Hawk Swimmers back in Action this Week in Burnet  (photo by Michelle Hicks)

                         This Week    @     Canyon Lake

 Monday  Jan 2  Lampasas Freshman     @     CL Hawks JV 2     11:00a  Girls  Basketball
                Lampasas JV           @     CL Hawks JV 1     11:00a  Girls  Basketball
                Lampasas              @     CL Hawks          12:30   Girls  Basketball

 Tuesday Jan 3  Poteet Freshman       @     CL Hawks Fresh     5:00p  Boys   Basketball
                Poteet JV             @     CL Hawks JV        5:00p  Boys   Basketball
                Poteet                @     CL Hawks           6:30p  Boys   Basketball
                Sequin                @     CL Hawks           6:45p  Boys   Soccer

 Friday  Jan 6  CL Hawks              @     Tex Robertson      All Day       Swimming
                                            Invitational at Burnet
                CL Hawks Freshman     @     Navarro            5:00p  Boys   Basketball
                CL Hawks JV           @     Navarro            5:00p  Boys   Basketball
                CL Hawks              @     Navarro            6:30p  Boys   Basketball
                CL Hawks              @     McAllum            7:15p  Boys   Soccer
                CL Hawks              @     Pleasanton Tourney TBA    Girls  Soccer

 Saturday Jan 7 CL Hawks              @     Pleasanton Tourney TBA    Girls  Soccer

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Hancock Mini-Mart Says Go Hawks

The busy season begins this first week of the new year as Canyon Lake Basketball readies for District 28-4A starting soon and Soccer’s scrimmage season was off and running last Friday. Add some water for Swimming and you have the start of more action as each week continues to spring up.

With the Girl’s Basketball games last week, the Hawks had the same result as the Boy’s team with an 0-fer during their first tournament after the Christmas Break, in Burnet.

There were some heavyweights in attendance with Fredericksburg giving CL a heavy dose of what they can expect when district games start. The 12th Ranked, Billies won their game convincingly over the Hawks and now a game with Lampasas on Monday will be the final tune-up game before the real contests start on January 10th.

The Lady Hawks will have Friday off and wait for another Top 25 State opponent in Boerne starts off district play.

One morsel of hope you can conclude from those tournament games last week was having 4 games with 4 or 5 freshman playing in those battles. The Holiday season had many players missing in action and those returning players can only help.

   Happy New Year & Go Hawks

CL’s Boys got back on track with a good game in beating Karnes City for the Badgers first loss of the season.

This game had some good signs, as the Hawks battled back throughout the contest in winning by 7 points as things fell into place in the 4th quarter. After suffering a bad 4 games in Fredericksburg’s Tournament, this win was needed.

Canyon Lake will face Poteet and Navarro this week with a home game this Tuesday and a short drive to Navarro for the Friday tilt. The Poteet squad has a loss to Hondo and Navarro before the Christmas Break which will help give the Hawks an idea of how they might rank with future games after facing the Poteet Aggies.

Swimming will have their one scheduled meet this month in Burnet as the Hawks will look to improve on their win in that same water last December during the 4A & Under State Championship.

Other Sports are coming with Softball as the next sport coming out of their egg shell as this time of year there is no rest for the weary.

Look for those Basketball home games to be, ‘On the Air’, when Canyon Lake’s Broadcasting will bring those games to you by Live Stream.

If you do not have the link, then The ReSporter will post that information before each contest. You can come to this weekly article to check out when those games will be ready to tip-off.

Happy New Year and Go Hawks!!

Benjamin Rowe helping Hawks get win over St. Paul        (photo by Karen Holmes)

Canyon Lake Freshman won their game over St. Paul Austin last Friday after outscoring the Guardians 10-1 in overtime for a final score, 46-37.

Benjamin Rowe is all smiles after sinking important Free Throws 

The Hawks went into their half-time locker room talk after a lethargic level of play during the first two quarters.

“Coach told us to take care of the ball and be more aggressive,” Nic Rivera said. “Our pick and row started working and every time we ran it I had a chance to either get the ball to ‘Rico’ (Zachery Griffin) or take it.”

“We were needing a wake-up call,” Rylee Spaulding recalled. “We were lazy on defense and we were just out of it….but the second half we got aggressive.”

The Hawks finally shook the cobwebs off their basketballs after scoring 10 points for the shorter period in giving CL a 9 point advantage when the final horn sounded in this win.

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Rory Preiss scored 21 points in win over Karnes City  (photo by Karen Holmes)

Karnes City brought their undefeated 18-0 season to the Hawk Nest and left a defeated team with a Hawk hard fought win, 55-48.

That 7 point victory was not as easy as it might look as Canyon Lake was fighting from behind for most of this contest. The Badgers jumped out to an, 11-2 lead as CL had committed 7 turnovers in the first 5 minutes in digging their 9 point deficit hole.

After a Rory Preiss 2 point shot, Jacob Ramirez would then respond with two 3 point shots in a row drawing the game back to a one point contest with 1:43 left on that first quarter clock.

KC had another 3 pointer to end this first stanza up by 4 points, as this undefeated team showed a lot of talent on the court.

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Hank Jordan controlling the inside in win over Karnes City JV (photo by Karen Holmes)

Canyon Lake’s JV team scored 18 points in the first quarter and coasted to a 42 point victory over KCJV as the Badgers struggled scoring 14 points in the contest winning, 56-14.

