Hawks lost their first game on Saturday to the Lytle Pirates, 6-5 ending their tournament chances

of advancing to play more games.

Don’t take this wrong, but winning all your games in a tournament is not the reason why these games are scheduled. Simply put, it is for repetition for these players as they prepare for district games.

Yes, a win would of been even better, but Coach Gallagher is after a bigger goal than winning all these games. Gallagher is in evaluation mode.

CL did have a chance to win this game and might have pulled it out if the ‘time’ limit would not have stopped action. But losing a five inning affair would give the Coaches plenty of data to look at to see what they might want to do when the real season starts.

Case and point was an at bat by Freshman Cameron Berger in the top of the 5th inning.

After Kelsey Ahrens reached base on an error on the Pirate center fielder, Canyon Lake had coaxed a runner (Sharon Alexanders) to third base but two of the next two batters had struck out.

Enter Berger to the plate with two outs and the Hawks needing a run. After two pitches and two strikes, Berger was in a hole.

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CL’s Softball team righted their ship Thursday in their opening round of games in the Blanco Tournament.

Canyon Lake won two games and lost one in their seeding part of this tournament. With those two victories to start the day, allowed Coach John Gallagher to rest and play many of their other players in their game with Poth to finish up the day.

Freshman Alexis Robinson threw two no hitters to help put Canyon Lake as the first seed waiting to play the fourth seed todays action of that other bracket.

In Robinson’s first game she had six strikeouts and five walks and no earned runs and then upped the antie in her second game with 10 strikeouts while walking four players.

McKenna Beseda had the batter’s box well in control as she was three for six with two doubles to hang on her wall.

Now the Hawks still have some work to do in getting their stride in order taking on District foes in a few days.

But first taking care of business this Saturday starting at Noon will be next on their docket for Canyon Lake.

Boys                        At Bats          Girls
Corey Shedrock    18                         Lilimae Daily     28
Logan Felch       15                         McKenna Beseda    27
Travis Walker     14                         Kelsey Ahrens     26
Michael Brady     11

                             Runs
Logan Felch        5                         McKenna Beseda    11
Kyler Huff         5                         Alexis Robinson    9
Daniel Camarillo   4                         Lilimae Daily      6

                             Hits
Kyler Huff         6                         McKenna Beseda    17
Corey Shedrock     5                         Alexis Robinson   14
Daniel Camarillo   4                         Lilimae Daily     14

                            RBI's
Logan Felch        6                         Lilimae Daily      8
Kyler Huff         5                         Alexis Robinson    5
Travis Walker      4                         Kelsey Ahrens      4

                        Extra Base Hits
Kyler Huff         3                         Briana Young       7
Logan Felch        2                         Alexis Robinson    4
Michael Brady      2                         Kelsey Ahrens      3

                         Batting Average
Daniel Reed       .667                       McKenna Beseda    .652
Kyler Huff        .600                       Alexis Robinson   .545
Cody Powell       .500                       Lilimae Daily     .478

                         Innings Pitched
Logan Felch        8.2                       Alexis Robinson    35.1
Ryan Hutcheson     7.1                       Kelsey Ahrens      10.2
Cody Powell        5.0

                           Strikeouts
Ryan Hutcheson      7                        Alexis Robinson    61
Kyler Huff          6                        Kelsey Ahrens       4
Logan Felch         5

 Feb. 25th
            Golf Boys    Vaaler Creek Tournament Hawks finished 4th
 Feb. 26th  JV Softball  Luling       14  Canyon Lake    7
            Softball     Canyon Lake  16  Luling        11
            Soccer Boys  Wimberley     2  Canyon Lake    0
            Soccer Girls Canyon Lake   0  Wimberley      0
            Baseball     Canyon Lake   8  Lago Vista     6
 Feb. 27th  Tennis       Canyon Lake   8  Blanco         2  (Matches)
 Feb. 28th  Track        CL Boys Varsity 2nd, Girls Varsity 4th,
                         JV Boys 6th, JV Girls 1st. Finishes in Blanco
            Baseball     Lehman        2  Canyon Lake    1
            Baseball     Canyon Lake   7  EP Parkland    3
            Softball     Canyon Lake   7  Johnson City   1
            Softball     Canyon Lake   2  Hondo          0
 Mar. 1st   Baseball     St. Michael's 4  Canyon Lake    3
            Soccer Boys  Clemens       2  Canyon Lake    0
            Soccer Girls Clemens       6  Canyon Lake    0
 Mar. 2nd   Softball     Canyon Lake   @  Blanco Tournament 12:00Noon
            Baseball     Canyon Lake  vs. Burbank           12:00Noon
 Mar. 4th   Softball     Hyde Park     @  Canyon Lake        6:00pm
            JV Baseball  Canyon Lake   @  Wimberley          6:30pm

Canyon Lake will be baseball central this week as your Hawks will entertain four teams from around the state for the Comal ISD Tournament. There will other games played at the Hawk field so if you want to take in other games, then contact Comal Athletic Department.

