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

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

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

                      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)

                                              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 

                                                              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

                                            2026 Hawks Opening Game was Devine, 12-3.
(photo Adam Schexnayder)

                               Way to GO LAKE!

Canyon Lake’s Baseball won their 8th opening day game in a row with a dismantling of the Devine Warhorses, 12-3.

“The bats came alive and the pitcher’s threw strikes,” Head Coach Victor Escamilla stated. “The defense needs to be shored up. Every error is a window of opportunity for our opponents and good teams will exploit that.”

CLake rushed out to a 3 run lead before those dastardly errors to two runs in the 3rd and their last run in that following frame. Canyon Lake still led, 4-3 but broke out this contest in those last three innings scoring 8 runs and 6 during that 6th inning.

It was an extra base hit parade with 8 of the Hawks 15 hits went for extra bases with 7 doubles and a homer for newcomer Cullen Barnhart who chipped in with one of those doubles.

                           Let’s GO LAKE!

Carson Walker did not do his last name any favors as walking was not his motif of getting around first base after 3 of his 4 hits went for doubles knocking in 3 Hawks matching Barnhart’s 3 rbi’s.

Ryan Rena and Bryce May also had multiple hits along with Brennan Hughes 3 singles helping put this game in a win column.

Cade Johnson and Hayes Holladay combined for a no-hitter while giving up 2 walks and striking out 9 Warhorses that were not led to water on this night.

Those errors led to all of Devine’s runs and a good start before The Lake heads to a perennial power Sinton team on Thursday with a 2pm first pitch.

Canyon Lake will start their first tournament in that game followed with Port Lavaca later that same day.

A good start with some tough competition in the Sinton Tourney will give the Hawk’s coaching staff plenty of ideas on what will need work as pre-district battles continue.

Way to GO Lake!

           1  2  3  4  5  6  7   R  H  E
The Lake   1  0  3  0  1  6  1  12 15  4
Devine     0  0  2  1  0  0  0   3  0  3

Player             ab  r  h bi 2b hr bb so  misc 
lf Bryce May        4  3  2  1  1  0  0  0  sb sac  
rf Gram Simpson     3  1  0  0  0  0  0  1  hbp 
rf Greysen Patton   1  0  0  0  0  0  0  0    
2b Carson Walker    5  3  4  3  3  0  0  0  sb  
c  Wayen Wertz      4  0  1  2  0  0  0  0  sf  
dh Brennan Hughes   4  0  3  1  0  0  0  0  cs 
dh Wyatt Sims       0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  
1b Cullen Barnhart  4  1  2  3  1  1  0  0  
cf L Schexnayder    3  0  0  0  0  0  0  1  hbp 
ss/p Hayes Holladay 3  0  1  0  0  0  1  0  
3b Ryan Rena        3  2  2  0  2  0  0  0  
cr Dalton Hodges    1  0  0  0  0  0  0  1  
p  Cade Johnson     0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  
cr Gavyn Baldera    0  1  0  0  0  0  0  0 
cr/2b Archer Miller 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  cs  
cr  Kobe Halverson  0  1  0  0  0  0  0  0  
Totals             35 12 15 10  7  1  1  3   

Pitching           ip  h  r er bb so   era  W L S
Cade Johnson      4.0  0  3  0  1  4  0.00  1 0 0 
Hayes Holladay    3.0  0  0  0  1  5  0.00  0 0 1 
Totals            7.0  0  3  0  2  9  0.00  1 0 1