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
========================================
                  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)

                            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
BOYS VARSITY        JUNIOR VARSITY
Davenport     143   Davenport    200
Wimberley     128   Wimberley    181
Marion         97   Navarro       81
Canyon Lake    90   Canyon Lake   55
Navarro        67   La Vernia     52
La Vernia      53   Long Creek    37
Long Creek     42   Marion        17

Anthony Hockman reaching new Heights, 6-2 at Hawk Relays. Go High Hawks!

The Hawk’s Boys improvement from previous seasons is coming along as during this year those first meets to this last one in Navarro is showing promise as this season continues.

Hope for better results has been the goal.

“We are trying to build this program on the boys side back up to what it is ultimately capable”, Head Coach Brad Manning stated. “We had a core group of kids, particularly in the sprint group, that did the work last year, and made significant cuts in overall times and splits. That was so important, because our guys started to believe in their work. That core group knew that if they could make the same jump this year, that we could be competitive.”

             Go Lake Beat Everyone!

That certainly has been the case in scoring more points in this Panther Relay, “Yesterday was another chance to go out and hunt those times and splits down,” Coach Manning assess. “Some were able to do it, and some are still powering through with what we asking them to do in offseason for football, and with participation in other sports, the meet really becomes another practice for them. There were some really nice performances yesterday. Jace Morales is starting to really come on in his transition into track shape and did a nice job in the Open 100 and Open 200. Peyton King is continuing to prove he can become a horse in the 200/400’s for us. Joseph Matos continues to cut his split in the 4×400 each week, running a 51 as we continue to look at how the pieces will fit for that race. Jacob Stahla won the JV 110 hurdles, as he is proving to be a talented young runner. Cayden Toon placed 3rd in the Shot and Jacob Price placed 3rd in the Triple Jump, respectively.”

                            Break the Dam~ Lake!

Coach Manning closed looking to future meets, “As we get closer to the district meet, it will be about figuring out the right combinations of athletes and tapering them down to get maximum performance out of them and get as many events out of district as we can. We have a lot of work to do still, but I am proud of our improvement and look forward to what happens down the stretch.”

This meet had CLake scoring the most in those Jump Fielding events with 23 points followed with 20 points during the 3 relays.

Sprints (19) points and (16) in those distance runs were next using Cayden Toons throwing, 10 points.

While CL’s Junior Varsity was pretty even scoring 17 points in the distance runs, 16 points in relays, and 14 points scored during those two hurdle events.

The Lake will be back on the cinders this Thursday when they travel to Davenport for the Wolf Relays with start time at 1:00pm.

                The Lake Scoring
Varsity         Pts ~ Events   Junior Varsity  Pts ~ Events
Jace Morales     18 ~ 3        Jacob Stahla     13 ~ 2
Peyton King      12 ~ 4        Harley Hamilton  13 ~ 3
Cayden Toon      10 ~ 2        Javier Burton     6 ~ 1
Anthony Hockman  10 ~ 1        Carter Prieto     5 ~ 2
Gibson Cover     10 ~ 2        Brayden Branter   5 ~ 2
Jacob Price       8 ~ 2        Blake McCullough  5 ~ 2
Tristan Alexander 7 ~ 4        Zach Frazier      4 ~ 1
Tristan Schenk    6 ~ 1        Skeet Kitchen     2 ~ 1
Joseph Matos      4 ~ 2        Thomas Wood       1 ~ 1
Miller Beebe      2 ~ 1        Parker Gordon     1 ~ 1
Koby Halverson    2 ~ 1                         55
Chris Brown       2 ~ 1
                 90

Let’s GO FAST 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!

                                              Centerfielder Kelsey Unrue taking care of business.
(photo by Daniel Clifton)

 


                  THIS WEEK     @   THE LAKE          March 2-7

Mon Mar 2    The Lake Green     @   Lytle Fresh       430p       Baseball
             The Lake Gold      @   Lytle JV          615p       Baseball

Tue Mon 3    The Lake           @   Pieper Invt       730a Boys  Golf
                                    Vaalor Creek
             The Lake JV        @   Wimberley JV      500p Girls Soccer
             Wimberley          @   The Lake JV       500p Boys  Soccer
             NB Thunder         @   The Lake          630p       Softball
             Wimberley          @   The Lake          700p Boys  Soccer

Thu Mar 5    The Lake           @   The Wolves Relays 100p       Track & Field
                                    Davenport
             Beeville           @   The Lake          730p       Baseball
                                    Comal Clash

Fri Mar 6    CC Moody           @   The Lake          230p       Baseball
                                    Comal Clash
             The Lake           @   Marble Falls      500p       Tennis
             Long Creek JV      @   The Lake JV       500p Boys  Soccer
             The Lake JV        @   Long Creek JV     500p Girls Soccer
             The Lake           @   Killeen           500p       Softball
             The Lake           @   Long Creek        700p Girls Soccer
             Long Creek         @   The Lake          700p Boys  Soccer
             Tuloso-Midway      @   The Lake          730p       Baseball
                                    Comal Clash

Sat Mar 7    TBD                @   The Lake          TBA        Baseball
                                    Comal Clash

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            Don’t use your Hands in Soccer Lake!