Those 2 Badger points were scored early in that first quarter and then a dry spell for the Badgers allowed the Hawks to forge to a 21-2 lead before the next KC point with just 3 minutes before halftime intermission.

After the 3rd period, Canyon Lake, enjoyed a 37 point advantage with all hands on deck. Every Hawk had some stat to show off with no drop off as the Hawk bench looked like a game for musical chairs.

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Senior Charlie McIntosh gets ready for action (photo by Karen Holmes)

Canyon Lake just finished their 4 game tournament at Fredericksburg needing to go to a beauty salon after some ‘ugly’ games coming from the tourney 0-fer.

Offense was not in gear for these contests as the Hawks averaged 38.3 points having just 6 players able to break into the double digit cumulative scoring.

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Gerrit Wilkins and Joseph Boyd hope to tighten down on their Defense                   (photo by Karen Holmes)

Canyon Lake has not been noted for being a Basketball school as the Boys are still looking for their first winning season while the girls have been to 2 playoff games and had a splendid team during the 2009-10 season with a final 19-10 record as their high water mark.

Those days for the Girls has been long gone while the Boys still yearn for any resemblance of a year that Hawk Girl’s Team accomplished during that magical season.

That would explain on how Canyon Lake has both Boy’s and Girl’s squads sporting records over .500 during the Christmas Break which has happened just once in 2011.

For the Boy’s, they would not win another game until the 2012-13 after reaching 9 wins before Christmas that year.

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Sean Nolan is still holding on to his Block Record while holding off Tyler Williams.

The ReSporter has the Top 10 for All-Time Boys Basketball and some present players who are on the list below.

The ReSporter has also added current players with their present stats so you can see how far they are in cracking that group of Top 10 Hawks.

Hope you enjoy going, ‘ Back to the Future’, in looking at these young man and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

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Abby Bennett, Daisey Manriquez, Emily Boylan, and Adia Garcia get ready for throw in.           (photo by Karen Holmes)

                                       
                      This Month        @       Canyon Lake

 Mon December 19      La Vernia         @       CL Hawks JV 2      5:45p   Girls   Basketball
                      La Vernia         @       CL Hawks JV 1      5:45p   Girls   Basketball
                      La Vernia         @       CL Hawks           7:00p   Girls   Basketball

 Tue December 27      Savio             vs.     CL Hawks          12:00a   Boys    Basketball 
                      Cleburne          vs.     CL Hawks           4:30p   Boys    Basketball
                                                Fredericksburg Roundball Reunion

 Wed December 28      CL Hawks          @       Burnet Tourney      TBA    Girls   Basketball
                      Graham            vs.     CL Hawks          10:30a   Boys    Basketball
                      Elgin             vs.     CL Hawks           4:30p   Boys    Basketball
                                                Fredericksburg Roundball Reunion

 Thu December 29      CL Hawks          vs.     Fredericksburg    11:00a   Girls   Basketball
                      CL Hawks          vs.     San Angelo LV      3:30p   Girls   Basketball
                                                Lady Dawg Christmas Tournament (Burnet)
     
 Fri December 30      John Paul II      @       CL Hawks Freshman  10:00a  Boys    Basketball
                      Karnes City       @       CL Hawks JV        10:00a  Boys    Basketball
                      Karnes City       @       CL Hawks           11:00a  Boys    Basketball    
                      SA Brackenridge   @       CL Hawks JV        10:00a  Girls   Soccer
                                                Scrimmage
                      SA Brackenridge   @       CL Hawks           11:00a  Girls   Soccer
                                                Scrimmage
                      CL Hawks          vs.     Waco Robinson      12:30p  Girls   Basketball
                      CL Hawks          vs.     Burnet              5:00p  Girls   Basketball
                                                Lady Dawg Christmas Tournament

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Parker Mott is all smiles after having 7 assists in his first start.

Canyon Lake got their game going in the second half to pull out a win over Jourdanton as the Hawks kept their 3rd straight team to 47 points in the win, 58-47.

“It was ugly,” Head Basketball Coach Luke Chapman said. “We executed in the 2nd half as we put a new offense in and when we ran it, it looked good.”

Ugly wins are still wins and there was a time not too long ago that any type of win would have been accepted like a 6 year old going after presents on Christmas day under the Tree.

The Hawks will take a Christmas Break as they go back to the hard wood in the Fredericksburg Tourney, December 27th and hopefully after opening some presents will reap more improvements in their game.

This contest had CL with a chance to open some presents early with a good night of free throw shooting (84%) from the line and that went a long way in keeping the distance needed for this victory.

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Head Basketball Coach               Lucas Chapman

The ReSporter: How low does your turnovers need to be in order to be in games and a chance for wins? You are averaging right at 20 per game after 12 games.

Coach Chapman: “Our goal is to have 15 or less turnovers a game or a 20% turnover rate. Right now we are at a 28% turnover rate, which is way too high. We just have to be more disciplined with the ball and make more crisp passes. That has been our emphasis for a while now, so we will continue to work on it.”

The ReSporter: The team blocks seem to be coming from anyone on the court is that just the athleticism of the team or do you look for match-ups that can give you that type of advantage?

Coach Chapman: “Well we have a lot of size, which always helps. Really we don’t ever talk about blocks. We are more focused on not fouling and taking a charge when we get dribble penetrations, but obviously in certain situations it is nice to have some length and size and get some blocks.” (more…)