The Lake’s Soccer Team with another Bi-District Trophy & Looking for an Area Trophy next.

          Way to Go Lake Soccer!

Canyon Lake’s (20-2) Soccer team won Bi-District in overtime over Legacy Ranch (17-5-1), 5-3 in what turned out to be a good test run for this time of the year in a, win or go home’, time of the season.

Head Coach Kara Stracener commented on this win and the differences in LR’s offense,
“We haven’t played a team that played with that formation where they had two wide players and a center…they had 3 across the top….so we knew about it going into the game but then when you see it you just have to re-adjust and at halftime we certainly talked about that and we changed some of our formations and put some girls where we needed to and they adjusted great but more importantly they battled and played with their heart in this kind of game you have to do that.”

Coach Stracener continued on how important Liza Schexnayder goal-tended, “She was unbelievable….she is brand new to soccer and she’s learning throughout the whole season and against Bandera our second time she came out and made a very physical save and had to take a player as she was taking the ball and I think that type of moment from her was huge and she felt what is was like so she could do it in this game….and she did that four or maybe five times and she was a hero tonight for sure.”

             Go Lake Beat Everyone!

The Lake had never scored more than 100 goals in a season since the school began in soccer in 2008-09 year.

Two years ago CL was able to reach 93 goals…but now Savanna Oberholtzer with her 61 makes has scored 59% of this offense.

All those numbers are mind blowing but in the grand scheme of things that first goal in this battle had Abigail Lowth with a goal which was a head(er) and should(ers) as great, at the 36 minute mark, during that first half.

Then, that first goal in overtime, it was Kylee Morrow who had a 27 yard pk that just went over the Legacy Ranch goalie hands on the left corner of the upper shelf of the net.

                              Go Lake!

The Hawks never trailed in this contest and the score was a narrow, 3-2 at halftime lead.

In that 2nd Half both teams were more defensive minded but it was Ranch with a tying goal right under 10 minutes remaining, 3-3.

It was Goalie Liza Schexnayder who battened down the Hawk goal as she won several one on one shots on goal from the 15 yard line on down.

The Lake would not have been in a position to pull this game off without her unwavering defensive skills and her bumps and bruises in the days to come will prove her worth in this battle.

District 26-4A has been a formidable group of teams these past few years in looking back to last year when both Wimberley & Davenport being present in the Final Four in Division I and II.

            Go Hawks & Beat SA Cole!

The Lake’s, 2-1 loss last season to London just kept Canyon Lake from meeting Wimberley for that berth into the Final Four.

All of these district qualifying teams won their Bi-District round of games and once again stand a good chance of getting two more schools in for a chance to win state.

Canyon Lake’s Area contest will be at Smithson Valley High School this coming Tuesday against San Antonio Cole (20-4-4) at 7:00pm.

The Hawks have reached 20 wins for the first time to go along with breaking that 100 goals scored mark. Now keeping this Post-Season focused will be next on the docket as Wimberley could be that final hurdle in getting to Austin.

Let’s Go Lake!

The Lake     5  The Ranch   3
Davenport    6  Jarrell     0
Wimberley    5  Lago Vista  0
Long Branch  5  Burnet      2

District 4A Region 4 District 26

Overall Standings
School            W   L   T   Pct   GF   GA
Canyon Lake      20   2   0  .909  104   24
Wimberley        20   2   1  .891  102   14
Davenport        15   5   1  .738   77   13
Long Creek       11   7   2  .600   44   34
*Marble Falls    10   8   4  .545   58   20
*Fredericksburg   9  11   1  .452   46   48
*Bandera          3  20   0  .130   15  116
* Season Over

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

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
========================================
                  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)

                            Eva Zabarcencu continues The Lake’s dominance in Distance Events.

     DAVENPORT WOLVES RELAYS
Varsity                  Junior Varsity
Canyon Lake     170      Sotomayor      202
Kerrville Tivy  112      Pieper         139
Randolph        105      Randolph        62
Pieper           81      Canyon Lake     56
Davenport        55      Kerrville Tivy  51
Marion           49      Davenport       48
Long Creek       34      Long Creek      28
Gloria Academy   12      Gloria Academy  17
                         Marion          10

  Congrats Lady Hawk Track & Field!

