Canyon Lake lost their series to Boerne after a hard fought game Friday night, 7-1.

The Hawks out hit the Greyhounds but they could not bunch enough hits together to mount many threats.

Another good outing from pitcher Ryan Hutcheson as he held this very potent offense to just six hits.

J. J. Nance continues to climb up with his batting average after collecting two of CL’s hits.

Daniel Reed also got back into action and responded with a hit and the Hawks lone run.

“We played awesome defense,” Head Coach Trent Dunavant started. “We could not string hits together and Boerne had hits that were doubles, triples and a deep home run.”

Boerne has had a dominating baseball team this season with a 12-0 record in district play.

Look at the Greyhounds games with District 27-3A teams when you add runs from their three game series.

If you add runs scored for those games, then you would have the scores shown below from those composite scores.

 Bandera           34-1
 Fredericksburg    33-3
 Navarro           28-6
 Canyon Lake       11-3
 Wimberley*        10-4 (1 game)

*Will finish series with Wimberley next week.

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Canyon Lake JV Baseball team split their two games on Thursday for the opening day of District 27-3A Tournament.

In the first game CLJV beat Bandera and then faced Boerne in a loss to a team that seems to have the Hawk’s number this season.

Anytime you have as many errors as you have hits will tell you that this might not be a good result.

Canyon Lake will now face one of the three teams that met in Boerne for the other three team pod.

Saturday at 12 Noon will be the start time as the Hawks will play for 3rd place finish in district play in Boerne.

Jonathan McGuire led CLJV with two hits while Hayden Dubois and Austin Headrick scored the only runs of this contest in that first inning.

               1  2  3  4  5   R  H  E
 Boerne JV     4  2  1  1  2  10  5  2
 CL Hawks JV   2  0  0  0  0   2  5  5

 name                  ab r  h bi bb so  misc
 Hayden Dubois         2  1  1  0  1  0  sb
 Austin Headrick       3  1  1  0  0  0
 Colton Avey           2  0  0  0  0  1
  ph Gordon McCleary   1  0  0  0  0  0
 Jonathan McGuire      2  0  2  0  0  0
  ph Nick Kissell      0  0  0  0  1  0
 Zach Gregory          2  0  0  0  1  1
 Hayden Lee            3  0  1  1  0  2
 Tavion Soliz          2  0  0  0  0  0
 Kyle Krohn            2  0  0  0  0  0
 William Volz          2  0  0  0  0  0
 ds Jakob Merritt      0  0  0  0  0  0
 totals               21  2  5  1  3  4

 pitching         ip  r er  h bb so  np  W  L
 Hayden Dubois   1.1  2  6  2  5  0  48  0  1
 William Volz    3.2  3  4  2  0  1  47  0  0

Canyon Lake JV baseball team split their games with Navarro Panthers last Monday night at the

Hawk Diamond. Winning the first game 7-4 and coming out on the short end 13-8 in the nightcap.

The Hawks dug themselves in a hole in both games, but the second game their hole was much deeper than a Hawk could climb (or fly) out of.

“We started both games the same in making the same mistakes over and over,” Head JV Coach Brian Owens said. “I challenged them on communicating, but for the most part I was pleased with our pitchers.”

Canyon Lake did have some good pitching in that first game as Nick Kissell had a decent outing with Gordon McCleary closing out this contest.

The Hawks did have a little bit of fireworks as Austin Headrick hit a two run home run in the bottom of that fourth inning giving Canyon Lake their lead back after allowing the tying runs in the top of that same inning.

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Boerne had a Triple-Play against the Hawks on Tuesday night’s loss to Canyon Lake, 13-3.

The good news is that a triple play means that CL had enough base runners to get that many players out on any given play.

With an eight run inning to start the game pretty much put this game away quickly as the Hawks were able to run rule the Greyhounds.

Ten players scored in this contest as Head Coach John Gallagher did all he could do to get playing time for his players.

McKenna Beseda continued her record setting season when she had two hits in that first inning as CL batted around the score book

First Inning At Bats:
1 Reached on Error (roe)
2 Batters Hit by Pitch (hbp)
3 Hits
3 Walks

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If Boerne is ranked in the Top 5 for the State of Texas, then based on the past two contests with the

Greyhounds, Canyon Lake should be ranked in the Top 10.

Simply put, the Hawks lost another one run game to a very sound baseball team and all they have to show for this outing is another loss.

However, that is not entirely true based on the level of play displayed on Tuesday night at the Hawk’s Baseball Diamond.

Travis Walker was nails on the mound as he held the Greyhounds to four hits and CL’s defense was just as impressive in helping to keep this game in doubt until that last out.

Walker had Boerne guessing at the plate as he threw the ‘eefus’ pitch with mastery.

“I’ve been throwing that pitch since I was 12 years old,” Walker recollected. “They called it the ‘Big Cheese’, and somedays it is on and somedays it is off.”

That pitch would be classified as being ‘on’ this evening.

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Canyon Lake gave up their precious lead in the seventh inning and with that lead also gave up a chance for the playoffs.

The Hawks were playing with fire for much of this game as Wimberley had left 12 base runners stranded through the first six innings.

Canyon Lake had kept the Texans on those bases with no runs showing for a potent team batting average.

Texans’ on base percentage was .535 for the game.

Hits         11
Walks         8
Hit Batters   4

The Hawks were opportunistic by having some clutch outs.

