Go Hawks

Canyon Lake was on fire in the second half scoring 44 points and overcoming a 13 point halftime deficit in beating Somerset, 65-60.

“They got into a half-court trap that led to some mistakes and turnovers from us,” Head Coach Lucas Chapman said. “That led to easy layups for them. We just got rattled a little bit and they went on a run.”

In the past, that type of half would mean more of the same and a bad loss as a result.

“I told the guys at half that if we take care of the ball, then we will be fine,” Coach Chapman recalled. “We had 12 turnovers in the first half and only 3 in the second half.”

That was the turning point as the Hawks have proved in past games that it is hard to score when you are not getting shots off because of mistakes on offense.

Scoring 44 points in the second half would be more than what the Hawks saw in whole games in the past.

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Senior Brandon Ward scored 8 points while dishing out 4 assists in Hawks win over Llano

Canyon Lake got there first win over Llano on Monday as the Hawks stung the Yellowjackets, 59-40.

“We came out early and got into a full-court man,” Head Basketball Coach Lucas Chapman stated. “That led to some turnovers and easy baskets….we really attacked the zone well early on and got some points in the paint.”

Thirteen of the 15 players scored in this game as the points were spread over the whole court much like the press wreaked havoc on Llano as CL held Llano to just 3 points to start the game.

Heath McDonough and Will Gray both finished with 9 points while Brandon Ward and Jacob Ramirez coming in with 8 a piece.

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          Go Hawks

Canyon Lake is still in their infancy as Fredericksburg won each quarter in this win, 67-44.

“We did some good stuff,” Head Coach Lucas Chapman stated. “We could not finish shots or our free throws…but I liked our energy and effort and we were much more engaged in this game.”

To accent, Coach Chapman’s comments, the Hawks could not finish on the offensive side shooting 32% from the floor while leaving a possible 17 points at the charity stripe.

You can not expect perfection from the free throw line, but making 60-70% would have brought a whole new dynamic to this game in the second half.

The Billies buried Canyon Lake from they’re free throw stripe making 79% of those shots for 15 points in the second half.

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Canyon Lake’s Varsity started their first home game shooting 22 % in the first half and then collapsed in the 4th quarter losing to the Lampasas Badgers, 52-40.

“It is early and there is a long way to go and we are still missing 3 major pieces,” Head Coach Luke Chapman surmised. “They made just one shot from outside and it was just their post play that killed us.”

Even after starting the game shooting blanks, the Hawks only found themselves down 2 points going into their halftime talk.

The Hawks took their first lead with :50 seconds to go in the third quarter and even increased that lead to 3 points to start the final stanza after a 3pt shot from Charlie McIntosh.

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Senior Brandon Ward will be looking for a break out year for the Hawks

Canyon Lake has not had a lot of success throughout the years for basketball yet there is a decent chance that this year’s team might have what it takes to finish strong.

The Hawks will have more depth this year as many of the younger players last season played significant roles and with another year of playing could put this team in the spotlight.

Brandon Ward, Justin Ferris, Rory Preiss, Will Gray, Tyler Williams are some of those players that ended last season as solid players.

Looking at Preiss’ last game of stats in his game with Yoakum, and you see what could be in store this season.

Actually Preiss had a great half that many players would like to average for a half. Preiss ended the first half of that Yoakum game with 15 points and 10 rebounds which translates to a double-double.

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Hawks lose to Wimberley for another close loss in last year’s season.

 
 Game 5: Canyon Lake   70   Yoakum          52              Basketball
 Game 4: Canyon Lake   vs.  Wimberley 25-21, 21-25, 25-23   Volleyball
 Game 3: Canyon Lake   49   Fredericksburg  31              Football

Canyon Lake had an up and down season so far up to this game with Fredericksburg and beating the Billies would go a long way in giving this team their confidence back with a total win via, offense, special teams, and defense (when they needed The stop).

Two years ago Fredericksburg beat CL at home and did not take any prisoners in this game, winning, 38-14.

This time, Canyon Lake returned the favor as the Hawks not only controlled the clock with their running game, but also had quick answer touchdowns via kick-off returns.

The Billies could not muster any momentum giving up those two special team scores and then add two costly fumbles and Canyon Lake would not look back.

One of those fumbles happened on the one inch line as a Billie lost the ball jumping over the goal line after a jarring hit.

Josh DeVries only had one carry at home in the loss, but on this night, DeVries ran for 120 yards and had Robert Woods join him when he broke the 100 yard barrier too.

Canyon Lake has now rushed for 661 yards the last two years as the Hawks have had success with Fredericksburg these past few years.

The number, 165 is what helped win this game as that number was the total yardage for the two kick-off returns by DeVries and Matt Adams.

Both returns were in the first half and both happened right when the Billies had taken a lead. The first was after a Billies field goal and then Adams return nullified a 17-14 Fredericksburg lead.

