Canyon Lake Junior Varsity took care of Wimberley in their first District 27-3A game giving the Texans a long ride home, winning 6-4.

After a rough start in that first inning, Canyon Lake’s defense buckled down and did not commit another misplay allowing their bats to come alive and their pitchers finish off our neighbors to the north.

William Volz started the first inning having to adjust after some defensive miscues but that learning process is what will pay dividends as this season matures.

“I started pretty good,” Pitcher Volz said. “It kind of makes me think on what I need to work on…I was a little frustrated but then I just let it go and then tried my hardest.”

Volz was commenting on how he approached those first couple of innings while only having a texas leaguer as the biggest hit and no other ball scared the grass in the outfield.

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Canyon Lake continues strong run in Lockhart Tournament with another run rule win over Austin Travis, 12-0.

Pitcher Ryan Hutcheson was well in command in this affair without allowing a hit in his four innings of work.

Kyler Huff is on a good hitting pace so far this season as he ripped a triple in this game while driving in two runs.

Canyon Lake started this game on fire scoring five runs and ended up scoring in each inning as the Hawks are over the .500 mark for the first time in three years.

In baseball you need Pitching, Batting, and Fielding and in all three the Hawks got a passing grade.

Ten hits, no errors and a shut out will do wonders for your win-loss column.

Now Canyon Lake will play again in Lockhart at noontime and see about running their streak up to three games.

Wow…there are a lot of threes in this article. Congrats!

                 1  2  3  4   R  H  E
 Canyon Lake     5  2  2  3  12  8  0
 Austin Travis   0  0  0  0   0  0  4

 name              ab  r  h  bi 2b 3b bb so misc
 Daniel Camarillo   4  3  2  0  0  0  0  0  roe
 Corey Shedrock     3  1  1  2  0  0  0  0  roe
 Logan Felch        2  2  0  0  0  0  0  0  roe, hbp
 Travis Walker      1  0  0  1  0  0  0  0  sf, roe
 Tyler Vinson       1  1  0  0  0  0  1  0
 Michael Brady      3  1  1  0  0  0  1  0
 Ryan Hutcheson     3  1  1  0  0  0  1  0
 Kyler Huff         2  0  1  2  0  1  0  0
 JJ Nance           2  1  0  0  0  0  0  1  fc
 Daniel Reed        1  1  1  0  0  0  0  0
 Garrett Winters    1  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
 Conner Drum        1  1  1  2  1  0  0  0
 Cody Powell        0  0  0  0  0  0  1  0
 Totals            24 12  8  7  1  1  4  0

 Pitching          ip r  er h  bb so np  W  L
 Ryan Hutcheson    4  0  0  0  2  3  55  1  0

The Canyon Lake boys golf team made history on the links Thursday by winning

their first golf tournament in school history.

Led by Andrew Riali’s 77, the Hawks shot a team score of 224 to win the Navarro Panther Invitational by 5 strokes over Gonzales. The tournament was played at The Golf Club of Seguin.

Riali birdied his first hole of the day to get his round going and then followed that up with back-to-back birdies on holes 12 and 13. Andrew added 7 pars for his round.

Riali’s score of 77 placed him 6th among individual finishers.

Skyler Tschoepe shot 79 to finish tied for 7th.

His round included birdies on 5 and 13 to go along with 8 pars. Ralph Gonzales had his best finish of the season shooting 82 for the round. His scorecard tallied 9 pars including 7 in a row to finish his last 7 holes.

JJ Herrera showed great improvement by posting an 86 which included a birdie on number 1 to go along with 7 pars. Garrett Winters posted birdie on number 13 and added 2 pars for an 89.

The Hawks will try to continue their winning ways from this Panther Invitational on Monday, Feb 25 when they travel to Vaaler Creek in Blanco to take part in the Blanco Panther Invitational. Tee time is 9:00 AM.

Story by Head Coach Greg Norris.

Canyon Lake won their first game in the Lockhart Tournament on Thursday against

Austin Del Valle, 10-1.

“In other seasons we might have played down to our competition,” Head Coach Trent Dunavant started. “We played a crisp game and I was very pleased on how the players took care of business.”

An onslaught of six runs in the second inning put this game away early and also allowed Sophomore Cody Powell to throw strikes and let the Hawks play defense. Powell averaged a little over 12 pitches per inning.

“We wanted Powell to be in the 15 pitches are lower per inning,” Coach Dunavant said.

Defense came without any errors while CL benefitted from three errors by Del Valle.

Kyler Huff finished the day with three hits, three runs, two rbi’s, and one double.

Daniel Reed and Michael Brady also had doubles in this game.

With a three run 5th inning, the Hawks were able to run rule Del Valle which allowed Powell to go the distance.

That meant Canyon Lake could rest pitchers which will always a good thing for you first tournament of the season.

Now Canyon Lake will play again on Friday, with an early 10am start time. Austin Travis will be in that other dugout, then CL’s final game is Saturday against Austin Lanier with another game before lunch, 11:30 start time.

