Canyon Lake lowered their 1600 Meter Relay by nine seconds at the Hawk Relays last week

Canyon Lake New and Improved 4x400 Meter Relay Team (Brookelynn Helmke, Hannah Graves, Amber Ramsey, and Mariah Ellis)

and with that time now have the best results in District 27-3A.

Not only the best time this year among fellow District Schools, but also their time of 4:10.53 was a new standard for future CL 1600 Relay teams.

The good news is that the Hawks have at least two more weeks to see how low they can go to set an all time standard.

Mariah Ellis, Hannah Graves, Brookelynn Helmke, and Amber Ramsey were in control of this relay from the beginning to end.

This is a good nucleus of students which has a lot of potential as this season now gets into a much more serious stage.
Ellis a Sophomore
Graves a Junior
Helmke a Junior
Ramsey a Junior

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Another one of many personal bests happened at the Hawk Relays and there might be some disturbing

Senior Triple Jumper Branson Belcher

Senior Branson Belcher had a Canyon Lake Record Triple Jump at last Thursdays Meet.

Belcher soared over the 40 foot mark in the Triple Jump event and replaced Todd Pippin on that leader board.

Below was the Canyon Lake best Triple Jump finishes.

 Name                 Distance      Year     Meet       When       Grade
 Todd Pippin          38'9.25       2011     Blanco     March 1    Graduated
 Luke Curry           38'6          2012     Tiger      March 29   Junior
 Branson Belcher      38'4          2012     District   April 11   Senior

Looking at the numbers you can see that Belcher passed his best by over 2 feet and now Pippin has to come back to school to have another chance to have his name on the board. Belcher’s jump was 40’11 distance.

“Yesterday I was helping out at the Junior High Track Meet and I saw Pippin on the leader board and that was the only thing that motivated me,” Belcher said with bravado.

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Canyon Lake had some surprises at the Hawk Relays last week and one of the

1600 Meter Record Holder: Sophomore Mike Russell

Russell ran on the Cross Country Team and has been a long distance runner for a while.

However, his best time was 5:19.00 two weeks ago in Wimberley which for a Sophomore is still a very good outing.

Enter a week at the beach and all of a sudden his time improves 18 seconds and with this run breaks the Canyon Lake record of 5:01.70 by 0.22 seconds.

Senior Chris Neiland ran that event last season in Dripping Springs almost exactly one year ago.

“I never thought I would break a record,” Russell said while recuperating after this grueling run. “It wasn’t even in my mind, but after I finished I knew that I might be close.”

Russell surprised several people familiar with who had done what in the mile run and this race was not looking like it would or could result in such a good finish.

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The Canyon Lake Lady Hawks continue to impress this Track Season as they finished 5th with

Trena Lorett Jumping and Scoring for CL

their Varsity while the Junior Varsity finished in 3rd only behind Canyon and Hays.

First off the Hawks had Marisa Ellis match her high jump best, but she also had her best Triple Jump of the season going over that 37 foot barrier.

Canyon Lake might change their name to Canyon (we can Triple Jump over the) Lake High School soon.

Between the Varsity and JV teams Canyon Lake totaled 42 points in that one event. Another way to calculate this Feat is in traveling 203.11 Feet or over 2/3 of a football field.

Here are their Finish from Top to Bottom:
Marisa Ellis           37'3.75
Mariah Ellis           33'11.5
Trena Lorett           33'3.5
Bailey Drum            32'5
Halley McKnight        31'11
Sydney Reibschlager    31'9.75

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Hawks Gold Team Ready themselves for District 27-3A play

Canyon Lake Golf Team finished 6th Place in the FHS Boys Invitational with a field of 16 teams.

This tournament was a good barometer for the Hawks to see where they might stand against their district foe.

Here are the Results for District 27-3A in this Invitational.

Place   Team              Score
 1st    Fredericksburg    311
 2nd    Boerne            327
 3rd    Canyon Lake       344
 4th    Wimberley         345
 5th    Bandera           350
 6th    Navarro           389

The Hawks were led by a 2nd Place Finish from Skylar Tschoepe as he carded a 76 only one stroke off from the top spot.

District 27-3A will be in action for the real deal in two weeks on April 8-9 as Canyon Lake has been consistent this season.

In district play CL will have two rounds of competition which helps in evening a one bad day. Which can happen to any player as many recreational golfers know.

Score   Individual Team Finish
 76     Skylar Tschoepe 2nd Medalist
 83     Andrew Riali
 88     J. J. Herrera
 97     Ralph Gonzales

Canyon Lake did what needed to be done with a convincing win over Boerne, 11-0 last Thursday night

Head Coach John Gallagher

in Boerne.

Pitcher Alexis Robinson struck out the side the first two innings giving Boerne a statement that this game would not be theirs.

“After playing Wimberley we talked about how well we played except for one inning,” Head Coach John Gallagher said. “We took that intensity into the Boerne game and played a complete game.”

The Hawks needed this win after having some bad innings that would wreck a game in seconds.

“We came out confident and played as a team,” Coach Gallagher continued. “After scoring one in the first and two runs in the second, we felt we could dominate.”

Dominate is what CL did and that will help instill that confidence as they continue their road through District 27-3A cities.

Robinson has had some problems during a game with walks and that would not be an issue in this contest as she struck out 11 Greyhounds.

