Canyon Lake lost a heartbreaker game in overtime to Bandera Bulldogs Friday night at the Hawk gym, 50-58.

Sharp Shooter Andrew Riali

“We battled our tails off,” Head Coach Lucas Chapman said. “To be down 15 points and believe we could get it done and get back in it was a great testament to this team.”

The Hawks had 25 turnovers in their last game in Fredericksburg and were on a mission to not let that happen again.

“We started taking care of the ball and our goal was to have 12 or less turnovers in this game,” Andrew “Dead Eye” Riali exclaimed.

Mission accomplished as CL finished with nine miscues in four quarters plus an overtime.

That was a key element as Canyon Lake started their comeback in the second half erasing a 15 point deficit in those last two quarters.

A 34 to 19 advantage in the second half with clutch shooting and lock down defense was a great combination for Canyon Lake as the home crowd helped pump adrenaline into this comeback.

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The Freshman Lady Hawks fought a tough game with Fredericksburg, but could not get that last basket for a win, 50-47.

“We came out slow and it all was very mental,” Coach Shannon Hoberer said. “Our focus was not great, but after halftime they calmed down and started to execute.”

Several players had key baskets and free throws down the stretch in staging an eight point comeback in that fourth quarter that helped delay the Varsity game due to only having three refs for this evening.

This Freshman game was called by one referee for almost the entire affair with reinforcements arriving with under two minutes in that critical fourth stanza.

Canyon Lake found themselves down nine and eight points in the second half before their last push that barely missed a perfect comeback.

In their earlier game, Fredericksburg blew out CL but that game was not as bad as those results garnered. The Billies had borrowed some JV players for the game when several players were sick for that game.

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Turnovers and missed free throws spelled the downfall for Canyon Lake against Fredericksburg in their loss, 35-28.

Canyon Lake’s defense was pretty salty, but the Hawks needed some pepper for their offensive game as another low scoring game could not save the game or season leaving a bad taste in their mouth.

This loss will force Canyon Lake in a corner needing to win every game on their schedule to make the playoffs now.

Katie Williams finished with 10 points and 14 rebounds but finding points was much like finding eggs at a Easter Egg Hunt during a January night for most of the Lady Hawks.

Hard to do.

The Hawks shot 100% in the third quarter, the problem is having only three shots for that quarter.

With 21 turnovers in those middle two quarters CL could not get any shots to help stage a comeback.

“We need to play a tighter man to man defense,” Head Coach Mary Beth Gallagher exclaimed. “The only chance we had to get back into the game was staying in our man defense.”

Canyon Lake will hit the road to Bandera this Friday to try and right this ship. Good Luck.

                   1   2   3   4   Final
 Fredericksburg    4  13   6  12   35
 CL Hawks          5   7   8   8   28

                           3pt            Pt Rebounds
 Name            fgm-fga fgm-fga ftm-fta Tot or-dr Tot a s b to
 Dulce Brown       0-0     0-0     0-0    0   0-1   1  0 0 0 3
 Hannah St. John   0-0     0-0     1-2    1   0-0   0  0 0 0 4
 Trena Lorett      2-2     0-0     0-4    4   0-0   0  0 0 0 6
 Katie Williams    3-7     0-1     4-6   10   3-11 14  3 0 0 6
 Amber Ramsey      1-4     0-0     1-4    3   3-6   9  1 4 4 3
 Tammy Dean        0-1     0-0     0-0    0   0-0   0  1 0 0 2
 Kyndall Drum      0-0     0-0     0-1    0   2-1   3  0 2 0 2
 Olivia Flores     2-9     2-6     2-2    8   0-3   3  1 0 0 5
 Kelsey Long       1-1     0-0     0-0    2   0-0   0  0 0 0 1
 Total             9-24    2-7     8-19  28   8-22 30  6 6 4 32
 Percentage       37.5%   28.6%   42.1%

Quarter  First      Second    Half   Third     Fourth    Half   Game
FG       2-10 20%   2-7 29%   24%    3-3 100%  2-4 50%   71%    38%
3pt FG   0-3  00%   0-1 00%   00%    1-1 100%  1-2 50%   67%    29%
FT       1-2  50%   3-7 43%   44%    1-2 50%   3-8 38%   40%    42%
TO       5          12        17     9         6         15     32

The Hawks could not grab enough momentum from their previous game with Navarro to put a scare on Fredericksburg, as Canyon Lake fell to the Billies by 17 points.

