One truism you can take from Softball Tournament games when starting out your season is a team does everything they can to see all of their players.

Hence the third place finish in their pool is not a bad circumstance based on when Coaches are searching for that diamond that might come out in game situations.

The Lady Hawks lost their first game with Poteet, 10-5 but rebounded quite well when they squashed Luling for their final contest, 17-2.

Also note that if CL is working on giving pitchers time in the circle, then you have to surmise that other teams are working on finding those same ‘diamonds’ for their clubs.

Kelsey Ahrens and Cameron Berger both got some circle duties on Saturday as Head Coach John Gallagher is searching for some answers there as well as in the field as several players had an opportunity to show off.

Canyon Lake is sprinkled with many Freshman and Sophomores this year, but it might be those Seniors that will supply the leadership needed by word or action.

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Super Fan Mr. Bill Phillips can be seen at almost all of Canyon Lake’s venues

cheering on young athletes in many fields.

You have seen him, he has that special place in the Hawk Gymnasium, up behind the student section, or walking up to a press box during a football game, or how about seeing Phillips hanging out at countless Baseball and Little League games.

“I played Junior High Softball because there was no baseball at my school,” Mr. Bill started. “With both of my brothers, we played every sport.”

So going back to Junior High days the seed had been planted and now you have ‘Super Fan’ still showing his support for athletes in the Canyon Lake community.

Just sitting by Bill and watching a game will give you wisdom as you listen to all of his recollections of games from the past.

Not to mention his countless one liners that are lined up inside his mind like every Baseball Coach would be preparing a line-up card.

Coaches know him as ‘Bill’ and seeing him at all of their games does not go unnoticed.

“My Dad played semi-pro baseball back in 1938 when we moved down to Houston,” Mr. Bill continued. “I have been around the kids watching them play and grow with all of their skills and attitudes.”
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Canyon Lake Softball team won their first game in the Navarro tournament on Thursday with a No-No, when Alexis Robinson pitched to start her promising career.

A Freshman that can pitch a no-hitter in her first game speaks well for Coach John Gallagher’s sleeping for the next four years.

The game was won 9-0 over Stockdale while CL also showed that they might have some pop in their bats.

Missy Romero started her Sophomore campaign with a Perfect Game on February 18, 2010, over Vandergrift, 5-0. Now, the baton has been passed as Robinson begins this season in like manner.

Last night the Lady Hawks beat Marion 13-7 after being up 10-0 going into the later innings.

More information will be forthcoming as Canyon Lake continues their week-end with two games today at Huber Ranch in the last day of Navarro’s Tournament.

Games today will be played at 12:15 and possibly 3:50 Saturday afternoon.

Canyon Lake JV dominates Llano in their last scrimmage before the season starts next week.

Llano only had three pitchers for this scrimmage and that left Canyon Lake taking the field for an extra two frames just so Coach Brian Owens could get enough work from his six pitchers.

What Coach Owens saw was another dominating performance from several of his players on the mound as strikes and defense kept Llano without a run until their last at bat.

Look at these numbers from four Hawk pitchers:

 name       ip  r  er h  bb so balls/strikes
 Headrick    2  0  0  0  0  3      9/18
 McCleary    2  0  0  3  1  3     11/23
 Volz        1  0  0  0  1  1      5/11
 Kissell     2  0  0  0  3  3     21/16

As the night progressed so did the wind and temperature as the last inning was a numbing affair.

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The Canyon Lake JV ended their season in Bandera after suffering an anemic fourth quarter losing, 51-39.

That 12 point difference was much closer as the game was still within reach as Bandera started the last quarter up by two points, 34-32.

“We were able to keep it close for three quarters,” Coach Brian Hooper stated. “The biggest reason why the game got out of hand in the fourth, was in giving up to many rebounds.”

“Three possessions in a row Bandera had multiple shots on offense that led to easy buckets, and we couldn’t respond,” Coach Hooper closed. “Bandera had a big physical line up that wore us down in the fourth.”

Garrett Winters led all Hawk scorers with 12 points and Sean Nolan missed double digits with nine.

            1   2   3   4   Final
 Hawks JV   6  16  13   4   39
 Bandera    8  14  15  14   51

Garrett Winters 12, Sean Nolan 9, Skyler Tschoepe 7, Austin Acosta 4,
Dave Pfaff 3, Qurion Banks 2, Scott Taylor 2.

by Coach Barthels

Canyon Lake started off slow, but great defense in the 2nd and 3rd quarters along with a strategic well played 4th quarter of scoring helped the CLHS Freshmen have a come from behind victory last night in Bandera, 45-43.

