Canyon Lake did what needed to be done with a convincing win over Boerne, 11-0 last Thursday night

Head Coach John Gallagher

in Boerne.

Pitcher Alexis Robinson struck out the side the first two innings giving Boerne a statement that this game would not be theirs.

“After playing Wimberley we talked about how well we played except for one inning,” Head Coach John Gallagher said. “We took that intensity into the Boerne game and played a complete game.”

The Hawks needed this win after having some bad innings that would wreck a game in seconds.

“We came out confident and played as a team,” Coach Gallagher continued. “After scoring one in the first and two runs in the second, we felt we could dominate.”

Dominate is what CL did and that will help instill that confidence as they continue their road through District 27-3A cities.

Robinson has had some problems during a game with walks and that would not be an issue in this contest as she struck out 11 Greyhounds.

“She (Robinson) improved her walks total and gave up just one hit that went six feet down the third base line,” Coach said gladly. “Defensively we had only one throwing error and (McKenna) Beseda made a great over the shoulder catch going towards the fence.”

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The Hawks drew blanks again against Fredericksburg as they lost the season series, 9-4.

Senior Travis Walker

Canyon Lake did take the lead with one run in the first two innings and also tied the score in the top of the fifth inning before those flood gates opened up with a Billie six run inning.

Nick Cahill led the offense with a double and two hits in the game.

Kyler Huff took the loss as CL’s pitching could not solve the strike zone by walking 10 batters in this contest.

Both teams finished with five hits but walks will kill you and now Canyon Lake needs to get back on track fast as they have little room for mistakes as the district games continue.

Canyon Lake will play Bandera next week in hopes that those Bulldogs will stay in the Bullpen and give the Hawks some momentum as the season heats up.

                 1  2  3  4  5  6  7   R  H  E
 Canyon Lake     1  1  0  0  1  0  1   4  5  3
 Fredericksburg  0  2  0  1  6  0  x   9  5  1

 name               ab r  h bi 2b bb so  misc
 Peyton Sipila      4  1  1  0  0  0  0  sb
 Kyler Huff         4  1  1  2  0  0  0  roe
 Michael Brady      4  0  1  1  1  0  1
 Travis Walker      2  0  0  0  0  1  0
 Ryan Hutcheson     1  0  0  0  0  0  0  hbp
  ph Corey Shedrock 1  0  0  0  0  0  0
 Nick Cahill        2  1  2  0  1  0  0  hbp
 Tyler Vinson       1  0  0  1  0  0  0  sac
 JJ Nance           2  1  0  0  0  1  0  sb
 TJ Jones           2  0  0  0  0  0  0
  ph Daniel Reed    1  0  0  0  0  0  1
 Totals            24  4  5  4  2  2  2

 pitching       ip r er  h bb so np  W  L
 Tyler Vinson   3  3  3  2  4  0 49
 Kyler Huff     1  4  4  3  3  2 38  0  l
 Nick Kissell   2  2  2  0  3  1 45

Canyon Lake Boys Track Team decided to have a coming out night as several Tracksters decided

Garhett Grundhi, Javier Mendez, Doug Hubnik, and Jordan Anderson ran the 4x400 Meter Relay Team finished 2nd at Hawk Relays

to entertain their home crowd with some personal bests.

Branson Belcher had a new CL Record in the Triple Jump as he finished 5th Place with a leap of 40’11. That jump now has him with the second best jump in District 27-3A schools.

Todd Pippin had the previous record in 2011 in Blanco when he soared 38’9.25 feet.

Christian Dittman was in our spotlight last week when he finished third in Wimberley. This week Dittman hit the Moon with a vault of 14’3 a mere 15 inches higher than his previous best of 13’6.

Dittman has already beat his previous best in Canyon Lake when he hit 13’0 last year.

Jordan Anderson also beat his best in the High Jump when he finished first at 6’6. That jump tied Chase Eddington who hit that same height in a 2010 Track Meet in Brady, Texas.

