Centerfielder Lucas Schexnayder fouled off a ball in a Long Creek game last week.
THIS WEEK @ THE LAKE April 6-11
Mon Apr 6 The Lake @ Fredericksburg 800a Track & Field
Tue Apr 7 The Lake @ Kerrville tba Tennis
Davenport JV @ The Lake Green 430p Baseball
Long Creek @ The Lake 600p Softball
Davenport @ The Lake 700p Baseball
Wed Apr 8 The Lake @ Fredericksburg 400p Track & Field
Thu Apr 9 Davenport Fr @ The Lake Gold 600p Baseball
Fri Apr 10 The Lake Green @ Davenport JV 430p Baseball
The Lake @ Davenport 600p Softball
The Lake @ Davenport 700p Baseball
Sat Apr 11 Navarro Fresh @ The Lake Gold 1000a Baseball
Navarro JV @ The Lake Green 1100a Baseball
Navarro @ The Lake 100p Baseball
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Let’s GO LAKE!
The Lake had a decent week with Softball & Baseball each having a district win.
Softball took Bandera Dogs to the woodshed, 13-3 with a good pitching night for Melody Manos securing her 3rd win of the year. The Hawks used some key hits that helped secure this victory using their first (5 runs) and third inning (6 runs) helping to overcome a 2 run deficit to secure this conquest.
Baseball used that same script in getting their first district win after Hayes Holladay struck-out 13 Dragons in giving up just two singles in his, 4-0 shut-out.
This was a much needed win after losing their first 3 contests which will hopefully wrestle some momentum against a very good opponent this week playing Davenport.
Proud of the Hawks!
On Saturday, The Lake, will welcome Navarro to the Nest as all three teams get on the diamond for a chance to get a fine-tuning contest as district reaches the half-way mark.
Track & Feld will be in action with this start of the District Meet on Monday @ 8:00am in Fredericksburg with finals for 3200 meter run and Field Events. Those running events will be slimmed down to athletes that qualified for Wednesday’s final day and will start at 4:00pm as CLake tries to qualify students for an Area Meet next.
Spring Sports start to thin out (much like The ReSporter’s hair line) this month as the athletes prepare for their final lap of this year.
Keep it up Lake & GO Hawks!
Lucas Schexnayder circling the bases scoring 2 runs in win over Dragons.
(photo by Daniel Clifton)
Go Lake Beat Everyone!
Canyon Lake has had 3 shut-outs this season and the third pitched game by Hayes Holladay was certainly a charm.
The Lake needed this win after starting their District 26-4A campaign on the short end looking at an, 0-4 start if Hayes would not have canceled his Holladay.
“LC (Long Creek) could not handle his fast pace,” Head Coach Victor Escamilla exclaimed. “He threw 70% strikes. We needed a big game from him and he delivered.”
This gem started in that first inning as the Lake had allowed 11 total runs at start of each district contest which had CLake starting in a hole to climb out of in those first 3 losses.
Congrats Lake Baseball.
Holladay threw 8 pitches to get those first three outs which would be the precursor
For the rest of this outing.
Catcher Arthur Miller barely had time to set up before catching a pitch as this fast pace left the Dragons without any ‘Fire’ power accumulating two singles and two free passes for the evening.
Add 13 strikeouts to this affair which also helped in keeping The Lake with only one error. You would have to go back 6 games since Canyon Lake had that type of defensive game.
Way to Go Lake Baseball.
All of Long Creeks hits happened in the 2nd frame…but Holladay would strike out the the side taking any hope of advancing past second base in this white-wash.
Those two base-on-balls were stranded on first base in those two innings….one with a double play and striking out the last two batters in the bottom of the 5th inning.
In the 6th Inning a first batter two bag error was stranded after Holladay’s needing 15 pitches in striking out the side. That baserunner did advance to 3rd on a wild pitch which would be the low point for Holladay’s Holladay pitching performance.
Lucas Schexnayder and Bryce May would each score two runs with two of the Hawks 4 hits. It was the bottom of the line-up coming through as Ryan Rena also had a hit and rbi as all three players stole a base and it would be May scoring CL’s final run stealing home in the top of the 3rd inning.
The Lake had 5 steals and with two hit batters producing 11 base runners in this battle.
Gram Simpson tied Tanner Schultz with 21 hit-by-pitches and will look to be black & blue with his record breaking 22nd sometime later this season.
This win goes a long way in turning the tide as being swept twice off the bat (pardon the pun) could have had The Lake on the outside looking in.
Canyon Lake will welcome Davenport next Tuesday for their next two-game series with some needed momentum.
Way to GO LAKE!
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
The Lake 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 4 4 1
Long Creek 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
ab r h bi bb so misc
Gram Simpson 3 0 0 0 0 0 hbp
Carson Walker 3 0 0 1 1 1 sb
Cullen Barnhart 3 0 0 0 0 2 hbp
Archer Miller 3 0 0 0 1 2 sb
Brenan Hughes 3 0 0 0 0 1
ph Gavyn Baldera 1 0 1 0 0 0
Hayes Holladay 4 0 0 0 0 1
Lucas Schexnayder 2 2 1 0 1 0 sb
Bryce May 2 2 1 1 1 1 sb
Ryan Rena 2 0 1 1 1 1 sb
Totals 26 4 4 3 5 9
Pitching ip h r er bb so
Hayes Holladay 7.0 2 0 0 2 13
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Hawk’s Softball With a Recap from Coaches after 1st District Win. Go Lake!
Way to GET HITS HAWKS!
The Lake Softball got their first win in district play in a run ruled contest with Bandera, 13-3.
Canyon Lake scored 5 runs in the bottom of the opening frame after these Bulldogs sent 8 players to the plate in scoring to take an early 2 run lead.
