All Eyes are on Cole Dees in earlier game this year. (photo by Step Rowe)

                 THIS WEEK   @   THE LAKE         February 3-7

Tue Feb 3   Navarro JV       @   The Lake JV        430p       Baseball
            Wimberley JV     @   The Lake JV      500p Girls Basketball
            The Lake Fr/JV   @   Bandera          500p Boys  Basketball
            Bandera          @   The Lake         500p Girls Soccer
            The Lake JV      @   Bandera          500p Boys  Soccer
            Blanco JV        @   The Lake JV      500p       Softball
            The Lake         @   Navarro          630p       Baseball
            The Lake         @   Bandera          630p Boys  Basketball
            Wimberley        @   The Lake         630p Girls Basketball
            Blanco           @   The Lake         700p       Softball
            The Lake         @   Bandera          700p Boys  Soccer

Fri Feb 6   The Lake Green   @   Somerset         430p       Baseball   
            The Lake JV      @   Long Creek JV    500p Girls Basketball
            Long Creek Fr/JV @   The Lake Fr/JV   500p Boys  Basketball
            The Lake JV      @   Wimberley        500p Boys  Soccer
            Wimberley        @   The Lake JV      500p Girls Soccer    
             The Lake         @   Somerset         630p       Baseball
            The Lake         @   Long Creek       630p Girls Basketball
            Long Creek       @   The Lake         630p Boys  Basketball
            Tennis           @   SVHS             700p Tennis
            The Lake         @   Wimberley        700p Boys  Soccer
            Wimberley        @   The Lake         700p Girls Soccer

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                              Go Hawks!

Canyon Lake had an up and down week with Boys (spilt their games) & Girls Basketball are playing for next season. The Boys Friday loss put a big dent in making the post-season that will make the second round of district contests with no room for making mistakes on winning those doable battles.

Boys & Girls Soccer was up and down as the Boys still trying to get their game in gear while the Ladies stayed undefeated with their win over Freddie as district is in full gear.

CL’s Lady Soccer is in the toughest district in Texas for the 4A Classification and reached #1 in one of the two polls which is a first for any Canyon Lake sports to reach that goal.

Now The Lake’s Ladies will me in a mine field playing through their schedule starting this Tuesday for a Senior Night battle with Bandera and then a match-up with another school (Wimberley) in district that has reached #1 in that other poll.

Those Spring Sports are getting in full gear as you can look above and see Baseball~Softball~Tennis and soon The Lake’s Track will start in the middle of this month.

Keep supporting these Local Athletes and Let’s GO LAKE!

Anthony Hockman has been a help in the paint averaging 4 points & 5 rebounds this season. (photo by Step Rowe)

                         Way to Go Hawks!

The Lake Basketball team dominated in getting a must win over Fredericksburg, 62-45 on a delayed one day battle due to frigid weather.

Frigid was certainly not a word to describe this victory that saw these Hawks shooting 52% from the field, 43% beyond the arc and 64% from the charity stripe.

Canyon Lake only shot below 50% once with 40% shooting in that 3rd quarter.

Josh Rowe (14 pts) drained 4 three pointers which led to a total of 9 threes for the game topping with the most this season.

CLake would also share the rock matching a season best 21 assists which happened twice in wins over Yorktown and Luling. Cole Dees had 9 of those dishes just missing double digits which has happened twice during CL’s history when Doug Hubnik (2015) reached 14 in 2013 and Tyler Pauly’s (2021) 12 in 2021.

                         GO LAKE!

Gavin Cano fielded his stat sheet scoring 12 points, with 4 assists and led CL with 5 steals.

It has been the Cano~Rowe show these past three games which has both reaching double digit scoring helping in with consistency  as this game witnessed while adding defensive effort by recording 14 steals.

The Lake in this first district win scored the first 11 points which had Wyatt Sims, Cano and Rowe on point with 3 pointers which had Cole Dees’ assists attached to this fast start.

                            Let’s GO LAKE!

This scoring surge was capped off with a Harlon Wisdom short jumper off a Rowe pass which spread the scoring to 4 different players, 11-0 to start this game.

A first quarter, 13-4 lead would increase to a 14 point advantage going into halftime, 29-15.

These Hawks would increase their lead to 20 points, 59-39 with 1:37 remaining in this battle.

A must win for a team that will hopefully be adding more out-patients from their M.A.S.H Unit by their next contest with Bandera on the road this Friday.

That steal department this season now has two (Cano 55~ 8th place) and Rowe (51~ 9th place) in the Top 10 for steals in a season. While two other players knocking on the door with Dees and Fuentes~ 49 steals~ 12th place.

