Katie Williams and Jordan Anderson have had stellar careers at Canyon Lake High

School these past four years and now embark on their next quest as both of these students have signed on for playing their sports in College.

Katie Williams will be going to Dallas Christian College (DCC) and will be playing two sports when she reports the end of the Summer to her new home.

Williams was seen at a Volleyball event earlier this year when DCC noticed and started to show interest.

A few weeks later, conversation morphed to Basketball and soon Williams would be asked to help the Crusaders in Basketball also.

Not very many athletes have the opportunity to play in two sports when reaching the next plateau in education, but Williams will have that opportunity.

“I’m excited but kind of nervous,” 2 Sport Williams started. “Their Coaches were so nice and I had tryouts in early March and I liked the small school atmosphere.”

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 State Qualifiers in the Boy's and Girl's High Jump
 Girls
 Name                         Region          School               Height
 Morgan McKee                   I             Midland Greenwood     5'6
 Nina Sato                      I             Anthony               5'2
 Kara Erickson                 II             North Lamar           5'10
 Whitney Apari                 II             Lone Star             5'8
 Tracy Jander                 III             Lorena                5'7 
 Alexus Henry                 III             Bridge City           5'6 
 Reagan Luce                   IV             Hondo                 5'5
 Marisa Ellis                  IV             Canyon Lake Hawks     5'4

 Boys
 Name                         Region          School               Height
 Shonderius Howard              I             Lampasas              6'6       
 Braxton Bednarz                I             Lubbock Cooper        6'4
 Spencer McCloud               II             Argyle                6'6
 Jeffrey Minor                 II             Chapel Hill           6'6
 Mylik Kerley                 III             Taylor                6'6
 John Baker                   III             Stafford              6'6
 Jordan Anderson               IV             Canyon Lake Hawks     6'4
 Trevonte Hights               IV             Yoakum                6'4

Canyon Lake will have two representatives for the Track & Field State Meet, May 10-11 in Austin after two

CL athletes decided to Jump over to Austin in a couple of weeks.

Marisa Ellis and Jordan Anderson will both be making their second visit after placing in last year’s meet, albeit in different events.

Both Ellis and Anderson participated last season in the Triple Jump and 400 Meter Dash respectfully and now have come together to compete again in the High Jump.

In the Region Track Meet in Kingsville over the week-end Ellis had a rough hour as she competed in her two qualifying events at the same time.

That seems to not be a very fair way of coming up with the best athletes as Ellis was going from one venue to another as other girls were waiting for Ellis to High or Triple Jump.

So, as other students were able to focus and concentrate on one event, you had Ellis going back and forth to hope and compete at her best.

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By the time their Moms got to their CL sons the nightmare was over and all the Hawks had to show for this game was a relieved look on their face as this season came to a close.

The Hawks carried this game to that last inning when a year of troubles finally released all that bad karma and Navarro had taken a close game and turned into a nightmarish 13 run inning and a final score of, 15-1.

How about two grand slams in that seventh inning and a batting order that batted around two times.

 Tale of the 7th Inning
 Hit Batters:   2
 Singles:       5
 Doubles:       3
 Home Runs:     2
 Walks:         3

What will make you shake your head is that CL had controlled this game and had a chance in the bottom of the sixth inning to take the lead when the Hawks loaded the bases with no outs.

That nightmare started with that inning as Canyon Lake had one out on a squeeze play that went awry. Another potential score that was thrown out at the plate after another single.

Navarro took that defensive momentum and went crazy from the plate as Travis Walker finally ran out of gas and what fuel that was still in the tank blew up from a spark off the bats of the Navarro Panthers looking to clinch a spot for the playoffs.

That was certainly accomplished with those 13 runs and now Fredericksburg will go home without a spot in the post season as they needed a Navarro loss for a chance to play on.

Walker had another good pitching game save that last inning as he kept those Panthers guessing with his ‘eefus’ or Big Cheese pitch for much of the evening.