BHS scratch one hit in that first inning but the damage was light when Melody Manos had a strike-out with the bases loaded ending Bandera’s threat.
Manos found her groove the rest of the way in this white-wash not issuing any more base-on-balls and surrendering just two more hits in that final inning allowing just one more run for these Visitors.
It was Manos that stood tall in the circle working the next three frames of 3 Up and 3 Down sequences using 5 of her 7 total strikeouts during those innings.
Way to GO LAKE!
Alleigh Jones reached base on all 4 of her plate appearances scoring 3 runs and producing 2 rbi’s on her hard hit double on her second at bat.
Kelsey Unrue also doubled up two singles scoring two runs and also reaching base 3 times as the Hawks scored 6 runs in their 3rd inning leading to this run ruled outing.
Bandera coaxed another run in the top of the 5th inning that continued this contest but it would be Alleigh Jones working a one out walk in her next appearance then using a wild-pitch, error, and then raced home on a passed ball for the run ruled win, 13-3.
The Lake is a very young squad but a lot of good happenings in this battle shows what will be coming with each game of experience that will continues to add up.
Way to Go Lake!
1 2 3 4 5 R H E
Bandera 2 0 0 0 1 3 3 4
The Lake 5 1 6 0 *1 13 6 0
*(one out when run rule scored)
ab r h bi 2b bb so misc
Anastasia Schultz 2 3 1 0 0 1 0 roe sb
Kylee Goff 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 sac sb
Alleigh Jones 3 3 2 2 1 1 0 roe sb
Elly Parker 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 hbp
Braelyn Rice 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 roe sb fc
Kelsey Unrue 2 2 2 1 0 0 0 hbp sb
Melody Manos 1 1 0 0 0 1 1
ph Peyton Senter 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kylee Van Ausdell 1 0 0 0 0 1 1
ph Meagan May 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 sb
Hailey Bish 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 sb
Totals 18 13 6 4 1 7 2
Pitching ip h r er bb so
Melody Manos 5.0 3 3 3 2 7 Won
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Greysen Patton putting bat on ball as Hawks have pivotal Long Creek series this week!
(photo by Daniel Clifton)
THIS WEEK @ THE LAKE March 16-20
Mon Mar 30 The Lake @ Vaaler Creek 800a Boys Golf
Tue Mar 31 The Lake @ Vaaler Creek 800a Boys Golf
Long Creek JV @ The Lake Green 430p Baseball
Bandera @ The Lake 600p Softball
Long Creek @ The Lake 700p Baseball
Wed Apr 1 The Lake @ Vaaler Creek 800a Girls Golf
Thu Apr 2 The Lake @ Vaaler Creek 800a Girls Golf
The Lake Green @ Long Creek 430p Baseball
The Lake Gold @ SA Jefferson 430p Baseball
The Lake @ Wimberley 600p Softball
The Lake @ Long Creek 700p Baseball
FRIDAY APRIL 3 GOOD FRIDAY
SUNDAY APRIL 4TH EASTER SUNDAY HE HAS RISEN INDEED!
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Come Worship Easter With Us This Week! He Has Risen Indeed!
Sometimes there are some bad weeks and last week would qualify as one of those disappointing times.
The Lake’s Lady Soccer finished short in a loss to London when the Hawks were outscored on penalty kicks after finishing in a tie at the end of the two 10 minute extra time, 1-1.
So close but some close misses added with an all to close goal for the visitors.
Softball continues a hard learning curve with a very young group of players and are now just working on improving over this season for better results next year.
Baseball lost both games against Wimberley as issuing walks in last Tuesday’s loss and then coming up short in Friday’s loss to the Texans.
Plug those Leaks Lake!
Track & Field had some highlights but these two sports at this stage of the season has coaches moving athletes to different events (especially relays) but that plus trying to figure out the best way to maximize students in how they compete in different events comes during these meets.
Yes a bad week performance wise but this week is a given that a good thing will happen when EASTER produces the best Win in the history of the world when JESUS DEFEATED DEATH so that we have a chance to enjoy Life Everlasting by putting our Faith in His Crucifixion and on Sunday RAISED FROM THE DEAD for all of our Sins.
Way to GO JESUS & Thanks for Your Sacrifice for us!!
Let’s GO Lake Baseball
(photo by Daniel Clifton)
Keep it Going Hawks!!
The Lake had a decent week after a successful Hawk Lady Soccer conquest of Legacy Ranch winning in a thriller extra-time contes, 5-3.
Now an Area Round will be tomorrow at Smithson Valley against San Antonio Cole with a 7:00pm start.
The Lake Soccer should be The Hawk Nation hit list with this contest that’s within getting to distance as this crew of ladies continue their historic season after reaching the 20 win and 100 goal standard in last week’s Bi-District win.
Baseball will enter their district schedule this week playing Wimberley with that first pitch away and then return for a home contest against the Texans on Friday. Look at Standings below.
GO LAKE!
Track & Field were in Fredericksburg last week and will be at the Texan’s Relays this Thursday.
District will also be at the Billie Stadium with a Monday April 6th and Wednesday 8th.
Softball continues growing pains with their young team as they continue to improve during their district slate.
Let’s GO LAKE!
District 26-4A Baseball
Wins Lost Ties Pct
Canyon Lake 14 4 1 .763
Davenport 13 4 2 .737
Fredericksburg 13 6 0 .684
Long Creek 12 8 1 .595
Wimberley 8 6 1 .567
Bandera 6 10 3 .395
This Week’s Schedule:
Tuesday The Lake @ Wimberley
Long Creek @ Davenport
Bandera @ Fredericksburg
The Lake’s Soccer Team with another Bi-District Trophy & Looking for an Area Trophy next.
Way to Go Lake Soccer!