Inning   on base   runs  out
First      3       1     Pop up to Kelsey Ahrens
Second     2       1     Great running catch by McKenna Beseda in centerfield.
Third      2       0     Alexis Robinson struck out the side.
Fourth     2       2     Full count K and an Ahrens to Daily ground out.
Fifth      2       0     Robinson threw out runner at third, then fly ball out.
Sixth      3       0     Bases loaded K on full count and then fly ball out.
Seventh    2       3     Damage done..a pop up to V.Henderson finished inning.

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Disappointing Track Meet for Canyon Lake as scratches and being DQ on the Relays were so dominant you needed a big eraser in order to take all those potential points that literally flew out the window.

There was some good news at this year’s event but so much bad happened you had to wonder if the Mayans were off a few months with their predictions of the world ending.

Three different Relays were DQ, two for the Boy’s and one that involved the Girl’s Track Team.

How about some good news:
Marisa Ellis came through with two first place finishes as she will try to add to Field Events to her State Track resume.

Ellis topped the 37 foot mark and also topped that High Jump bar with a 5’4 jump, which was two inches more than she had for this season.

Jordan Anderson also will be going to his third Region Tournament in Kingsville when he soared to a 6’2 inch High Jump. Anderson has a best of 6’6 at the Hawk Relays and tried for a personal best (6’7) after being the last Jumper standing.

All three of these marks are among the top in 3A meets that have been compiled up to this point.

The ReSporter will have some more research this weekend to give a better idea of where these two athletes stand as well as CL’s other qualifiers in this Region as well as in Texas.

The 1600 Meter Run was also a present surprise as Mike Russell has now broken his own record by another 6 seconds when he coasted across the finish line right in front of Senior Chris Neiland.

Canyon Lake had never had a runner break that 5 minute barrier and in this Meet had two on that same run.

That bodes well for future years as well as the JV Girls Team, who continued to impress with another good Meet.

Kaelin Simmons will have two chances at Regions when she will have an opportunity to compete in the Shot Put and Discus.

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Canyon Lake could not get out of the quicksand at Wimberley Quick Sand Golf Course quick enough to have a chance of advancing in this year’s season.

A good year with several good tournaments but putting themselves in a hole on that first round of play was too much to overcome.

The Hawks will have a good nucleus coming back for next season and right now that will have to suffice as this group of players now are resting on the 19th hole.

How the District 27-3A Teams Fared.

 1. Fredericksburg      304-309 613
 2. Boerne              321-328 649
 3. Wimberley           362-346 708
 4. Canyon Lake Hawks   378-359 737
 5. Bandera             383-367 750
 6. Navarro             418-393 811

 Individual District and Hawk Playes:
 Sam Rogers      Billies    74-76 150
 Luke Wynn Smith Billies    76-75 151
 Luke Henry      Boerne     77-77 154
 Cole Grona      Billies    74-80 154
 Caden Wylie     Boerne     81-75 156

 Hawk Players
 Andrew Riali               86-88 174
 Ralph Gonzales             97-88 185
 JJ Herrera                 93-95 188
 Skyler Tschoepe           102-88 190

Canyon Lake backs are up against a wall as they are drawing close to the end of this season schedule.

The Hawks could not find a bat large enough to gain any hits and if when a larger bat was found, then it proves to be too heavy to get around on the pitched ball.

Suffice to say the offense was dormant and only having six base runners did not give much chance for a rally being staged.

Canyon Lake will take the diamond this Friday at the Hawk Field when Wimberley comes to town.

The Hawks will need to sweep the rest of their games to give them a chance to making this year’s playoffs.

Two of the three games the Hawks have won in the first round and that will make the Wimberley game huge.

But help will also be needed, but first things first would be winning and then see what happens.

The JV game will start at 5pm and then first pitch for the Varsity will be 6pm.

            1  2  3  4  5  6  7  R  H  E
 CL Hawks   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  4  3
 Bandera    0  5  0  0  0  3  X  8  4  2

 name         ab r  h bi 2b bb so misc
 A. Robinson  3  0  0  0  0  0  2
 M. Beseda    3  0  2  0  1  0  0 cs (2)
 K. Ahrens    3  0  1  0  0  0  1
 B. Young     2  0  0  0  0  1  0
 C. Riccio    3  0  0  0  0  0  2
 C. Berger    3  0  0  0  0  0  1
 L. Sander    2  0  0  0  0  0  0
 L. Henderson 2  0  0  0  0  0  2
 V. Henderson 2  0  1  0  0  1  0
 Totals      23  0  4  0  1  2  8

 pitching      ip h  r er bb so  np misc
 A. Robinson   6  4  8  3  9  5 133 hb (2)

Hawks are snake bit by Wimberley after losing their second game in the last inning of play this

season.

Canyon Lake went into that last inning up by two runs and even escaped one scare before the Texans found the snake needed to put the Hawks out of their misery.

After a walk to the Texan’s lead off hitter, CL had some luck when they caught the tying run off of third base after a failed squeeze play and still up by one run.

Those two outs could not make it to three before Wimberley loaded the bases and scored three runs for a two run lead and game against this ‘Snake Bit’ Hawk team.

Canyon Lake did work 10 walks with only one strike out from the battery of Wimberley pitchers. Still not enough of those key hits that could of iced this game away.

The Hawks now find themselves down two games for a chance to plug themselves into that third playoff spot.

JJ Nance had two great bunt plays, with one going down as a hit and keeping that inning going after a double from Travis Walker. Both players would score in the third inning.

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