The Canyon Lake’s Girls Track team does not possess depth like many schools they compete against.

District foe Fredericksburg is a school that always has a plethora of students in each event which allows this school to score well in most of their meets due to their amount of students competing.

Track scored the first 6 in each event and those athletes that finish 4th-5th-6th will in total add enough points for a team victory.

There were times in the past that the Billies would outscore The Lake by 50 or more points in district but lose many of those points as they competed in Area-Regional Meets.

            Way to GO FAST HAWKS!

That would allow CLake to score more points at the Regional Meet due to having enough Hawks scoring in those meets giving The Lake the edge over Freddie.

Canyon Lake has now won their last three meets, not with depth, but with star power.

This Wolves’ Meet had the same result involving 7 athletes who combined to score 131 of those points or 77% of that total of 170 points.

In this Meet The Lake finished first in 6 of the events led by distance runner Eva Zabarcencu’s win in the 1600-3200 meter runs.

                       Let’s GO FAR LAKE!

Te’a Gonzales, Kennedy Grindle and Aubrey Avey had two first place finishes that included the 4×100 meter relay.

This Meet was a One-Two Punch of sorts when taking in the days finished product.

In that 3200 run had Eva Zabarcencu and Sophie Eastland finishing 1st & 2nd.

100 meter dash had Gonzales & Savanna Oberholtzer finishing 1st & 2nd.

300 meter hurdles had Avey & Grindle finishing 1st & 2nd.

100 meter hurdles had Kennedy & Cutrer finishing 1st & 2nd.

Pole Vault had Gindle & Katelyn Lowth finishing 2nd & 3rd.

Those events add up to 86 points which has Canyon Lake finishing ahead of all but 2 other schools. The 2025 State Champion Randolph and 5A Kerrville Tivy.

                          Plug those Leaks Lake!

The Lake first place finish in the 4×100 relay was aided with a 3rd place 4×200 relay and a revived 4×400 relay who turned in their best finish this season finishing 2nd place.

So those three relays were a One-Two-& Knock-out Punch garnering, 38 points adding up to 124 points that topped Tivy’s 112 point final tally.

So, Freshman Sophie Eastland’s  6th Place (1 point) finish in her 1600 Meter Run would have Canyon Lake adding those depth point(s) up when facing tougher group of schools in the future.

The Lake will be off these next two weeks before finishing their last non-district meet in Wimberley on Thursday March 26th.

A short drive to watch a salty group of ladies before the meets that count  in April

Way to GO~Fast~Jump Far & High Hawks!

Varsity               3200 meter     Junior Varsity
Eva Zabarcencu     11:58.71 1st      Layla Jones 15:53.43 6th          
Sophia Eastland    12:03.76 2nd

4x100 Relay Varsity   49.98 1st      4x100 Relay    53.87 3rd 
Aubrey Avey, Te’a Gonzales           Julia Pena, Perri Jackson
Kennedy Grindle, Savanna Oberlhoter  Paisliegh Fahrney, Avery Rugherford

                  100 meter hurdles 
Kennedy Grindle       16.52 1st      Perri Jackson  18.59 3rd
Shana Cutrer          17.30 2nd

100 meter
Te’a Gonzales         12.69 1st
Savanna Oberholtzer   12.75 2nd

4x200 Relay Varsity 1:49.26 3rd      4x200 Relay   1:55.92 3rd
Aubrey Avey, Mia Zabarcencu          Kiley Williams, Hayden Granzin
Shana Cutrer, Te’a Gonzales          Breannah Matthews, Haley Mechler

400 meter
Mia Zabarcencu        62.51 3rd
Georgia Schexnayder   64.69 5th

                    300 meter hurdles
Aubrey Avey           43.04 1st      Haley Mechler   52.82 2nd
Kennedy Grindle       44.23 2nd