Canyon Lake’s (20-2) Soccer team won Bi-District in overtime over Legacy Ranch (17-5-1), 5-3 in what turned out to be a good test run for this time of the year in a, win or go home’, time of the season.
Head Coach Kara Stracener commented on this win and the differences in LR’s offense,
“We haven’t played a team that played with that formation where they had two wide players and a center…they had 3 across the top….so we knew about it going into the game but then when you see it you just have to re-adjust and at halftime we certainly talked about that and we changed some of our formations and put some girls where we needed to and they adjusted great but more importantly they battled and played with their heart in this kind of game you have to do that.”
Coach Stracener continued on how important Liza Schexnayder goal-tended, “She was unbelievable….she is brand new to soccer and she’s learning throughout the whole season and against Bandera our second time she came out and made a very physical save and had to take a player as she was taking the ball and I think that type of moment from her was huge and she felt what is was like so she could do it in this game….and she did that four or maybe five times and she was a hero tonight for sure.”
Go Lake Beat Everyone!
The Lake had never scored more than 100 goals in a season since the school began in soccer in 2008-09 year.
Two years ago CL was able to reach 93 goals…but now Savanna Oberholtzer with her 61 makes has scored 59% of this offense.
All those numbers are mind blowing but in the grand scheme of things that first goal in this battle had Abigail Lowth with a goal which was a head(er) and should(ers) as great, at the 36 minute mark, during that first half.
Then, that first goal in overtime, it was Kylee Morrow who had a 27 yard pk that just went over the Legacy Ranch goalie hands on the left corner of the upper shelf of the net.
Go Lake!
The Hawks never trailed in this contest and the score was a narrow, 3-2 at halftime lead.
In that 2nd Half both teams were more defensive minded but it was Ranch with a tying goal right under 10 minutes remaining, 3-3.
It was Goalie Liza Schexnayder who battened down the Hawk goal as she won several one on one shots on goal from the 15 yard line on down.
The Lake would not have been in a position to pull this game off without her unwavering defensive skills and her bumps and bruises in the days to come will prove her worth in this battle.
District 26-4A has been a formidable group of teams these past few years in looking back to last year when both Wimberley & Davenport being present in the Final Four in Division I and II.
Go Hawks & Beat SA Cole!
The Lake’s, 2-1 loss last season to London just kept Canyon Lake from meeting Wimberley for that berth into the Final Four.
All of these district qualifying teams won their Bi-District round of games and once again stand a good chance of getting two more schools in for a chance to win state.
Canyon Lake’s Area contest will be at Smithson Valley High School this coming Tuesday against San Antonio Cole (20-4-4) at 7:00pm.
The Hawks have reached 20 wins for the first time to go along with breaking that 100 goals scored mark. Now keeping this Post-Season focused will be next on the docket as Wimberley could be that final hurdle in getting to Austin.
Let’s Go Lake!
The Lake 5 The Ranch 3
Davenport 6 Jarrell 0
Wimberley 5 Lago Vista 0
Long Branch 5 Burnet 2
District 4A Region 4 District 26
Overall Standings
School W L T Pct GF GA
Canyon Lake 20 2 0 .909 104 24
Wimberley 20 2 1 .891 102 14
Davenport 15 5 1 .738 77 13
Long Creek 11 7 2 .600 44 34
*Marble Falls 10 8 4 .545 58 20
*Fredericksburg 9 11 1 .452 46 48
*Bandera 3 20 0 .130 15 116
* Season Over
Ryan Rena and The Lake prepare for their first pitch in district play in Wimberley next Tuesday.
(photo by Daniel Clifton)
Let’s GO LAKE!
The Hawks wrapped up their non-district schedule after a win over the Taft Raiders, 8-6 that was an up and down affair that CL was able to start and finish with more ‘UPs’ in an eventual win.
“We got out hit yesterday however we got hits with runners in scoring position, which was big,” Head Coach Victor Escamilla said in response to win.
On the Lake pitching, “CJ (Rodriguez) did a great job on the mound coming in relief and Ryan (Rena) threw strikes.”
Those comments gives a good idea of what The Lake’s Coaches are looking for as district comes calling next Tuesday in Wimberley.
But It was the Raiders. that took a, 1-0 lead to start this battle after a one-out walk that came around to score on a Raider double.
Make us Proud Hawks!
That lead would evaporate in CL’s 2nd frame as those ‘bunch of run innings’ presented itself when 7 of the first 8 Hawk batters reached base and that one out was having pitcher, Ryan Rena (3-0) with a successful bunt.
The Lake took a, 4-1 lead they would not relinquish for the remainder of this contest.
Taft was able to get back in this game in their bottom of the 4th inning after a one our walk that was followed with a double and two singles and a Hawk, 5-4 lead going into the 5th inning.
Rena got the win in this game and CJ Rodriguez had his first save in his 3 innings of work allowing one earned run pitching those final 3 innings.
Let’s GO LAKE!
The Lake’s Rena had 4 quality at bats reaching base on 3 walks and laying down his first sacrifice bunt of the year.
Cullen Barnhart continues his hot bat that included a 3 run double with two outs in the top of the 6th frame. All the Hawk runs reached base on walks~~ around the bases and a lead that would produce enough separation for this Canyon Lake win.
CLHS has had several games of scoring 3 or 4 runs in an inning as their pre-district contests conclude.
The Lake has scored 3 or more runs in 23 of their 90 frames thus far or, 26% of the time while by increasing that up to 4 runs per inning and The Lake has reached that level 15 times for or, 7% of the time.
These Hawks have used 9 different players on the pitching mound which is quite a bit more than in previous campaigns. Hopefully Coaches can find those diamonds in the rough when district starts.