Trailing the entire game and down by seven early in the 4th, the Hawks mounted their comeback.

Scoring a quick four points off of steals by Hayden Lee and Joe Arredondo who found Brandon Ward streaking down the court for two uncontested lay-ups and a crucial 3 pointer by Justin Ferris, his only points of the game, tied it at
41.

The lead never belonged to the Hawks until their was 5.2 seconds left and Hayden Lee drew the defense into him and made a great pass to a streaking Mason Montgomery for a lay-up and the game winner.

With a turn over on the inbounds play the Hawks were able to get the ball back into Hayden Lee who was fouled for a 1 and 1. Missing the freethrow and placing everyone back to play defense had the Bandera Bulldogs driving down to the opposite end of the court forcing a three point shot over the back board sealing the victory for the Hawks.

Nine of the 12 Hawks that were dressed scored points, but even those that did
not score made great passes down low to the posts who were able to put up
25 points in the paint.

Big rebounds by Dalton Head, Hayden Lee, and Robert Woods will be a stat that gets over looked, but they all played a crucial role in sealing a victory and getting chances for the Hawks to set up the offense.

Canyon Lake finished the season 9-14 and 2-8 in district play,”We
played in several close games this year that we were not able to come out on
top in, this victory was a great way to end the season, I am proud of our
team for all of the hard work they put in this season,” Coach John Batthels closed.

             1   2   3   4   Final
 CLHS        6   9  13  17   45
 Bandera    13   9   8  12   43
 Leading Scorers:
 Robert Woods 12, Brandon Ward 8, Hayden Lee 7, Zach Gregory 6, Sam Langford
 3, Justin Ferris 3, Joe Arredondo 2, Zach Sawyer 2, Mason Montgomery 2

It’s hard to believe that the 2012-13 Swimming season is coming to an end. It has been a great year for Canyon Lake with plenty to be proud of. A few of the highlights include:

– School records were broken over 30 times this season with at least 8 being set at the Region VII 4A Championships.

– The boys placed 3rd at District and 11th at Regionals and the Girls placed 6th in District and 16th in Regionals. All of these were the highest the team has ever finished in each category.

– The boys won the Burnet TISCA 4A & Under Team Championship in December. The first time any CLHS Swim Team had won an invitational meet.

– Over the course of the season we faced no less than 75 different teams (3A, 4A, 5A and private schools) with the boys teams defeating over 82% of them and the girls over 65%.

-The following swimmers qualified for 28-4A ALL-DISTRICT Honors:

All District 28-4A 1st Team
 Christian Duarte   - 100 Backstroke, 400 Free Relay
 Cam Stone          - 200 Freestyle,  200 Freestyle Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay
 Christian Payne    - 400 Freestyle Relay
 Conor Martin       - 200 Freestyle Relay
 Tommy Jordan       - 400 Freestyle Relay, 200 Freestyle Relay
 Kelton Myers       - 200 Freestyle Relay

All District 28-4A 2nd Team
Ariel Lessard      -200 Medley Relay,400 Freestyle Relay,200 Freestyle,100 Butterfly 
Tressa Vannella    -200 Medley Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay, 100 Backstroke,500 Freestyle
Sharon Alexander   -200 Medley Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay,
Bianca Cruz        -200 Medley Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay,
Christian Duarte   -200 Medley Relay, 500 Freestyle
 Christian Payne   -200 Medley Relay, 100 Butterfly, 100 Breaststroke
 Conor Martin      -200 Medley Relay
 Kelton Myers      -200 Medley Relay
 Tommy Jordan      -100 Freestyle
 Doris Schneider   -500 Freestyle

All District 28-4A Honorable Mention
 Sharon Alexander  -200 Freestyle Relay, 100 Breaststroke
 Bianca Cruz       -200 Freestyle Relay
 Doris Schneider   -200 Freestyle Relay
 Nina Davis        -200 Freestyle Relay, 500 Freestyle
 Conor Martin      -500 Freestyle

Thank you all for your support of the program! We could not have been as successful
without everyone behind us. Coach Lee Willing

The Hawk Varsity Baseball team had a satisfactory scrimmage at Burnet last Tuesday night.