1600 meter                           200 meter 
Eva Zabarcencu      5:25.57 1st      Kiley Williams  28.91 6th
Sophie Eastland     5:50.19 6th

4x400 relay         4:14.68 2nd      4x400 relay  4:33.19 4th
Mia Zabarcencu, Bella Biasatti       Kiley Williams, Haley Mechler
Georgia Schexnayder, Eva Zabarcencu  Bella Huneau, Avery Rutherford

Long Jump                            High Jump 
Savanna Oberholtzer 16-9.50 2nd      Julia Pena      4-08 2nd
Georgia Schexnayder 15-4.75 5th

Triple Jump 
Savanna Oberholtzer    32-6 3rd

High Jump
Shana Cutrer           4-06 5th
Trinity Turner         4-06 5th

Pole Vault
Kennedy Grindle        10-6 2nd
Katelyn Lowth          10-6 3rd
Shana Cutrer            9-6

                          Hawks win at Wimberley, 3-1 to keep chance for a District Title.    Go Lake!

          Way to Make us Proud Hawks!

Canyon Lake’s Ladies Soccer Made Wimberley UPSET-3-1 in a payback contest avenging that first district round loss for The Lake, 3-1.

The Hawks scored first in that first contest and Wimberley scored 3 goals in the second half for a win. Wimberley scored first during that second contest and The Lake responded scoring 3 goals in that second.

The ReSporter has this road win ranked in the Top 3 of All-Time including all Lake sports.

Looking at the rankings based on MaxPreps’ matrix below can give a good idea the distance between these two schools….yes, MaxPreps is by no means 100% accurate but seeing how they have info on schools all over…it does share an area code worth of schools with an approximate estimation.

Rankings      Canyon Lake    Wimberley
National          295           111
Texas              80             9
Section Region 4   29             6
Division 4A         4             1

These Texans certainly had an impressive resume by looking below showing just one team played, Lockhart… being under water record wise and not having any post-season aspirations.

WIMBERLEY’S 2026 Non-District Results
Opponents                Present Day Records  District Place
Celina   Result  1-1 Tie  4A  16-1-1 Dist.    12-0-0  1st
Sulphur  Result  4-2 Won  4A  16-4-2 Dist.     7-0-0  1st
Springs
Bullard  Result  5-0 Won  4A  14-3-0 Dist.    10-1-0  2nd
Amarillo Result  0-2 Lost 5A  18-2-1 Dist.    12-1-1  1st
Frenship Result  2-1 Won  4A  10-4-2 Dist.     6-1-1  1st
Monterey Result  6-1 Won  5A  11-8-1 Dist.     9-3-1  4th
Lockhart Result  8-0 Won  5A  7-13-3 Dist.     2-8-2  7th
Lorena   Result  2-0 Won  4A  13-3-1 Dist.    10-0-0  1st
Burnet   Result  8-0 Won  4A  17-5-0 Dist.    11-1-0  1st
Leander  Result  3-0 Won  5A  14-3-4 Dist.     9-0-3  2nd

Canyon Lake now has won a contest that shows they too might be in a position for a good run this playoff season.

                    Way to Go Lake!

“These girls are pretty humble but hard working…and honestly I am pretty hard on them,” Head Coach Kara Stracener stated. “I hope after last night and beating a really good team like Wimberley it brings them a new confidence going into these last few games of district and into post-season.”

Confidence would be that key word for this win as The Lake’s 3 goals was also the most scored against these Texans this season.

Savanna Oberholtzer scored the first two goals to start that 2nd Half and now has reached 54 with still 3 more district battles to add to her record setting season.

                   High Noon says GO LAKE!

“We knew that wasn’t our best half,” Oberholtzer stated when asked about being behind going into halftime. “It was s reality check and we set out to get to every ball first and then try to score.”

Oberholtzer scored two second half goals within an 8 minute span and then Kylee Morrow had a crowning shot from 25 yards from the left side of the goal that curved right over the Texan Goalies hands settling at the right-side of the goal with right at 4 minutes remaining.