The Lake ended last week with mixed review for Softball that is still working on making strides in preparation for district season as this young squad continues with wins & losses as reps remain the focus.

Baseball had a successful tournament by sweeping 4 opponents and you read that article on this site’s home page.

This week Baseball sub-varsity will venture to Lytle for a double header as CL’s Green & Gold team play on Monday.

Varsity Baseball has another 4 game tournament at home with Beeville visiting The Lake 730p to open the Comal Clash. Two games on Friday with Corpus Christi Moody (230a) and Tuloso-Midway (730a). Then Saturday will be determined with a team that played at one of the other Comal Schools this week.

                 Way to GO HAWKS!
Don’t forget to VOTE this week!

Track & Field showed improvement for this year[s boy team adding some depth and overall improvement overall. The Ladies won the Panther Relays in Navarro as this group of ladies continue to up their game as they get through this month. This Thursday the Hawks will be at Davenport and then will take their Spring Break off.

The Lady Soccer Squad will venture to Wimberley to face #1 Ranked Wimbo who won that first round contest, 3-1. With a win The Lake could tie for first if both schools run the table like the first round of contests. The Lake is also ranked 4th MaxPreps & 6th Girls Coaches Poll.

A lot of activities for The Hawk Nation so you can come out to support this year’s Lake Athletes or maybe even venture over to Wimberley to catch a great battle of Soccer….

& Let’s Go Lake!

                           Archer Miller getting reps on the mound during a Hawk tournament game.

        Way to make some Good Hits!

Canyon Lake Baseball’e Tourney was a 4 game sweep that had The Lake outscoring their opponents, 47-12 that showed how much depth a school has on the pitching mound which especially shows in those later contests.

CLHS outscored Giddings & Long Creek, 24-8 and on the defensive side, The Lake, had no errors on Saturday and finished with just 3 miscues during these games…while 9 errors were committed by CL’s opponents.

CLake still has a walking problem for the pitchers but some timely double plays and working out of jams let to 9 unearned runs.

CL’s pitchers issued 18 base-on-balls while striking out 16 players with different uniforms. Those free passes will lead to some losses when district gets going.

                                   Way to GO LAKE!

Lucas Schexnayder broke out of his slump that had one hit in his first 5 games with 6 hits that has a 4 game hitting streak with 3 doubles and 4 rbi’s.

Wayen Slania-Wertz continued his strong batting cashing in getting on base in all but one game this campaign matching Carson Walker with 12 rbi’s these past two weeks leading the team.

Cullen Barnhart (10) along with Walker (11) have both reached double digit hits while Hayes Holladay leads the team with 4 doubles while has missed reaching base in just one contest thus far.

Canyon Lake will be feasting with another home tournament this week in the Comal Clash.
The Hawks will start with Marble Falls at 11am this Thursday and will end that day playing Beeville with first pitch 5pm.

Friday will be another two-till day facing Holladay 3:40pm and then Corpus Christi Moody 5:00pm.

Canyon Lake’s last game was with Long Creek who plays in the same district which has the box score below.

It was a game that showed some promise when Gavyn Baldera and Greysen Patton both left the yard with their hits in this game.

Way to GO LAKE!

            1  2  3  4   R  H  E
Long Creek  0  1  2  0   3  4  2
The Lake    2  3  6  3  14 11  0

                  ab  r  h bi 3b hr bb so  misc
Bryce May          2  2  1  1  0  0  1  0  sb
Gram Simpson       3  0  1  2  0  0  0  0  sb
Carson Walker      3  2  1  3  0  0  0  0
Wayen Slania-Wetz  2  0  1  2  1  0  1  0
Cullen Barnhart    3  0  2  2  0  0  0  0
Brenan Hughes      3  0  1  1  0  0  0  2
Hayes Holladay     1  1  0  0  0  0  1  1  sb
Gavyn Baldera      1  3  1  1  0  1  0  0
Archer Miller      1  3  1  0  0  0  1  0  hbp
Lucas Schexnayder  1  2  1  0  0  0  1  0
 Greysen Patton    1  2  1  2  0  1  0  0
Totals            21 14 11 14  1  2  5  3

Pitching            ip  h  r er bb so
Cade Johnson (2-1) 4.0  4  3  3  5  4 

Kylee Morrow & The Lake will need to be on their ‘A’ Game Tuesday against Wimberley.
(photo by Daniel Clifton)

        Go Hawks & Beat the Texans!