Fuentes reached triple digits steals with 100 where he joined 6 other Hawks for that category.

Fuentes stands with 130 assists now for 8th place on that All-Time list trailing Matt Magness (2011) who is next on that ladder with 136.

A good win to build on as the first round of games finishes this week in Bandera.

Way to Go Lake!

Game 28    1  2  3  4  Final
Freddie    4 11  7 23  45
CL Hawks  13 16 10 23  62

                         3pt           tot rebounds
               fga-fgm fga-fgm fta-ftm pts or-dr tot a  s  b  to
Phoenix Fuentes 1-2      0-0     4-4    6   1-3   4  4  2  0  1
Josh Rowe       5-12     4-8     0-0   14   3-2   5  1  1  0  3
Gavin Cano      5-9      2-5     0-2   12   0-4   4  4  5  0  1
Harlon Wisdom   3-4      0-0     1-2    7   0-4   4  0  1  0  3
Wyatt Sims      2-5      2-5     0-0    6   0-2   2  2  1  0  2
Thomas Inmon    0-0      0-0     0-0    0   0-0   0  0  0  0  0
Cole Dees       3-6      1-3     1-1    8   0-3   3  9  4  1  3
Korbyn Goodman  0-0      0-0     0-0    0   0-0   0  0  0  0  3
Anthony Hockman 4-6      0-0     1-2    9   1-6   7  1  0  1  0
Totals         23-44     9-21    7-11  62   5-24 29 21 14  2 16
                52%      43%     64%

             Cole Dees & Eli Hammons cause chaos in win earlier this season. (photo by Step Rowe)

                           Way to DAM the Bobcats!

The Lake battled back and then outscored Comfort, 32-11 in the 2nd Half leading to another good win as district play comes calling this coming Friday a home game against a salty Wimberley team.

Head Coach Monte Cole expressed his thoughts, “Total team effort. Everyone contributed in some way between scoring, rebounding and assists. Our first half was up and down but second half we really amped up our defense and started hitting shots to create the separation…Really good game for us going into our first district game next Friday.”

That Up & Down sequence played out via quarters after The Lake started with an, 18-15 advantage and then allowing Comfort making it unComfortable in during the second phase and a 4 point lead going into intermission, 30-26.

                       Way to Go Hawks!

These Bobcats feasted at their charity stripe in that first half sinking 12 for a 71% shooting percentage. In this game Comfort finished with a 71% free throw rate scoring 17 points. Which contrasted with The Hawks going 2 for 4 from the line and those two makes came by way of a technical foul.

Canyon Lake problem was committing fouls 20 or more feet from the paint resulted being outscored, 17-2 from the stripe.

CLHS shot 35% beyond to arc with 6 makes which has the last two games doing damage on that shot. CLake is shooting 21% this season up to these last two contests beyond the arc that produced at a 38% percentage.

                        Go Lake Beat Everyone!

Wyatt Sims (10 pts) and Josh Rowe (15 pts) did the most damage with their long range shots which was a welcomed sight helping in this victory.

Those ‘UPs’ happened when Anthony Hockman played the paint with 10 points while pulling down 8 rebounds.

Canyon Lake was down, 39-37 with 2 minutes remaining in that 3rd Quarter when the switch was turned on seeing, The Lake, outscoring Comfort 21-0 until the Bobcats scored their last two points from you guessed it, The Foul Line, with just one minute remaining in this contest.

The Lake brought Landon Brown (scored 4 points) up from Junior Varsity as these Hawks continue to fight short handed these past couple of weeks.

Now it will be a week of fine tuning before district play begins next Friday.

Way to GO LAKE!

Game 24    1  2  3  4   Final
Comfort   15 15  9  2   41
CL Hawks  18  8 19 13   58

                        3pt           tot rebounds
              fga-fgm fga-fgm fta-ftm pts or-dr tot a  s  b  to
Josh Rowe       6-12    3-5     0-2   15   2-3   5  2  3  0  1
Gavin Cano      4-11    0-5     0-0    8   0-3   3  3  6  0  5
Harlon Wisdom   0-0     0-0     0-0    0   0-1   1  0  0  0  0
Eli Cole        0-3     0-2     0-0    0   3-0   3  2  1  0  0
Wyatt Sims      4-6     2-3     0-0   10   1-1   2  1  0  0  1
Cole Dees       2-10    1-2     2-2    7   0-3   3  2  1  0  5
Korbyn Goodman  0-1     0-0     0-0    0   0-0   0  0  0  0  1
Anthony Hockman 5-6     0-0     0-0   10   3-5   8  1  0  0  0
Landon Brown    2-5     0-0     0-0    4   0-2   2  0  0  0  3
Eli Hammons     2-3     0-0     0-0    4   2-1   3  1  4  0  2
Totals         25-53    6-17    2-4   58  11-19 30 12 15  0 17
                47%     35%     50%