“We were all excited,” Oberholtzer quipped when seeing Morrow’s shot. “This is a huge rivalry and it was exciting to see that we have a chance to finish first in district if we can win our next three games.”

               Way to Go Lake Soccer!

Coach Stracener’s parting shots, “Two of our goals were from over 25 yards and Kylee is a very unselfish and will pass many times over shooting….Glad she chose to shoot tonight cuz we needed her too. Like last time we played them we wanted to make it a messy game. Not allow them to get into a rhythm and try to frustrate them. We ‘weathered the storm’ the first half. Wimberley came out Very Strong and we struggled to get control of the middle….but halftime was a good reset and the girls did a fantastic job of digging deep and fighting back till the end. We played a good full 80 minutes this time around.”

Canyon Lake Hawk Proud!

Now The lake’s season goals are still attainable with this win having a chance for a district championship, going further in the playoffs and Canyon Lake’s 2026 squad now took the sole lead with wins in a season sitting with 17 so far.

The Hawks still have 3 games remaining and none of these battles will be a cakewalk which will equate in needing 3 more complete 80 minutes of game time.

Congrats and Way to GO LAKE!

            PANTHER RELAYS
GIRLS VARSITY       JUNIOR VARSITY
THE LAKE    191     Wimberley    178
Wimberley   154     Davenport    163
Marion       76     La Vernia     74
Long Creek   60     THE LAKE      53
La Vernia    54     Navarro       51
Davenport    49     Long Creek    38
Navarro      33     Marion        32

The Lake’s Ladies won their 2nd Meet this season scoring 191 points against a combined 7 schools.

The Jump’s Events had this Hawk team cashing in 50 points with the relays scoring 44 points which included two first place finishes in the 4×100 & 4×200 category.

The Sprints also pitched in 44 points with the Hurdle’s bringing in 28 and Distance 24 points.

There was a lot of Gold this week starting with those two relays and then individual Gold by the following:

Aubrey Avey          200 & 400 meter dash
Kennedy Grindle      100 & 300 meter hurdles
Savanna Oberholtzer  long & triple jumps
Te’a Gonzales        100 meter dash

Julia Pena with JV a PR on her high jump for a first place medal.

Those Athletes in the two sprint relays were:
4x100                4x200
Aubrey Avey          Savanna Oberholtzer
Te’a Gonsales        Mia Zabarecencu
Kennedy Grindle      Shana Cutrer
Savanna Oberholtzer  Te’a Gonzales

This Panther Relays had one less school than Canyon Lake’s Relays last week minus Dripping Sprints which aided in scoring more points.

Head Coach Sami Theurer said in response to this meet and having Aubry Avey not running her bell-cow 300 meter hurdle’s event, “We wanted to use the 400 meter to help Avey work on getting out in her 300 hurdle, including endurance. She was a bit disappointed she did not hit 58 seconds.”

Avey is the third Hawk to break the 60 second barrier as the now University of Houston trackster Ahren Lightfoot’s (56.77 at the 2024 State Meet)set that all time mark. A few years back it was Skylar Hurst being the first to reach this milestone after racing around the cinders with a, 58.28 back in 2017.

The Lake will be in action again March 5th at Davenport Relays and those Field events get going at 1:00pm along with that 3200 meter race where Canyon Lake continues their strong distance team.

Points Scored by Athlete + How Events Scored

Varsity              Pts~Events  Junior Varsity  Pts ~Events
Savanna Oberholtzer  38 ~ 5      Delilah King     14 ~ 4
Kennedy Grindle      33 ~ 4      Julia Pena       13 ~ 4
Aubrey Avey          25 ~ 3      Haley Mechler    10 ~ 2
Shana Cutrer         22 ~ 4      Isabella Cameron  4 ~ 1
Te’a Gonzales        20 ~ 3      Bella Huneau      4 ~ 2
Sophie Eastland      12 ~ 2      Paisleigh Fahrney 4 ~ 3
Eva Zabarcencu       12 ~ 2      Kiley Williams    4 ~ 3
Mia Zabarcencu       12 ~ 3
Katelyn Lowth         6 ~ 1
Georgia Schexnayder   5 ~ 2
Emma Risien           4 ~ 1
Avery Rutherford      1 ~ 1
Bella Biasatti        1 ~ 1

Way to GO Fast 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 

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

             Savanna Oberholtzer going for the kill in Hawks win over Billies, 3-1.
(photo by Daniel Clifton)

                             Let’s GO LAKE!

