Carley Dubois Leading Off.          (photo by Karen Holmes)

Canyon Lake continues their chase for District 28-4A supremacy after squeaking out a win over Fredericksburg, 4-3 at the Hawk Nest Friday night.

“This was our best defensive game we have played,” Head Coach John Gallagher fielded. “All we did this past week was hitting and defense….they hit 150 times in the batting cages and they fielded ground-balls all week long.”

The Hawks started this battle with a good offense as the bottom of that first inning had consecutive doubles by Maddy Puente and Lauren Mentzer after Bailey Bryan started the fireworks with a single.

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Catcher Lee Stafford throws out 2 Owls on winning night

Canyon Lake won a must win game at home after scoring on a wild pitch in the bottom of the 7th inning with a final of, 3-2.

“This win was huge for us,” Head Coach Trent Dunavant said. “Guys are starting to come around and believe in themselves. We played well against Hondo at their place minus a couple of critical mistakes…So we knew we could win.”

Hondo struck first scoring a run in the top of the 2nd inning after a lead off single and then two batters later a double had the Owls looking good.

With just one out and a batter on 2nd a fly-out to Parker Reno in centerfield and then the last out came from a foul ball behind home plate to end the inning.

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   Chloe Cullen is ready to kick the playoff season off this Friday in Manor        (mjrphotog.com)

Canyon Lake Soccer teams will be sharing the field this Friday at Manor High School as the Hawks will be going against Salado’s boys and girls teams in the second round of playoffs.

Both Hawk teams won their warm-up scrimmage last week as the CL district drew a bye for the first round of contests.

“The warm-up game went well,” Head Girls Soccer Coach Ryan Tierney said. “We played La Vernia for a 3rd time and had a great result beating them 5-0. Alexa Ramos had 1 goal and 1 assist, Kalani Thorpe scored 2, Chloe 1 goal and 1 assist, and Katie Rio’s with 1 goal and 1 assist.”

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      GO Canyon Lake!!

Canyon Lake had a hard time getting home on Thursday night as their bus had to take on that furious wind after a 3rd place finish for the Varsity and a 2nd place trophy for the Junior Varsity.

Lester Boehm is now entrenched in 3rd place for CL as he won the 200 meter dash with a time, 22.93 and on a calm night might have had this athlete moving even further up the pack. The good news is having another chance this Thursday in Lockhart.

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Hayden Reed waiting for results after earlier game this season.  (mjrphotog.com)

The Canyon Lake Hawks play dodge ball in loss to Hondo, 4-3 last Friday night.

Two things, the Hawks were beaned 5 times and in the field CL committed 5 errors.

The errors won this battle as Canyon Lake could not muster enough runs to tip the scale into their favor.

With 4 walks and 5 hit batsman, the Hawks, just did not have that one more hit to help in one of their best played games to date.

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Jessie Melendez is ready for action at first base

CL Hawks Bats finally came out of the cave in the 5th inning for a win over the Hondo Owls, 13-6.

Canyon Lake has started district with two games where those bats have been waiting for the sun to rise before they exit their cave and on this night the Hawks still had enough time to catch some mosquitoes as they responded with 12 runs in their last three stanzas.

An Owl was having a feast with a 4-1 lead going into the 5th inning but having insects for dinner did not sit well as those Hawk Bats came alive to swallow up all of the mosquitoes for an eventual eat-a-way win. (A Bat cam eat up to 1000 mosquitoes in one hour.)

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Alysha Perez sets new mark in 100 meter dash at Texan Relays

Canyon Lake went dancing at the Texan Relays in Wimberley last Thursday as all the teams performed well with some key athletes missing due to Dancing Competition that was scheduled that same day.

“I was proud of our efforts again on Thursday,” Head Girls Track Coach John Barthels stated. “We had a decent effort in basically two day practice, post spring break week and I was impressed with several of the results going into the wind.”

That wind was consistent throughout the meet and it showed no relief for those events that would have those runners heading south.

Skylar Hurst was high point once again with 26 points followed by Alysha Perez’s 19 points after shattering the 100 meter dash record by two tenths of a second. These same two students had first place finishes along with the 4×100 relay team.

“Obviously our 100 and 100 hurdle times improved with the wind at our backs,” Coach Barthels continued. “The form looked good from Alysha (Perez) in the 100 and she won so that was great.”

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      Lauren Mentzer just foul ball as Maddy Puente looks on…       (photo by Karen Holmes)

The CL Hawk’s errors matched the Boerne Greyhounds runs in an opening District 28-4A loss at the Hawk Nest on Tuesday night, 6-3.

Canyon Lake’s bats were also quiet for the first 6 innings as the only Hawk inning that had pressure on Boerne happened in the 4th inning when Marley Carrizales led off the inning with the first hit and two stolen bases had this CL runner on third base.

A strikeout ended that threat and then the Hawks 10 consecutive outs until a one out single in the bottom of the 7th frame.

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Ranger Cleaners says Go Hawks!!

Canyon Lake could only scratch off one run in their second run-ruled game game with the Boerne Greyhounds, 10-1.

There were two outs when Avery Montgomery reached base base on the Greyhound’s short-stop error.

JT Greene followed with a walk which advanced Montgomery with two on and two outs.

Enter Caleb Williams with a line drive single to left field to score Montgomery but that would be the extent of the damage on this night.