            THIS WEEK      @   THE LAKE       January 13-17

Tue Jan 13  The Lake JV    @   Freddie        500p Girls Soccer
            Bandera JV     @   The Lake JV    500p Girls Basketball
            Bandera        @   The Lake       630p Girls Basketball

Thu Jan 15  Hondo          @   The Lake       600p Boys  Soccer
            La Vernia      @   The Lake      1200n Girls Soccer
                               Canyon Lake Classic

Fri Jan 16  KIPP Austin    @   The Lake      1200n Girls Soccer
            SA Cole        @   The Lake       200p Boys  Soccer
                               Canyon Lake Classic
            The Lake JV    @   Wimberley JV   500p Girls Basketball
            Wimberley Sub  @   The Lake Fr/JV 500p Boys  Basketball
            The Lake       @   Wimberley      630p Girls Basketball
            Wimberley      @   The Lake       630p Boys  Basketball

Sat Jan 17  China Spring   @   The Lake       300p Girls Soccer
            IDEA So Flores @   The Lake       900p Boys  Soccer
                                  Canyon Lake Classic

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                                  Way to Go Hawks!

The Winter Sports are going strong with soccer starting the beginning of this year. At this writing the Lady Soccer Team is undefeated with a good resume win over La Vernia that turned out to be a scoring fest as The Lake outscored the Bears, 9-6… that had Savanna Oberholtzer leading the way with seven goals and one assist along with Avery Norris, Bella Biasatti each with a goal and Abby Lowth, Macey Gil helping with one assist a piece.

These Hawks sport a 4-0 record as they are competing in the I-10 Shootout in Houston this week.

Girls Basketball continues to be a work in progress as they ready themselves for district play tonight (Friday) while the Boy’s Basketball team start up later next week after they finish their non-district schedule tonight in Comfort.

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UPDATE:

The ReSporter was informed bout a recent graduate who achieved high praise during the Fall Cross Country Season.

                         Let’s GO LAKE!

Hannah Hammer performs for Central Arizona College after her successful time with Canyon Lake High School as part of an excellent Ladies Track Team that won District and Area Meets last season.

During Hammer’s 4 years on the Lake’s Cinders she made her presence known for The All-Time Top 10 Hawk Athletes list.

      Event          Placed      Time
  400 Meter Dash      3rd       60.42
  800 Meter Run       1st     2:15.20
 1600 Meter Run       2nd     5:18.93
4x200 Meter Relay     2nd     1:44.34  2024
4x400 Meter Relay     1st     4:01.06  2024
4x400 Meter Relay     2nd     4:04.84  2022

Division I ACCAC Cross Country Awards

Female Athlete of the Year – Hannah Hammer, Central Arizona College, 
Hammer earned three ACCAC DI Runner of the Week honors, finished 19th at nationals, and placed second at the Region I/ACCAC Championships.

                Eli Hammons takes flight in game earlier this season.   (photo by Step Rowe)

                        Go Canyon Lake!

Canyon Lake had a good bounce back win with their fast start win over the Navarro Panthers, 52-41.

The Lake had lost two starters (Reese Pipkin & Phoenix Fuentes) to injuries in recent games and now stand with a 1-1 record starting with a loss to SA Cole last week.

“One of our emphasis has been getting off to better starts and we really focused on executing at the beginning of the game,” Head Coach Monte Cole stated. “The kids did a great job of having quality possessions on both offense and defense in the 1st quarter. With our injuries comes a shorter bench and guys came off the bench and contributed all game. I thought it was a good game to start in creating momentum to lead into district next week.”

District is starting January 16th at home against Wimberley.

                                      Let’s GO LAKE!

That first quarter would qualify as a fast start rushing out to a 10 point (13-3) lead within the first half of the opening quarter.

In fact it was three three-pointers (two for Cole Dees & one for Wyatt Sims) that cashed in. Dees scored eight points during that first quarter and CLHS finished that first period with 4 makes beyond the arc. That is one more than CLake has averaged per game this season for a, 18-4 advantage.

The Panthers did claw back 3 points in that second quarter but The Lake still had an 11 point lead going into halftime, 27-16.

Canyon Lake continued garnering double digit numbers in assists and steals but finished with 21 turnovers which allowed Navarro to stay close enough for a chance of getting a run to close for a chance to change the outcome.

