Canyon Lake poses after winning the Bronze Bracket in Wimberley

The Hawks started slow but finished with a rush by winning their final three games to salvage a Bronze Bracket Championship last weekend in Wimberley.

Tex-Fest Volleyball Tournament has been on Canyon Lake’s schedule every year and the Hawks were able to get some much needed game experience and end the tournament with a three game winning streak.

“After a tough first day we battled back to sweep all three teams we played on Saturday,” Head Coach Nicole Creek said.

Canyon Lake beat Salado, 25-23 and 25-22 on Saturday. With so many teams in tournaments, teams advance in a best of three series instead of the best of five normally during the rest of the season.

In the Salado game, Marisa Ellis lead the team with 12 kills and finished second scoring 14 assists. Ellis has taken on a more dominant role in the attacking part of her game as this season starts in it’s infancy.

Freshman Halley McKnight has shown enough so far this season to suggest there will be improvement as she also had 15 assists, leading the Hawks.

Two other newcomers, Junior transfer Trena Lorett and Sophomore Hayley Malone finished one and two with seven and six digs in the game.
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Canyon Lake taking control in first game of the Season against Liberty Hill

The Hawks started their new year with a split in a three team round robin last Tuesday night at the Canyon Lake gymnasium.

Both games were five game sets that left the exhaustive fans feeling good about this team.

Canyon Lake beat Liberty Hill in the first match: 23-25, 17-25, 25-15, 27-25, 15-5.

The first two games would be games that Coach Nicole Creek could use for instructing future team how not to play.

“First game jitters,” Head Coach Creek said. “We had great serving and clutch hitting to end this game.”

The second game of the set, had only three points scored that was not a result of Liberty Hill losing the serve. The hole dug by the Hawks was too deep to see any light to climb out of.

Canyon Lake had their first lead starting the third game going ahead 1-0. Marisa Ellis was the server when CL actually had a rally of five points that gave the Hawks a six point lead of 14-8.
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Canyon Lake has another first when both Jordan Anderson and Marisa Ellis

Jordan Anderson finishes Sixth in Statei

placed sixth in their respective events this past weekend in Austin for the 3A-State Track Meet.

Marisa Ellis’ event (Triple Jump) was scheduled for Friday night and Ellis responded with a sixth place finish. Her 36-00.50, jump was off her previous best mark in the Region Meet two weeks ago, but the Junior can now concentrate on next season knowing what is possible as a Senior.

In our article earlier last week, you would have read where Ellis is not going to scratch and she followed through with her performance and not having a scratch on any of her jumps.

Ellis first jump was 34-07.75 and that had her in sixth place after the first round, where she ended up after her sixth jump.

The jump that solidified her placing was on her fourth try when she cleared 35-04.75, which had her a full foot further than the other three participants vying for placing in this event.

Ellis had her personal best jump two weeks ago when she cleared 37-04.50 in Corpus Christi.

This was the second year in a row for Canyon Lake Girls to score points at the State Track Meet. Jessica Cunningham competed in the Pole Vault last year for the Hawks.

Jordan Anderson was also scoring for the Hawks as this Junior improved his 400 Meter Dash time by almost a full second from his previous record two weeks ago in Corpus.
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Bracken Christian took 12 athletes to Waco last weekend for the TAPPS State Track

Congratulations to the 12 All State Tracksters

Meet and finished within the top 10 in both the girls and boys team.

Grady Achilles came into the meet with the goal of defending his 100 and 200 Meter Dash. For the third time!

Mission accomplished, as the Senior finished his athletic  career for BCS as one if not the best male athlete for the Warriors.

“Grady has determination,” Head Coach Terri Sanders said. “He is very confident in his ability.”

Achilles seemed to be reaching this year’s meet without the consistency he had enjoyed in previous State Meets.
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Distance Runner Barrett Corey

Not to take anything away from Senior Kevin Knapick, but Bracken Christian will be concentrating more on the Track than the Field part at the State Meet starting this Friday and Saturday in Waco.

