So far this season, it’s been a tale of two teams for Lake Travis (7-3).

The Lady Cavaliers have managed to play some gritty, determined games in which they’ve come out on top, and in their losses they fall behind early and never find a way back into the game.

Such was the case last weekend at the Cougarette Classic in New Braunfels, as Lake Travis wound up taking fourth overall, and split the games at 2-2.

When they were on, they held leads, went on scoring runs and separated when the opportunity presented itself. When they got in trouble, they did it early and never recovered.

Early in the season, there will be disparities in any basketball team between performances, but falling behind is something that the team has talked about thanks to losses to Belton and Westwood, and it was something the Lady Cavaliers were going to focus on avoiding heading into the tournament.

The Lady Cavaliers opened play on the first day of the tournament with a 63-56 win over Manor, a team that has consistently been a tough match up for them. But after winning their second round game, the Lady Cavaliers were pummeled by New Braunfels. The Lady Unicorns jumped out to a 32-14 first quarter lead sparked by their relentless defensive pressure, and cruised from there to a 77-50 win.

The tournament didn’t end the way Lake Travis would have hoped, either, as it fell in the third place game to New Braunfels Canyon 60-41, just a few weeks after beating the Cougarettes 52-51 to open the season.

Lake Travis now heads to the Tuloso-Midway Pride of Texas Tournament in Corpus Christi, as it does every year, and will hope the experience irons out the team’s wrinkles as it so often has in the past.

Lake Travis opens against Westwood on Thursday at 2 p.m., then plays Harlingen South at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, Flour Bluff at 5:30 p.m. Friday and Rockport at 9 a.m. on Saturday.