Hawk’s Baseball Ready to Knock the Top Off
Head Coach Victor & Ruth Escamilla celebrate Win #400 last season before a game.
Canyon Lake Baseball has established a decent 3 year stint for a sport that quite frankly had fallen on some bad times after a rememberable 2010 season that had CL’s first winning season and just missing a 3rd round post-season berth after just falling short to Hildago in the Valley Area series.
Let’s GO HAWKS!!
The Lake has won 10 or more games just once since that season with 12 wins during the 2013 season. It was 37 total games won during this drought which covered 7 years.
Now with Victor Escamilla coming in 2018 the Hawks have reached double digit wins during each campaign since. With 65 wins these past 3 years which had one season cut short due to the pandemic.
That first year resulted in a losing record (12-15-1) but it did have a season reaching the playoffs.
What was remarkable about that season was having a team that finished the year with an anemic team .215 batting average and 24 extra base hits. The team earned run average (era) was a balmy 5.41 and Canyon Lake averaged below 4 runs per outing.
Manufacturing runs was the theme that year with 117 base on balls and 27 hit batters helped give CL enough base runners that could sprinkle in some hits to produce enough runs to amass 12 victories.
Former Hawk, Matt Anderson, would be a primary example on how CL was able to garner so many runs with that low of a batting average. Proof: A career .171 batting average but had an on base percentage of .500.
Let’s GO Hawks!!
The only two seasons to produce an above average more than 2018 for, on base percentage, came from that 2021 group that averaged 4.81 walks per contest and the shortened 2020 season that averaged more but you would need to know Jesus for a chance to get that answered when reaching heaven to see what that record might have been.
Since 2018, Canyon Lake has scored right at 5 runs (2019) to over 7 runs (2022) per game and in those last 3 years are at the top of the food chain for baseball all-time stats.
Now CL’s batting average has reached .317 (2021) and .314 (2022) with that 2020 group in 3rd place with a decent .286 batting stroke. In fact, The Lake went from that sad .215 average to .275 the next year in 2019. Certainly a rising number for these last 4 seasons.
From manufacturing runs to now having last year’s team with the highest slugging percentage with .457 average which has been a pleasant development.
Canyon Lake is in one of the toughest districts (3 teams in top 20) and Region 4 with the most schools (8) ranked in the Top 20 according to THSB (Texas High School Baseball website).
This campaign will have the Hawks with their largest group of Seniors and many of those players are ready to knock the top off all those all-time records.
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The ALL-TIME TOP 5 & where this group of players presently stand. AT BATS RUNS 1. Tanner Schultz 282 Travis Walker 65 2. Travis Walker 272 Hunter Anderson 60 current 3. Caleb Williams 269 Caleb Williams 54 4. Tyler Pauly 215 James LaLonde 54 5. Chase Anderson 211 current Ty Sellers 51 current 6. Hunter Anderson 209 current 9th Chase Anderson 42 current 8. Ty Sellers 192 current HITS RBI’S 1. Chase Anderson 88 current Griffen Williams 84 current 2. Tanner Schultz 82 Tyler Pauly 61 3. Travis Walker 80 Tanner Schultz 53 4. Caleb Williams 76 Ty Sellers 46 current 5. Tyler Pauly 75 Chase Anderson 44 current 7. Griffen Williams 71 current DOUBLES TRIPLES 1. Travis Walker 19 Kyler Huff 6 2. Griffen Williams 17 current Ty Sellers 4 current 2. Tyler Pauly 17 Caleb Williams 4 2. Tanner Schultz 17 Tyler Pauly 3 5. Corey Shedrock 16 Daniel Camarillo 3 Cody Powell 3 Gavin Dietrich 3 HOMERUNS BASE ON BALLS 1. Griffen Williams 15 current Tyler Pauly 63 2. Travis Walker 6 Matt Anderson 54 2. Logan Felch 6 Michael Brady 48 4. Jeremy Greene 4 Travis Walker 39 4. Joe Shone 4 Caleb Williams 38 4. Nick Cahill 4 7. Hunter Anderson 35 current 7. Ty Sellers 3 current (75 or more At Bats) BATTING AVERAGE ON BASE PERCENTAGE 1. Matthew McLain .421 Matthew McLain .581 2. Chase Anderson .417 current Michael Brady .510 3. Griffen Williams .406 current Brandon Robinson .505 4. Brandon Robinson .398 Griffen Williams .500 current 5. Michael Brady .364 Tyler Pauly .500 7. Hunter Anderson .331 current 6. Chase Anderson .494 current SLUGGING PERCENTAGE 1. Griffen Williams .771 current 2. Matthew McLain .539 3. Brandon Robinson .519 4. Chase Anderson .517 current 5. Joe Shoe .505 PITCHING INNINGS PITCHED STRIKEOUTS 1. Tanner Schultz 224.0 Tanner Schultz 230 2. Tyler Pauly 149.1 Tyler Pauly 190 3. Avery Montgomery 142.0 Cody Powell 128 4. Cody Powell 114.1 Ross Wagliardo 109 5. Matt Anderson 99.0 Avery Montgomery 108 8. Griffen Williams 82.0 current 7. Griffen Williams 91 current WINS HITS PER 7 INNINGS 1. Tanner Schultz 29 Peyton McMullen 3.47 2. Tyler Pauly 18 Cody Powell 4.36 3. Cody Breest 11 Kyler Huff 4.69 4. Cody Powell 9 Luke Roskin 4.76 current 5. Avery Montgomery 8 Tyler Pauly 5.45 8. Hunter Anderson 6 current 6. Hunter Anderson 6.18 current 8. Luke Roskin 6 current 8. Griffen Williams 6.49 current 8. Griffen Williams 6 current STRIKEOUTS PER 7 INNINGS WALKS PER 7 INNINGS 1. Peyton McMullen 10.95 Jeff Nabors 1.78 2. Cale Claycomb 9.79 Tanner Schultz 1.81 3. Luke Roskin 8.98 current Logan Felch 1.88 4. Tyler Pauly 8.92 Griffen Williams 2.22 current 5. Ross Wagliardo 7.94 Tyler Pauly 2.30 7. Griffen Williams 7.77 current 10. Hunter Anderson 7.50 current EARNED RUN AVERAGE (era) 30 or more innings 1. Peyton McMullen 1.44 2. Hunter Anderson 1.71 current 3. Tyler Pauly 1.74 4. Luke Roskin 2.19 current 5. Tanner Schultz 2.34 7. Griffen Williams 2.71 current
