The Canyon Lake Girl’s Basketball team won their first district game in Bandera on Friday, 50-26, as Coach Mary Beth Gallagher emptied the bench in the runaway win.

“It was great to be at full strength again,” Head Coach Gallagher commented. “Everyone got involved which allowed us to see how we can play with a full bench.”

In a game played earlier this year at the Canyon Lake Tournament, the Hawks beat Bandera Bulldogs in a battle for third place. The score was 44 to 30, giving you the idea of how much CL has improved.

The main difference in the two games was the absence of Amber Ramsey her 12 rebounds and solid play with a new 1-2-2 defense.
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Since football is a derivative of school, The ReSporter will start this article from the Classroom.
All total Canyon Lake ended up with 18 student athletes leading all the other schools but State Champion–Wimberley.

 Hawk Football
 Academic All District
  2011 
 

Athlete        Class      G.P.A.

 Justin Monfils        Soph.           98.00
 Jake Robinson         Jr.             97.00
 Zach Henshaw          Sr.             96.66
 Jaaz McNair           Sr.             96.66
 Josh Robinson         Jr.             96.14
 Jeremy Best           Sr.             93.14
 Doug Hubnik           Jr.             95.14
 Matt Andress          Jr.             95.28
 Rob Klaerner          Sr.             95.14
 Elijah Montgomery     Sr.             95.00
 Brandon Berger        Sr.             94.85
 T.J. Gregory          Jr.             93.85
 Michael Brady         Jr.             93.14
 Branson Belcher       Jr.             93.00
 Matt Magness          Sr.             93.00
 McGuire Johnson       Soph.           92.85
 Chandler Faulkner     Jr.             92.57
 Travis Walker         Jr.             92.42
 Tyler Potts           Sr.             91.85
 Daniel Camarillo      Jr.             91.42
 Dylan Adams           Sr.             91.16
 Isaac Pruna           Jr.             91.00
 Alex Kemp             Sr.             91.00
 Eduardo Covarrubias   Jr.             90.85
 Jeremy Fulton         Sr.             90.80
 Casey Coffee          Jr.             90.00
 
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The ReSporter finally caught up with Jeff Maynard, the Head Coach for Canyon Lake Boys Basketball team.

The ReSporter: A 9-5 record so far this season….what are your thoughts on the progress the team has shown thus far?

Coach Maynard: “I am very pleased with where we are right now. This is the best start that we have ever had, and in all honesty we are a couple of possessions away from being 11-3. We still have a lot to improve on, but I am real proud of how our boys have approached the season thus far.”

The ReSporter: With this team it seems like you have a chance to sub any player at any time during a game and the talent level does not drop significantly. How will this dictate your game management?
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The stats below are missing two games this season.

 Points Scored       FG Pct               Free Throws Made           

 Magness     138     Nolan       .500     Magness        34
 Berger       94     Pearson     .444     Berger         24
 Noyola       61     Berger      .426     Belcher        12 

 Free Throw Pct      Three Points Made    Three Point Pct
 Davis       .750    Noyola      8        Bustamante     .500     
 Hubnik      .727    Berger      6        Noyola         .348
 Cook        .688    Magness     6        Berger         .333

 Offensive Rebounds  Defensive Rebounds   Total Rebounds
 Belcher     19      Magness     38       Belcher    49
 Cook        14      Hubnik      33       Magness    47
 Berger      13      Belcher     30       Berger     42

 Assists             Steals               Blocks
 Magness     25      Hubnik      21       Morel      6
 Hubnik      22      Cook        17       Nolan      4
 Berger      17      Magness     16       Belcher    4
                                          Cook       4

The score was much closer than what the final indicated, but the Hawks were in control for the game and beat a hapless Blanco by seven points.

Canyon Lake shot 41% from the floor the first three quarters, leaving Blanco with a furious comeback to make the game seem closer.

Six turnovers for the first half also helped the JV to secure another win.

Caleb Kreiger led the Hawks with 17 points while cleaning the glass with 14 rebounds. Kreiger almost had a double double in the first half.

Kreiger was helped with 11 points from Chandler Faulkner and seven points from Robbie Ferris.

Isaac Mendez helped with seven rebounds while dishing out two assists.

Everyone contributed in the game as Erik Ibarra was heard saying going to the bench, ‘I scored my first points of the year.’

“We had a lot of energy from this past week,” Ibarra interjected. “Crashing the boards and blocking out has helped with a good winning streak.”

The Hawks were up by 16 points in the second half while Coach Chapman allowed all the players to apply pressure on Blanco throughout the game.

The game was coached by Chapman as Coach David Bentzen had to leave early for his Christmas vacation.

When asked which Coach was the better tactician, the players were almost all in agreement and The ReSporter will leave the answer for the Coaches to deduce.

Merry Christmas!!