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Hawks Region Track qualifiers will take center stage on Friday as they will show off their skills against fellow athletes from 8 Districts from Region IV.

Marisa Ellis will be another Hawk that will be entered in two events and will be trying to make her second trip to Austin with a first or second finish.

Ellis was in Austin last year where she finished 6th Place for Canyon Lake in the Triple Jump.

This year and how the competition looks, Ellis might have a better chance of going to the State Meet via the High Jump.

Ellis had a 5’5 jump in a meet that was not deemed official earlier this year and a jump like that on Friday would certainly give her a decent chance of advancing as their seems to be a log jam with several of the students having a 5’4 inch standard.

Six of the eight districts in Region IV have qualifiers with that same 5’4 inch mark.

This will be an event where a girl that scratches at any height especially the lower marks might be on the outside looking in since so many of the ladies are so close in abilities.

Strategy might be the best avenue as each jumper could wait out the lower heights in enter the jumps later giving that athlete a better chance. Of course, that could also hurt since working your way up the ladder might be their best bet to advance.

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Canyon Lake became Fredericksburg’s best friend as the Hawks knocked off Navarro with the pitching of a Ryan Hutcheson, five hit shut out, 3-0.

Fredericksburg needs Navarro to lose to give them a chance to finish third in district play and be awarded a spot in the post-season.

CL pulled out a masterful 80 pitch outing from Hutcheson as he evened his record at 4 and also threw strikes and giving only one Panther a free ride to first.

“Hutcheson was able to get all three pitches over for strikes, his fastball, curveball and knuckle ball,” Senior Catcher Brady said. “He kept the Panther hitters off balance for the whole game.”

Hutcheson’s battery mate also helped the teams cause by raising his batting average to .411 for the season with a double, run, and rbi.

Cody Powell also scored two of the runs while Corey Shedrock contributed a double for Canyon Lake.

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District Stats (10 Games)
name               ab  r  h bi 2b 3b bb so  ave  misc
McKenna Beseda     31  6 13  7  2  0  2  4 .419  sb 7, sac 3
Vicky Henderson    25  8 10  5  0  0  4  2 .400  sb 1, cs 1, roe 1, hbp
Kelsey Ahresn      33  3 13  3  3  0  0  7 .394  sb 3, cs 2, sac 2, hbp
Alexis Robinson    33  7 10  2  1  0  3  4 .303  sb 1
Liz Henderson      15  1  4  0  0  0  1  6 .267
Cassidy Riccio     27  1  6  0  0  0  2  8 .222  sb 1, cs 1
Brianna Young      23  3  5  5  0  0 10  3 .217  sac
Lilimae Daily      28  5  5  5  0  0  2  9 .179  sb 1, sf 1
Lillie Sander      14  2  2  1  0  0  1  6 .143
Cameron Berger     26  3  3  1  1  0  0  5 .115  roe 3
Christine Rider     3  0  0  0  0  0  1  2 .000
Sharon Alexander    1  0  0  0  0  0  1  2 .000  cs 1
Kirsten Jones       1  5  0  1  0  0  0  0 .000  sb 3

name               ip  h  r er bb so  era   W  L
Alexis Robinson    63 52 65 31 73 76 3.44   3  7

