Canyon Lake Softball team won their first game in the Navarro tournament on Thursday with a No-No, when Alexis Robinson pitched to start her promising career.

A Freshman that can pitch a no-hitter in her first game speaks well for Coach John Gallagher’s sleeping for the next four years.

The game was won 9-0 over Stockdale while CL also showed that they might have some pop in their bats.

Missy Romero started her Sophomore campaign with a Perfect Game on February 18, 2010, over Vandergrift, 5-0. Now, the baton has been passed as Robinson begins this season in like manner.

Last night the Lady Hawks beat Marion 13-7 after being up 10-0 going into the later innings.

More information will be forthcoming as Canyon Lake continues their week-end with two games today at Huber Ranch in the last day of Navarro’s Tournament.

Games today will be played at 12:15 and possibly 3:50 Saturday afternoon.

Canyon Lake JV dominates Llano in their last scrimmage before the season starts next week.

Llano only had three pitchers for this scrimmage and that left Canyon Lake taking the field for an extra two frames just so Coach Brian Owens could get enough work from his six pitchers.

What Coach Owens saw was another dominating performance from several of his players on the mound as strikes and defense kept Llano without a run until their last at bat.

Look at these numbers from four Hawk pitchers:

 name       ip  r  er h  bb so balls/strikes
 Headrick    2  0  0  0  0  3      9/18
 McCleary    2  0  0  3  1  3     11/23
 Volz        1  0  0  0  1  1      5/11
 Kissell     2  0  0  0  3  3     21/16

As the night progressed so did the wind and temperature as the last inning was a numbing affair.

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The Canyon Lake JV ended their season in Bandera after suffering an anemic fourth quarter losing, 51-39.

That 12 point difference was much closer as the game was still within reach as Bandera started the last quarter up by two points, 34-32.

“We were able to keep it close for three quarters,” Coach Brian Hooper stated. “The biggest reason why the game got out of hand in the fourth, was in giving up to many rebounds.”

“Three possessions in a row Bandera had multiple shots on offense that led to easy buckets, and we couldn’t respond,” Coach Hooper closed. “Bandera had a big physical line up that wore us down in the fourth.”

Garrett Winters led all Hawk scorers with 12 points and Sean Nolan missed double digits with nine.

            1   2   3   4   Final
 Hawks JV   6  16  13   4   39
 Bandera    8  14  15  14   51

Garrett Winters 12, Sean Nolan 9, Skyler Tschoepe 7, Austin Acosta 4,
Dave Pfaff 3, Qurion Banks 2, Scott Taylor 2.

by Coach Barthels

Canyon Lake started off slow, but great defense in the 2nd and 3rd quarters along with a strategic well played 4th quarter of scoring helped the CLHS Freshmen have a come from behind victory last night in Bandera, 45-43.

Trailing the entire game and down by seven early in the 4th, the Hawks mounted their comeback.

Scoring a quick four points off of steals by Hayden Lee and Joe Arredondo who found Brandon Ward streaking down the court for two uncontested lay-ups and a crucial 3 pointer by Justin Ferris, his only points of the game, tied it at
41.

The lead never belonged to the Hawks until their was 5.2 seconds left and Hayden Lee drew the defense into him and made a great pass to a streaking Mason Montgomery for a lay-up and the game winner.

With a turn over on the inbounds play the Hawks were able to get the ball back into Hayden Lee who was fouled for a 1 and 1. Missing the freethrow and placing everyone back to play defense had the Bandera Bulldogs driving down to the opposite end of the court forcing a three point shot over the back board sealing the victory for the Hawks.

Nine of the 12 Hawks that were dressed scored points, but even those that did
not score made great passes down low to the posts who were able to put up
25 points in the paint.

Big rebounds by Dalton Head, Hayden Lee, and Robert Woods will be a stat that gets over looked, but they all played a crucial role in sealing a victory and getting chances for the Hawks to set up the offense.

Canyon Lake finished the season 9-14 and 2-8 in district play,”We
played in several close games this year that we were not able to come out on
top in, this victory was a great way to end the season, I am proud of our
team for all of the hard work they put in this season,” Coach John Batthels closed.

             1   2   3   4   Final
 CLHS        6   9  13  17   45
 Bandera    13   9   8  12   43
 Leading Scorers:
 Robert Woods 12, Brandon Ward 8, Hayden Lee 7, Zach Gregory 6, Sam Langford
 3, Justin Ferris 3, Joe Arredondo 2, Zach Sawyer 2, Mason Montgomery 2

It’s hard to believe that the 2012-13 Swimming season is coming to an end. It has been a great year for Canyon Lake with plenty to be proud of. A few of the highlights include:

– School records were broken over 30 times this season with at least 8 being set at the Region VII 4A Championships.

