Lake Corrects Spelling in Beating Ugalde, 47-7

Defensive Lineman Joseph Matos Padilla pursuit was relentless in Hawk’s win over Ugalde!
(photo by Daniel Clifton)

                        Let’s Go Hawks!

It was a tough week of work for a resilient Hawk team that had some soul searching after set-back against Somerset last week.

“The lessons we learned from last week..you know they say you learn more from a loss than a win,” Head Coach Sam Parker exclaimed after The Lake’s win over Ugalde. “Last week was humbling…the kids had a great week of practices and it showed..they did a great job preparing and it showed…and I couldn’t be more proud of our kids and how they responded from last week to this week.”

Canyon Lake started this game with a resolve, to the point,  of seeing that a misspelled Ugalde team needed a correction much like this Lake team did in preparing for this battle since leaving the Somerset city limits.

Last week’s loss would be akin for a Senior High School student not making it past the first round in a grade school spelling bee.

       Way to Make us Proud Hawks!

Yes, The Lake, found that Uvalde should actually be spelled, Ugalde and made their corrections all week in preparation for this Homecoming contest.

According to Wikipedia: Uvalde was founded in 1853 as the town Encina, but was renamed in 1856 as Uvalde. Its name is a misspelling of the Spanish governor Juan de Ugalde (Cadiz, Andalusia, 1729-1816). Ugalde is a name of Basque origin, meaning water-side or river.

Case in point was watching Canyon Lake needing 3 plays for their first score when QB Jace Wheeler found Peyton King with a crowning 67 yard catch and run for that first score. That catch matched a former receiver, Chase Anderson who was in attendance on this homecoming night. That 67 yards is the 12th longest in Hawk Annals.

                 Way to Go Lake!

The Lake’s defense was next up in holding these Coyotes to 4 yards and punt which gave CL’s offense the ball for a two play drive that was capped off when Chris Brown broke open for a 34 yard scamper to pay-dirt and a quick, 13-0 Hawk lead.

Ugalde did show life on their next possession but this sequence of plays stalled after 16 plays and CL taking over needing 72 yards.

Four plays later with an added 15 yard Ugalde penalty after a Gram Simpson 24 run had The Lake using a 26 yard pass to Lucas Schexnayder (Spelling Bee Champ Based on his name) for his first touchdown this season and a Hawk, 20-0 first quarter lead.

Canyon Lake scored on their first 5 possessions when Simpson scored on his 6 yard carry and he accounted for all 43 yards during this drive.

The only drives CLake failed to score happened before half and end of game that made a statement, that lessons learned were correctable.  This was CL’s best game showing a balanced offense  finishing with 211 yards on the ground and 203 via the air.

Now The Lake will have this next week off before getting back to work for a big battle with Davenport in two weeks.

The best news is knowing that CANYON LAKE is spelled correctly and hopefully this group of players can go further when the season will bring more learning opportunity for future spelling bees.

Way to GO LAKE!

           1  2  3  4   Final
Uvalde     0  0  0  7   07
CL Hawks  20 14  6  7   47
Scoring Summary:
CL-Peyton King 67 yard pass Jace Wheeler (run failed), 10:48, 1st
CL-Chris Brown 34 yard run (Jack Stracener kick), 8:26, 1st
CL-Lucas Shexnayder 26 yd pass from Wheeler (Stracener kick), 0:04, 1st
CL-Hayes Holladay 17 yard pass from Wheeler (Stracener kick), 8:37, 2nd
CL-Gram Simpson 6 yard run (Stracener kick), 4:00, 2nd
CL-Chris Brown 1 yard run (run failed), 7:22, 3rd
UC-Coyotes 4 yard run (pat good), 11:44, 3rd
CL-Chris Brown 1 yard run (Stracener kick), 6:10, 4th

Game Stats           Coyotes     Hawks
Total Yards          221         414
First Downs          12          20
Rush/Yards           45/182      30/211
Comp/Att/Inc         2/14/0      9/15/1
Passing Yards        39          203
Punts/Average        3/25.7      0/0
Fumbles/Lost         1/1         1/0
Penalties-Yards      4-26        6-40

Passing              Comp  Att  Pct   Yards  Int TD
Jace Wheeler         9     15  .600   203    1   3

Rushing              Att  Yds  Ave   Lg   TD
Chris Brown          11   91   8.3   34   3
Gram Simpson         11   74   5.7   30   1
Jace Wheeler          4   21   5.2   11   0
Hayes Holladay        1   13  13.0   13   0
Ryder Smith           2   11   5.5   13   0
Kobe Halverson        1    1   1.0    1   0
Totals               30  211   7.0   34   4

Receiving            No   Yds  Ave   Lg   TD
Peyton King           2   75  37.5   67   1
Kobe Halverson        3   60  20.0   25   0
Hayes Holladay        2   40  20.0   23   1
Lucas Shexnayder      1   26  26.0   26   1
Gram Simpson          1    2   2.0    2   0
Totals                9  203  22.6   67   3