By the Numbers Before District Play:
6 Players with 10 or more rbi’s.
7 Total homers thus far.
8 Times Gram Simpson has been hit by pitch (hbp)
9 Players with 10 or more hits.
9 Sacrifice Flies.
11 Players that have over a .500 on base pct. (obp)
14 More strikeouts than walks for Hawk pitching.
20 More walks than strikeouts.
21 Hayes Holladay leads with strikeouts.
32 More Earned Runs than Runs.
34 Stolen Bases.
Let’s GO LAKE!
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
The Lake 0 4 0 1 0 3 0 8 6 2
Taft Raiders 1 0 0 3 0 2 0 6 8 0
ab r h bi 2b bb so misc
Gram Simpson 4 1 1 1 0 1 0 sb
Carson Walker 3 0 0 0 0 1 0
Wayen Slania-Wetz 2 0 0 0 0 2 2
Cullen Barnhart 3 1 1 3 1 1 1
Bryce May 3 1 0 0 0 1 0
Archer Miller 2 1 1 0 0 1 1 hbp sb 3
Brenan Hughes 3 1 1 2 0 0 0 sb
ph Hayes Holladay 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Ryan Rena 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 sac sb 2
pr Gavyn Baldera 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Lucas Schexnayder 3 0 2 1 0 0 1
ph Greysen Patton 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals 24 8 6 8 1 10 6
Pitching ip h r er bb so
Ryan Rena (3-0) 4.0 6 4 4 3 2
CJ Rodriguez (S-1) 3.0 2 2 1 2 3
Totals 7.0 8 6 5 5 5
DISTRICT 26-4A STANDINGS
SCHOOLS W L T PCT
Canyon Lake 14 4 1 .763
Davenport 13 4 2 .737
Fredericksburg 13 6 0 .684
Long Creek 9 6 1 .594
Wimberley 8 6 1 .567
Bandera 6 11 3 .375
Bella Biasatti & The Lake Soccer Ready to Get Started. Go Lake!
(photo Daniel Clifton)
Congrats Lake Soccer!
Canyon Lake Ladies’ Soccer (19-2) start their next phase of the season when they welcome Legacy Ranch (17-3-1) to the Hawk Nest on Friday for a Bi-District contest with first kick at 6:30pm.
Legacy Ranch was a Canyon Lake opponent last year as district second seed behind Wimberley’s 1st seed finish which added more familiarities with this first round contest.
Post-Season has also been a familiar happening for The Lake as they have been active for five years now in getting to a 3rd round. The Lake has an, 8-5 playoff record, during this run, but there is one facet of a post-season having one familiarity to be jettisoned during this campaign.
The Lake has not been able to clear that 3rd hurdle on their march for a final 4 destination. Four of those last five years, The Lake, has finished their season in that 3rd round play-off game.
Year Bi-District Area Semi-Regional
2021 Gateway 3-1 Pleasanton 2-1 Boerne 1-7
2022 Montopolis 7-1 Jones 6-1 Boerne 1-2
2024 Burnet 1-0 JFK 8-0 Davenport 2-5
2025 Legacy 6-1 Floresville 5-1 London 1-2
2026 Legacy ???
The Lake’s loss against Davenport kept that elusive District Championship Ring from happening but that bigger prize is certainly still out there to grasp.
Let’s Go Hawks!
“The loss to Davenport is a humble reminder that we have to work hard for every win.” Head Coach Kara Stracener stated. “We will use it to fuel us to be better for this next game.”
Which will be a home game giving, The Hawk Nation, a chance to show their support for one of the best season’s of any Hawk sport in the last 16 years.
On facing a familiar opponent and what has been The Lake’s approach after a week of rest Coach Stracener quoted, “We knew right away we would be facing Legacy Ranch…we have gone back to a few basics to review some things that we need to improve on for this game and then some specifics on how to attack and defend them.”
Break the Dam~ Lake!
A new school at Liberty Hill that has put good seasons together in their short span. The Ranch won their district with their only set-back coming in a tie with Burnet. This team has a lot of fire power as they have scored 111 goals this season.
Legacy Ranch played a high ranking team to start this season losing to Life Waxahachie, 2-6 but playing in a district that has 11 schools does not allow teams to play more out of district foes.
On Coaches thoughts on how this regular season went. “I’m so proud of this team. To only have two losses on the season and both to teams that were at the state Tournament last year is very impressive. The girls are hungry and ready to play tomorrow.”
The Lake’s district has proven they can reach the final four and now getting past that 3rd playoff opponent would go a long way to realize that same dream.
So those familiarities has a chance to continue as the UIL Brackets has those same schools that The Lake played last year.
Last season Canyon Lake tied Wimberley twice and that next step happened this year after beating the Texans at their abode which certainly gives hope legs for that bigger prize.
So come out tomorrow for Canyon Lake’s opening act to reach past a familiar goal to a higher goal.
Let’s GO LAKE!
Rankings:
Girls Coaches Association Soccer Poll
Wimberley 6th
Legacy Ranch 11th
Canyon Lake 12th
Davenport 20th
Burnet 21st
Lago Vista 23rd
MaxPreps
Wimberley 1st
Canyon Lake 3rd
Davenport 5th
Marble Falls 25th
Fredericksburg 31st
Burnet 32nd
Lago Vista 42nd
Jarrell 79th
FINAL District 4A Region 4 District 26
Overall Standings
School W L T Pct GF GA
Canyon Lake 19 2 0 .905 99 21
Wimberley 19 2 1 .886 97 14
Davenport 16 5 1 .750 83 13
Long Creek 10 7 2 .579 39 32
Marble Falls 10 8 4 .545 58 20
Fredericksburg 9 11 1 .452 46 48
Bandera 3 20 0 .130 15 116
FINAL 26-4A District Standings
School W L T Pct GF GA GP
Wimberley 11 1 0 .917 59 8 33
Canyon Lake 10 2 0 .833 43 10 30
Davenport 7 4 1 .625 40 11 22
Long Creek 6 6 0 .500 18 28 18
Fredericksburg 4 7 1 .375 22 34 13
Marble Falls 2 8 2 .250 14 17 8
Bandera 0 12 0 .000 1 89 0
Legend: GF Goals For GA Goals Against GP Game Points
This Week’s Results:
Thursday
Davenport 6 Jarrell 0
13-6-2
Friday
Legacy Ranch @ The Lake 630p
17-3-1
Wimberley vs Lago Vista 630p
13-5-1
Long Branch @ Burnet 700p
19-5-1
Lake’s JV Green Squad Put Poth Pirates on Plank in, 5-4 win.
