Brandon Robinson and Derek Peters were both instrumental in 2 comebacks over CMS

Mountain Valley Baseball team had a different ending to their game on Thursday against Canyon than the previous week in their loss to Smithson Valley Middle School.

First, the Hawks won, but more than that was how these two games played out.

Last week, MVMS had an incredible comeback in their last inning, only to lose the game in the first extra inning after the comeback by two runs.

This game, the Hawks not only forged back like their previous week, but on this night took things further and had a two for one in regards to coming back.

“One of those games that gives our team some experience as they want to win and they never quit,” Head Coach Raymond Amaro said. “In our very first game with Canyon we came back and we had to focus in practice and when we had bad things happen we needed to be positive.”

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Daniel Camarillo making the fly balls look easy

Baseball All-Hawk Team continues with some very tough decisions. With six players already on the scorer’s sheet, The ReSporter, will try to fill that sheet with three more entries.

Yes, this could easily go in several different directions and certainly open for discussion as their would be no argument with another deserving student making a case for a spot.

The ReSporter has two good pitchers and having Cody Powell would only help pitching Coach Bret Hodges when he wanted to make a change on the mound.

Powell’s only drawback was his walk ratio but needing a southpaw would help in those certain situations needed in what is probably the most complicated sport because of all the different variable that play into a game result.

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Pitcher Cody Daily keeps game close for a 6 run 2-out rally

Mountain Valley Baseball team made things interesting as their rally just fell short in extra innings losing to Smithson Valley Middle School, 10-8.

This comeback would not have been possible if reliever Cody Daily had not made an appearance in the fourth inning to stop the bleeding.

“Throw strikes and just try to bring my team up and win,” Daily said while answering what his thinking was as he took the mound for those middle innings. “We just are going to get a winning attitude.”

SVMS had forged into a, 7-2 lead as the Rangers had scored in all but one inning as they could start coasting going into those middle innings.

The Hawks decided they had better start a comeback and that was what happened as MVMS had two outs when the improbable started.

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So far The ReSporter has Michael Brady, Travis Walker, and Ross Waglardo as three of the best baseball athletes during their stay at Canyon Lake.

Picking this team is a much tougher task than softball as there has been many more players to play while most of softball students were 3 or 4 year players.

This is to say, there will be several people that can make a case for a different set of players for this team and The ReSporter would not be hurt by that assessment.

With the 3 players that have been picked, The ReSporter feels that those 3 students would need to be on everyone’s ballot.

Drew Riccio will be our next pick as this young man could bring more than just his athletic skills, he would be that player needed in the dug out for preparing the team for any battle no matter what inning in the game.

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Travis Walker was a four year starter for the Hawks

The ReSporter had requests of having an All-Star Baseball team to mirror recent articles made for Hawk Softball team.

Hope you enjoy this two part rendition.

Giving you thoughts on who should be on this team will be tough with so many players that deserve mention.

The ReSporter will start with giving four players for this two part series.

Michael Brady will be our catcher for this team as this young man was very good in throwing out base runners while leading all players with the best batting average at .364, while having more walks than strikeouts (48 bb/44 so) during his career.

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CL Hawks Top 4 for 2015 Season

 at bats                runs                   hits
 Garrett Winters   71   Garrett Winters   16   Corey Shedrock     20
 Cody Powell       64   Cody Powell       13   Garrett Winters    19
 Colton Avey       53   Nick Cahill       12   Nick Cahill        17
 Corey Shedrock    52   Corey Shedrock     9   Cody Powell        14

 rbi                    extra base hits        walks
 Corey Shedrock    13   Corey Shedrock     9   Garrett Winters     8
 Cody Powell       10   Cody Powell        7   Corey Shedrock      6
 Colton Avey        9   Colton Avey        5   Rory Preiss         6
 Gordon McCleary    8   Gavin Dietrich     3   Dylan Hodges        4
                        Garrett Winters    3   Cody Powell         4

 stolen bases           hbp/sf/roe/sac         strike outs
 Garrett Winters   11   Cody Powell       11   Gordon McCleary    17
 Nick Cahill       11   Rory Preiss        7   Colton Avey        17
 Cody Powell       10   Colton Avey        7   Rory Preiss        16
 Corey Shedrock     9   Corey Shedrock     6   Cody Powell        16

 batting ave            on base pct            slugging pct
 Corey Shedrock   .385  Corey Shedrock  .467   Corey Shedrock   .558
 Nick Cahill      .364  Nick Cahill     .429   Gavin Dietrich   .429
 Gavin Dietrich   .321  Gavin Dietrich  .406   Cody Powell      .426
 Garrett Winters  .233  Garrett Winters .355   Nick Cahill      .409