Canyon Lake kept their hold on second place in District 26-4A after sweeping through last week’s contests that included the last & first game of round play.

Both wins were significant in getting a win over Davenport (2-1) the first in 3 games and taking care Fredericksburg (3-1) last Friday sweeping the Billies.

The Lake has an all-time 15-10-4 record and will continue this week at Bandera on Friday.

In CL’s contest with Freddie, was a fast start with 3 goals scored during the first 17 minutes of that first half and gave up one goal the second stanza at the 35 minute mark but held serve the rest of this game and win, 3-1.

                             GO LAKE!

It was a Bella Biasatti ~ Savanna Oberholtzer volley with each player either scoring or giving the other an assist.

That first goal had a flawless pass by Callie Dominguez to Biasatti to Oberholtzer that gave Canyon Lake a lead they would never relinquish at the 38:45 mark.

Two more goals at the 32 & 23 minute would give The Lake a dominating first half of action.

It was that second half the Billies would continued to press but CL’s back row with newcomer Cierra Marsh continued turning back those Freddie attacks and an eventual win.

                          Break the Dam~ Lake!

The rankings below show just how hard it is for entities to be able to grasp schools that play 500 miles from each other with few common opponents for the eye test.

One ranking now has just Wimberley 3rd and CLHS 6th with 3 of those district foes falling past that 25th spot. Certainly a result of battling each other with a loss or win and sliding in rankings.

There is one other 4A district with 2 schools being highly ranked with a fall out with those other schools in that same district.

Right now the point totals have Wimberley leading with 21 points while The Lake reaching 18 points. As for the rest of this group of teams has 4 schools fighting for those other 2 spots in hopes of making the playoffs.

Davenport        10  points
Long Creek        9  points
Fredericksburg    7  points
Marble Falls      5  points

This shows how close these 4 schools are for making or missing post-season.

As for Canyon Lake? A playoff clinching game is right around the corner.
Way to GO LAKE!

Rankings
Girls Coaches Association Soccer Poll
Wimberley       3rd
Canyon Lake     6th

MaxPreps
Wimberley       1st
Canyon Lake     4th
Davenport      10th
Marble Falls   18th
Billies        32nd

Let’s Go Lady Hawks!


District 4A Region 4 District 26

Overall Standings
School          W  L  T    Pct  GF  GA
Canyon Lake    15  1  0   .938  82  17
Wimberley      15  1  1   .912  75   9
Davenport      11  4  1   .719  65   8
Marble Falls    9  4  4   .687  53  13
Long Creek      7  4  2   .615  32  22
Fredericksburg  7  8  1   .469  35  36
Bandera         3 15  0   .167  15  83

District Standings
School          W  L  T    Pct  GF  GA  GP
Wimberley       7  0  0  1.000  37   4  21
Canyon Lake     6  1  0   .857  25   6  18
Davenport       3  3  1   .500  28   6  10
Long Creek      3  3  0   .500  11  18   9
Fredericksburg  2  4  1   .357  11  22   7
Marble Falls    1  4  2   .286   9  10   5
Bandera         0  6  0   .000   1  56   0

Last Week’s Results:
Tuesday
Canyon Lake   2  Davenport    1
Wimberley     9  Long Creek   0
Marble Falls  8  Bandera      0
Friday
Canyon Lake   3  Freddie      1
Wimberley     3  Marble Falls 0
Davenport    12  Bandera      0

This Week’s Contests:
Tuesday
Bandera      @   Fredericksburg
Wimberley    @   Davenport

Friday
Canyon Lake  @   Bandera
Davenport    @   Long Creek
Freddie      @   Wimberley