               1  2  3  4  5  R  H  E
 Del Valle     0  0  0  1  0  1  2  3
 Canyon Lake   0  6  0  1  3 10 10  0

 name               ab  r  h  bi 2b bb so  misc.
 Daniel Camarillo    2  1  0  1  0  0  0   sf, roe
 Cory Shedrock       3  0  1  0  0  0  0
 Logan Felch         3  0  1  1  0  0  0
 Travis Walker       3  1  1  0  0  0  0
 Tyler Vinson        3  2  1  1  0  0  0   roe
 Michael Brady       3  1  1  1  1  0  0
 Cody Powell         2  1  1  1  0  0  0
 Kyler Huff          3  3  3  2  1  0  0
 T.J. Jones          3  0  0  0  0  0  0   roe
 Daniel Reed         1  1  1  1  1  0  0
 Totals             26 10 10  8  3  0  0

 Pitching     ip  r  er h  bb so np  W  L
 Cody Powell   5  1  1  2  1  2  61  1  0

Canyon Lake Lady Hawks won a pivotal game Tuesday night against Seguin, 4-0 in what could be a landmark contest as this season continues.

To recap this district season, all you need to know is that Canyon Lake needs to beat one team to get them into a playoff spot.

Right now Seguin might be that odd team out which could usher your Hawks into a good situation and another ‘can win’ game with Wimberley might even secure that spot.

“We came out strong,” Head Coach Katie McWhorter started. “We scored our first goal within the first minute of the game.”

Whatever butterflies that might been around was soon a thing of the past as CL took that opportunity to play on the offensive side of the field for much of this night.

Sophomore Christy Fowler had her second hat trick of this season coming through and leading the way for her teammates.

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Bracken Christian had battled and won four games in a row in making the playoffs this year, but

they found a match-up that this Warrior team could not stay with for four quarters.

After that first quarter, BCS had a decent result only trailing three points. The Warriors had a lead with a little over two minutes in that quarter until the lid was placed on the rim.

That result had Central Texas Christian scoring 13 unanswered points and forging into a lead that was never relinquished.

BCS had Senior Post Wendy Johnson with 7 of those 9 points in that quarter, while dominating the paint with two blocks.

On a couple of those baskets, Johnson was an easy target displayed by her height on the inbound pass under the Warriors basket.

That play was worth some valuable points getting BCS back into a lead and stopping the Lions momentum. Johnson finished as the only Warrior with double digits, scoring 11 points.

“They (Coaches) picked me because I’m the tallest,” Johnson said.

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Play Ball!! Canyon Lake started their season against a solid 4A Marble Falls outfit and had a good

chance of pulling off an impressive win.

But that timely hit just did not find a spot on this field of play leaving a one run deficit to the Mustangs.

Speaking of timely hits, MF could only muster three and that last one happened to bring in three runs with a bases clearing double.

The fifth inning was a case where starter Logan Felch just ran out of gas and could not finish his outstanding start.

Felch had thrown just 11 balls through four innings and had 13 in the fifth giving the Mustangs an opening that was capitalized on.

“You can’t give freebies like that,” Head Coach Trent Dunavant said in responding to also having a MF batter reaching base by being hit by a pitch, loading the bases.

The Hawks have started their season with Marble Falls each year and this game was won by a very slim margin compared to past campaigns.

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One truism you can take from Softball Tournament games when starting out your season is a team does everything they can to see all of their players.

Hence the third place finish in their pool is not a bad circumstance based on when Coaches are searching for that diamond that might come out in game situations.

The Lady Hawks lost their first game with Poteet, 10-5 but rebounded quite well when they squashed Luling for their final contest, 17-2.

Also note that if CL is working on giving pitchers time in the circle, then you have to surmise that other teams are working on finding those same ‘diamonds’ for their clubs.

Kelsey Ahrens and Cameron Berger both got some circle duties on Saturday as Head Coach John Gallagher is searching for some answers there as well as in the field as several players had an opportunity to show off.

Canyon Lake is sprinkled with many Freshman and Sophomores this year, but it might be those Seniors that will supply the leadership needed by word or action.

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Canyon Lake JV dominates Llano in their last scrimmage before the season starts next week.

Llano only had three pitchers for this scrimmage and that left Canyon Lake taking the field for an extra two frames just so Coach Brian Owens could get enough work from his six pitchers.

What Coach Owens saw was another dominating performance from several of his players on the mound as strikes and defense kept Llano without a run until their last at bat.

Look at these numbers from four Hawk pitchers:

 name       ip  r  er h  bb so balls/strikes
 Headrick    2  0  0  0  0  3      9/18
 McCleary    2  0  0  3  1  3     11/23
 Volz        1  0  0  0  1  1      5/11
 Kissell     2  0  0  0  3  3     21/16

As the night progressed so did the wind and temperature as the last inning was a numbing affair.

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The Canyon Lake JV ended their season in Bandera after suffering an anemic fourth quarter losing, 51-39.

That 12 point difference was much closer as the game was still within reach as Bandera started the last quarter up by two points, 34-32.

“We were able to keep it close for three quarters,” Coach Brian Hooper stated. “The biggest reason why the game got out of hand in the fourth, was in giving up to many rebounds.”

“Three possessions in a row Bandera had multiple shots on offense that led to easy buckets, and we couldn’t respond,” Coach Hooper closed. “Bandera had a big physical line up that wore us down in the fourth.”

Garrett Winters led all Hawk scorers with 12 points and Sean Nolan missed double digits with nine.

            1   2   3   4   Final
 Hawks JV   6  16  13   4   39
 Bandera    8  14  15  14   51

Garrett Winters 12, Sean Nolan 9, Skyler Tschoepe 7, Austin Acosta 4,
Dave Pfaff 3, Qurion Banks 2, Scott Taylor 2.