Canyon Lake Lost Fourth Straight to Wimberley, 21-14
Canyon Lake Hawks suffered opening game loss to Wimberley, 21-14.
Canyon Lake struggled on both sides of the ball to start their, Battle of the Backbone, contest with Wimberley and eventual loss, 21-14.
Let’s GO HAWKS!!
“We had our chances,” Head Coach Charley Drum said. “We had a good effort and we will learn from it…we are not playing patsies and these type of games will prepare us for our district.”
Coach Drum finished, “We could not finish our drives and we got ourselves in a hole we could not overcome.”
Case and point defensively, it took the Texans 10 plays to go 79 yards as CL’s resistance on that first drive and CL was not strong enough to withhold a Wimberley team ranked 8th in Texas according to Dave Campbell’s Texas Football Magazine.
The airwaves was the biggest downfall during those set of downs. Wimberley had a pass play go 49 yards that converted a third down 9 yards needed and then another 23 yard pass that converted a fourth down and even CL benefitting with what could have been a series stop from penalties still had these visitors with a seven point lead with less than 4 minutes gone to start the game.
On The Lake’s first drive had two first downs before being stopped at the mid-field stripe. The Hawks had one explosive 19 yard run by Helijah Johnson but of those 7 plays there were 3 that went for negative yardage.
WHS had little trouble figuring out CL’s slot-t offense during those first two quarters holding the offense to 3 plays that went more than 3 yards and in those next 14 running plays not gaining more than 3 yards and 4 snaps resulting with a negative result.
Those plays the Hawks had more than 3 yard were from Helijah Johnson with two 19 yard jaunts and Ethan Schedlbauer with a 7 yarder. Even CL’s passing was miniscue with 3 completions totaling 12 yards.
Go Hawks & Beat Fredericksburg!!
Meanwhile, Wimberley took their second drive 98 yards and that was highlighted with a 67 yard run by the Texans Quarterback Cody Stoever and then another converted 4th down, this time going 3 yards and a 14 point lead with 32 seconds remaining in that first quarter.
To put this in perspective, Canyon Lake’s clock worked better than their offense. (For those not in attendance-the clock had to be turned off after difficulties to put it mildly)
However, there was a flash of good news when CL recovered a Texan fumble and three plays later Hunter Anderson’s quarterback draw worked to perfection for 54 yards down the home team’s sideline turning what seemed like what would be tough deficit to come back from to a seven point game at halftime, 7-14.`
“Yeah, that was a called play and our receivers did a good job and then Griffin Williams made a block that cleared for the touchdown,” Hunter Anderson recalled.
To start the second half, Wimberley would continued to award CL yards via an official’s flags. During those first two quarters there was 55 penalty yards and WHS was up to 45 more on that opening 2nd half drive. The Texans ended with 130 yards of penalties.
Let’s GO HAWKS!!
The Hawks were able to get to their 5 yard line before sending in Ethan Schedlbauer for a 23 yard field goal try. It was good but a time-out to avoid a penalty resulted in a miss on that next attempt. Nothing gained.
Johnson snagged his first interception on Texan’s next drive but the Hawks went backwards on their first two running plays and that moved the chains back to CL’s 1 yard line.
A 29 yard punt gave Wimberley a short field and then it took 3 plays to score what would be the winning touchdown with 4 minutes still to play in the 3rd Quarter.
The Lake would respond with their second touchdown on an 8 play drive covering 70 yards. The highlight had QB Hunter Anderson rolling left and then he motioned his twin brother to go long and a perfect pass and catch for 31 yards and brought CL back to a one score game, 21-14.
Both teams jarred back and forth before a Hawk final drive that was snuffed on a lost fumble after penetrating to Wiimberley’s 35 yard line.
With only one time-out left it would give, The Battle of the Backbone, trophy a home for another year on WHS’s campus.
Canyon Lake will take to the road at Fredericksburg where your Hawks will work on getting their running game back in gear.
Go Hawks!!
HAWK TIDBITS: Canyon Lake is 79-79 all time game record. Helijah Johnson broke 1000 yd rushing plateau needs 112 yds to pass Moss for 12th place. Canyon Lake is 59-12 when holding an opponent to 24 points or less. The Hawks have a 11-34 record when an opponent averages 6 yards or more rushing Canyon Lake is now 38-23 in home games. The Lake is 26-26 in games that are decided by 10 points or less. Canyon Lake has scored 122 touchdowns by pass and 357 by run all-time. **Go to instagram to hear thoughts from Hunter Anderson & Helijah Johnson. The ReSporter will use Twitter this season go to: Tweets by HilltopReSportr 1 2 3 4 Final Wimberley 14 0 7 0 21 CL Hawks 0 7 7 0 14 Scoring Summary: WT- Cody Stoever 5 yard run (Johnny Ball kick), 8:10, 1st WT- Cayden Heatly 3 yard pass from Stoever (Ball kick), 0:32, 1st CL- Hunter Anderson 54 yard run (Ethan Schedlebauer kick), 0:43, 2nd WT- Jack Boyle 6 yard pass from Stoever (Ball kick), 4:02, 3rd CL- Chase Anderson 31 yd pass from Hunter Anderson (Schedlbauer kick), 0:33, 3rd Team Stats Texans Hawks Total Yards 349 263 First Downs 12 16 Rush/Yards 30/180 39/159 Comp/Att/Int 11/15/1 9/18/0 Passing Yards 169 104 Punts/Average 2/39.5 5/35.6 Fumbles/Lost 1/1 1/1 Penalties-Yards 13-130 5-39 Passing Comp Att Pct Yds Int TD Hunter Anderson 8 17 .471 83 0 1 Helijah Johnson 1 1 1.000 21 0 0 Totals 9 18 .500 104 0 1 Rushing Att Yds Ave Lg TD Helijah Johnson 15 72 4.8 19 0 Hunter Anderson 9 54 6.0 54 1 Ethan Schedlbauer 8 25 3.1 7 0 Chase Anderson 4 5 1.3 8 0 Cole Cason 3 3 1.0 2 0 Totals 39 159 4.1 54 1 Receiving No Yds Ave Lg TD Chase Anderson 4 63 15.8 31 1 Hunter Anderson 1 21 21.0 21 0 Griffin Williams 1 9 9.0 9 0 Helijah Johnson 1 7 7.0 5 0 Ethan Schedlbauer 1 3 3.0 3 0 Marshall McConnell 1 1 1.0 1 0 Totals 9 104 11.6 31 1
