand the ball over to Eric Ritter, who promptly gave up an RBI base hit to center by Beau Klaver. The throw from the outfield to the plate went wide and allowed Olson to gallop home with the tying run.

“It’s bad to say, but it takes someone getting a hit for us to realize that we can do it and score,” Olson said.

No. 9 stick Connor Hanson opened the seventh with his own infield single and raced to second on a throwing error. That’s where he was when Olson delivered the winning hit — an RBI liner to left that brought Hanson to the dish to give WCHS its first lead, 4-3.

Hisler came through again two batters later with another dribbler on the infield that he beat out for a single and Ty McKinney, aboard on a walk, never broke stride as he scored from second to give the Lynx a 5-3 cushion.

CJ Hisler ropes a pitch on Wednesday. He had two infield singles and two RBIs in Webster City’s 6-3 win over Clear Lake in Clear Lake. DFJ photo/Troy Banning

Hisler, playing just his second game of the season, went 2 for 4 with the two RBIs.

“CJ literally brings another dimension to our team,” Kehoe said. “His speed is what separates him … whether it’s an out or not, as a fielder you’re forced into a quick throw.”

The wheels fell off for Clear Lake later in the seventh when catcher PJ Feuerbach was called for interference on a Chase Rattenborg foul ball with the bases loaded. Rattenborg got the base and RBI.

Olson returned to the hill in the bottom of the seventh and struck out one before reaching his limit and giving the ball to Zach Dyvig, who finished it off with a pair of ground balls.

After a second-inning hiccup when Clear Lake scored three times off two hits and an error, Olson was nearly unhittable. The all-state right-hander retired 14 of the final 15 batters he faced, 11 of them on strikeouts. He fanned 14 in all and surrendered just three hits in 61⁄3 innings.

DFJ photo/Troy Banning

“I definitely felt better as the game went on,” Olson, the Class 3A leader in strikeouts as of Wednesday night with 29, said. “My curve started in the middle and ended lower instead of starting high and ending in the middle.”

Kehoe said it was just another example of his ace rising to the occasion.

“He’s done this for three years now and so you reach that moment where you go, ‘Wow,'” he said.

The three pitchers combined for 27 strikeouts. Neuberger collected 10 in 51⁄3 innings.

Caden Jones notched an RBI for Clear Lake. He singled, as did Ben Loge and Austin Warnke.

WCHS 6, Clear Lake 3

Wednesday at Clear Lake

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Tyler Olson, Zach Dyvig (7) and Devon Stoakes. Jett Neuberger, Eric Ritter (6) and PJ Feuerbach. W — Olson. L — Ritter. S — Dyvig. Multiple hits — WC: Olson, CJ Hisler. RBI — WC: Hisler (2), Olson, Beau Klaver, Chase Rattenborg; CL: Caden Jones.