CL Hawk’s Water Polo Beat Johnson in Bi-District Play, 19-6
The Hawk’s had a good introduction to their Post-Season game after a solid win over Johnson, 19-6. With the next game a Area Round will take place in enemy territory, at the Westlake Aquatic Center this Thursday starting at 6:30pm.
Canyon Lake had an idea of what this Bi-District opponent would be after disposing this same team earlier this season, 21-8 for their first win of this season.
The Lake (7-4-1) will be facing a 6A Westlake team who are on a 14 game winning streak and ranked 8th in the State of Texas.
“The team played with a sense of both focus and energy today,” Head Coach Page Small started. “We had a plan for what we wanted to run offensively going into the game and Johnson did a great job disrupting our early efforts. Se we had to change a few things and adapt our offense to what the defense was giving us. Our boys did a great job of adjusting on the fly and that was a big difference in the outcome of this game.”
Hence CL finished that first quarter up by just one goal, 4-3 and after those adjustments the Hawks outscored this first round opponent, 15-3.
Goalie Greysen Patton had his best game with 15 saves which certainly helped after CLHS finished working out those offensive wrinkles and what turned out to be a comfortable victory.
Milo Martin-Rider and Levi Garner combined with 15 goals and 4 of the Hawks 9 steals in the win that helped on both sides of the pool.
Other Hawks came out of the woodworks seeing Jackson Alvarez scoring 2 goals. Chief Rendon and Dionysio Villavicencio finished high point with 2 assists a piece completing this dominant battle.
Canyon Lake finished this first round outscoring Johnson, 11-2 in that 2nd Half as the Jaguars could not find a consistent offense that could break through for any type of a run and possible upset chance.
This next round will be tough but not impossible as each game has seen a confident Hawk contingent still improving.
Austin Anderson (19-5-1) beat Johnson last week by this same score and right before that win Anderson was within 2 goals of tying Westlake (14-1) losing, 16-14.
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1 2 3 4 Final Johnson Buda 3 1 2 0 6 CL Hawks 4 4 5 6 19 Player Goals Assists Steals Saves Greysen Patton 0 0 0 15 Ryan Alvarez 1 1 0 0 Chief Rendon 1 2 1 0 Dionysio Villavicencio 0 2 2 0 Jackson Alvarez 2 0 0 0 Tristen Evans 0 1 2 0 Levi Garner 10 1 2 0 Milo Martin-Rider 5 0 2 0 Totals 19 7 9 15