Mountain Valley took care of business in their win over Smithson Valley Middle School, 14-1 last Thursday at the Hawk Diamond.

Lauren Mentzer and Bailey Bryan all smiles after win over Smithson Valley Middle School

The Hawks finished their first round of district games with just one loss to Canyon earlier this season, 10-5.

“We are a smaller school,” Head Coach Jacquelyn Scott stated. “We played scared our first time we faced Canyon and had way too many errors, but we were still within one or two runs before they stretched the lead.”

“We are working from now until next Thursday to get ready for Canyon during the next round,” Coach Scott continued. “We are playing good enough to beat them (Canyon).”

Mountain Valley took the winds out of SV after scoring 5 runs in the bottom of the first inning and a dominating pitching performance from Lauren Mentzer.

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Canyon Lake lived to see another day as Cody Powell pitched a complete game one hitter in dominating the

Southpaw Cody Powell pulls out a must win game pitching CL into a 3 team playoff

Panthers for the second time this season with the win.

Nick Cahill also had a decent day going 4 for 4 from the plate with 3 rbi helping to raise his batting average from .339 to .383.

Canyon Lake will be playing again tomorrow against Fredericksburg as the three way tie will be played out in order to see who finishes 3rd and 4th. With one of the three teams leaving without their uniform and out of the dance.

This game also broke a losing streak just in time to help with that all important confidence builder type of contest.

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Hawks could not pull out a win over Navarro losing in extra innings, 8-4 losing their fifth game in a

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row and 7 out of their last 8 games.

This loss will put Friday’s in game in desperation mode as Canyon Lake will be trying to salvage a playoff spot.

Now CL will need to win in Navarro on Friday or face the possibility of not making the playoffs.

Fredericksburg won their game over Bandera and share the same district record as the Hawks and a CL win over Navarro would result in a 3-way tie for two playoff spots.

A coin flip would determine which teams that would need to play an elimination game for that 4th spot.

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Canyon Lake will have 7 athletes taking a van to Kingsville next week after competition in their Area Meet last week in Hawkville.

Sophomore Bailey Drum will represent the ladies after a personal best triple jump of 36-02 and winning this event.

Bailey Drum keeps that great Triple Jump tradition going for the Hawks

From Head Girls Coach John Barthels, “Bailey was tied for 4th place going into the Area Meet with a jump of 34-07. The young lady she was tied with jumped 35-00 on her first attempt putting pressure on Bailey early. Then Bailey jumped her season and career best of 34-09.00 before being re-arranged for the finals.

She had one jump that I told her would have been 36-00 if she had not scratched by half a foot. She was still in 5th place going into her final jump, where she needed to have a 35+ attempt. Then she perfectly hit the board and exploded to a 36-02.00 jump, giving her 1st place over everyone.”

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District 27-3A Baseball Standings

 team              W    L    Pct.
 Boerne           12    1   .923
 Wimberley        10    3   .769
 CL Hawks          5    8   .385
 Navarro           5    8   .385
 Fredericksburg    4    9   .308
 Bandera           3   10   .231

 Upcoming Games
 Tuesday April 22nd
 Navarro           @     CL Hawks
 Boerne            @     Wimberley
 Fredericksburg    @     Bandera

 Friday April 25th
 CL Hawks          @     Navarro
 Wimberley         @     Boerne
 Bandera           @     Fredericksburg

 Last Week's Results
 Tuesday
 Boerne           4      CL Hawks        3
 Wimberley        7      Fredericksburg  4
 Navarro          6      Bandera         3

 Thursday
 Boerne          11      CL Hawks        3
 Navarro         11      Bandera         3
 Wimberley       10      Fredericksburg  3

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Canyon Lake went to battle again in their last game of this season with a loss to a tough Navarro squad, 14-6.

Seniors Brianna Young and Emma Broussard pose after final Hawk Game

It was Senior Night on this wet night for two Hawks giving fans a chance to say good-bye, yet looking at this lineup you also have a ton of youngsters.

Brianna Young and Emma Broussard both helped plug some key holes, but being a freshman or sophomore against older clubs just did not translate to victories in District 27-3A.

“Considering the conditions with rain, we did not give up,” Head Coach John Gallagher said. “We hit this pitcher a lot better this time and our players played their heart out for the seniors and everybody else.”

Navarro started with three runs to start this affair, giving CL a glimpse of what they would have to do to win this game.

Canyon Lake had scored more runs this season than any other Hawk team and this would be a game where scoring would be needed in mass.

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Christian Dittman will be attempting a chance for Region Meet in the Pole Vault

The CL Hawk Track and Field Teams finished their District Meet bunched in the middle as they hope to break from the pack with several younger athletes that showed off their skills against older students.

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In other words, don’t get caught up in this year’s point totals because the future is where this finish line will be.

Several Hawks had breakout seasons and next year will hopefully be able to fly to their finish line.

Case and point, a Freshman Hurdler that took this year by storm, by the name of Brandon Courtney who broke all of the Hawk records in the 110 and 300 meter hurdles.

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Canyon Lake was left speechless in another pitching gem, losing by a narrow, 1-0 game to

Catcher Kyle Krohn

Wimberley.

The Hawks met another Texan pitcher that was, to put it lightly, on.

CL had three base runners for the night and was not able to get any momentum in this contest.

Justin Gray was the Texan inflicting the pain as he had two balls on only three batters with just one Hawk that ran a count to three balls for this game.

“We had to do something to get a runner to second base,” Head Coach Trent Dunavant said.

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Canyon Lake Hawks completed a double header sweep today in District 27-3A play at

Gordon McCleary and Jonathan McGuire complete sweep on Thursday with Wins over Navarro and Frederickaburg

the Hawk Diamond.

Navarro and Fredericksburg to the damage in 15-4 and 14-9 losses respectfully.

Those two wins will put the Hawks in the Championship game on Saturday with the first pitch at 2pm.

Canyon Lake came back from a 5-1 deficit in their second game with the Billies and responded by outscoring Fredericksburg by 13-4 to close out this contest.

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Mountain Valley Track & Field team had a very successful season as they performed in

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Fredericksburg last week last Friday.

The future for Canyon Lake High School will have several athletes with some aspirations of grandeur. (used those Big words to motivate some class work)

MVMS 8th Grade Boys team finished in second place being edged out by Navarro, 141 to 137.

Luke Justis and Will Joyner were the two top point producers as all four teams showed some good times and distances.

Justis finished with 30 points for MVMS with a first place finish in the 200 Meter Dash and two Relays.
A 2nd place finish in the Triple Jump and 5th place finish for the long jump helped give him his score.

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