Caleb was the only Hawk to finish with double digit scoring finishing with 12 points in the loss.

Canyon Lake now faces a must win game this Friday at home when Bandera comes to town.

Game 1 2 3 4 Final
CL Hawks 11 6 8 12 37
Fredericksburg 13 14 16 11 54
Scorers:
Caleb Kreiger 12, Andrew Riali 7, Paul Davis 5,
Javier Mendez 4, Isaac Pruna 4, Chandler Faulkner 3,
Luke Curry 2.

Canyon Lake Freshman Basketbal team lost a tough battle in Navarro last week in overtime, 56-55.

Navarro has a good club, but a bad fourth quarter left little in their tank to win the game in overtime.

“Tavian Soliz went from wing to point guard early and drove the lane and made some plays,” Coach John Barthels commented. “Robert Woods got several offensive rebounds and easy put backs.”

Both players responded with their best game of this season, but more work will be done as this upstart team goes to Fredericksburg today with a game against the Billies.

                    1   2   3   4   OT   Final
 Hawk Freshman     13  11  21   6   4    55
 Navarro Freshman   7  15  8   21   5    56
 CL Scorers:
 T. Soliz 20, R. Woods 12, H. Lee 6, Z. Gregory 6, B. Ward 6,
 D. Head 4, J. Ferris 1.

Canyon Lake’s Girls and Boys basketball teams do not need to win every game on their schedule, but there will be some important games played by other schools that will have a say on how the Hawks will fare in finishing district.

The Lady Hawks are now embarking on their final run through district starting this Tuesday when they host Fredericksburg.

In District 27-3A play you have Navarro and Boerne who have separated from the other four schools.

Now it is up to CL to win enough games this second round to get a ticket for a playoff spot.

In the first round Fredericksburg won a pivotal game against Boerne which helps them greatly if they are break even with Wimberley and Canyon Lake to end this season.

Now your Hawks will need to win games with Wimberley, Fredericksburg, and Bandera in order to give them a chance for a playoff game.

What will put them squarely into a playoff game will reside in a win against either Navarro or Boerne. If they can pull that off in this round, then a 5-5 record will put them in a tie with either Wimberley and Fredericksburg.

If Wimberley loses to Navarro, Boerne, and CL, then they will also have that same 5-5 record, but a CL win over one of the two top teams would trump the Texans and give your Hawks an inside trek to a playoff spot.

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 Team                W    L    Pct.
 Fredericksburg      3    0  1.000
 Boerne              3    0  1.000
 CL HAWKS            1    2   .333
 Bandera             1    2   .333
 Wimberley           1    2   .333
 Navarro             0    3   .000

This Week's Games
 Tuesday January 22nd
 Canyon Lake    @    Fredericksburg
 Bandera        @    Wimberley
 Navarro        @    Boerne

Friday January 25th
 Bandera       @    Canyon Lake
 Wimberley     @    Navarro
 Boerne        @    Fredericksburg

Team Offensive   Points         Team Defense     Points
 Boerne          209            Fredericksburg   135
 Fredericksburg  189            Boerne           139
 Bandera         163            Bandera          170
 Canyon Lake     155            Canyon Lake      180
 Wimberley       153            Wimberley        183
 Navarro         129            Navarro          188

Individual District Scoring
 Name               Team            Points
 Aaron Shackelford  Bandera         49
 Paul Davis         Canyon Lake     48
 Maverick Harris    Boerne          48
 Jameson Turner     Boerne          45
 Ty Neff            Bandera         44
 Griffin McHone     Boerne          44
 Clayton Braden     Fredericksburg  40
 Colin Reyes        Fredericksburg  40
 Seth Linker        Wimberley       39
 Hunter Fries       Fredericksburg  39
 Andrew Riali       Canyon Lake     35
 Caleb Krieger      Canyon Lake     33
 Bradley Veselka    Boerne          33
 Slade Hudson       Navarro         26
 Desmond Smith      Navarro         22
 Brook Boatright    Navarro         22
 Preston Hernandez  Navarro         22

Canyon Lake halted their seven game losing streak with a 59-54 win over Navarro last Friday night in Panther country.

The Hawks last win was against this same team, Navarro in the Randolph Tournament over a month ago.

This win was also the first District win in over two years. Yes, CL won a forfeit game two years ago against SA Hawkins, but this was an actual win which certainly means more.

