Canyon Lake got within one run before a two run bottom of the sixth when time was called
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for the third game of the Marble Falls Tournament, losing to Liberty Hill, 7-4.
“We played much better,” Head Coach Trent Duanavant said. “This actually looked like baseball.”
Coach Dunavant was making a comment based on that double header loss to CL the day before by lopsided scores.
What a difference a game makes, as Canyon Lake improved their game by reducing Marble Falls JV
Freshman Rory Preiss starts season strong in Marble Falls
baseball team to 10 runs less for the second game of a doubleheader opening the Hawks Baseball season Monday night in the Falls.
That first game was over quick when the Mustangs scored in every inning in that first contest.
Problem? The Hawk pitching staff could not find the strike zone.
That resulted in way more base runners for Marble Falls and by adding an error here or there compounded the pounding, 14-2.
Case in point. That first inning had four strikes thrown by CL to six Mustang players and those four strikes resulted in three outs.
Canyon Lake will be ‘on the road again’ this week as all sporting venues will be out of town except for our Boy’s Soccer
Hawk’s Golf is seeing Birdies this year with some medalist returning after winning two tournaments last year.
team.
This is opening week for several sports as weather has played a major roll with Tennis and other competitive events.
JV Baseball will be opening their curtain in Marble Falls and then the Varsity have a return trip to Marble Falls for a three day tournament all this week.
Canyon Lake’s Baseball Team has finally grown up and this act will be something to hold your hat on as the Hawks will be shooting for more than just finishing the schedule this year.
Both Boy’s and Girl’s Soccer were handed a loss to Schertz Clemens last week by the same score, 4-0. That is not surprising, as Soccer has to play teams that are two classes in size larger each year.
Canyon Lake Boys will be at Home for their last game of the season with Bandera this Tuesday night
This Week at Canyon Lake
Last week was a ‘Lost in Weather’ week as many games were not played or the dates changed because of those nasty elements.
The Girls Basketball team did finish their season last Tuesday and next year should have a team starting to make a little more noise as this year’s team was full of underclassman and to top that off, the Junior Varsity girls finished with several wins to end the season.
Boys Basketball will be having their final game at home with Bandera on Tuesday as they too will put those sneakers away for another year.
Outfielder Junior Cody Powell
Time to do some prognosticating with some baseballs.
First item is going over what you have to replace from last year’s every day players.
Name GP PA AB R H 1b 2b 3b HR RBI BB SO AVE Michael Brady 28 101 75 9 31 23 7 1 0 18 19 7 .413 Travis Walker 28 96 77 10 16 12 3 0 1 8 14 6 .208 Logan Felch 18 59 49 10 9 3 4 1 1 11 6 8 .184 Daniel Camarillo 23 84 75 14 18 14 2 2 0 8 4 11 .240 Kyler Huff 23 66 55 13 17 12 1 4 0 11 9 10 .309
Only Brady and Huff finished with a better batting average compared to their previous years.
Travis Walker leads in six categories in All-Time Stats
Baseball All-Time Top Five
At Bats Runs Hits Travis Walker 272 Travis Walker 65 Travis Walker 80 Michael Brady 184 Kyler Huff 38 Michael Brady 67 Logan Felch 184 Joe Shone 37 Daniel Camarillo 52 Daniel Camarillo 178 Daniel Camarillo 37 Logan Felch 49 Kyler Huff 161 Drew Riccio 36 Jeff Nabors 49 RBI's Doubles Triples Travis Walker 44 Travis Walker 19 Kyler Huff 6 Logan Felch 43 Logan Felch 14 Daniel Camarillo 3 Michael Brady 38 Michael Brady 13 Eric Nelson 2 Zach Jenkins 29 Zach Jenkins 12 Tyler Vinson 2 Drew Riccio 27 Jeff Nabors 11 7 Players with 1 Jeff Nabors 27 Home Run Walks Batting Average Logan Felch 6 Michael Brady 48 Michael Brady .364 Travis Walker 6 Travis Walker 39 Ross Wagliardo .338 Joe Shone 4 Daulton Winters 37 Zach Jenkins .336 Damon Crafton 2 Kyler Huff 30 Drew Riccio .317 Ross Wagliardo 2 Ross Wagliardo 28 Jeff Nabors .316 Kyler Huff 2 Logan Felch 28 (more…)
Peyton Sipila returning to improve on last year’s season.