Yes, this was a scrimmage meaning that you don’t have a winner or losing team, but after having two years where everything that could go wrong going wrong, then The ReSporter will give your Hawks the win last evening.

“The game went good last night,” Head Coach Trent Dunavant said. “We would’ve won if this would not had been a scrimmage.”

Canyon Lake had two glaring problems in the past two campaigns: Pitching and fielding would be those nagging weights that bogged down this team in the past.
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Canyon Lake Golf team finished 11th place out of 19 teams in the Matador Classic last Monday with a

368 score at the Starcke Park Golf Course.

Once again the CL Hawks played in a tournament of several 4A and 5A schools.

Sophomore Garrett Winters scored an 87 leading the team followed by Andrew Riali (90), Ralph Gonzales (95), Skyler Tschoepe (96), and JJ Hererra (100).

The scores are added for the top five on each team for that final score.

One key note is how well Weimer a class A school did in this tournament. Two teams and both were in the top six schools participating.

    Scores   Team                  Classification
  1. 309     Smithson Valley            5A
  2. 312     Weimer 'A'                 1A
  3  326     Judson                     5A
  4. 327     Steele                     5A
  5. 334     New Braunfels              5A
  6. 339     Weimer 'B'                 1A
  7. 342     East Central               5A
  8. 344     Gonzales                   3A
  9. 351     Seguin Gold                4A
 10. 360     St. Mary's Hall TAPPS
 11. 368     CANYON LAKE                3A
 12. 373     Brandeis                   5A
 13. 383     Seguin Black               4A
 14. 393     Roosevelt                  5A
 15. 396     San Marcos                 5A
 16. 411     Highlands                  4A
 17. 415     Lockhart                   4A
 18. 419     Yoakum                     3A
 19. 476     Stevens                    5A

Canyon Lake could not even scare the basket in the first quarter as both teams combined for eight points, as the Hawks ended another season on a down note, losing 40-31 to Bandera.

Falling in love with the three point shot did not help matters as CL shot a dismal 12% from beyond the arc and those outside shots also resulted in only four free throws in this game.

Caleb Kreiger finished his season with 15 points and 9 rebounds on top of many records for his career played in just one season.

 Kreiger Finishes:
 1st   Rebounds           218
 1st   Blocks              59
 3rd   Points Scored      406
 5th   Made Free Throws    72

Other Hawk Players and Career Records:
 1st   Assists            Doug Hubnik     151 season 187 career
 2nd   3pt Goals          Andrew Riali     62
 4th   3pt Goals          Paul Davis       34
 4th   Steals             Doug Hubnik      62
 4th   Made Free Throws   Doug Hubnik      80

Canyon Lake will now go to work on trying to climb back into their district race for next year as both the Freshman and Junior Varsity will have several players ready to step in for these departing Seniors.

Seniors playing last game:
Doug Hubnik; Caleb Kreiger; Paul Davis; Chandler Faulkner; Isaac Pruna;   
Ray Dailey; Robbie Ferris; Thomas McIntire; Spencer Wellings

            1   2   3   4   Final
 CL Hawks   2  11  10   8   31
 Bandera    6  13  15   6   40

                             3pt           Tot Rebounds
 Name              fgm-fga fgm-fga ftm-fta pts or-dr tot a  s  b  to
 Andrew Riali        3-14    2-11    0-0    8   3-1  4   0  2  0  1
 Robbie Ferris       0-1     0-1     0-0    0   0-0  0   0  1  0  0
 Chandler Faulkner   0-2     0-0     0-0    0   0-1  1   1  0  0  0
 Thomas McIntire     0-0     0-0     0-0    0   0-0  0   0  0  0  1
 Paul Davis          2-12    1-7     0-0    5   0-6  6   1  2  0  2
 Doug Hubnik         0-6     0-1     0-0    0   0-3  3   5  3  0  1
 Tyler Clark         1-2     0-1     0-0    2   0-0  0   0  1  0  0
 Caleb Kreiger       7-15    0-3     1-2   15   2-7  9   0  1  0  4
 Javier Mendez       0-0     0-0     1-2    1   3-1  4   2  2  0  3
 Ray Dailey          0-0     0-0     0-0    0   0-0  0   0  0  0  0
 Isaac Pruna         0-1     0-0     0-0    0   1-2  3   0  1  0  1
 Totals             13-53    3-24    2-4   31   9-21 30  9 13  9 13
 Percentages        24.5%   12.5%   50.0%