Colton McDonald had 2 hits in loss to Columbus

Canyon Lake could not capitalize in their loss to Columbus, 15-6, during the Comal County Baseball Tournament.

The Hawks made a valiant comeback when they scored 6 runs in the bottom of the 2nd to draw within 2 runs of the visitors.

That inning had 4 timely hits and enough chaos to put Canyon Lake into a position to make a game on this night.

CL just could not get a 1-2-3 inning as Columbus continued to put pressure on the Hawk defense as Hawk errors made the innings too long for the tired arms for Canyon Lake to withstand the onslaught.

Canyon Lake is also short on arms as JC Parrish (the catcher) got the nod as the starting pitcher on this night.

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The ReSporter: What are your overall impressions as you have 3 Meets in the books?

Track and Field Coach Troy Moses

Coach Moses: “I can tell you that we have a bunch of young men that want to improve and they don’t mind working hard to get there. So far we have improved with each performance and that is exciting as we get closer to district.”

The ReSporter: How do you approach a Meet like you had in Dripping Springs when you were one of the smallest schools in attendance?
Coach Moses: “We tell the kids that Track is different than other sports. For us there is only one meet that really counts and that’s the District Meet, all other are just practice meets and we are just competing against ourselves to try to better our times each week. So when you go into a meet like that your really not concerned with what those around you are doing. With that said, I thought our kids preformed out standing against the BIGGER schools.”

The ReSporter: I know you look on how you can maximize your points is that a process that continues until the day of the District Meet? (more…)

          Go Hawks!!

It was a good day for Canyon Lake’s Baseball team as they finally broke the dam for a win over San Antonio Burbank behind some strong pitching and 2-1 win.

Colton McDonald was the starter and he went 5 innings in giving up just 2 hits and keeping the visitors without a way to deposit in their ‘Bur’ Bank.

The Hawks scratched across two runs in the 3rd inning as Gavin Dietrich knocked a run in with a triple and scored the next run off the bat of Austin Brooks.

Those two runs would hold for this game as Brooks and Avery Montgomery each pitched an inning to shut down Burbank.

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Maggie Banks is making her presence known in the circle and 3rd base.

Canyon Lake had a banner day in their Blanco Tourney as the Hawks scored 39 runs in their run-a-way games to start with 3 wins.

The Hawks pounded the ‘soft’Ball again on Thursday in Johnson City and now officials will have to dispose of those balls since those Softballs were actually ‘Soft’ after the Hawks pounded them.

Put in perspective, CL only had one inning in those 3 contests where there was a 0 used after their 3 outs.

Having 40 hits in those three games will give you an idea of how on fire these Hawks were on this break out day.

Lead off batter, Carly Dubois, was 11 for 11 for the day. Take a look at this line score for this hitter. If you go back to her Fredericksburg game then you have a batter that has 14 hits in her last 15 at bats.

                                          ab   r   h   bi    ave.
Carly Dubois Day at the 'soft'Ballpark    11   9  11   4   1.000

Dubois also used one of her hits for an inside the park home-run to go along with her 6 stolen bases for the day.

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            Go Hawks!!

The ReSporter has had fun posting times and distances from other District 26-4A teams for Track & Field these past few years.

So far, The ReSporter has results from all 7 schools with two of those institutions with results with just one meet. That would be Yoakum and La Vernia teams.

As you look at the forms below, you will see the name of the athlete then the school they represent and the date they had their result in the meet.

Another item to take note is that The ReSporter can only get results of athletes that finished 1st through 6th place. As many of the places to research will only have those events that have those times and distances recorded.

