Canyon Lake has now reached last year’s win total as the Hawks took care of the little things to win big over Austin Lanier Vikings, 7-3.

“Glad we got to three wins,” Head Coach Trent Dunavant dead panned. “Let’s don’t shut down main street for a parade just yet.”

Baseball is won more by doing little things within a game and when a team is successful in that execution, then a win will usually be a result.

“If you don’t hit the ball then your opponent can’t have fielding errors,” Coach Dunavant said eloquently. “We need to get on a roll to get things right and just win.”

Little things like hitting a ball and giving yourself a chance to have your opponent make a mistake. Lanier finished with seven errors in this game.

The Lanier Vikings did have some fielding problems and CL did what good teams are suppose to do when given gifts.

Open them!!

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 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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Canyon Lake Junior Varsity took care of Wimberley in their first District 27-3A game giving the Texans a long ride home, winning 6-4.

After a rough start in that first inning, Canyon Lake’s defense buckled down and did not commit another misplay allowing their bats to come alive and their pitchers finish off our neighbors to the north.

William Volz started the first inning having to adjust after some defensive miscues but that learning process is what will pay dividends as this season matures.

“I started pretty good,” Pitcher Volz said. “It kind of makes me think on what I need to work on…I was a little frustrated but then I just let it go and then tried my hardest.”

Volz was commenting on how he approached those first couple of innings while only having a texas leaguer as the biggest hit and no other ball scared the grass in the outfield.

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Canyon Lake continues strong run in Lockhart Tournament with another run rule win over Austin Travis, 12-0.

Pitcher Ryan Hutcheson was well in command in this affair without allowing a hit in his four innings of work.

Kyler Huff is on a good hitting pace so far this season as he ripped a triple in this game while driving in two runs.

Canyon Lake started this game on fire scoring five runs and ended up scoring in each inning as the Hawks are over the .500 mark for the first time in three years.

In baseball you need Pitching, Batting, and Fielding and in all three the Hawks got a passing grade.

Ten hits, no errors and a shut out will do wonders for your win-loss column.

Now Canyon Lake will play again in Lockhart at noontime and see about running their streak up to three games.

Wow…there are a lot of threes in this article. Congrats!

                 1  2  3  4   R  H  E
 Canyon Lake     5  2  2  3  12  8  0
 Austin Travis   0  0  0  0   0  0  4

 name              ab  r  h  bi 2b 3b bb so misc
 Daniel Camarillo   4  3  2  0  0  0  0  0  roe
 Corey Shedrock     3  1  1  2  0  0  0  0  roe
 Logan Felch        2  2  0  0  0  0  0  0  roe, hbp
 Travis Walker      1  0  0  1  0  0  0  0  sf, roe
 Tyler Vinson       1  1  0  0  0  0  1  0
 Michael Brady      3  1  1  0  0  0  1  0
 Ryan Hutcheson     3  1  1  0  0  0  1  0
 Kyler Huff         2  0  1  2  0  1  0  0
 JJ Nance           2  1  0  0  0  0  0  1  fc
 Daniel Reed        1  1  1  0  0  0  0  0
 Garrett Winters    1  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
 Conner Drum        1  1  1  2  1  0  0  0
 Cody Powell        0  0  0  0  0  0  1  0
 Totals            24 12  8  7  1  1  4  0

 Pitching          ip r  er h  bb so np  W  L
 Ryan Hutcheson    4  0  0  0  2  3  55  1  0

The Canyon Lake boys golf team made history on the links Thursday by winning

their first golf tournament in school history.

Led by Andrew Riali’s 77, the Hawks shot a team score of 224 to win the Navarro Panther Invitational by 5 strokes over Gonzales. The tournament was played at The Golf Club of Seguin.

Riali birdied his first hole of the day to get his round going and then followed that up with back-to-back birdies on holes 12 and 13. Andrew added 7 pars for his round.

Riali’s score of 77 placed him 6th among individual finishers.

Skyler Tschoepe shot 79 to finish tied for 7th.

His round included birdies on 5 and 13 to go along with 8 pars. Ralph Gonzales had his best finish of the season shooting 82 for the round. His scorecard tallied 9 pars including 7 in a row to finish his last 7 holes.

JJ Herrera showed great improvement by posting an 86 which included a birdie on number 1 to go along with 7 pars. Garrett Winters posted birdie on number 13 and added 2 pars for an 89.

The Hawks will try to continue their winning ways from this Panther Invitational on Monday, Feb 25 when they travel to Vaaler Creek in Blanco to take part in the Blanco Panther Invitational. Tee time is 9:00 AM.

Story by Head Coach Greg Norris.

Canyon Lake won their first game in the Lockhart Tournament on Thursday against

Austin Del Valle, 10-1.

“In other seasons we might have played down to our competition,” Head Coach Trent Dunavant started. “We played a crisp game and I was very pleased on how the players took care of business.”

An onslaught of six runs in the second inning put this game away early and also allowed Sophomore Cody Powell to throw strikes and let the Hawks play defense. Powell averaged a little over 12 pitches per inning.

“We wanted Powell to be in the 15 pitches are lower per inning,” Coach Dunavant said.

Defense came without any errors while CL benefitted from three errors by Del Valle.

Kyler Huff finished the day with three hits, three runs, two rbi’s, and one double.

Daniel Reed and Michael Brady also had doubles in this game.

With a three run 5th inning, the Hawks were able to run rule Del Valle which allowed Powell to go the distance.

That meant Canyon Lake could rest pitchers which will always a good thing for you first tournament of the season.