– The boys placed 3rd at District and 11th at Regionals and the Girls placed 6th in District and 16th in Regionals. All of these were the highest the team has ever finished in each category.

– The boys won the Burnet TISCA 4A & Under Team Championship in December. The first time any CLHS Swim Team had won an invitational meet.

– Over the course of the season we faced no less than 75 different teams (3A, 4A, 5A and private schools) with the boys teams defeating over 82% of them and the girls over 65%.

-The following swimmers qualified for 28-4A ALL-DISTRICT Honors:

All District 28-4A 1st Team
 Christian Duarte   - 100 Backstroke, 400 Free Relay
 Cam Stone          - 200 Freestyle,  200 Freestyle Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay
 Christian Payne    - 400 Freestyle Relay
 Conor Martin       - 200 Freestyle Relay
 Tommy Jordan       - 400 Freestyle Relay, 200 Freestyle Relay
 Kelton Myers       - 200 Freestyle Relay

All District 28-4A 2nd Team
Ariel Lessard      -200 Medley Relay,400 Freestyle Relay,200 Freestyle,100 Butterfly 
Tressa Vannella    -200 Medley Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay, 100 Backstroke,500 Freestyle
Sharon Alexander   -200 Medley Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay,
Bianca Cruz        -200 Medley Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay,
Christian Duarte   -200 Medley Relay, 500 Freestyle
 Christian Payne   -200 Medley Relay, 100 Butterfly, 100 Breaststroke
 Conor Martin      -200 Medley Relay
 Kelton Myers      -200 Medley Relay
 Tommy Jordan      -100 Freestyle
 Doris Schneider   -500 Freestyle

All District 28-4A Honorable Mention
 Sharon Alexander  -200 Freestyle Relay, 100 Breaststroke
 Bianca Cruz       -200 Freestyle Relay
 Doris Schneider   -200 Freestyle Relay
 Nina Davis        -200 Freestyle Relay, 500 Freestyle
 Conor Martin      -500 Freestyle

Thank you all for your support of the program! We could not have been as successful
without everyone behind us. Coach Lee Willing

The Hawk Varsity Baseball team had a satisfactory scrimmage at Burnet last Tuesday night.

Yes, this was a scrimmage meaning that you don’t have a winner or losing team, but after having two years where everything that could go wrong going wrong, then The ReSporter will give your Hawks the win last evening.

“The game went good last night,” Head Coach Trent Dunavant said. “We would’ve won if this would not had been a scrimmage.”

Canyon Lake had two glaring problems in the past two campaigns: Pitching and fielding would be those nagging weights that bogged down this team in the past.
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Canyon Lake Golf team finished 11th place out of 19 teams in the Matador Classic last Monday with a

368 score at the Starcke Park Golf Course.

Once again the CL Hawks played in a tournament of several 4A and 5A schools.

Sophomore Garrett Winters scored an 87 leading the team followed by Andrew Riali (90), Ralph Gonzales (95), Skyler Tschoepe (96), and JJ Hererra (100).

The scores are added for the top five on each team for that final score.

One key note is how well Weimer a class A school did in this tournament. Two teams and both were in the top six schools participating.

    Scores   Team                  Classification
  1. 309     Smithson Valley            5A
  2. 312     Weimer 'A'                 1A
  3  326     Judson                     5A
  4. 327     Steele                     5A
  5. 334     New Braunfels              5A
  6. 339     Weimer 'B'                 1A
  7. 342     East Central               5A
  8. 344     Gonzales                   3A
  9. 351     Seguin Gold                4A
 10. 360     St. Mary's Hall TAPPS
 11. 368     CANYON LAKE                3A
 12. 373     Brandeis                   5A
 13. 383     Seguin Black               4A
 14. 393     Roosevelt                  5A
 15. 396     San Marcos                 5A
 16. 411     Highlands                  4A
 17. 415     Lockhart                   4A
 18. 419     Yoakum                     3A
 19. 476     Stevens                    5A

Canyon Lake could not even scare the basket in the first quarter as both teams combined for eight points, as the Hawks ended another season on a down note, losing 40-31 to Bandera.

Falling in love with the three point shot did not help matters as CL shot a dismal 12% from beyond the arc and those outside shots also resulted in only four free throws in this game.

Caleb Kreiger finished his season with 15 points and 9 rebounds on top of many records for his career played in just one season.