The Lake set the table with an early release (mercy win) over Bandera in their, 9-0 game last Friday which now sets up another battle this Tuesday with Wimberley. These two schools have already clinched a post-season invite.

A battle of top 6 teams according to two Texas Polls. The Texans are ranked first in MaxPreps snd The Lake coming in with a 4th place ranking.

While these two schools fight for the top district spot those other District 26-4A Schools have 4 teams battling it out for those last two playoff spots.

                 Congrats Lake Soccer!

Right now Davenport (13 pts) leads presently and Long Creek (12 pts), Fredericksburg (10 pts) and Marble Falls (5 pts) looking for a good week to get in that running.

Canyon Lake will have a pivotal meeting against the Texans after losing, 3-1 during that first round. CL did have a one goal lead at halftime but let that second stanza get away with them as Wimbo took advantage of 3 penalty kicks leading to that loss.

Last week’s Bandera win put your Hawks at 16 wins tying their 2021 & 2024 season totals and breaking that milestone against a highly ranked opponent would put this team in rarefied air to put it lightly.

Make history Hawks and with the table being set it is now time to dine.

Let’s Go Lake!

Rankings:
Girls Coaches Association Soccer Poll
Wimberley       3rd
Canyon Lake     6th

MaxPreps Poll
Wimberley       1st
Canyon Lake     4th
Davenport      13th
Marble Falls   19th
Fredericksburg 29th

District 4A Region 4 District 26
Overall Standings
School          W   L   T    Pct   GF  GA
Canyon Lake    17   1   0   .944   93  18
Wimberley      17   2   1   .875   84  14
Davenport      13   5   1   .694   70  11
Long Creek      9   5   2   .625   34  23
Marble Falls    9   6   4   .579   53  17
Fredericksburg  8  10   1   .447   43  42
Bandera         3  15   0   .167   15 100

District Standings
School          W   L   T    Pct   GF  GA  GP
Wimberley       9   1   0   .900   46   8  27
Canyon Lake     8   1   0   .889   37   7  24
Davenport       5   4   1   .550   33   9  16
Long Creek      5   4   0   .556   13  19  15
Fredericksburg  3   6   1   .350   19  28  10
Marble Falls    1   6   2   .222    9  14   5
Bandera         0   9   0   .000    1  73   0

Last Week’s Results:
Tuesday
Long Creek   1  Marble Falls  0
Billies      8  Bandera       0
Wimberley    3  Davenport     1
Friday
Canyon Lake  9  Bandera       0
Wimberley    5  Billies       0
Davenport    1  Long Creek    0

This Week’s Contests:
Tuesday
Canyon Lake  3  Wimberley     1
Davenport    3  Marble Falls  0
Long Creek   1  Billies       0

Friday
Canyon Lake  @  Long Creek
Billies      @  Marble Falls
Bandera      @  Wimberley

                                                              Go Lake Boy’s Soccer!
(photo by Daniel Clifton)

               THIS WEEK     @   THE LAKE         February 23-28

Tue Feb 24   The Lake        @   Luling           600p       Softball

Wed Feb 25   Southwest       @   The Lake Gold     600p       Baseball

Thu Feb 26   The Lake        @   Double J Ranch    900a       Golf
             The Lake Green  vs  Navarro          1000a       Baseball
                                 Texan Tournament                                
             The Lake        @   Panther Relays    100p       Track
             The Lake        @   Blanco Tourney    TBD        Softball
             St Anthony      @   The Lake          530p       Baseball

Fri Feb 27   The Lake        @   Blanco Tourney    TBD        Softball
             The Lake Green  vs  Hutto Texan Tourn 200p       Baseball
             The Lake JV     @   Bandera JV        500p Girls Soccer
             Bandera JV      @   The Lake JV       500p Boys  Soccer
             Bracken         @   The Lake          530p       Baseball     
             The Lake        @   Bandera           700p Girls Soccer
             Bandera         @   The Lake          700p Boys  Soccer

Sat Feb 28   The Lake        @   Blanco Tourney    TBD        Softball
             The Lake Green  vs  Johnson Tourney   900a       Baseball
             Giddings        @   The Lake          200p       Baseball
             Long Creek      @   The Lake          430p       Baseball

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                       High Noon says GO LAKE!

A lot of happenings last week with more on the way for another busy week for The Lake’s High School.

Check out The ReSporter article on Tennis as this group of Hawk Athletes had a successful two days in San Marcos with several players placing 3rd & 2nd and some close calls. (Pardon the Pun)

Boys Basketball finished their season being outside the playoff picture that could have had better results but this team lost 83 games for the top 8 players due to injury. Certainly a MASH unit this season.

Softball is in the midst of some growing pains while Baseball finished the week with a, 4-2 record with 4 more on their slate this week. All will be at the Hawk Nest.