The Hawks had a decent week of games with a couple of run ruled games in the Lockhart Tournament and also a good competitive game with Marble Falls on opening night.

This is not the same team that has graced Hawk Field in recent years as both Varsity and JV are having some great results with depth out the wazoo.

The Varsity finished their tournament 3-0 by winning Saturday over Austin Lanier.

CLJV baseball team had a win over Wimberley on Friday night and have several players that deserve some attention.

Girls Soccer also had a significant win this past week taking on and beating Seguin, 4-0. Soccer does not have as many teams as other sports so CL plays in a 4A division with other brought up 3A squads.

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Missy Romero has started her career off in grand fashion as Copiah-Lincoln

Community College sports a 9-0-1 record with two of those victories over the No. 5 team in the country.

Romero has a 2-0 pitching record and has also come through in the batter’s box.

In the game against Heartland (IL), Romero tripled and scored their first run and then homered for her first home run that helped extend the Lady Wolves lead to 7-1 two innings later.

In a game with Baton Rouge, Romero collected her second win of her new career when she finished the Lady Bears by allowing 2 runs, while scattering 8 hits, struck out 1 and walked 2 in 5 innings of work.

Romero’s second win was in relief when she helped put out a fire with 2.2 innings and not giving up a run against that same No. 5 rated squad that she helped beat with her bat in the first game.

Congratulations to a fine young lady that is representing Canyon Lake and our community.

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 Softball team won their first game in the Navarro tournament on Thursday with a No-No, when Alexis Robinson pitched to start her promising career.

A Freshman that can pitch a no-hitter in her first game speaks well for Coach John Gallagher’s sleeping for the next four years.

The game was won 9-0 over Stockdale while CL also showed that they might have some pop in their bats.

Missy Romero started her Sophomore campaign with a Perfect Game on February 18, 2010, over Vandergrift, 5-0. Now, the baton has been passed as Robinson begins this season in like manner.

Last night the Lady Hawks beat Marion 13-7 after being up 10-0 going into the later innings.

More information will be forthcoming as Canyon Lake continues their week-end with two games today at Huber Ranch in the last day of Navarro’s Tournament.

Games today will be played at 12:15 and possibly 3:50 Saturday afternoon.

In Softball everything starts in a Circle with a Diamond taking second fiddle.

Yes, the diamond is still needed for this game but if you don’t have someone that you can count on in that Circle, then a diamond might not matter.

Canyon Lake has had a very good pitcher the past four years in Missy Romero and now that baton has been passed to a Freshman in Alexis Robinson.

Robinson is another one of those Freshman athletes that has come onto the scene this year and if this trend continues, Canyon Lake will be very competitive for many of their sports.

The Freshman Basketball team finished 18-4 and in Volleyball, CL had four Freshman that moved up to Junior Varsity and Varsity this year and still had a very competitive team on the court as a Freshman team.

Now it is Softball’s turn to have the honors. Robinson will go into the circle and try to continue a Hawk team that missed the playoffs by just one game last year.

“I am just going to play my game,” Robinson started. “I just want to enjoy my four years of softball and play as hard as I can.”

Robinson also talked about who she has taken that baton from and had nothing but great things to say about her friend and teammate (in Select Softball) Romero.

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The ReSporter:What are your thoughts entering this

season?

Coach John Gallagher: “Excited and optimistic about starting a new year. First goal met; starting a Junior Varsity team.”

The ReSporter: How has your practices been going?

Coach John Gallagher: “Practices going well. With the great weather we have been able to maximize our time and stay on schedule. We have 22 young ladies out and they have been working hard to learn the system. The big surprise is we have a few girls with above average speed/quickness.”

The ReSporter: How will you insert the basketball players when they arrive?

Coach John Gallagher: “With the arrival of a few basketball players we are now putting them through a tryout process and trying to solidify our varsity positions and put in our offense/defense.”

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Canyon Lake Softball is right around the corner as Basketball season will be ending next

Tuesday.

The Hawks will have two huge holes to fill with the departure of Missy Romero to College competition in Mississippi and Caroline Jordan a pretty good player in her own right.

CL only lost two players in last year’s squad, but losing your most complete player in the circle and in the batting circle will be a hard cog to fill in.

Add the departure of one of your best defensive outfield players in Caroline Jordan and you have two spots in the field becoming a huge puzzle piece to this season.

Take this in with what was lost with those two players:

.356 Missy Romero's Career Batting Average
.429 Romero's Season Average last season. (All-Time Best)
 443 Number of At Bats adding both players career.
 135 Career # of hits by both players.
 117 Runs scored combining their careers.
  81 Walks. The top two in this category all time for Canyon Lake.
  77 RBI's for both players in their career.
  45 Number of runs scored by the two players last season.
  39 Combined hits last season.
  24 Walks, giving these two Hawks a two for one ratio with strikeouts.
  12 Number of strikeouts combined last year.

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