 Kreiger Finishes:
 1st   Rebounds           218
 1st   Blocks              59
 3rd   Points Scored      406
 5th   Made Free Throws    72

Other Hawk Players and Career Records:
 1st   Assists            Doug Hubnik     151 season 187 career
 2nd   3pt Goals          Andrew Riali     62
 4th   3pt Goals          Paul Davis       34
 4th   Steals             Doug Hubnik      62
 4th   Made Free Throws   Doug Hubnik      80

Canyon Lake will now go to work on trying to climb back into their district race for next year as both the Freshman and Junior Varsity will have several players ready to step in for these departing Seniors.

Seniors playing last game:
Doug Hubnik; Caleb Kreiger; Paul Davis; Chandler Faulkner; Isaac Pruna;   
Ray Dailey; Robbie Ferris; Thomas McIntire; Spencer Wellings

            1   2   3   4   Final
 CL Hawks   2  11  10   8   31
 Bandera    6  13  15   6   40

                             3pt           Tot Rebounds
 Name              fgm-fga fgm-fga ftm-fta pts or-dr tot a  s  b  to
 Andrew Riali        3-14    2-11    0-0    8   3-1  4   0  2  0  1
 Robbie Ferris       0-1     0-1     0-0    0   0-0  0   0  1  0  0
 Chandler Faulkner   0-2     0-0     0-0    0   0-1  1   1  0  0  0
 Thomas McIntire     0-0     0-0     0-0    0   0-0  0   0  0  0  1
 Paul Davis          2-12    1-7     0-0    5   0-6  6   1  2  0  2
 Doug Hubnik         0-6     0-1     0-0    0   0-3  3   5  3  0  1
 Tyler Clark         1-2     0-1     0-0    2   0-0  0   0  1  0  0
 Caleb Kreiger       7-15    0-3     1-2   15   2-7  9   0  1  0  4
 Javier Mendez       0-0     0-0     1-2    1   3-1  4   2  2  0  3
 Ray Dailey          0-0     0-0     0-0    0   0-0  0   0  0  0  0
 Isaac Pruna         0-1     0-0     0-0    0   1-2  3   0  1  0  1
 Totals             13-53    3-24    2-4   31   9-21 30  9 13  9 13
 Percentages        24.5%   12.5%   50.0%

In Softball everything starts in a Circle with a Diamond taking second fiddle.

Yes, the diamond is still needed for this game but if you don’t have someone that you can count on in that Circle, then a diamond might not matter.

Canyon Lake has had a very good pitcher the past four years in Missy Romero and now that baton has been passed to a Freshman in Alexis Robinson.

Robinson is another one of those Freshman athletes that has come onto the scene this year and if this trend continues, Canyon Lake will be very competitive for many of their sports.

The Freshman Basketball team finished 18-4 and in Volleyball, CL had four Freshman that moved up to Junior Varsity and Varsity this year and still had a very competitive team on the court as a Freshman team.

Now it is Softball’s turn to have the honors. Robinson will go into the circle and try to continue a Hawk team that missed the playoffs by just one game last year.

“I am just going to play my game,” Robinson started. “I just want to enjoy my four years of softball and play as hard as I can.”

Robinson also talked about who she has taken that baton from and had nothing but great things to say about her friend and teammate (in Select Softball) Romero.

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Hawk JV Baseball team won their scrimmage game against Burnet Tuesday at the Hawk Diamond.

This game started during the daylight which was the phrase used by Coach Brian Owens when comparing their game with Seguin last week.

“Night and day from last week,” Coach Owens commented when asked the difference in their last two contests. “We have been working on focusing in the game and talked about the mental side of the game.”

The Hawks won this 11 inning affair 10-8 as CL held Burnet to only one run in their last eight innings.

A slow start as the Hawks found themselves down 7-4 after three innings and then 8-4 after the sixth.

That would be the Bulldogs last run of this game as Headrick, Kissell, Volz, and McCleary closed the door on Burnet for the rest of this outing.

Ten strikeouts and four walks was a winning formula along with a much sharper defensive game as this contest matured.

“We had a good game but we started slow,” Jordan Weber started. “We made our way to the top and were more consistent and we had our plays down. We also communicated more as a team.”

Yes, this was just a scrimmage, but Canyon Lake’s JV team had a lot of good pitchers take the mound and sound defense and timely hitting.

Wait, that is what suppose to happen in baseball when you want to be successful.

Just two errors and cutting down on walks was a whole different team playing from last week’s game.

This team will be fun to watch this year, in fact, you will have another chance this Friday, when Canyon Lake plays Llano in a makeup game cancelled last week.

Come on out for the Day game and hopefully the Night game will have bright lights on for another win.

             1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11   R  H E
Burnet       2  1  4  0  1  0  0  0  0  0  0   8 11 4
Hawks JV     3  1  0  0  0  0  3  3  0  0  X  10 10 2