Track & Field hosted the Hawk Relays and the Ladies started where they left off last year and won scoring 152 points with some good marks for their Junior Varsity and room for more improvement for the Varsity.

                         Let’s GO LAKE!

The Boys Track & Field have lapped last year’s team with a good showing with a 5th place showing and some athletes shuffling into the Top Ten with their efforts with potential for more to come.

This week Track will be in Navarro Panther Relays with start time, 1:00pm.

Girls Soccer are still ranked in the Top 5 in both Texas Polls as they went, 2-0 this past week and one game against Bandera on Friday. That next week will be a battle at Wimberley and a must win for a chance of having a chance of winning the district.

If you see an event and have an inkling then come out and support The Lake’s Hawks!

& Let’s Go Lake!

Ryan Rena pitched in win over Aransas Pass. Way to Go Lake!

The Hawks finished their Sinton Tourney, 3-2 giving Head Coach Victor Escamilla a lot of data in forming those three baseball elements of, Pitching~Fielding~Hitting.

Thus far The Lake has used more pitchers by this time of the year seeing 8 players. This group has posted a decent 2.70 era and 12 earned runs during 31 innings of work.

“Every outing is a test for our guys,” Head Coach Victor Escamilla stated on how he takes in pitching before pre-district. “We have a few arms but we need to find those that throw more strikes. We will continue to work with all of them hoping to get better results with each outing.”

Giving up 21 hits is doable but their base on balls reached 21 which would help with a lower number which will certainly be in Coach Escamilla’s thought process in choosing those players that take the mound.

         Way to Make us Proud Hawks!

Those two losses were to perennial power Sinton and Tuloso-Midway a larger school. The Lake managed just one run in those outings.

Fielding has been decent with a .937 percentage. But Coach Escamilla is a tough grader, “I would give fielding a C plus. We have to get better. We Don’t have those guys that will strike out 10 in a game. Good defense will go a long way for us.”

Coach Escamilla graded CL’s batting thusly, “Hitting C plus. We must improve our hitting against good pitching.”

                                Go Lake!

That was the main theme in those two losses and one win happened with just two hits…but those hits came when Wayen Slania-Wertz  hit a 3-run homer and a double for Brenan Hughes.

Overall, “We need to find our top 4 guys on the mound and improve against quality pitching.

The Lake will continue with 4 games at the Hawk Nest this week with one game Thursday-Friday and then finish with two contests next Saturday.

A lot of ??? that can hopefully turn into !!!!

Let’s Go Lake!

                           1  2  3  4  R  H  E
Vet Memorial Brownsville   0  0  0  3  3  5  0
Canyon Lake Hawks          4  0  1  0  5  2  0

                  ab  r  h  bi 2b hr bb so misc
Bryce May          3  0  0  0  0  0  0  1
Gram Simpson       0  1  0  0  0  0  3  0
Carson Walker      2  1  0  0  0  0  0  0  hbp
Wayen Slania-Wertz 2  1  1  3  0  1  0  0  hbp
Cullen Barnhart    1  0  0  0  0  0  1  0
 Jace McGoldrick   0  1  0  0  0  0  0  0
Brenan Hughes      1  0  1  0  1  0  1  0
Ryan Rena          0  0  0  0  0  0  1  0  hbp
Hayes Holladay     2  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
Lucas Schexnayder  1  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
 Archer Miller     0  0  0  0  0  0  1  0
Totals            12  5  2  3  1  1  7  1

Pitching          ip  h  r er bb so  W
Kobe Halverson   3.0  3  3  3  1  2  1
Greysen Patton   1.0  2  0  0  1  1  S
Totals           4.0  5  3  3  2  3 

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             1 2 3 4 5 R H E
Aransas Pass 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 2
The Lake     4 2 4 0 X 10 10 0

                 ab  r  h bi 2b bb so  misc
Bryce May         2  2  1  1  0  1  0  sb 2
Gram Simpson      2  1  1  0  0  0  0  sb
Jace McGoldrick   1  1  1  1  0  0  0
Carson Walker     2  1  1  2  0  0  1
Dalton Hodges     0  0  0  1  0  0  0  sf
Hayes Holladay    2  1  1  1  0  0  0
Lance Halverson   1  0  0  0  0  0  0
Ryan Rena         2  0  2  1  0  0  0
Kobe Halverson    1  0  0  0  0  0  1  sb
Greysen Patton    2  0  0  1  0  0  0  hbp sb
Wyatt Sims        2  1  1  0  0  1  1
Archer Miller     3  0  1  0  0  0  0
Gavyn Baldera     1  2  1  0  1  1  0
Totals           21 10 10  8  1  3  3

Pitching         ip  h  r er bb so  misc
Ryan Rena       5.0  3  1  1  2  4  Won