                            1   2   3   4   Final
 Canyon Lake    11  12  12  11    46
 Blanco          6   4  12  17    39
 
 
                    Total   3PT.                 Rebounds
 Name              FGM-FGA FGM-FGA FTM-FTA  PTS OR  DR  TOT  A  S  B  TO 
 Sam Seeger          0-0     0-0     0-0     0   0   0   0   0  0  0  0
 Chandler Faulkner   4-11    1-2     2-4    11   1   0   1   0  0  1  1
 Thomas McIntire     0-1     0-1     0-0     0   0   0   0   0  0  0  1
 Luke Curry          0-1     0-1     0-0     0   0   0   0   0  0  0  1
 Isaac Mendez        1-4     0-0     0-0     2   2   5   7   0  1  0  3
 Robbie Ferris       3-7     1-4     0-2     7   0   1   1   2  3  0  2
 Andrew Riali        1-2     0-1     0-0     2   0   0   0   0  0  0  0
 Chris Biediger      0-1     0-0     0-0     0   0   0   0   0  0  0  0
 Javier Mendez       1-4     0-0     0-0     2   0   2   2   2  3  0  1
 Caleb Kreiger       7-15    1-1     2-5    17   5   9  14   2  0  2  3 
 Tyler Clark         0-1     0-0     0-0     0   0   2   2   2  1  0  3
 Ray Dailey          0-1     0-0     2-2     2   2   2   4   1  0  1  3
 Erik Ibarra         1-1     0-0     1-2     3   2   0   2   0  0  2  0 
 TOTAL              18-49    3-9     7-13   46  12  21  33   9  8  5 18
 Percent            36.7%   33.3%   53.8%
 

 
 

 

The Canyon Lake Hawk’s (9-5) defense continued to shine as they continue to keep teams scoring in the 30’s. The result was a seven point win against the Blanco Panthers, 42-35 in a game played Monday night in Blanco.

The Hawks were also without their starting point guard, Doug Hubnik and reserve Paul Davis, which left Coach Jeff Maynard doing some shuffling with the lineup finding the best match-up against the Panthers.

“That is what we got to do, with (Doug) Hubnik sick and (Paul) Davis out of the country,” Head Coach Maynard said. “We knew this was going to be a battle and they (Blanco) get up to play us. It is another notch in their belt with them.”

Canyon Lake started the game like they had just left school for the holidays as their one for eight shooting left them with a balmy three points after the first quarter.
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The Canyon Lake Hawks swept the Gonzales Indians with all three boy’s teams

Tyler Clark drives for the basket as Andrew Riali and Chris Biediger look on

from Freshman to Varsity this past Friday as the School gets geared up for their Christmas holidays.

Varsity won 39-30, Junior Varsity won 38-20, and the Freshman doubled up the Indians 43-21 and all three were under control from the second quarter on.

Freshman will be first on our trek of recaps.

Canyon Lake Freshman 43 Gonzales 21

Gonzales came out smoking and led after the first quarter, 12-9 over the Hawks after starting with a little over 30% shooting from the court.

Fans did not know that the 12 points scored by our visitors would not be matched for the next three quarters as Canyon Lake (8-2) held the Indians to nine points the rest of the way.

“Our energy level was not where it needed to be,” Head Coach Lucas Chapman surmised. “We had a different defense and by pressuring the ball we got back into the game.”

Canyon Lake outscored Gonzales 25 to 3 for the middle quarters as starters and bench players had little difference in their skill set as wave after wave of Hawks kept the Indians hiding in their TeePees.

“We started focusing and finishing our shots and playing better defense,” Guard Tommy Clark said. “A couple of times we were crowding the three point line, but we started passing the ball a lot and that helped.”

Garrett Winters was perfect from the field as he connected on all his shots from the field and free throw line for a 12 point night.
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Canyon Lake improved to 7-3 on the year as they subdued the Comfort Bobcats, 37-20 at the Comfort gym last Tuesday night.

The Hawks took a little longer to get going as they led by just six points at halftime, 17-11. The good news was Comfort’s shots were colder than Canyon Lake’s on this warmer than usual December night.

“We played great defensively,” Head JV Coach David Bentzen said. “We ran our offense great and had great shots, we just have to start making them.”

The 33 percent shooting had to be a hard thing to watch from the bench for Coach Bentzen, but there were a few players that had a decent game.

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Canyon Lake Boys Basketball improved their record to 7-5 after dominating Comfort, 49-17 last Tuesday night in Comfort.

The win matched the total number of wins Canyon Lake had last season and this before district games starting up.

The Hawks were in control for the entire game as the defense clamped down so hard on Comfort that it became unCOMFORTable for the home team.

“I thought we played really well tonight,” Head Coach Jeff Maynard said. “It was nice to see the boys rebound from a tough loss on Saturday and execute defensively like we did. When you hold any team to three points in a half, that is great defensive effort.”

Brandon Berger was high point with 12 while Matt Noyola made two three pointers and finished with eight points.

Canyon Lake had not been converting their free throws for the last few games and on this night made eight from the charity stripe at a 73% rate.
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Ty Zunker and Austin Wilkinson and five other Seniors giving it all on the Gridiron.

The ReSporter finally got a hold of the BCS Head Football Coach…wait…wait..

The BCS Head Football Coach was having withdrawals and called The ReSporter to talk football and The Resporter now has a story to share about this season and the season to come.

First off the Seniors have left a resume that will be pretty hard to top. They ended their football career with a 44-6 record, with a winning percentage of .880.
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