“She (Robinson) improved her walks total and gave up just one hit that went six feet down the third base line,” Coach said gladly. “Defensively we had only one throwing error and (McKenna) Beseda made a great over the shoulder catch going towards the fence.”

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The Hawks drew blanks again against Fredericksburg as they lost the season series, 9-4.

Senior Travis Walker

Canyon Lake did take the lead with one run in the first two innings and also tied the score in the top of the fifth inning before those flood gates opened up with a Billie six run inning.

Nick Cahill led the offense with a double and two hits in the game.

Kyler Huff took the loss as CL’s pitching could not solve the strike zone by walking 10 batters in this contest.

Both teams finished with five hits but walks will kill you and now Canyon Lake needs to get back on track fast as they have little room for mistakes as the district games continue.

Canyon Lake will play Bandera next week in hopes that those Bulldogs will stay in the Bullpen and give the Hawks some momentum as the season heats up.

                 1  2  3  4  5  6  7   R  H  E
 Canyon Lake     1  1  0  0  1  0  1   4  5  3
 Fredericksburg  0  2  0  1  6  0  x   9  5  1

 name               ab r  h bi 2b bb so  misc
 Peyton Sipila      4  1  1  0  0  0  0  sb
 Kyler Huff         4  1  1  2  0  0  0  roe
 Michael Brady      4  0  1  1  1  0  1
 Travis Walker      2  0  0  0  0  1  0
 Ryan Hutcheson     1  0  0  0  0  0  0  hbp
  ph Corey Shedrock 1  0  0  0  0  0  0
 Nick Cahill        2  1  2  0  1  0  0  hbp
 Tyler Vinson       1  0  0  1  0  0  0  sac
 JJ Nance           2  1  0  0  0  1  0  sb
 TJ Jones           2  0  0  0  0  0  0
  ph Daniel Reed    1  0  0  0  0  0  1
 Totals            24  4  5  4  2  2  2

 pitching       ip r er  h bb so np  W  L
 Tyler Vinson   3  3  3  2  4  0 49
 Kyler Huff     1  4  4  3  3  2 38  0  l
 Nick Kissell   2  2  2  0  3  1 45

The ReSporter: Coach Katie McWhorter has just completed her first year as Canyon Lake’s Girls Soccer and we would first like to congratulate you and your team for making the playoffs this season.

Give us your overall assessment of this season?

Coach McWhorter: “I am very proud of this season. My girls worked very hard, and despite some inexperience on the team and many injuries, we managed to come in third place in our district and make it to playoffs.”

The ReSporter: With so many players on your squad, tell us how this might be a great building block for future campaigns.

Coach McWhorter: “This season was my first at Canyon Lake, and I am definitely hoping that this season is the beginning of something special for Canyon Lake soccer. It will be hard losing our seniors, but I am looking forward to seeing the new crop of talent from the middle school, and also seeing my current girls develop into stronger, more skilled players.”

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These Stats are based on players with 7 or more innings pitched and 20 or more at bats.

 Batting Average            Runs                      Hits
 Cody Powell      .480      Kyler Huff       10       Michael Brady      21
 Michael Brady    .438      JJ Nance         10       Daniel Camarillo   13
 Peyton Sipila    .367      Logan Felch      10       Cody Powell        12

 RBI's                      Extra Base Hits           Base on Balls
 Michael Brady      13      Kyler Huff        7       Michael Brady      13
 Logan Felch        10      Logan Felch       6       Travis Walker      12
 Kyler Huff          8      Michael Brady     5       Kyler Huff          7

 Innings Pitched (IP)       ERA (earned run ave.)     Strikeouts
 Logan Felch      33.1      Tyler Vinson   1.00       Logan Felch        22
 Travis Walker    26.0      Travis Walker  2.96       Ryan Hutcheson     11
 Ryan Hutcheson   21.1      Logan Felch    3.81       Cody Powell        10

 Strikeouts to IP ratio     BB to IP ratio            Hits to IP ratio
 Kyler Huff      1.125      Logan Felch    .332       Tyler Vinson     .429
 Tyler Vinson     .857      Kyler Huff     .375       Travis Walder    .808
 Logan Felch      .664      Travis Walker  .423       Ryan Hutcheson   .853

At least this was not a ‘Heart’ breaker game, but it hurt just the same as Canyon Lake had pitching,

The Hawks Tyler Vinson

hitting and fielding woes all come to the same party at the same time in their loss to Fredericksburg, 12-6.

The Billies sent nine batters to the plate in that first inning giving CL a taste of what might happen, but then Canyon Lake also responded with five runs in their next two innings to take a one run lead and momentum.

Four of CL’s six hits were in those first two innings as they could only scrape across to more runs in this game.

Some very good defensive gems were also present at this party that turned bad.

JJ Nance had a great play in right field when he fielded a hard hit single and threw the first base runner out at second base.

Kyler Huff in centerfield also threw out a runner trying to advance to third in that first inning resulting in a double play on a fly ball out.

Nick Cahill then pegged a runner trying to score on a single at home plate and Catcher Michael Brady had the honors of tagging a Billie on the ear.

A double play started by SS Peyton Sipila in the second inning kept Fredericksburg at bay by letting Pitcher Ryan Hutcheson facing the minimum.

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