                      Let’s GO HAWKS!

The Lake did have an answer for those mini Panther runs and ran their biggest lead up to 15 points, 40-25.

CLHS shot 50% from the field for the game and finished with seven three pointers with a balmy 41% which is by far the best this season.

The Stephenville game CL had a 33% on six makes and in a Yorktown win there were 8 makes (the most this season) with a 24% in that contest.

It was the charity stripe where Canyon Lake left 10 points on the floor shooting 33% which was less that beyond the arc. (Thought The ReSporter would never release that type of stat…..ever.)

Dees finished with 21 points as the only Hawk in double figures but it was an 8 assist-5 steal evening for Gavin Cano that helped with an overall good finish.

Cano has taken more responsibility with two guards not in the lineup as well as Sims being pegged as a starter.

Canyon Lake will finish their final regular season slate when they travel to Comfort Friday with the tip-off at 6:30pm.

Let’s GO LAKE!

Game 23    1  2  3  4   Final
Navarro    4 12 11 14   41
CL Hawks  18  9 13 12   52

                        3pt           tot rebounds
              fga-fgm fga-fgm fta-ftm pts or-dr tot a  s  b  to
Josh Rowe       2-4     1-3     1-2    6   1-0   1  3  1  0  3
Gavin Cano      1-7     0-3     0-0    2   0-3   3  8  5  0  6
Harlon Wisdom   0-0     0-0     0-0    0   0-0   0  0  0  1  1
Eli Cole        1-1     1-1     0-0    3   0-2   2  0  0  0  0
Wyatt Sims      3-7     1-4     0-0    7   1-0   1  0  0  0  0
Cole Dees       8-14    3-4     2-4   21   2-2   4  1  2  1  5
Anthony Hockman 2-2     0-0     2-7    6   1-6   7  2  3  0  3
Bobby Torres    2-4     1-2     0-0    5   0-0   0  0  0  1  2
Eli Hammons     1-1     0-0     0-2    2   1-5   6  0  1  0  1
Totals         20-40    7-17    5-15  52  6-18  24 14 12  3 21
                50%     41%     33%

            Hawk’s coming out of a time-out ready to implement Coach Cole’s instructions! Go Lake!

              Make us Proud Hawks!

The Canyon Lake Hawks’ basketball recent struggles received a respite after starting their Hays Tournament with two wins.

The Lake’s record was 1-8 with most of those losses coming when an illness struck during their Christmas Tourney in Lampasas.

Having a healthy team led to this two game stretch as CLHS was able to succumb their last win against Graham needing to erase a 10 point deficit with 6:17 left on a 4th quarter clock down, 44-34.

CLake answered with an all out defensive effort which led to a Bobby Torres 7 point response (2 free throws~3 pointer~2 assists) barrage which saw Torres’ assist to Anthony Hockman ending the 3rd quarter.

The Lake got the score down to a 3 points, 44-41 when Graham got a fast break two pointer which would turn out to be their last points at the 2:42 mark.

            Plug those Leaks (Turnovers) Lake!

Another combo assist to bucket when Phoenix Fuentes found Cole Dees which brought this game down to a one point, 46-45 for these Steers.

Fuentes and Dees combined for 9 assists which would have Dees curtain call when he had his twisting dance move turn into the paint while finding a wide open Hockman for that winning bucket and one point win, 47-46.

The Lake’s first win on this day was a much different style that had The Lake with a convincing, 73-25 win over Yorktown.

This win had 3 Hawks scoring double digits, Fuentes (13), Reese Pipkin (14), Torres (14) and every Hawk but one with a rebound…. this contes produced another double digit game with 18 assists and 16 steals.

The Lake had another 4th quarter awakening scoring 25 points which also produced CL’s best game this season beyond the arc with 8 makes.

Canyon Lake thus far has outscored their competition, 100 points (298-198) during those last 8 minutes.

The Lake will continue their last tourney for this season with a battle against Austin Travis with tip-off at 1:00pm this Tuesday at Barton Middle School in Kyle, Texas.

Way to GO Lake!

