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.

Canyon Lake began their Dash/Run around the track last night at Blanco Track Meet.

There are several athletes that have a chance in having some good results by the time April rolls around.

Junior Hannah Graves should be in that mix as she had an opportunity to participate in the Regional Meet in Corpus Christi last year as a Sophomore in the 800 Meter Run.

Graves ran a 2:36.25 in that meet trying to qualify for the finals. She had a best of 2:27.78 during her season and if Graves can improve, then a chance for meets later in the season is in her future.

“I felt really good,” Graves started. “With it being cold, I was surprised on how I felt going into my race.”

Graves will also be trying to increase her work load this season as she also runs the 400 Meter Dash and will add a Relay to her repertoire.

“I had a good pace but I really want to build my speed and running the 400 should help my 800,” Graves said strategically.

Distance runner or Dash runner, Graves will be on both sides of that fence as Track terminology seems to mention anything under a 800 Meter run as a Dash and any run over that distance will be classified as a Run.
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Canyon Lake (5-2) split their two games to open the Comal Tournament yesterday at Hawk Diamond.

Once again this Hawk team is starting to show that depth might be able to give CL a chance for each game they play.

Logan Felch is the ace of this bullpen and will only see a couple of innings due to a start against Fredericksburg next Tuesday night to open District 27-3A play.

Usually that would mean a drop off for other games due to depth problems on the mound.

Ryan Hutcheson took his first loss with giving up two runs and two hits to Lehman in the first game.

“We had costly error and stranded some runners,” Head Coach Trent Dunavant said. “Did not play badly but we just could not seem to get that timely hit.”

Canyon Lake had three hits but the most glaring number in this loss were those three errors.

It was a different story in CL’s game with El Paso Parkland as they scored in every inning but one and amassed 12 hits in this win.

Take the more important number and you will really make sense with this victory, one error.

Senior Travis Walker pitched a gem in this contest as he scattered six hits while giving up only three runs.

Meanwhile in the other dugout Canyon Lake found their real bats and had several extra base hits to bury the EP Matadors.

“We played really well in this game,” Coach Dunavant commented.

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CL Hawks Boys Soccer team has been sent home after their last game in Wimberley last Tuesday after fighting but coming up short in the 2-0 loss.

“I thought we played well,” Head Coach Miguel Albrecht said. “We had a couple of chances but could not finish them, we made two mistakes on defense and they scored.”

Canyon Lake will now have a chance to see if home cooking might be the answer to turning around this season.

“Our next four games will be at home and we are looking forward to playing at home again,” Coach Albrecht finished.

Canyon Lake played all of their first round of District games on the road and now have a chance of turning around this season playing at home for the next month.

Good Luck and let your Mom make you some great meals to help in getting us some wins.

               1  2  3  4  5  6  7   R  H  E
 Canyon Lake   2  0 10  0  2  2  0  16 14  7
 Luling        0  2  0  0  4  4  1  11  6  9

 name           ab  r  h bi 2b hr bb so misc
 A. Robinson     5  0  2  0  1  0  0    fc, hbp
 M. Beseda       4  0  2  1  0  0  0    sb 2
 L. Daily        5  0  3  1  1  0  0    sb
 K. Ahrens       3  0  2  0  0  0  2
 B. Young        5  1  3  6  1  1  0    roe
 C. Riccio       3  0  1  0  0  0  2    roe
 L. Sander       3  0  0  1  0  0  0    roe
 L. Henderson    2  0  0  0  0  0  0    hbp
 V. Henderson    2  0  1  1  0  0  0
 K. Jones        2  0  0  0  0  0  0    fc, hbp
 C. Rider        2  0  0  0  0  0  0    roe
 B. Hemphill     1  0  0  0  0  0  1
 S. Alexander    1  0  0  0  0  0  0
 ** Stats above are not complete. Runs/Strikeouts are not complete.

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Track Season will open today in Blanco Stadium at 3:30pm.

Canyon Lake has been more consistent and competitive in Track than any other sport.

The Hawks have finished 2nd in District Meet the last two seasons and will be wanting to continue that trend as this season gets into the starting blocks.

Track season cannot be mentioned without mentioning Senior Jordan Anderson who can many times be worth 40-50 points per meet.

This young man scored 48 points in last year’s District Track Meet and will look to continue to be that athlete trying to best previous marks.

To put this in a different motif, Anderson scored 48 points and Bandera had 42 in last year’s District 27-3A Track Meet.

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Canyon Lake Tennis has also started their season and these are the results from the

Fredericksburg Tournament on February 14th.

Taylor Irby and Jordan Paty were Consolation Champs in Boy’s Doubles.

Jarrett Schech was Consolation Champ in Boy’s Singles.

Rebecca De La Cruz and Kayla Burh were Consolation Champs in Girl’s Doubles.

Shelby Merritt and Sarah Jones finished in 3rd for Girl’s Doubles.

Hailey Jones was Consolation Champ for Girl’s Singles.

Abby Andress finished 2nd in Girl’s Singles. (not pictured)

Canyon Lake has a four game winning streak after an ugly win over Lago Vista

Vikings after their 1-day delayed affair at the Hawk Diamond.

The game that was scheduled for Monday night was postponed by wind and CL continued this season by settling in on a four game win streak which has not happened since, since, well it has never happened.

This is now the longest streak of this sort since two three game winning streaks during their 2010 season. A season that was climaxed with a trip to Harlingen and one batter short of a third round opponent.

“We need to work on our mental toughness and we’ve got to focus,” Head Coach Trent Dunavant said. ”

The Vikings opened up their first inning with a towering home run by Mason Ornales who would also finish off this game with another shot over that same left field fence in the seventh inning.

Both home runs were solo shots, but good hits all the same.

The Hawks responded in their bottom of the first when lead off hitter Garrett Winters walked and eventually scored when Logan Felch knocked him in two batters later.

Travis Walker reached base on an error and then with two runner on Michael Brady broke out of a mini slump with a double scoring both runners. Brady would end with two hits.

Hitting machine, Kyler Huff then did likewise with a double scoring the fourth run knocking in Brady.

Huff has been on a tear this season from the plate and does not seem to be letting up.
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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

Thanks to Head Coach Greg Norris for story:

The Canyon Lake boys golf team battled the winds and tough golf course at Vaaler Creek in Blanco on Tuesday to shoot 382 placing 4th in the 18 team event.

With winds gusting over 50 miles an hour at times it made the conditions exceptionally brutal.

New Braunfels Canyon placed first at 370, Wimberley shot a 372 and New Braunfels was third with 379.

On a day where pars were very few and far between the day was one of survival.

One of those players that survived these conditions was the Hawk’s Sophomore Garrett Winters who shot 84 which put him on the leaderboard in 2nd place. Marion’s Robert Giesecke shot 83 to lead the field.

Winters scorecard included 1 birdie and 7 pars over the par 72 layout.

JJ Herrera finished with a 95, which included a birdie on number 1 and 2 pars. Senior Ralph Gonzales shot 96 which included one par. Andrew Riali rounded out the scoring for the Hawks with a 106.

Skyler Tschoepe had to withdraw after 10 holes after sensing pain in the shoulder.

The Hawks will return to action next Wednesday when they will travel to Quicksand GC in Wimberley.