Canyon Lake JV Baseball Team came away with a 5-4 win over Poth Pirates as they wrapped up playing in the Navarro Tournament where they finished with a 3-1 Record during that tournament.
Canyon Lake JV swept Lytle in two games, 7-2 and 4-3 on Monday they also beat San Marcos JV 5-4 and San Antonio Jefferson JV 18-0 on Friday to wrap up a big week as they went 5-1 for that stretch.
The Hawks were led with big performances on the mound from Kobe Halverson, Jace Mcgoldrick, Rowan Edwards & Jacob Little during these past tournaments and big offensive games from those players.
“We have been playing great baseball as of late and we are really starting to get going” Head JV Coach Lee Self said after the Hawks big week. “I am super proud of these guys and especially these freshman like Jacob Little, Jake Welkey, Hud Hastings & Dallas Huth that have stepped up in big ways for us this week.”
Way to be Handy Canyon Lake JV Green!
“We have competed in every single we have played this year and even in our losses we have been in 1 run games and have battled” “I am super excited about these guys’ future and our district games coming up.”
For the 2026 Season the Hawks JV baseball team won 3 out of 4 of their scrimmages and their current record is 6 – 4 on the season so far.
This Green Squad will be back in action this Friday (4:30p) as they are the first game of a JV-Varsity Doubleheader in San Antonio against Taft High School.
Way to GO JV HAWKS!
1 2 3 4 R H E
Poth Pirates 0 4 0 0 4 1 0
The Lake Green 2 1 0 2 5 4 1
ab r h bi bb so
Jace McGoldrick 3 1 2 1 0 0
Jacob Little 2 1 1 0 1 0
Kobe Halverson 2 1 1 2 1 1
Rowan Edwards 1 0 0 0 1 1
Hud Hastings 0 0 0 0 2 0
Peyton Vann 1 0 0 0 1 0
J Ciarlone 1 0 0 0 0 0
ph Dallas Huth 0 1 0 0 1 0
B Rilee 2 0 0 0 0 1
Jake Welkey 1 0 0 0 1 0
Totals 13 4 4 3 8 3
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Melody Manos bares down on hitter in game earlier this season. Let’s Go Lake!
(photo by Daniel Clifton)
THIS WEEK @ THE LAKE March 16-20
Mon Mar 16 Somerset JV @ The Lake Gold 430p Baseball
Fri Mar 20 The Lake Green @ Taft JV 430p Baseball
The Lake @ Long Creek 600p Softball
The Lake @ Taft 630p Baseball
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GET HITS HAWKS!
This week has less sports being in action than the Spring Break last week.
Baseball & Softball have front and only stage this week with both sports playing this Friday with Softball already being involved with their district schedule.
This Friday Softball will be battling at Long Creek with start time 6:00pm. Softball lost a ton of athletes to graduation last year and are presently one of the youngest Lake teams this spring.
Baseball will have their Gold JV team welcoming in Somerset’s JV team with first pitch at 430pm today.
CL’s Varsity Baseball and Green Squad will travel to San Antonio to play Taft High School with in a double header involving The Lake’s Green starting at 4:30pm and Varsity first pitch commencing at 6:30pm.
Last week, Canyon Lake’s Girls Soccer finished second in district after losing a close battle to Davenport, 2-1.
GO LAKE!
The Hawk’s have the smallest district in Region IV with 6 schools while other districts, like the Bi-District opponents in the Austin area still shooting it out with 10 schools in their group.
The Lake finished with their best regular season sporing a, 19-2 record and will be the 2nd seed in the smaller school bracket.
At this writing CLake’s opponent would be between. Gateway. Lago Vista, or Jarrell. Last year, The Lake played Gateway from that district but more elimination bouts still needed to be decided.
Baseball finished last week with a, 2-1 record as this Friday’s contest with Taft being that last warm-up battle before meeting up with Wimberley in a week.
Records of District 26-4A Baseball is below:
Wins Lost Ties Pct
Canyon Lake 13 4 1 .750
Davenport 11 4 2 .706
Long Creek 11 6 1 .639
Fredericksburg 10 6 0 .625
Wimberley 7 5 1 .577
Bandera 6 9 3 .417
This Week’s Schedule:
Monday Ingram Moore @ Fredericksburg
Tuesday Long Creek @ SA Christian
Wednesday Llano @ Fredericksburg
Lago Vista @ Wimberley
Thursday Blanco @ Bandera
Friday The Lake @ Taft 630p
Bandera @ Devine
Wimberley @ Thorndale
Saturday Warren @ Long Creek
The ReSporter will keep The Hawk Nation of who Lady Soccer will be pitted against for Bi-District and as always Let’s GO LAKE!!
Greysen Patton is now 2-0 after shutting down Beeville Jones @ Comal Clash Tourney.
(photo by Daniel Clifton)
Canyon Lake matched their first 15 games last year with an, 11-3-1 record and now this Hawk team can hopefully finish with a better second half after last year’s squad finished, 14-10.
This past week, The Lake finished their Comal Clash contests sporting a, 3-1-1 record based on having a deeper pitching staff than their competition.