Game 19    1  2  3  4  Final
Graham    16  9 14  7  46
CL Hawks   9 15  8 15  47

                          3pt           tot rebounds
                fga-fgm fga-fgm fta-ftm pts or-dr tot a  s  b  to
Phoenix Fuentes   2-4     0-0     1-2    5   2-3   5  5  1  0  3
Josh Rowe         2-10    0-2     1-1    5   4-2   6  1  2  0  2
Reese Pipkin      1-2     1-2     0-0    3   0-0   0  0  1  0  1
Gavin Cano        2-4     1-3     0-0    5   0-0   0  0  1  0  0
Harlon Wisdom     1-3     0-0     0-0    2   0-0   0  0  0  2  0
Eli Cole          0-2     0-2     0-0    0   1-1   2  0  1  1  0
Wyatt Sims        0-2     0-2     0-0    0   0-0   0  1  0  0  1
Cole Dees         3-7     0-0     0-0    6   0-4   4  4  1  0  0
Anthony Hockman   4-5     0-0     0-0    8   2-1   3  0  0  0  1
Bobby Torres      4-9     1-3     2-2   11   2-1   3  2  3  0  3
Eli Hammons       1-3     0-0     0-0    2   0-0   0  0  0  0  0
Totals           20-51    3-14    4-5   47  11-12 23 13 10  3 11

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Game 18    1  2  3  4  Final
Yorktown   6  8  6  5  25
CL Hawks  17 17 14 25  73

                           3pt           tot rebounds
                 fga-fgm fga-fgm fta-ftm pts or-dr tot a  s  b  to
Phoenix Fuentes    6-12    1-4     0-0   13   3-3   6  4  1  2  1
Josh Rowe          3-8     2-5     0-2    8   4-2   6  2  3  0  1
Reese Pipkin       5-9     2-5     2-2   14   1-4   5  5  3  0  2
Gavin Cano         1-9     0-5     0-0    2   2-0   2  2  2  0  1
Harlon Wisdom      2-4     0-0     0-0    4   1-2   3  0  2  2  2
Eli Cole           1-3     0-2     0-0    2   1-2   3  0  1  0  2
Wyatt Sims         1-2     1-2     0-0    3   0-0   0  1  0  0  0
Cole Dees          4-11    0-6     0-0    8   1-2   3  3  1  1  1
Anthony Hockman    2-3     0-0     1-2    5   0-4   4  0  0  0  2
Bobby Torres       6-8     2-4     0-0   14   1-1   2  1  3  0  0
Eli Hammons        0-0     0-0     0-0    0   3-3   6  0  0  0  2
Donavan Menchaca   0-0     0-0     0-0    0   0-2   2  0  0  0  0
Totals            31-69    8-33    3-6   73  17-25 42 18 16  5 14

                    Eli Hammons lending a helping hand for Phoenix Fuentes.  (photo by Step Rowe)

Canyon Lake got an All-Meat at High Noon Pizza in the Hancock Plaza after their win over Bastrop, 45-37.

The Lake had laid a Gluten Free Pizza in their previous Burnet contest on Tuesday and knew that those type of efforts lead to an empty stomach.

This win still had some ups & downs but good times were enough to get this win with another game of double digit steals (13) which has CL averaging 14 for this season.

Cole Dees and Phoenix Fuentes both led the Hawks finishing with 12 points and a strong game for Eli Hammons with his 6 points and 9 rebounds.

Those Up times had The Lake opening up with an, 8-2 lead that got thing going before a Down episode when the Bastrop Bears worked this game back to a tie, 17 all at the 1:24 mark before half.

Canyon Lake would open the second half with an improved focus after running their lead to 9 points, 29-20 at the 4:00 minute mark in the 3rd stanza.

But another Gluten Free episode to end that quarter resulted in a, 31-30 advantage going into CL’s final quarter.

That 4th quarter had a rare event when Fuentes found himself on the charity stripe with 5:31 left in the contest. It had been 7 straight quarters of not having a chance for a free throw finally being realized.

The Lake would finish with 7 made free throws while adding a 3 pointer coming from Cole Dees and assist by Fuentes which would result in a, 40-32 lead with a little under 4 minutes remaining. Dees’ with that 3 pointer ended with 6 points in that final 8 minutes.

A good defensive effort allowing 7 points that helped Canyon Lake to rid themselves of that Gluten Free Pizza to a good tasty regular Pizza whether by the Slice or whatever size needed for this filling win.

High Noon is a new ‘Home Grown’ Pizza place right next to Authentic Canyon Lake across from Brookshire’s. Give them a try after Canyon Lake’s next win and GO Lake!