Canyon Lake’s last win in district was 24 games counting that forfeit win with Hawkins. You would go back to 26 district games, when the Hawks beat Ingram Moore, 81-73 February 9th, 2010.

Paul Davis was on for this evenings game scoring 25 points while Andrew Riali finished with 17 points.

Caleb Kreiger contributed 12 rebounds and four blocks to his resume. With his next block he will pass Neal Whitehead for the most blocks in Canyon Lake history, both players are tied with 41.

Another milestone could be passed in the Hawks game with Fredericksburg with Point Guard Doug Hubnik needing only five more assists to pass Matt Magness total of 136 in his recently completed career.

Hubnik continues to rack up assists with 103 for this season.

“It was a gut check win, exactly the type of win that we haven’t been able to get the past few years,” a relieved Head Coach Lucas Chapman said. “It was a great win and something we can really build on. It was good to finally get over that hump.”

The Hawks will now see what type of building they might be constructing when they face 19th ranked Fredericksburg Billies on their court tonight.

                      3pt           Pt  Rebounds
 Name       fgm-fga fgm-fga ftm-fta tot or-dr Tot  a s b to
 Riali        5-12    4-11    3-3   17   0-4   4   2 1 1 0
 Faulkner     1-5     0-0     3-4    5   2-2   4   1 0 0 0
 McIntire     1-1     0-0     0-0    2   0-0   0   0 1 0 0
 Davis        7-17    2-6     9-11  25   2-4   6   1 0 0 2
 Hubnik       2-6     0-0     1-3    5   2-2   4   4 1 0 2
 Kreiger      1-5     0-1     0-0    2   1-11 12   2 0 4 3
 Mendez       1-1     0-0     1-2    2   0-3   3   2 0 0 2
 Curry        0-0     0-0     0-0    0   0-0   0   0 0 0 1
 Pruna        0-0     0-0     0-0    0   1-0   1   0 1 0 0
 Totals      18-47    6-18   17-23  59   8-26 34  12 4 5 10
             38%      33%     74%

Lady Hawks had some good moments against one of the top teams in District 27-3A, but once the dam broke, Canyon Lake could not stop the onslaught as Navarro won going away, 55-34.

Canyon Lake went 10 minutes from the third into the fourth quarter without scoring a bucket while Navarro was scoring 20 points. In that time span, CL could not find any water in their lake and now find themselves needing to reverse this next half of district play with some wins.

The Hawks are not out of the race and if they can find that same feeling of wins from their non-district schedule, then anything can happen.

“We have not put together a full game yet this year,” Head Coach Mary Beth Gallagher said. “We are just not making the changes needed.”

Canyon Lake spent their first two minutes of the second quarter controlling the back board and getting to that foul line.

The result was three points and closing the deficit to four points. Another Canyon Lake seven point run had the Hawks with a lead, 18-17 with over three minutes still to play in the quarter.

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 Team              W     L     Pct.
 Navarro           4     1    .800
 Boerne            4     1    .800
 Wimberley         3     2    .600
 Fredericksburg    4     2    .667
 Canyon Lake       1     5    .167
 Bandera           0     5    .000

Friday Results: January 18th
 Navarro           55     Canyon Lake   34
 Fredericksburg    @      Bandera
 Boerne            63     Wimberley     41

Tuesday Games: January 22nd
 Fredericksburg    35     Canyon Lake   28
 Wimberley         @      Bandera
 Navarro           @      Boerne

Team Offense      Points        Team Defense        Points
 Navarro          294            Canyon Lake        250
 Wimberley        254            Wimberley          237
 Boerne           271            Boerne             221
 Fredericksburg   226            Navarro            217
 Canyon Lake      222            Fredericksburg     221
 Bandera          111            Bandera            206

Individual Point Totals (5 Games)
 Name                 Team          Points
 Shannon Thompson     Navarro       76
 Avery Queen          Boerne        76
 Kally Long           Wimberley     62
 Devon Branch         Boerne        49
 Allie Doucet         Billies       58
 Summer Sahd          Navarro       52
 Katie Williams       HAWKS         62
 Kiley Jones          Wimberley     46
 Abby Amick           Boerne        52
 Olivia Flores        HAWKS         50
 Taylor Stoever       Wimberley     42
 Sara Hancock         Navarro       48
 Andrea Besa          Nararro       39
 Amber Ramsey         HAWKS         38