Canyon Lake’s Freshman squad did not have a good game in their loss to Navarro last night.

Last time these two squads met, it was a great comeback but an overtime loss to this same group of players.

Apparently, Navarro was allowed to put their Superman Cape on as the Panthers took a nine point lead in that first quarter and were never threatened for the rest of the evening.

“We turned the ball over too many times in this game and once again lost our composure when the pressure was on,” Coach John Barthels said. “We did play a good fourth quarter when I asked them to step up and get after it.”

Sounds like their might have been some frustration for the Hawks as the proverbial ‘Snowball’ going down hill syndrome.

“We still have a lot of things to get better at before the end of the season,” Coach Barhels said with resolve. “We will see what kind of fight we have left in us as we play the best team in our district as far as pressure goes this Friday with Fredericksburg’s press.”

It sounds like Coach Barthels has laid the ground work on what practices will be encompassing for the rest of this week.

That third quarter four point outburst will need to be corrected and then a turnaround might be forthcoming.

Come out and support the Hawks for their last game at home for this basketball season.

                    1   2   3   4   Final
 Navarro Freshman  19  15  19   8   61
 Hawks Freshman    10  14   4  13   41
 Scorers:
 Joseph Arredondo 11, Brandon Ward 9, Hayden Lee 8,
 Robert Woods, Mason Montgomery, Tavion Soliz 2,
 Sam Langford 1.

Canyon Lake JV basketball team swatted the Panthers around in their victory last Tuesday night in the Hawk gym.

“We have been on a skid the last seven games,” Coach Brian Hooper said. “Overall our press helped us in getting turnovers and got our offense going.”

Seven blocks recorded by five different players pretty much told Navarro that weak stuff was not going to be allowed as Canyon Lake controlled the boards with nine offensive rebounds and 37 total rebounds.

All but one player had at least one rebound and no player dominated the boards. A truly team effort as CLJV rushed out to a 10 point lead after that first quarter finishing with their 15 point margin of victory.

Sean Nolan was a recipient of a match-up offense as Navarro had no one who could body up to this 6’5 220lb mountain man underneath.

“We wanted to get Sean (Nolan) to work on finishing,” Coach Hooper said like a proud father.

In that final quarter Nolan’s longest shot was right under the rim, in fact all of his shots were right under the rim, hence only missing one shot for the game.

On having the offense isolating Nolan underneath in the fourth quarter Nolan commented, “Somewhat, because they (Navarro) don’t have any players my height and I was telling my teammates, Navarro had no one to match up with me,” Nolan said from his mountaintop.

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Lay ups can be one of the most mystifying shots in the heat of battle for basketball games.

Many times shots go in and out or just bounce the wrong way and when you add up those shots then you know that a game was well within your reach to come away with a victory, IF….if we only had those shots go in…

“We talked about turnovers during halftime,” Head Coach Lucas Chapman started. “When a team is not even pressing and you have 11 turnovers in a half….turnovers just diminish your chances of scoring.”

“Our turnovers were also timely ones,” Lucas also stated. “We have to come out and play with energy and tenacity and we just did not get that done.”

Canyon Lake was still right on that door step of taking a game against Navarro, but a missed lay-up here and an untimely turnover there will add up many times in giving way too many gifts to your opponent netting a loss.

The Hawks rebounded from a 13 point deficit to close to within two points late in the fourth but just could not find a way to get that shot in a loss to the Panthers, 45-40.

Canyon Lake has not had a warm reception at home with another loss and a 3-10 record.

That last home win was during the Canyon Lake Tournament a 48-47 win over Somerset, December 7th, 49 days and seven games ago.

Speaking of streaks, CL went over a quarter of playing time without scoring a point. The Hawks took a 12-10 lead and when they scored again with 1:05 left in the second quarter, Navarro enjoyed 14 unanswered points.

Without Spencer Wellings two buckets the quarter would of been a shut-out.

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Hoops Talk

Canyon Lake Girls will be playing their last game of this season tonight and there will be some sad times as four players will be playing their last contest.

Tammy Dean who has started a few games but more often than not, Tammy has come in to spell other guards and play some hustle defense.

Hannah St. John has been injured some this year, but also is one of those guards that has had some good offensive and defensive skills these past few seasons for the Hawks.

St. John is tied for fifth place in three point shots made with Amber West.

Kelsey Long has been an important post and wing player this season giving some important minutes on both sides of the court.

