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, mission 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.”
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).
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
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




