Bracken will be competing in the 2A Division and the top four finishers qualified for the right to represent their school before the school year closes.

BCS will have 12 students vying for the chance to bring home more hardware from this track season.

Katy Wilmotte finished first in the 3200 Meter Run at the Regional Meet. Her second place finish in the 1600 Meter Run will also allow her to garner more points for the Team.

Wilmotte finished with a time of 13:09 last year competing as a Sophomore at the State Meet and she qualified two weeks ago with a best time of 12:53 for this season.

The good news is that the 3200 and 1600 Meter Runs will be run on two different days giving those runners time to recoup from that draining race.

“Katy finished third at State last year,” Head Coach Terri Sanders started. “She knows what she is capable of doing and with the right stride and with her confidence will allow her to finish strong.”

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The Hawks finished up they’re 2012 Baseball Season last Saturday in Boerne as the

Canyon Lake's J. J. Nance

team will work on one sure thing to get better…get older!!

This team played with a majority of players that have yet to get their driver’s license this year and many times the result was painful for the team as Canyon Lake took a lot of bumps and bruises throughout the campaign.

Finishing with Boerne did not do any favors for the Hawks as the two game final series was seeing where this team hopes to be in the future…but that will only come with time, practice, work outs, etc…
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Jordan Anderson Takes First in 400 Meter Run

Marisa Ellis and Jordan Anderson will both be busy the next two weeks. As the Sports scene for the 2011-12 season for Canyon Lake draws to a close these two athletes will be showcasing their talents in Austin.

Marisa Ellis had her personal best jump when she cleared the 37 foot barrier by four and a half inches and in so doing will be one of the favorites in the Triple Jump.

Ellis will be one of six other athletes that has jumped past the 37 foot barrier at the State Meet in two weeks.

Last week in our conversation with the Junior Jumper, her main goal was to get past a standard that had been hard to get over. Now that she has broken that distance more goals loom in competing against eight other triple jumpers from around the State.
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Navarro beat the Hawks last Friday night at the Hawks diamond, 9-7, completing

Third Baseman Dylan Adams

the series winning two of the three games.

The Hawks found themselves ahead of the Panthers again in this game as Canyon Lake started with five runs in the first two innings.

Canyon Lake lost the lead in the top of the six inning when Navarro scored two runs giving them the difference for the final score.

Kyler Huff continued his strong at bats with two hits and three hits in the last two games. Huff’s hits were highlighted with a triple in  this game.

Conner Drum also had a break out game with a triple and driving in two runs for the game.
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It was the ‘Best’ of times and it was the ‘Worst’ of time, for

Short Stop Vicky Henderson

the Canyon Lake Hawks in what turned out to be their last game of the season in a loss to Navarro Panthers, 5-4 in extra innings at Huber Ranch in Seguin.

“This was a tough one to lose,” Head Coach John Gallagher started. “We came in with a lot of confidence….we were a little tight….we had a good comeback…but we stranded too many runners.”

The Hawks found it hard to get any offense going and eventually found themselves down after a four run inning by Navarro in the bottom of the fifth inning.

Canyon Lake had the bases loaded in the top of the fifth, but could not capitalize when Brittney Schoettle started the inning with the Hawk’s first hit of the game.

After Kelsey Ahrens grounded into a fielders choice leaving two runners on base. Vicky Henderson loaded the bases next with a walk, giving Mary Jordan a chance, but a first ball hit to the first baseman quickly ended the inning.
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Canyon Lake’s little mistakes become Big mistakes in the loss to Navarro, 10-7 last

Pitcher Logan Felch

Tuesday night on the road.

There were several positive aspects from the plate as Senior Dylan Adams and Junior Kyler Huff each registered three hits a piece.

Also, all the players but one had a hit in the game which can be a confidence builder.

Did we say that there was only one error?

The Hawks are still young and the on the job training can be painful many times…but in this game the pitching just could not finish the job and that one error was a big error allowing two runners to score.
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