This year’s team has amassed a, 2.70 earned run average (era) and presently show 4 different pitcher’s with 2 wins. The mayo is more evenly spread across this bread than last year’s edition that had Carter Williams getting the rock as many times possible.
This has Head Coach Victor Escamilla working on all his chess moves before district gets going in two weeks against Wimberley.
Still way too many base on balls and errors that could derail district contests as CL’s hitting usually starts a slight decline when league contest get going. So those first two of the baseball trinity will need to diminish playing those district games.
Go Lake!
“Our pitching part has become clearer, “Coach Escamilla said in response to his assessment of where the team is at this time. “Offensively I think we are very streaky individually and we want to have some of that consistency but as we put more games together things are becoming clearer. We also need those guys who are come in when we have a different pitcher… and we need to have an extra outfielder or extra middle fielder or whatever it may be and those things are cleaning up a bit.”
When asked bout how well the catching has been with Wayen Slania-Wertz and Archer Miller behind the plate, “We’re fortunate to have those two…they are young and they’ve got a lot of upside and we are excited to have both of them.”
Go Hawks!
Hayes Holladay is working on a streak of reaching base 9 games in a row and has reached base in all but one contest this season while Archer Miller had his 5 game hitting streak halted in CLake’s final game with San Antonio Wagner.
Other Notes:
Gram Simpson has 64 runs for his career and that has him ranked 5th on that All-Time list…he needs 5 more to be placed 3rd behind Hunter Anderson and Carter Williams who each reached 91 runs scored during their careers.
Ryan Rena (31) is 11 rbi’s from breaking into Top 10 status with RBI’s.
Simpson ranks 3rd in walks behind Tyler Pauly and Carter Williams who each reside with 62 base on balls. Rena is 10th on that same list with 38 walks.
Way to make some Good Hits!
Stolen bases has Simpson (17) at 9th needing 13 more to take the lead over Daniel Camarillo who last played during the 2012 season. Bryce May (12) and Holladay (9) could reach top ten with Chase Anderson’s 16 stolen bases who is 10th on that list.
Rena needs one more double to tie Logan Felch’s 14 and Waylen Slania-Wertz (10) still has 4 more but being a Sophomore could have his sights on reaching 22 that Carter Williams has that tops that list.
And finally, Simpson needs 5 and Lucas Schexnayder 8 to take the lead in that bruising stat called, Hit-By-Pitch, held by now an EMT Tanner Schultz’s (21)…that makes a lot of sense now based on his trade.
The Lake will use this week playing three contests going to Marion this Monday with a Noon first pitch and then will welcome La Vernia to the Hawk Nest Tuesday starting at 2:30pm.
A road game with Antonian Prep on Wednesday starting at 1:00pm with finish this week’s action.
Let’s GO LAKE!
Saturday Games 1 2 3 4 5 R H E
SA Wagner 0 1 0 0 0 1 8 1
The Lake 2 2 2 0 X 6 5 0
ab r h bi bb so misc
Gram Simpson 2 2 2 1 1 0
Carson Walker 2 1 0 0 0 0 fc hbp
Wayen Slania-Wetz 1 1 1 2 1 0
ph Wyatt Sims 1 0 0 0 0 1
Cullen Barnhart 1 0 1 1 2 0
Archer Miller 3 0 0 0 0 2
Hayes Holladay 1 0 0 1 1 0 hbp
Ryan Rena 1 0 0 1 1 0
ph Greysen Patton 1 0 0 0 0 1
Bryce May 3 1 1 0 0 1 sb
Gavyn Baldera 2 1 0 0 1 0 roe
Totals 18 6 5 6 7 5
Pitching ip h r er bb so
Joshua Little 3.0 5 1 1 2 1 (2-0)
Cade Johnson 2.0 3 0 0 0 1
Totals 5.0 8 1 1 2 2
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1 2 3 4 R H E
Beeville 0 1 0 0 1 2 1
The Lake 3 1 8 x 12 8 1
ab r h bi 2b bb so misc
Gram Simpson 0 3 0 0 0 2 0 hbp sb
Carson Walker 2 0 1 0 0 1 0
Wayen Slania-Wetz 3 0 2 1 1 0 0
cr Gavyn Baldera 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
cr CJ Rodriguez 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Cullen Barnhart 3 1 2 0 0 0 0
Brenan Hughes 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 hbp roe
ph Joshua Little 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Archer Miller 2 1 2 1 0 0 0
ph Lance Halverson 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
Hayes Holladay 3 1 1 1 0 0 1
Ryan Rena 1 1 0 0 0 1 1
ph Dalton Hodges 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Lucas Schexnayder 2 1 1 2 0 0 0
Totals 19 11 9 6 1 5 3
Pitching ip h r er bb so
Greysen Patton 4.0 2 1 0 4 6 (2-0)
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Eva Zabarcencu continues The Lake’s dominance in Distance Events.
DAVENPORT WOLVES RELAYS
Varsity Junior Varsity
Canyon Lake 170 Sotomayor 202
Kerrville Tivy 112 Pieper 139
Randolph 105 Randolph 62
Pieper 81 Canyon Lake 56
Davenport 55 Kerrville Tivy 51
Marion 49 Davenport 48
Long Creek 34 Long Creek 28
Gloria Academy 12 Gloria Academy 17
Marion 10
Congrats Lady Hawk Track & Field!
The Canyon Lake’s Girls Track team does not possess depth like many schools they compete against.
District foe Fredericksburg is a school that always has a plethora of students in each event which allows this school to score well in most of their meets due to their amount of students competing.
Track scored the first 6 in each event and those athletes that finish 4th-5th-6th will in total add enough points for a team victory.
There were times in the past that the Billies would outscore The Lake by 50 or more points in district but lose many of those points as they competed in Area-Regional Meets.