Game 12    1  2  3  4  Final
Bastrop    7 10 13  7  37
CL Hawks  13  8 10 14  45

                          3pt           tot rebounds
                fga-fgm fga-fgm fta-ftm pts or-dr tot  a  s  b  to
Phoenix Fuentes   4-7     0-0     4-4   12   3-1   4   4  2  1  5
Josh Rowe         4-6     1-2     0-0    9   0-1   1   0  3  0  3
Reese Pipkin      0-4     0-1     0-0    0   1-4   5   2  1  0  2
Gavin Cano        0-3     0-2     0-0    0   2-2   4   1  1  0  0
Harlon Wisdom     1-3     0-0     0-0    2   1-1   2   0  0  0  0
Eli Cole          0-2     0-1     0-0    0   0-0   0   0  0  0  0
Wyatt Sims        1-5     0-1     0-0    2   0-1   1   1  1  0  0
Cole Dees         5-11    1-4     3-4   12   0-1   1   2  2  0  2
Korbyn Goodman    0-1     0-1     0-0    0   0-1   1   0  0  0  1
Anthony Hockman   0-1     0-0     0-0    0   1-0   1   0  0  0  0
Bobby Torres      0-1     0-1     0-0    0   0-0   0   0  2  0  2
Eli Hammons       3-6     0-0     0-2    6   4-5   9   0  1  0  0
Totals           18-50    2-13    7-10  45  12-17 29  10 13  1 15

                                     Eli Hammons contributing fighting for Hawk Rebounds.      (photo by Step Rowe)

Let’s Go Lake Great Win Over The Pass

Canyon Lake came back from a 20 point deficit in scoring 51 second half points for a 2 point win over Aransas Pass, 71-70.

It was an offensive rebound put-back for Anthony Hockman with three seconds left that sealed the deal.

The Lake did start this contest storming to a, 13-6 first quarter advantage.

The Aransas Pass would take over with a 24 point 2nd quarter and outscored The Lake, 17 points that produced a 12 point advantage to end that first half.

“We made a lot of mistakes early versus AP (Aransas Pass).” Head Coach Monte Cole recapped. “Unforced turnovers, missed layups, missing open guys with our passing…but the kids were resilient and kept battling to give themselves a chance and then guys made plays at the end to win.”

      Let’s Go Hawks Great Comeback!

Canyon Lake will go into Saturday game against Gainesville who has a 5-1 record, “This is a great tournament for us because we’re identifying the little things we have to do a lot better and execute more consistently”….on playing Gainesville, “They’re big and good. A good test for us.”

AP increased their halftime advantage into a 20 point (51-31) lead with just 1:43 remaining in that 3rd stanza, but this Hawk team would turn on a firehose scoring 40 points in a  9:43 time frame.

CL had 4 players reach double digit scoring with Cole Dees (14 pts) leading and being joined with Phoenix Fuentes (13), Josh Rowe (12), and Gavin Cano (10).

Way to GO LAKE!

CL got contributions from a bench that pitched in 26 points in this improbable comeback.

That last quarter was a classic being down, 51-41 to start and Fuentes with a steal (20 steals forced by CL’s defense) cut AP’s lead to single digits, 51-43 to start this avalanche of scoring.

It was a back and force game and The Lake had trouble cutting that lead below 7 points after a Dees three pointer with 6:42 left, 53-46.

The Pass pushed their advantage back to 10 points with under 6 minutes, 60-50.

In fact, CLHS cut the lead to 7 again with an old fashion 3 pointer for Fuentes before quick 4 points giving the Home Team an 11 point lead, 64-53 with 3:24 remaining.  From  there  CL  scored 18 points while giving up 7 points for AP.

CLake would score the next 7 points and finish this game with a nail biter victory.

                                                      Remaining
A) Cano 3 pointer off a Hockman assist,        56-64    3:12 
B) Fuentes with another old fashion 3 pointer, 59-64    2:15 
C) Rowe basket after a Hawk steal,             61-64    2:02 
D) Rowe after a Pass miss,                     63-64    1:53 
E) Aransas free throw,                         63-65    1:35 
F) Aransas free throw,                         63-66    1:19 
G) Aransas bucket,                             63-68    0:58 
H) Dees two FT’s on rebound of Pass miss FT,   65-68    0:57 
I) Dees bucket on a Rowe assist,               67-68    0:29
J) Rowe score and Cano assist,                 69-68    0:14 
   1st lead since 7:06 First Quarter
K) Aransas made 2 FT’s,                        69-70    0:09 
L) Hockman offensive Reb put back off glass,   71-70    0:03 

                  Way to Go Hawk Basketball.

As Easy as ABC for a Hawk Team that ran their record to 7-1 with this win.

Cano came up with a huge dishing up a good plate of grub with 6 assists and was nails after Fuentes had to sit with foul trouble earlier in this quarter.

Scoring more points in the last stanza than CL did combined in those first two quarters was a good recipe for this improbable comeback.

Way to GO LAKE!