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             Lauren Mentzer bearing down on an opposing batter.                  (photo by Karen Holmes)

                            District 28-4A Softball Standings

           Regular Season                          District Season
                     W   L   T    Pct                            W   L    Pct   GB
 CL Hawks           11   4   1   .719       Boerne               2   0  1.000   ——
 Boerne             12   8   1   .595       Fredericksburg       1   0  1.000  0.5
 Hondo               8  11   0   .421       Hondo                1   1   .500  1.0
 Fredericksburg      7  10   0   .412       CL Hawks             0   1   .000  1.5
 Bandera             3  12   0   .200       Bandera              0   2   .000  2.0

                               This Week’s Games

         March 21 Tuesday      Boerne          6      CL Hawks     3   (9 innings)
                               Hondo          12      Bandera     11
                               Fredericksburg         Bye

         March 24  Friday      CL Hawks        @      Hondo        7:00p
                               Bandera         @      Fredericksburg
                               Boerne          @      SA Churchill

                               Last Week’s Games
                               Boerne         10      Bandera      0
                               Billies         7      Hondo        3
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Repeat-Boutique Says Go Hawks and Repeat Winning

Canyon Lake will have their indoctrination into district competition this Tuesday when the Hawks will do battle with the Boerne Greyhounds.

CL will be the last district school to get in on the fray of competing as the Greyhounds will enter with a win over Bandera last week.

If the regular season records pan out then this will be a big game as both schools had the only winning record going into District 28-4A play.

Some games that should instill some angst for the Hawks came with a loss for Boerne but that school was Wimberley by one run (1-2) score.

Meanwhile, Canyon Lake has struggled in their two games with the Texans and a one run loss that the

Greyhounds had can tell you that this game will be a battle.

         Go Hawks & Beat Boerne

Canyon Lake did have a short scrimmage with Fredericksburg in the San Marcos Rattler Tournament two weeks ago but that game was only in the 3rd inning when rain shortened the contest.

The Hawks had a one run lead when the curtain dropped and that will be another game CL will have to be on their ‘A’ game when they match up with the Billies.

Canyon Lake has some good wins thus far but looking back on the pre-district games versus district games will let you know that the Hawks will not look or play like they did when the games did not have district implications.

The ReSporter sees many younger players with a ton of talent and how they play when the lights get brighter will be a big eye opener on how these next 8 games will pan out.

Tuesday will be a time of reckoning and with Coach John Gallagher being very intentional in having a tougher schedule, will hopefully pay dividends.

                             Hawks All-Time Top 5 For Season Stats

 average                           at bats                         hits
 Carley Dubois      .526   ’16     Alexis Robinson     111   ’13   Carley Dubois       51   ’16
 Kirsten Jones      .487   ’16     Kelsey Ahrens       108   ’13   McKenna Beseda      48   ’13
 McKenna Beseda     .457   ’13     Vicky Henderson     106   ’13   Kelsey Ahrens       39   ’13
 Brianna Young      .439   ’14     McKenna Beseda      105   ’13   Carley Dubois       39   ’14
 Missy Romero       .429   ’12     Carley Dubois        97   ’14   Alexis Robinson     38   ’14
                                   Carley Dubois        97   ’16   Alexis Robinson     38   ’13

 runs                              runs batted in                  base on balls
 Alexis Robinson      40   ’14     Brianna Young        33   ’14   Brianna Young       24   ’13
 Carley Dubois        37   ’14     Alexis Robinson      32   ’16   Alexis Robinson     24   ’14
 Kirsten Jones        34   ’16     Alexis Robinson      30   ’14   Missy Romero        21   ’11
 Carley Dubois        33   ’16     Kelsey Ahrens        26   ’14   Kelsey Ahrens       19   ’15
 McKenna Beseda       31   ’13     Kelsey Ahrens        26   ’15   Brianna Young       16   ’14

 doubles                           triples                         home-runs
 Kelsey Ahrens        10   ’13     Missy Romero          7   ’09   Alexis Robinson      5   ’14
 Lauren Mentzer       10   ’16     Alexis Robinson       6   ’14   Alexis Robinson      4   ’16
 Missy Romero          9   ’11     Alexis Robinson       4   ’16   Kelsey Ahrens        4   ’15 
 Brianna Young         8   ’13     Alexis Robinson       3   ’15   Kelsey Ahrens        3   ’14
 Alexis Robinson       8   ’16     Kat Weber             3   ’16   Alexis Robinson      2   '15
                                                                   Carley Dubois        2   ’16
                                                                   Missy Romero         2   ’12
                                                                   Maddy Puente         2   ’17

 stolen bases                      on base percentage              slugging percentage
 Carley Dubois        41   ’16     Kirsten Jones      .589   ’16   Alexis Robinson   .966   ’14
 Kirsten Jones        27   ’16     Carley Dubois      .570   ’16   Missy Romero      .821   ’12
 McKenna Beseda       24   ’13     Kelsey Ahrens      .556   ’15   Alexis Robinson   .716   ’16
 Carley Dubois        19   ’14     Missy Romero       .549   ’12   Kelsey Ahrens     .667   ’14
 McKenna Beseda       18   ’12     Alexis Robinson    .548   ’14   Kelsey Ahrens     .656   ’15