Way to GO FAST HAWKS!
That would allow CLake to score more points at the Regional Meet due to having enough Hawks scoring in those meets giving The Lake the edge over Freddie.
Canyon Lake has now won their last three meets, not with depth, but with star power.
This Wolves’ Meet had the same result involving 7 athletes who combined to score 131 of those points or 77% of that total of 170 points.
In this Meet The Lake finished first in 6 of the events led by distance runner Eva Zabarcencu’s win in the 1600-3200 meter runs.
Let’s GO FAR LAKE!
Te’a Gonzales, Kennedy Grindle and Aubrey Avey had two first place finishes that included the 4×100 meter relay.
This Meet was a One-Two Punch of sorts when taking in the days finished product.
In that 3200 run had Eva Zabarcencu and Sophie Eastland finishing 1st & 2nd.
100 meter dash had Gonzales & Savanna Oberholtzer finishing 1st & 2nd.
300 meter hurdles had Avey & Grindle finishing 1st & 2nd.
100 meter hurdles had Kennedy & Cutrer finishing 1st & 2nd.
Pole Vault had Gindle & Katelyn Lowth finishing 2nd & 3rd.
Those events add up to 86 points which has Canyon Lake finishing ahead of all but 2 other schools. The 2025 State Champion Randolph and 5A Kerrville Tivy.
Plug those Leaks Lake!
The Lake first place finish in the 4×100 relay was aided with a 3rd place 4×200 relay and a revived 4×400 relay who turned in their best finish this season finishing 2nd place.
So those three relays were a One-Two-& Knock-out Punch garnering, 38 points adding up to 124 points that topped Tivy’s 112 point final tally.
So, Freshman Sophie Eastland’s 6th Place (1 point) finish in her 1600 Meter Run would have Canyon Lake adding those depth point(s) up when facing tougher group of schools in the future.
The Lake will be off these next two weeks before finishing their last non-district meet in Wimberley on Thursday March 26th.
A short drive to watch a salty group of ladies before the meets that count in April
Way to GO~Fast~Jump Far & High Hawks!
Varsity 3200 meter Junior Varsity
Eva Zabarcencu 11:58.71 1st Layla Jones 15:53.43 6th
Sophia Eastland 12:03.76 2nd
4x100 Relay Varsity 49.98 1st 4x100 Relay 53.87 3rd
Aubrey Avey, Te’a Gonzales Julia Pena, Perri Jackson
Kennedy Grindle, Savanna Oberlhoter Paisliegh Fahrney, Avery Rugherford
100 meter hurdles
Kennedy Grindle 16.52 1st Perri Jackson 18.59 3rd
Shana Cutrer 17.30 2nd
100 meter
Te’a Gonzales 12.69 1st
Savanna Oberholtzer 12.75 2nd
4x200 Relay Varsity 1:49.26 3rd 4x200 Relay 1:55.92 3rd
Aubrey Avey, Mia Zabarcencu Kiley Williams, Hayden Granzin
Shana Cutrer, Te’a Gonzales Breannah Matthews, Haley Mechler
400 meter
Mia Zabarcencu 62.51 3rd
Georgia Schexnayder 64.69 5th
300 meter hurdles
Aubrey Avey 43.04 1st Haley Mechler 52.82 2nd
Kennedy Grindle 44.23 2nd
1600 meter 200 meter
Eva Zabarcencu 5:25.57 1st Kiley Williams 28.91 6th
Sophie Eastland 5:50.19 6th
4x400 relay 4:14.68 2nd 4x400 relay 4:33.19 4th
Mia Zabarcencu, Bella Biasatti Kiley Williams, Haley Mechler
Georgia Schexnayder, Eva Zabarcencu Bella Huneau, Avery Rutherford
Long Jump High Jump
Savanna Oberholtzer 16-9.50 2nd Julia Pena 4-08 2nd
Georgia Schexnayder 15-4.75 5th
Triple Jump
Savanna Oberholtzer 32-6 3rd
High Jump
Shana Cutrer 4-06 5th
Trinity Turner 4-06 5th
Pole Vault
Kennedy Grindle 10-6 2nd
Katelyn Lowth 10-6 3rd
Shana Cutrer 9-6
Hawks win at Wimberley, 3-1 to keep chance for a District Title. Go Lake!
Way to Make us Proud Hawks!
Canyon Lake’s Ladies Soccer Made Wimberley UPSET-3-1 in a payback contest avenging that first district round loss for The Lake, 3-1.
The Hawks scored first in that first contest and Wimberley scored 3 goals in the second half for a win. Wimberley scored first during that second contest and The Lake responded scoring 3 goals in that second.
The ReSporter has this road win ranked in the Top 3 of All-Time including all Lake sports.
Looking at the rankings based on MaxPreps’ matrix below can give a good idea the distance between these two schools….yes, MaxPreps is by no means 100% accurate but seeing how they have info on schools all over…it does share an area code worth of schools with an approximate estimation.
Rankings Canyon Lake Wimberley
National 295 111
Texas 80 9
Section Region 4 29 6
Division 4A 4 1
These Texans certainly had an impressive resume by looking below showing just one team played, Lockhart… being under water record wise and not having any post-season aspirations.