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Games from District Top Three

Girls                       Points         Boys
Katie Williams       95                    Caleb Krieger      96
Olivia Flores        70                    Andrew Riali       85
Amber Ramsey         53                    Paul Davis         75

                           Rebounds
Katie Williams       79                    Caleb Krieger      54
Amber Ramsey         77                    Andrew Riali       34
Kyndall Drum         34                    Paul Davis         27

                            Assists
Amber Ramsey          9                    Doug Hubnik        40
Katie Williams        8                    Caleb Kreiger       9
Olivia Flores         8                    Paul Davis          6

                             Steals
Amber Ramsey         29                    Doug Hubnik         9
Katie Williams        9                    Javier Mendez       8
Dulce Brown           7                    Andrew Riali        5
                                           Paul Davis          5

                           3Point Goals
Olivia Flores        12                    Andrew Riali       24
Hannah St. John       3                    Paul Davis          8
Katie Williams        2                    Caleb Kreiger       4

                         Free Throws Pct.
Amber Ramsey      9/14 .643                Chandler Faulkner   8/9  .889
Olivia Flores    24/39 .615                Andrew Riali        7/9  .778
Katie Williams   25/41 .610                Paul Davis         19/29 .655

                              Blocks
Amber Ramsey         14                    Caleb Kreiger        21
Katie Williams        9                    Doug Hubnik           2
Trena Lorett          3                    Paul Davis            2

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Canyon Lake had one of their best shooting games in their loss to Boerne last Friday night.

The Hawks went crazy beyond the arc in this game setting a new Canyon Lake record for three pointers in this game.

A record 11 three point shots made on just 18 attempts beat Canyon Lake’s old record of 9 shots made from the outer limits three years ago in a game against San Antonio Lutheran in the CL Tournament.

Record Three Point Games
Year    Team              Date     3pt/Shot      Percentage
'12-13  Boerne          02/01/13    11/18        61%
'10-11  SA Lutheran     12/10/10     9/28        32%
'10-11  Blanco          12/20/11     8/20        40%
'09-10  Bandera         01/09/10     8/24        33%
'09-10  Lehman          11/24/09     7/17        41%
'10-11  Fredericksburg  01/11/11     7/18        39%
'10-11  Randolph        12/28/10     7/19        37%

Another slow start put CL on a steep hill to climb for the rest of this game. With just 20 points in that first half you can make an argument that two quarters like the last two with 38 points might have had the just right amount of pressure on those Greyhounds.

To no avail but it did allow Canyon Lake to open it up and respond accordingly with a red hot finish from the floor.

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Canyon Lake Softball is right around the corner as Basketball season will be ending next

Tuesday.

The Hawks will have two huge holes to fill with the departure of Missy Romero to College competition in Mississippi and Caroline Jordan a pretty good player in her own right.

CL only lost two players in last year’s squad, but losing your most complete player in the circle and in the batting circle will be a hard cog to fill in.

Add the departure of one of your best defensive outfield players in Caroline Jordan and you have two spots in the field becoming a huge puzzle piece to this season.

Take this in with what was lost with those two players:

.356 Missy Romero's Career Batting Average
.429 Romero's Season Average last season. (All-Time Best)
 443 Number of At Bats adding both players career.
 135 Career # of hits by both players.
 117 Runs scored combining their careers.
  81 Walks. The top two in this category all time for Canyon Lake.
  77 RBI's for both players in their career.
  45 Number of runs scored by the two players last season.
  39 Combined hits last season.
  24 Walks, giving these two Hawks a two for one ratio with strikeouts.
  12 Number of strikeouts combined last year.

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Senior’s Katie Williams, Hannah St. John, Tammy Dean, and Kelsey Long played valiantly in their final game at Canyon Lake on Friday night in a loss to Boerne, 39-32.

The stat line for this crew of girls was an impressive sight with this combined total:

                       3pt           Pts  Rebounds
             fgm-fga fgm-fga ftm-fta tot  or-dr tot Steals Blocks
Four Seniors   8-18    2-4     3-5   21    1-8   9    2     1

Boerne was the front runner in district play and showed it as this game started when they jumped out to a nine point lead after the first quarter.

That Greyhound lead increased to 15 points as the teams went into halftime for instructions.

Canyon Lake answered the bell by cutting into that lead seven points after that third quarter, 33-25 deficit.

The Hawks were down just three points with 2:30 left in the fourth quarter, but the rim closed for the rest of this contest as Boerne closed with four points giving them their seven point victory.

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CL Boy’s Basketball cut it close in their loss to Wimberley last night, needing only one three point basket to win the game.

The Hawks stumbled in that second quarter spelling their doom as that helped the Texans to get all the breathing room needed to hold off this Hawk team.

Garrett Winters and Trendon Martinez both finished in double figures in this game with 20 and 10 points respectfully.

“Overall, it was the best we have looked since district has started,” Coach Brian Hooper said. “The guys played as a team and battled hard all game.”

Coach Hooper assessed the game, “A few too many turnovers that led to points and the lack of offense in that second quarter was the difference in this game.”

              1   2   3   4   Final
 CLJV        14   4  13  16   47
 Wimberley   10  11  14  14   49
 Scorers:
 Garrett Winters 20; Trendon Martinez 10; Skyler Tschoepe 6;
 Tommy Clark 5; NIc Adams 2; Dave Pfaff 2; Austin Acosta 2.