Canyon Lake would hold Fredericksburg after that second return and then score with just 1 second on the clock before halftime.

The Hawks would have the ball first to start the second stanza and after taking 7 minutes off the clock ran the score to, 35-17.

Defense would stop Freddie again and Canyon Lake would score again with a little over 3 minutes left in the third quarter, 42-17, giving your Hawks their 28 unanswered points.

Hayden Dubois would score again to finish the game, his fourth touchdown run for this game.

Special Teams:  No Punts and 2 kickoff returns.                     √
Offense: Controlled the clock 33:10 and Fredericksburg 14:50.       √
Defense: 2 stops saving a td and drive giving the CL a quick score. √

The win would turn out to be a game to get Canyon Lake in the Playoff door for the second year in a row.

CL had 7 losses and of those games the Hawks would lose by a touchdown or less in 6 of those evenings.

 Losses              Score               Difference
 Blanco              07-35                  -28
 Wimberley           27-28                  -01
 Lampasas            14-21                  -07
 Liberty Hill        14-19                  -05
 Taylor              31-33                  -02
 Boerne              35-42                  -07
 Rockport-Fulton     21-27                  -06 overtime

That first game with Blanco would be the only contest that Canyon Lake was a no-show and a play here and there could have had a team with a much better season record.

That would explain how Canyon Lake would score more points than they gave up with 2 more losses on their ledger. (365 offense– 310 defense)

This win was big and would set up another run in those playoffs!!

Go Hawks!!

CLJV celebrating after beating Wimberley

Game 5: Canyon Lake 70 Yoakum 52    Basketball

Game 4 in the count down of the Top 5 games played this past season will certainly be a surprise to some of you since this game did not involve a Varsity team.

This year, Canyon Lake had many sub-varsity teams that finished at the top district races as Mountain Valley keeps feeding some salty classes to the halls in CL that are transferring to a sporting event.

The Hawks had a break out year in Volleyball this season, but many times when a Varsity team comes through with a good season, the Freshman and Junior Varsity might not be as talented.

You might say that those Varsity teams were successful because they needed those younger players to help get them in a better position to compete in those all important district games.

Wimberley has been a thorn in the side of Hawk fans ever since the first year of competition and this past season, the Junior Varsity made great strides as they too were a much improved group of ladies that will be ready to take the baton from those Senior Volleyball players.

Canyon Lake’s Varsity finished by hitting the 30 win plateau, but one of the better games played came during a home game against Wimberley.

The Varsity had an undefeated district record as did Wimberley in the first half of the round robin of district games and the stands would fill up with more people to ever witness a home game.

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Five Top Games of 2014-15 School Year

Will Gray will be one of several players coming back for what could be a coming out party next year

The ReSporter will be having a 5-Part series talking about the top 5 sporting events of this season starting with the 5th Place game down to the number 1 (according to the ReSporter) game.

We will set up what was happening during the season of that sport and rehash that event.

If you would like to comment, then please feel free to give us your thoughts on that game or event and your thoughts.

This will be The ReSporter’s 1500th article since we started with this venture a little over 5 years ago.

We would like to remind you that The ReSporter needs your help with advertisements for this coming season as this is just a break even adventure at the moment.

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Sean Nolan is awarded First Team All-District this past season.

Canyon Lake had some individual awards in Basketball as Senior Sean Nolan took down the nets making District 26-4A First Team All District.

Nolan set several records this past season as he was a Rock of Gibraltar for the Hawks all season long.

Finishing with 220 points and 207 rebounds was a good start in showing other teams they might have to game plan around this young man.

More than that was his 55 blocked shots which certainly helped this season in slowing down opposing team’s offense.

Nolan also led the Hawk team in field goal percentage with a lofty .575 number.

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The 8th Annual Hawks Craw Fish Boil will be held May2nd from 12noon -6pm on the lake at the Canyon Park Pavilion #1 located across from the Hancock Center

http://www.hawkscrawfishboil.com/

All proceeds will go towards CLHS and MVMS. Since inception we have raised $12,500 to many different CL youth activities.

Hawkscrafishboil.com profits go directly back to the Canyon Lake youth community!
Money collected, raised and donated goes directly to CL Hawk youth activities. Hawkscrafishboil.com does not keep, hold any monies as profit! We are 100% a volunteer organization.

Our Goals
Hawkscrawfishboil.com is a support arm for CL Hawk youth activities. We want to build a closer Hawk community by emphasizing academics and sports while building Hawk pride within our families and community. It is important that Hawkscrawfishboil.com continues to support our area business community with our patronization by help making families aware of the great services provided locally. This year we have 11 sponsorships from the community up from seven last year and CISD supporting the Craw Fish Boil.
We want to grow this event larger every year thus accomplishing a higher donation amounts, creating an event the CL can count on every year as a mainstay event which encompasses more community people from both sides of the lake were the CL community can come together for CL its self and get behind CLHS and MVM
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