name               ab  r  h bi 2b 3b hr bb so   ave  misc
McKenna Beseda     74 25 35 12  3  1  0  4 12  .473  sb 17, sac 4
Alexis Robinson    78 19 28  9  5  2  0  4  7  .359  sb 3, hbp 1
Kelsey Ahrens      75 14 26 10  7  0  0  4 15  .347  sb 1, cs 1, hbp 1, sac
Brianna Young      58  8 20 15  8  0  1 14  5  .345  sac, hbp 3
Lilimae Daily      72 15 22 14  4  0  0  5  7  .306  sb 5, sf 1, hbp 1
Cassidy Riccio     56  7 15  3  2  0  0  4 15  .268  sb 1, cs 1, hbp 1, sac
Tiare Kacir         4  3  1  1  0  0  0  1  0  .250
Vicky Henderson    81 11 18  9  0  0  0  6 14  .222  sb 3, cs 2, sac 4, hbp
Christine Rider    23  2  4  0  0  0  0  0  5  .174
Liz Henderson      25  3  4  0  0  0  0  1 11  .160  sac
Lillie Sander      35  5  4  3  0  0  0  1 13  .114  sac
Cameron Berger     28  6  3  1  1  0  0  0  9  .107  roe 3
Kirsten Jones      12  9  1  1  0  0  0  0  1  .083  sb 5, hbp 1
Brianna Hemphill   13  1  1  0  0  0  0  1  7  .077
Sharon Alexander    3  0  0  1  0  0  0  2  3  .000

name                ip    h    r  er   bb   so   era   W   L
Alexis Robinson  130.2  106  133  59  120  179  3.17   8  14
Kelsey Ahrens     16.2   16   39  18   32    7   7.78  1   2

The ReSporter:You stated last season about how your team would need to improve their

offensive skills…was that part of your game a success? And what will be your major goals as you look into next season?

Coach Gallagher: “I thought we hit better as a team this season .280 compared to .212 last season. We had one player (Beseda) over 400 and three over 300 where as last year we had only one over 300. We scored 156 runs compared to 127 in 2012 so I’m happy with our production this season. We also added more speed to the lineup and that will help us next season. Our major goals next year will be (1) to fill three infield and one outfield positions that were vacated by our seniors. Defensive continuity will be key to building a strong unit. (2) to improve our overall knowledge of the game. (3) get more consistentcy from our offensive short game-bunt, slap, base-running etc. (4) build on the confidence gained from this season and  take it to the next level. (5) be more dominate on the mound by limiting walks. (6) Find a way to finish. We had several games with one bad inning. Without those we win a few more games.”

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Senior Discus/Shot Put thrower Kaelin Simmons will be on her way to Region this Week-end as

she will be searching for that one throw that might propel her to another Meet called State.

Last year, Simmons made Region Meet in the Shot Put and decided to make it two events this season when she had one of those special throws in District 27-3A Meet in the Discus.

Simmons throw wowed her and Coach Hooper when they measured it at over 110 feet.

Why? Simmons best throw was a good 18 feet less than that total for her tries throughout track season.

Simmons had her best Discus throw in last year’s district meet when she heaved that heavy frisbee for a distance of 89’9.

District Meets agree with this young lady as she went into this years Meet with a shot-put throw of 32’2 and Discus best of 93’5 feet.

She hit 34′ even in the Shot for second place and then her 111’0 Discus throw giving her a first place.

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The Canyon Lake foursome of Mariah Ellis, Brookelynn Helmke, Hannah

Graves, and Amber Ramsey are carrying on a tradition for Girls Track in that they are running in the Region Meet for the third year in a row.

Each year they are at the doorstep knocking on that door for the State Meet. With times in the 4:10 area this team seems to be the closest in that line of 1600 Meter Relay teams to break that 4:10 barrier.

That will be something they will need to accomplish in order to give them a legitimate chance of being one of the last two Relay Teams standing.

Mariah Ellis will be running in her second Region Meet this week and certainly had a spectacular run at District 27-3A two weeks ago on her leg.

Ellis made up a some ground and caught several teams on that back stretch to get the baton to Amber Ramsey for her anchor leg.

“All I was thinking was I want to make Regions,” Mariah said with resolve. “When everyone is cheering for you it pushes you to go.”

Go, is what Ellis did on that night as she had the home crowd cheering her and the other group of girls for a place to keep having a chance of advancing.

Canyon Lake did not have their best time in district but they were not off much from their run in the Hawk Relays where they had the best 4×400 Relay time ever for the Hawks.

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