              1  2  3  4  Final
Aransas Pass  8 24 19 19  70
CL Hawks     13  7 21 30  71

                          3pt           tot rebounds
                fga-fgm fga-fgm fta-ftm pts or-dr tot  a  s  b to
Phoenix Fuentes   6-11    0-0     2-2   13   2-6   8   4  4  0  4
Josh Rowe         6-9     0-2     0-0   12   0-1   1   1  3  0  4
Reese Pipkin      2-2     0-0     0-0    4   0-0   0   1  4  0  2
Gavin Cano        4-10    1-2     1-1   10   0-1   1   6  1  0  1
Harlon Wisdom     0-3     0-0     1-2    1   2-3   5   0  0  0  1
Eli Cole          0-3     0-2     0-0    0   1-1   2   0  1  0  0
Wyatt Sims        1-6     0-2     0-0    2   1-1   2   0  2  0  2
Cole Dees         5-17    2-8     2-2   14   2-5   7   1  1  0  1
Korbyn Goodman    0-0     0-0     0-0    0   0-0   0   0  0  0  2
Anthony Hockman   1-2     0-0     1-2    3   2-2   4   1  2  0  1
Bobby Torres      2-4     1-3     0-0    5   0-0   0   0  2  0  1
Eli Hammons       3-6     0-0     0-0    6   3-1   4   0  0  0  0
Totals           30-73    4-19    7-9   71  13-21 34  14 20  0 19

          Anthony Hockman getting things started in win over Sinton earlier this year. (Photo by Step Rowe)

                         Let’s Go Lake!

Canyon Lake’s Boys Basketball has started their season with a blistering pace with a 3-1 start a loss to New Braunfels Unicorns last Wednesday.

In the Lake’s first three games, the Hawks outscored their opponents by 119 points with a very impressive 61% assist to field goals made during this 4 game start.

Nine of CL’s 11 players have 20 or more points led by Senior point guard Phoenix Fuentes.

“I thought our game with New Braunfels that we did some good things but against good teams like NB, we can’t lose focus as much as we did,” Head Coach Monte Cole assessed. “Good teams will make us pay for it. It was a great game for us to see what areas we need to improve moving forward.”

On Coach Coles thoughts on what he has seen thus far? “I like our team, we have a lot depth and good chemistry. We just have to keep improving everyday and every game. Looking forward to seeing where this team is when we get to January and February.

                           Plug those Leaks Lake!

The Hawks are averaging a little over 16 assists and 14 steals per outing and at this writing having a 65 points per game clip.

There are a lot of changeable players which gives CL’s Coaching staff many options based on in game situations.

Fuentes did turn in an impressive 14 points in that loss to the Unicorns as that team had lots of length which led to very few offensive rebounds and passing lanes not as open as in those previous three wins.

Canyon Lake will be back in action this coming week with a home game against Ingram-Moore on Tuesday (5:00pm Sub-Varsity & 6:30p Varsity tip-off).

The Lake will then be off to Aransas Pass on Thursday playing in their first tournament.

The Stats Below are based on the first four contests and Let’s Go Lake!

            1   2   3   4  Final
Opponent   35  58  43  38  174
CL Hawks   62  77  68  53  260

                           3pt           tot rebounds
Stats            fga-fgm fga-fgm fta-ftm pts or-dr tot  a  s  b to 
Phoenix Fuentes   13-21    0-0     9-15  35   7-8   15 14  7  0 11 
Josh Rowe         14-31    3-13    0-1   31   6-2    8  4 10  0 11 
Reese Pipkin       8-13    3-6     2-4   21   6-8   14 10  6  0  6 
Gavin Cano        13-39    4-17    1-2   31   2-4    6 11  7  1  2 
Harlon Wisdom     10-20    0-0     0-2   20   3-8   11  6  3  2  2 
Eli Cole           7-15    2-10    0-0   16   5-9   14  3  1  0  4 
Wyatt Sims         8-29    2-8     5-9   23   8-7   15  1  3  0  5 
Cole Dees         13-29    3-9     4-6   33   7-15  22  7  7  1 12 
Korbyn Goodman     1-4     1-3     0-0    3   4-0    4  2  5  0  2 
Anthony Hockman   10-13    0-0     3-6   25  11-13  24  2  5  2  4 
Bobby Torres      10-24    1-6     1-2   22   6-3    9  3  4  0  1 
Eli Hammons        0-3     0-0     0-0    0   0-2    2  0  0  0  0 
Totals           106-241  19-72   25-47 260  
Percentage         44%     26%     53% 

                  Hawk’s Chris Brown making his move in earlier win over Freddie. (photo by Daniel Clifton)

           Let’s Go Lake Beat Calallen!