Thomas Gregory also had a personal best of 132’9 throw in the Discus beating his best from last year of 126’11 during the District Meet.

With injuries, sickness, and other sports taking some key athletes out of events this week, Canyon Lake had to switch several students to events that in many cases they have never competed in.

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The ReSporter: Coach Katie McWhorter has just completed her first year as Canyon Lake’s Girls Soccer and we would first like to congratulate you and your team for making the playoffs this season.

Give us your overall assessment of this season?

Coach McWhorter: “I am very proud of this season. My girls worked very hard, and despite some inexperience on the team and many injuries, we managed to come in third place in our district and make it to playoffs.”

The ReSporter: With so many players on your squad, tell us how this might be a great building block for future campaigns.

Coach McWhorter: “This season was my first at Canyon Lake, and I am definitely hoping that this season is the beginning of something special for Canyon Lake soccer. It will be hard losing our seniors, but I am looking forward to seeing the new crop of talent from the middle school, and also seeing my current girls develop into stronger, more skilled players.”

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These Stats are based on players with 7 or more innings pitched and 20 or more at bats.

 Batting Average            Runs                      Hits
 Cody Powell      .480      Kyler Huff       10       Michael Brady      21
 Michael Brady    .438      JJ Nance         10       Daniel Camarillo   13
 Peyton Sipila    .367      Logan Felch      10       Cody Powell        12

 RBI's                      Extra Base Hits           Base on Balls
 Michael Brady      13      Kyler Huff        7       Michael Brady      13
 Logan Felch        10      Logan Felch       6       Travis Walker      12
 Kyler Huff          8      Michael Brady     5       Kyler Huff          7

 Innings Pitched (IP)       ERA (earned run ave.)     Strikeouts
 Logan Felch      33.1      Tyler Vinson   1.00       Logan Felch        22
 Travis Walker    26.0      Travis Walker  2.96       Ryan Hutcheson     11
 Ryan Hutcheson   21.1      Logan Felch    3.81       Cody Powell        10

 Strikeouts to IP ratio     BB to IP ratio            Hits to IP ratio
 Kyler Huff      1.125      Logan Felch    .332       Tyler Vinson     .429
 Tyler Vinson     .857      Kyler Huff     .375       Travis Walder    .808
 Logan Felch      .664      Travis Walker  .423       Ryan Hutcheson   .853

At least this was not a ‘Heart’ breaker game, but it hurt just the same as Canyon Lake had pitching,

The Hawks Tyler Vinson

hitting and fielding woes all come to the same party at the same time in their loss to Fredericksburg, 12-6.

The Billies sent nine batters to the plate in that first inning giving CL a taste of what might happen, but then Canyon Lake also responded with five runs in their next two innings to take a one run lead and momentum.

Four of CL’s six hits were in those first two innings as they could only scrape across to more runs in this game.

Some very good defensive gems were also present at this party that turned bad.

JJ Nance had a great play in right field when he fielded a hard hit single and threw the first base runner out at second base.

Kyler Huff in centerfield also threw out a runner trying to advance to third in that first inning resulting in a double play on a fly ball out.

Nick Cahill then pegged a runner trying to score on a single at home plate and Catcher Michael Brady had the honors of tagging a Billie on the ear.

A double play started by SS Peyton Sipila in the second inning kept Fredericksburg at bay by letting Pitcher Ryan Hutcheson facing the minimum.

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CL’s Softball team was finally subdued by the Texans as they lost their lead and were succumbed, 12-5 on

Senior Vicky Henderson

Tuesday night.

The Hawks had a one run lead when errors and walks finally took its toll and caused an eight run inning that was too much to overcome.

Kelsey Ahrens and Liz Henderson both led Canyon Lake with two hits a piece.

Vicky Henderson had a squeeze bunt and two rbi’s in this contest that kept this game in limbo until that last inning.