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                        Go Hawks

                        Softball's Top 3 for 2016 Season

 at bats                   runs                     hits
 Carly Dubois      45      Kirsten Jones      20    Kirsten Jones     20
 Lauren Mentzer    38      Alexis Robinson    16    Kat Weber         18
 Alexis Robinson   37      Carly Dubois       14    Alexis Robinson   18
                                                    Lauren Mentzer    18
                                                    Carly Dubois      18

 rbi’s                      base on balls           stolen bases
 Alexis Robinson   16       Char Hutson        5    Carly Dubois      11
 Kat Weber         15       Alexis Robinson    5    Kirsten Jones      8
 Lauren Mentzer    12       Kat Weber          3    Bailey Bryan       4

 doubles                    triples                 home runs
 Alexis Robinson    6       Alexis Robinson    2    Alexis Robinson    2
 Lauren Mentzer     4       Carly Dubois       1    Kat Weber          1
 Kat Weber          1       Tiare Kacir        1
 Kirsten Jones      1       Maggie Banks       1
 Maggie Banks       1       Kat Weber          1

 batting ave                on base pct             slugging pct
 Kirsten Jones   .571       Kirsten Jones   .625    Alexis Robinson .919
 Kat Weber       .500       Kat Weber       .550    Kat Weber       .667
 Alexis Robinson .486       Alexis Robinson .548    Kirsten Jones   .583

 wins                       strikeouts              earned run average
 Alexis Robinson    5       Alexis Robinson   59    Maggie Banks    0.88
 Lauren Mentzer     2       Lauren Mentzer    41    Lauren Mentzer  2.41
 Maggie Banks       2       Maggie Banks       4    Alexis Robinson 3.05

Gavin Dietrich pitches strong game against Johnson City giving up just 1 earned run

If Canyon Lake could have ‘do-overs’ then redoing that 2nd Inning would be where the Hawks would have another chance of playing that inning after a hard fought loss to Johnson City, 7-4.

It has been mentioned before as this year’s Hawk team has just one Senior and has the look of how Canyon Lake started when the school was just starting.

So, this is not the first time for Head Coach Trent Dunavant to be in these situations, “I am finding myself saying things to this team that I said back when we first started.”

“This was a tough game but our effort was good and we knew this year would be a struggle,” Coach Dunavant said. “This team likes to come to the park and they are getting things done and they want to learn and teaching these guys is many times, more than just baseball.”

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Hawks Grab 2nd Win over Fredericksburg the last two years

Canyon Lake has a 2 game winning streak over Fredericksburg as Alexis Robinson threw a shutout over the Billies to improve their record to, 9-3-1 as the Hawks prepare for the Blanco tournament this Thursday.

“This game was something that we needed,” Head Coach John Gallagher said. “This is the type of game we will see when we start district.”

Canyon Lake’s schedule is crafted, by helping the team to improve as district starts which is always that end goal in getting players ready for a larger pie.

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Jordan Sczech makes his move against Fredericksburg           (pictures by Carpenter)

The ReSporter caught up with Boy’s Soccer Coach Warren Graham as the first round of district games are coming to a close after tonights game with Wimberley.

The ReSporter: Hey Coach, give us an idea of how you assess the team and prepare them for the round of district games.

Coach Graham: “We record all of our games, so reviewing film is a big part of preparation as you enter the second round.  The boys try to learn tendencies of the other team, see what we did that worked well against them, and learn from the mistakes we made in the first round.  We then take what worked well and develop drills in practice to reinforce that so they feel comfortable going into the next game.”

The ReSporter: This district is not an easy group of games for the Hawks, tell us about the competition. (more…)

          Go Hawks!!

Canyon Lake went to Dripping Springs this past Saturday and once again showed promise as this group of athletes raised the bar with their competition.

Last week, the Hawks were matched with Dripping Springs, Hays, and San Marcos schools.

This week the field was larger and when that happens it becomes harder to get in position for scoring points.

What Coaches are looking for when in these situations is how well is that athlete doing in topping their personal bests and that was a win for the Hawks.

High Point for CL’s Girls Varsity was Bailey Drum for the second week in a row with 18.5 points while Emma Gray also reached double digits with 11 points.

Madison Blackburn and Adia Garcia both had 4 points for the Girls Junior Varsity team.

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