Hawk Baseball officially started their season with a scrimmage with Llano last Tuesday night at the Canyon Lake Diamond.
This will be a year where Head Coach Trent Dunavant will need to use a calculator in counting the number of players in his dugout.
“I don’t know….35?,” Coach Dunavant stated when asked how many players he had practicing and wanting to play this year. “We will carry around 14-15 for Varsity and over 20 for Junior Varsity.”
Coach Dunavant had a long pause when asked that question of players wanting to play, as in the past few years, those questions could easily been answered by looking at both hands and counting fingers.
Last year, Canyon Lake started a wave of players that started to influx this sport and the Hawks still had several players that had Sophomore besides their name giving you a hint of age.
Now those Sophomores will be classified as Juniors and that might hopefully translate into victories for a program that had not made the playoffs in three years.
“We will have competition on this team and that will be something that should make them better,” Coach Dunavant fielded. “We have more optimism than in the past and we will have multiple guys playing multiple positions.”
The Hawks seemed to be strong in the infield and will have more qualified players for those spots this season.
“We have infielders that will be able to compete for outfield positions if they can’t win their spot in the infield,” Dunavant said without error. “This was our first scrimmage and we had some things good and bad. We found things that need working on, and things that the kids retained from last year.”
“We did ok playing defense but bats are slower than pitching at this time of year and pitchers are mainly throwing fast balls.”
Catcher will be a position to keep an eye on as the Hawks lost a big bat and fielder when Michael Brady got his diploma last May.
“We had Kyle Krohn play a nice game yesterday and he will be fighting this position out with Bryce Dehlin and Colton Avey,” Coach Dunavant commented. “Peyton Sipala will be able to play anywhere, left field, first base, short stop…”
The pitching will have several players ready for their chance to make things happen….if you take one thing from Coach Dunavant on pitching, it is throw strikes.
“We walked way to many players last night,” Dunavant said. “If you throw strikes in high school, then nine times out of ten the batter will find a way to get out.”
“Throwing harder does not mean you can pitch, sometimes throwing an 85 mile per hour pitch down the middle will not do as well as a pitcher that throws a 75 mph pitch on the corner,” Dunavant reiterated.
When asked about what they would be looking for in finding a closer for this club, Coach Dunavant did not hesitate, “A closer is not afraid of failure and it is how they approach their game mentally and having pin point control. If they (pitchers) can’t throw strikes then they won’t be out there.”
“I want to be around four to five pitchers when district rolls around,” Coach Dunavant closed. “We have more athletic kids than positions this year.”
Canyon Lake will be wearing their coats this Friday as the weather could be frigid if Seguin does not help in changing the game to Saturday.
If that happens, then CL will be playing in Seguin rather than at Canyon Lake.
The ReSporter knows that Seguin is warmer than CL since it is so much further South.
Should be a good season…hopefully the season will end later in the year when temperatures get much warmer…thanks Coach and good luck.
Canyon Lake will be playing their last game for the season this Tuesday night
Canyon Lake Girls Basketball will be in their last game of this season on Tuesday at the Hawk gym.
This has been a rebuilding year for CL as this team has featured Freshman and Sophomores and with that came a lot of growing pains.
On Tuesday night the Hawk Nation will be saying good-bye to Amber Ramsey, Emily Muniz, Cati Harrington, Brianna Young, and Jenna Lann.
Come out this Tuesday night to let these girls know your appreciation for representing Canyon Lake.
The Hawk Boy’s Basketball team will be on the road as they play out their season with only 3 games remaining. Their next home game will be a week from this Tuesday which will also be their season finale.
Canyon Lake’s Baseball team will be ramping practice up as the Hawks look for a chance of
Senior T. J. Jones shoring up the infield
improving their district standings with several returning starters.
Two years ago, Canyon Lake finished last in district when the team had to borrow players anywhere they could in fielding a team to finish a season.
That will not happen this year as the Hawks have several returning players and will be bringing a decent JV club up as well.