The Hawks outhit Wimberley but they also out errored the Texans and just gave our friends to the north too many base runners adding in all of the free passes (walks).

Canyon Lake will turn around for another game in Boerne this Thursday as they will try to get back on track before the Easter Break.

               1  2  3  4  5  6  7  R  H  E
 Canyon Lake   0  0  3  0  1  1  0  5 10  6
 Wimberley     0  0  2  1  1  8  X 12  8  3

 name              ab r  h bi bb so  misc
 Alexis Robinson   4  0  1  0  0  0
 Lilymae Daily     4  1  1  0  0  0
 McKenna Beseda    4  0  1  0  0  2
 Kelsey Ahrens     4  1  2  1  0  0
 Brianna Young     3  2  1  0  1  1
 Cassidy Riccio    3  1  1  0  0  1
 Liz Henderson     3  0  2  0  0  1
 Vicky Henderson   3  0  1  2  0  0  sac, sb
 Cameron Berger    3  0  0  0  0  2
 Totals           31  5 10  3  1  7

 Pitching          ip r er  h bb so  np
 Alexis Robinson   6 12  5  8  8  6 136

 Balls/Strikes: 67/69

Hawks had a walk in the park with two wins in Wimberley on a cold Monday night.

Pitcher Hayden Dubois Wins Nightcap of Double Header Sweep in Wimberley

Canyon Lake outhit the Texans by 13, but walking nine players kept this game close as the Hawks completed a double header sweep after a 7-6 win in their first game.

“We won two tight ball games tonight,” Coach Brian Owens said. “It is those little things with the teams enthusiasm and communication on the field that win tight ball games.”

“Nick Kissell, coming in for Austin Headrick in that first game when the game was on the line and holding Wimberley that allowed us to comeback and William Volz doing the same thing in game two.”

Starting pitcher, Hayden Dubois had a no-hitter when Coach Owens went to the mound in the bottom of the fourth after allowing a couple of runs on walks.

Yes, it was a no hitter, but with seven walks Dubois certainly did not have command of the plate on this night.

“I went to get him because he was getting tired,” Coach Owens said. “He played hard in that first game and his legs were dead.”

On if he thought about letting Dubois continued pitching since he had a no hitter, “I did not even know he had a no hitter. But even if I did know, he (Dubois) would not complain because he is a team player.”

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Sophomore Mariah Ellis in 4x400 Relay

The Lady Hawks have an impressive team with many athletes taking their skills to another level.

Boerne is the only one team with no results posted from last week. All of District 27-3A other teams are up to date and this is how they would finish if the meet was held this week.

Also, this is not an exact science since these times and distances were held on different days and weather conditions.

Just read and enjoy  a ‘what if’ they ran a District 27-3A Track Meet yesterday results below.

One more item to consider: Canyon Lake’s Junior Varsity would score more points that Boerne and so you will see our JV times and distances below and those points have also been posted to the Hawks Varsity point total.

Except for the Relay Events. Yes, the JV has better times than other district teams….Impressive.

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Jordan Anderson running the 400 Meter Dash Last Year

Mar 25   JV Baseball   Canyon Lake     7   Wimberley                 6
                       Canyon Lake     9   Wimberley                 5
Mar 26   Soccer        Boerne Champion 5   Canyon Lake               0
         Softball      Wimberley      13   Canyon Lake               5
         Baseball      Fredericksburg 12   Canyon Lake               6
         Tennis        Johnson City    @   Canyon Lake               4:00pm
Mar 27   Golf          Canyon Lake     @   Fredericksburg Lady Bird  9:00am
Mar 28   Track         Canyon Lake Relays                            3:30pm
         Baseball      Canyon Lake     @   Fredericksburg            7:00pm
         Softball      Canyon Lake     @   Boerne                    6:00pm

This Week in Hawk Country, CL has a Playoff game at home against Boerne Champion who finished second in District 54-4A.

Canyon Lake Girls Soccer earned this right when they tied Wimberley in their regular season final last Friday night.

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