Now Canyon Lake will play again on Friday, with an early 10am start time. Austin Travis will be in that other dugout, then CL’s final game is Saturday against Austin Lanier with another game before lunch, 11:30 start time.

               1  2  3  4  5  R  H  E
 Del Valle     0  0  0  1  0  1  2  3
 Canyon Lake   0  6  0  1  3 10 10  0

 name               ab  r  h  bi 2b bb so  misc.
 Daniel Camarillo    2  1  0  1  0  0  0   sf, roe
 Cory Shedrock       3  0  1  0  0  0  0
 Logan Felch         3  0  1  1  0  0  0
 Travis Walker       3  1  1  0  0  0  0
 Tyler Vinson        3  2  1  1  0  0  0   roe
 Michael Brady       3  1  1  1  1  0  0
 Cody Powell         2  1  1  1  0  0  0
 Kyler Huff          3  3  3  2  1  0  0
 T.J. Jones          3  0  0  0  0  0  0   roe
 Daniel Reed         1  1  1  1  1  0  0
 Totals             26 10 10  8  3  0  0

 Pitching     ip  r  er h  bb so np  W  L
 Cody Powell   5  1  1  2  1  2  61  1  0

Canyon Lake Lady Hawks won a pivotal game Tuesday night against Seguin, 4-0 in what could be a landmark contest as this season continues.

To recap this district season, all you need to know is that Canyon Lake needs to beat one team to get them into a playoff spot.

Right now Seguin might be that odd team out which could usher your Hawks into a good situation and another ‘can win’ game with Wimberley might even secure that spot.

“We came out strong,” Head Coach Katie McWhorter started. “We scored our first goal within the first minute of the game.”

Whatever butterflies that might been around was soon a thing of the past as CL took that opportunity to play on the offensive side of the field for much of this night.

Sophomore Christy Fowler had her second hat trick of this season coming through and leading the way for her teammates.

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Play Ball!! Canyon Lake started their season against a solid 4A Marble Falls outfit and had a good

chance of pulling off an impressive win.

But that timely hit just did not find a spot on this field of play leaving a one run deficit to the Mustangs.

Speaking of timely hits, MF could only muster three and that last one happened to bring in three runs with a bases clearing double.

The fifth inning was a case where starter Logan Felch just ran out of gas and could not finish his outstanding start.

Felch had thrown just 11 balls through four innings and had 13 in the fifth giving the Mustangs an opening that was capitalized on.

“You can’t give freebies like that,” Head Coach Trent Dunavant said in responding to also having a MF batter reaching base by being hit by a pitch, loading the bases.

The Hawks have started their season with Marble Falls each year and this game was won by a very slim margin compared to past campaigns.

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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.

What is happening this week at Canyon Lake:

Feb. 18 Baseball     Marble Falls        @    Canyon Lake     6pm   Varsity
Feb. 19 Baseball     Canyon Lake         @    Marble Falls    5pm   JV
        Boy Soccer   Canyon Lake         @    Seguin          7:30pm
        Girl Soccer  Seguin              @    Canyon Lake     6pm
        Softball     Blanco              @    Canyon Lake     6pm
        Girls Golf   Navarro             @    Golf Club of Seguin TBA
Feb. 20 Tennis       Blanco Dual Match   @    Canyon Lake     4pm
Feb. 21-23 Baseball  Lockhart Tournament   Varsity
     21 Boys Golf    Navarro             @    Golf Club of Seguin TBA
Feb. 22 Baseball     Wimberley           @    Canyon Lake      5:30p JV
        Softball     Comfort             @    Canyon Lake      6pm
        Boy  Soccer  Canyon Lake         @    Dripping Springs 7:30pm
        Girl Soccer  Dripping Sprgs      @    Canyon Lake      6pm
Feb. 23 Girls Track                      @    Boerne           8pm
Feb. 25 Baseball     Lago Vista          @    Canyon Lake      6pm   Varsity
Feb. 25 Baseball     Canyon Lake         @    Lago Vista       6pm   JV
        Boys Golf    Blanco              @    Vaaler Creek     9am

The Hawks spring sports will be in full motion as all but Boys Track will have some live action this week.

This year’s Tennis Team has some deserving Athletes that you might want to get out and see as they will be playing Blanco in a dual match starting at CL’s Tennis Courts at 4pm.

The Girls Softball team will have two games at home this week as they will try to improve on their 3-3 record and explosive offensive start against Marion and the Navarro tournament last week.

Both Boys and Girls Soccer will be taking the field with the Boys playing in Seguin and Dripping Springs. The Girls will also mirror that schedule but will play at home. Both teams are 0-1 in District play and will look to get a win against Seguin. Both of these Districts will take four out of five teams to the playoffs so a win over the Matadors will go a long way in helping to cement that playoff spot.

Baseball will start their season with their season opening game at Hawk diamond this Monday night for the varsity. This will be a year where depth will finally be a reality for both Varsity and JV. The Varsity will then have a Tournament in Lockhart.

The JV will also be at home against Wimberley this Friday after a game in Marble Falls on Tuesday. This is another team that has tons of talent and would be a great time to see what type of future will be forthcoming.

The Boys Golf team has had a couple of outings so far this year and will be in hopes of lowering their scores. A good day two weeks ago and not so good last week. (such is life on the links)

Girls Track will be in Boerne to get some work in everything but their Relay teams. Coach Lacey Lambert will be in the process of seeing which girls might be able to get much needed points in the field and running events.

This past couple of years Canyon Lake has seemed to be able to have good Relay teams, especially that coveted Mile Relay event.