WIMBERLEY’S 2026 Non-District Results
Opponents Present Day Records District Place
Celina Result 1-1 Tie 4A 16-1-1 Dist. 12-0-0 1st
Sulphur Result 4-2 Won 4A 16-4-2 Dist. 7-0-0 1st
Springs
Bullard Result 5-0 Won 4A 14-3-0 Dist. 10-1-0 2nd
Amarillo Result 0-2 Lost 5A 18-2-1 Dist. 12-1-1 1st
Frenship Result 2-1 Won 4A 10-4-2 Dist. 6-1-1 1st
Monterey Result 6-1 Won 5A 11-8-1 Dist. 9-3-1 4th
Lockhart Result 8-0 Won 5A 7-13-3 Dist. 2-8-2 7th
Lorena Result 2-0 Won 4A 13-3-1 Dist. 10-0-0 1st
Burnet Result 8-0 Won 4A 17-5-0 Dist. 11-1-0 1st
Leander Result 3-0 Won 5A 14-3-4 Dist. 9-0-3 2nd
Canyon Lake now has won a contest that shows they too might be in a position for a good run this playoff season.
Way to Go Lake!
“These girls are pretty humble but hard working…and honestly I am pretty hard on them,” Head Coach Kara Stracener stated. “I hope after last night and beating a really good team like Wimberley it brings them a new confidence going into these last few games of district and into post-season.”
Confidence would be that key word for this win as The Lake’s 3 goals was also the most scored against these Texans this season.
Savanna Oberholtzer scored the first two goals to start that 2nd Half and now has reached 54 with still 3 more district battles to add to her record setting season.
High Noon says GO LAKE!
“We knew that wasn’t our best half,” Oberholtzer stated when asked about being behind going into halftime. “It was s reality check and we set out to get to every ball first and then try to score.”
Oberholtzer scored two second half goals within an 8 minute span and then Kylee Morrow had a crowning shot from 25 yards from the left side of the goal that curved right over the Texan Goalies hands settling at the right-side of the goal with right at 4 minutes remaining.
“We were all excited,” Oberholtzer quipped when seeing Morrow’s shot. “This is a huge rivalry and it was exciting to see that we have a chance to finish first in district if we can win our next three games.”
Way to Go Lake Soccer!
Coach Stracener’s parting shots, “Two of our goals were from over 25 yards and Kylee is a very unselfish and will pass many times over shooting….Glad she chose to shoot tonight cuz we needed her too. Like last time we played them we wanted to make it a messy game. Not allow them to get into a rhythm and try to frustrate them. We ‘weathered the storm’ the first half. Wimberley came out Very Strong and we struggled to get control of the middle….but halftime was a good reset and the girls did a fantastic job of digging deep and fighting back till the end. We played a good full 80 minutes this time around.”
Canyon Lake Hawk Proud!
Now The lake’s season goals are still attainable with this win having a chance for a district championship, going further in the playoffs and Canyon Lake’s 2026 squad now took the sole lead with wins in a season sitting with 17 so far.
The Hawks still have 3 games remaining and none of these battles will be a cakewalk which will equate in needing 3 more complete 80 minutes of game time.
Congrats and Way to GO LAKE!
PANTHER RELAYS
GIRLS VARSITY JUNIOR VARSITY
THE LAKE 191 Wimberley 178
Wimberley 154 Davenport 163
Marion 76 La Vernia 74
Long Creek 60 THE LAKE 53
La Vernia 54 Navarro 51
Davenport 49 Long Creek 38
Navarro 33 Marion 32
The Lake’s Ladies won their 2nd Meet this season scoring 191 points against a combined 7 schools.
The Jump’s Events had this Hawk team cashing in 50 points with the relays scoring 44 points which included two first place finishes in the 4×100 & 4×200 category.
The Sprints also pitched in 44 points with the Hurdle’s bringing in 28 and Distance 24 points.
There was a lot of Gold this week starting with those two relays and then individual Gold by the following:
Aubrey Avey 200 & 400 meter dash
Kennedy Grindle 100 & 300 meter hurdles
Savanna Oberholtzer long & triple jumps
Te’a Gonzales 100 meter dash
Julia Pena with JV a PR on her high jump for a first place medal.
Those Athletes in the two sprint relays were:
4x100 4x200
Aubrey Avey Savanna Oberholtzer
Te’a Gonsales Mia Zabarecencu
Kennedy Grindle Shana Cutrer
Savanna Oberholtzer Te’a Gonzales
This Panther Relays had one less school than Canyon Lake’s Relays last week minus Dripping Sprints which aided in scoring more points.
Head Coach Sami Theurer said in response to this meet and having Aubry Avey not running her bell-cow 300 meter hurdle’s event, “We wanted to use the 400 meter to help Avey work on getting out in her 300 hurdle, including endurance. She was a bit disappointed she did not hit 58 seconds.”
Avey is the third Hawk to break the 60 second barrier as the now University of Houston trackster Ahren Lightfoot’s (56.77 at the 2024 State Meet)set that all time mark. A few years back it was Skylar Hurst being the first to reach this milestone after racing around the cinders with a, 58.28 back in 2017.
The Lake will be in action again March 5th at Davenport Relays and those Field events get going at 1:00pm along with that 3200 meter race where Canyon Lake continues their strong distance team.
Points Scored by Athlete + How Events Scored
Varsity Pts~Events Junior Varsity Pts ~Events
Savanna Oberholtzer 38 ~ 5 Delilah King 14 ~ 4
Kennedy Grindle 33 ~ 4 Julia Pena 13 ~ 4
Aubrey Avey 25 ~ 3 Haley Mechler 10 ~ 2
Shana Cutrer 22 ~ 4 Isabella Cameron 4 ~ 1
Te’a Gonzales 20 ~ 3 Bella Huneau 4 ~ 2
Sophie Eastland 12 ~ 2 Paisleigh Fahrney 4 ~ 3
Eva Zabarcencu 12 ~ 2 Kiley Williams 4 ~ 3
Mia Zabarcencu 12 ~ 3
Katelyn Lowth 6 ~ 1
Georgia Schexnayder 5 ~ 2
Emma Risien 4 ~ 1
Avery Rutherford 1 ~ 1
Bella Biasatti 1 ~ 1
Way to GO Fast LAKE!