All-Time Top 4

 at bats                runs                   hits
 Travis Walker     268  Travis Walker     65   Travis Walker      80
 Cody Powell       208  Corey Shedrock    38   Michael Brady      77
 JJ Nance          187  Kyler Huff        38   Cody Powell        52
 Michael Brady     184  Daniel Camarillo  37   Daniel Camarillo   52
 Logan Felch       184  JJ Nance          37

 rbi                    singles                doubles
 Travis Walker      44  Michael Brady     67   Travis Walker      18
 Logan Felch        44  Travis Walker     55   Corey Shedrock     16
 Michael Brady      38  Daniel Camarillo  43   Logan Felch        14
 Cody Powell        30  Cody Powell       40   Michael Brady      13

 triples                home runs              batting average
 Kyler Huff          6  Logan Felch        6   Michael Brady    .418
 Daniel Camarillo    3  Travis Walker      6   Nick Cahill      .354
 Cody Powell         3  Joe Shone          4   Ross Wagliardo   .333
 Eric Nelson         2  Nick Cahill        4   Drew Riccio      .318
 Tyler Vinson        2                         Jeff Nabors      .318
 JJ Nance            2

Senior Nick Cahill finished his Hawk career trailing only Michael Brady with a sparkling .354 batting average

Canyon Lake pulled off a season ending victory over Gonzales last Friday night as Cody Powell struck out 14 Apaches in the win, 5-1.

In a 7 inning game you need to record 21 outs as a visiting team to record a victory and when your southpaw pitcher is on, then 14 strikeouts will also be a pitchers best defense in the victory.

Those strikeouts equates to 2 out of 3 outs per inning and the Hawks rode that train for their second win over Gonzales this season.

Nick Kissell led the Hawks with 2 hits and also had a walk for a decent on base percentage.

Colton Avey doubled for the only extra base hit as their were several Hawks playing in their last game for Canyon Lake.

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Haden Lee worked a pinch hit and stolen base in limited action in Tuesday’s game

Canyon Lake finished their last home game with a loss to Yoakum last Friday night as errors kept the game out of reach for the home squad, 9-2.

The score might not look close, but up until that final inning, Canyon Lake was still within striking range of pulling off a win, with a 4-2 deficit.

Baseball can be tough sport as Yoakum capitalized with timely hits, while the Hawks could score only one run after having 3 consecutive singles to start the 5th inning with just one run being scored.

The Hawks ran out of steam in that last inning giving up 5 runs and too many runs to get back into the game.

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Hawks JV split their games with Gonzales, Monday night after a razor thin loss in the night cap, 3-2.

Runs galore in the first game (CLJV 14 Gonz 7) turned to finding runs anyway you could in the night cap and Gonzales finding one more run in the win.

Canyon Lake did use four pitchers in the night game as Coach Brandon Durst was quick with the trigger once a Hawk Pitcher found it rough going.

Avery Montgomery was, johnny on the spot, as his stint on the mound helped keep the game close when he entered with the bases loaded and no outs in the 3rd inning.

“I was hoping I could throw strikes and I got my confidence up and then started throwing as hard as I could,” Montgomery said with precision. “When I start a game I find it harder to fall into a rhythm than when I close a game.”

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Hawk Crawfish Boil will be having their event this coming Saturday!!

This Week @ Canyon Lake

 Mon Apr 27    Gonzales   @   CL Hawks JV                Baseball   5 & 7pm

 Tue Apr 28    Gonzales   @   CL Hawks Varsity           Baseball   7:00 pm

 Fri May 1     CLHS       @   Kingsville Region Meet     Track      All-Day

 Sat May 2     MVMS       @   CHMS                       Baseball   11:00am
               MVMS       @   CHMS  vs. Church Hill      Baseball   1:00 pm
               MVMS       @   CHS   vs. Spring Branch    Softball   9:00 am
               MVMS       @   CHS   vs. Church Hill      Softball   Noon

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