Canyon Lake’s Area Bout and Basketball starting out of the gate strong as Thanksgiving is right around the corner.

First will be CL’s battle with Calallen this week at SW Legacy Stadium in San Antonio with kick-off at 7:00pm. The location is: 4495 Verano Pkwy #100 in Von Ormy, Texas 78073.

This is the second playoff game with these wildcats after suffering a heart break, 37-31 loss in 2020. That Covid year was a crazy time that had The Lake literally all over the field with wins and losses.

An overtime loss, 41-40 to Blanco and then seeing state finalist LBJ escape with a, 20-14 thriller and as a 4th seed beating La Vernia, 48-27 in a buzz saw game that led to a Calallen team that had won their district.

        Let’s Go Hawks & Beat Calallen!

This year, the Hawks have had some up and downs but not to that 2020 team’s extent sporing a 8-3 record and with a more wide open offense.

These Wildcats have doubled their rushing this season compared to passing yardage. They have 39 touchdowns rushing and 14 through the air.

Passing might not be used as much but this team does use that part of their game to the fullest with two players as their main go-to players.

Gamez (34) and Rusher (33) receptions with the rest of this squad with a total of 11 receptions.

While there is a three headed monster on the run game. The QB Connor Klostermann has 572 yards and running backs Rodriguez (729) and Tipton (728) will give The Lake plenty of work on their defensive side of the ball.

Canyon Lake will need to keep their penalties down as they did last week in that Bi-District win and can get a run game which can open up the passing game to keep the Wildcats guessing.

Some Interesting Tid-Bits by the Numbers.

  4   Is number CL has reached 8 wins in a season. (10 in 2017)
  5   Receivers amassed more than 100 yards
  7   Passing TD’s for QB Wheeler in playoffs #1 (Ben Fulton 4 TD’s)
  9   More Turnovers CL has caused. Ranks 2nd behind 13 by 2014 Season.
 40   More First Downs that Opponents
40.6  Presently Ranks 1st All-Time in Hawks Punting. Congrats
125   Yds receiving Peyton King has is 4th place in the playoffs.
134   Tackles Eli Hammons has leading the team.
492   Yds CL had last week ranks 2nd for playoffs. 
649   Yds #1 QB Wheeler has passed in Playoffs (Peyton McMullen 373 yds)

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Hawks Start Season Strong in 76-32 Win Over Luling

Canyon Lake’s Boys Basketball started their season last Tuesday with a, 76-32 win over Luling in a game the Hawks led throughout.

This was a no-doubter with CL ballooning the lead to 39-10 in the 2nd quarter.

The Lake was led in scoring by newcomer Cole Dees with 14 points and was followed by Bobby Torres (13) and Wyatt Sims (10) points.

All but one Hawk had a rebound and steal giving an idea of how deep this team could be this season.

Of course, there are still items Head Coach Monte Cole after his moan when free throws were brought up in the conversation. The Lake shot better from beyond the arc compared to their 29% charity stripe performance.

Canyon Lake will open at The Hawk Nest this Saturday against Sinton with a tip-off at 11am for sub-varsity and then a noon start for the Varsity.

Way to Go Lake!

          1  2  3  4 Final
Luling    4 16  6  6 32
CL Hawks 23 21 17 15 76
                         3pt           tot rebounds
               fga-fgm fga-fgm fta-ftm pts or-dr tot a  s  b to 
Phoenix Fuentes  3-3     0-0     0-4    6   3-0   3  4  2  0  1 
Josh Rowe        1-4     0-2     0-0    2   1-1   2  2  2  0  4 
Reese Pipkin     1-3     0-2     1-2    3   2-2   4  3  2  0  0 
Gavin Cano       4-6     1-2     0-0    9   1-0   1  2  1  0  0 
Harlon Wisdom    4-7     0-0     0-1    8   2-2   4  4  1  0  1 
Eli Cole         1-2     1-2     0-0    3   2-2   4  1  0  0  1 
Wyatt Sims       3-9     2-4     2-5   10   2-3   5  1  2  0  1 
Cole Dees        6-11    2-5     0-0   14   1-4   5  3  3  1  3 
Korbyn Goodman   0-1     0-1     0-0    0   0-0   0  1  2  0  1 
Anthony Hockman  4-5     0-0     0-0    8   5-1   6  0  0  0  0 
Bobby Torres     6-13    0-2     1-2   13   3-1   4  0  3  0  0 
Totals          33-64    6-20    4-14  76  22-16 38 21 18  1 12 
Percentage       52%     30%     29%