Jerry Besselman has been a face that many fans have seen at any Hawk Sporting event that would involve refreshing your tastes.

The ReSporter went on a search to find someone that might have been to more games and events that wasn’t a player or Coach. Besselman fit that bill as the man behind the counter where you will find liquids or food to keep that Hawk fan strong enough to end the game and yelling on their Hawk team flavor of that event.

The ReSporter had an opportunity to get with Besselman at the end of a Hawk Softball game for a formal introduction to you the fan.

The ReSporter: Hey Jerry are you having fun?

Jerry Besselman: “Yes, I get to be around students and they all know my name.”

The ReSporter: Do they know you as Jerry or Besselman?

Jerry Besselman: “There was a time when Coach Nicole Creek needed to get a hold of me to change a time of a game or something like that and she was wanting to look up my phone number. She could not find me because she knew me by my first name. So yes, I’m thinking most of the students and teachers just know me by my first name.”

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The ReSporter: Your first year as a Head Coach, what would you do differently as you prepare for next year?

Coach Chapman: “I don’t know if we will do a whole lot differently going forward. I would like to think that if we continue to just do the same things and just continue the process then the results will get better. We will always emphasize the fundamentals like shooting, passing and ball-handling and work on those things day in and day out. Strategically we will do some different stuff such as picking up the pressure on defense, but we are not going to stray too far from what we have started.”

The ReSporter: What is your overall assessment of this year’s team and season?

Coach Chapman: “Although the record and results may not indicate it, I thought we did some really good things this year. Most of all I am proud about how we played and how we conducted ourselves. We played the game the right way, acted right and represented Canyon Lake the right way. We had a really good stretch of games in December where we played at a high level. We also set some individual records for the program, and we finally won a district game. I think what we did this year was lay the foundation for the future and with the program where it is now, that’s what we needed.”

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The Canyon Lake JV ended their season in Bandera after suffering an anemic fourth quarter losing, 51-39.

That 12 point difference was much closer as the game was still within reach as Bandera started the last quarter up by two points, 34-32.

“We were able to keep it close for three quarters,” Coach Brian Hooper stated. “The biggest reason why the game got out of hand in the fourth, was in giving up to many rebounds.”

“Three possessions in a row Bandera had multiple shots on offense that led to easy buckets, and we couldn’t respond,” Coach Hooper closed. “Bandera had a big physical line up that wore us down in the fourth.”

Garrett Winters led all Hawk scorers with 12 points and Sean Nolan missed double digits with nine.

            1   2   3   4   Final
 Hawks JV   6  16  13   4   39
 Bandera    8  14  15  14   51

Garrett Winters 12, Sean Nolan 9, Skyler Tschoepe 7, Austin Acosta 4,
Dave Pfaff 3, Qurion Banks 2, Scott Taylor 2.

by Coach Barthels

Canyon Lake started off slow, but great defense in the 2nd and 3rd quarters along with a strategic well played 4th quarter of scoring helped the CLHS Freshmen have a come from behind victory last night in Bandera, 45-43.

Trailing the entire game and down by seven early in the 4th, the Hawks mounted their comeback.

Scoring a quick four points off of steals by Hayden Lee and Joe Arredondo who found Brandon Ward streaking down the court for two uncontested lay-ups and a crucial 3 pointer by Justin Ferris, his only points of the game, tied it at
41.

The lead never belonged to the Hawks until their was 5.2 seconds left and Hayden Lee drew the defense into him and made a great pass to a streaking Mason Montgomery for a lay-up and the game winner.

With a turn over on the inbounds play the Hawks were able to get the ball back into Hayden Lee who was fouled for a 1 and 1. Missing the freethrow and placing everyone back to play defense had the Bandera Bulldogs driving down to the opposite end of the court forcing a three point shot over the back board sealing the victory for the Hawks.

Nine of the 12 Hawks that were dressed scored points, but even those that did
not score made great passes down low to the posts who were able to put up
25 points in the paint.

Big rebounds by Dalton Head, Hayden Lee, and Robert Woods will be a stat that gets over looked, but they all played a crucial role in sealing a victory and getting chances for the Hawks to set up the offense.

Canyon Lake finished the season 9-14 and 2-8 in district play,”We
played in several close games this year that we were not able to come out on
top in, this victory was a great way to end the season, I am proud of our
team for all of the hard work they put in this season,” Coach John Batthels closed.

             1   2   3   4   Final
 CLHS        6   9  13  17   45
 Bandera    13   9   8  12   43
 Leading Scorers:
 Robert Woods 12, Brandon Ward 8, Hayden Lee 7, Zach Gregory 6, Sam Langford
 3, Justin Ferris 3, Joe Arredondo 2, Zach Sawyer 2, Mason Montgomery 2

Canyon Lake could not even scare the basket in the first quarter as both teams combined for eight points, as the Hawks ended another season on a down note, losing 40-31 to Bandera.

Falling in love with the three point shot did not help matters as CL shot a dismal 12% from beyond the arc and those outside shots also resulted in only four free throws in this game.

Caleb Kreiger finished his season with 15 points and 9 rebounds on top of many records for his career played in just one season.

 Kreiger Finishes:
 1st   Rebounds           218
 1st   Blocks              59
 3rd   Points Scored      406
 5th   Made Free Throws    72

Other Hawk Players and Career Records:
 1st   Assists            Doug Hubnik     151 season 187 career
 2nd   3pt Goals          Andrew Riali     62
 4th   3pt Goals          Paul Davis       34
 4th   Steals             Doug Hubnik      62
 4th   Made Free Throws   Doug Hubnik      80

Canyon Lake will now go to work on trying to climb back into their district race for next year as both the Freshman and Junior Varsity will have several players ready to step in for these departing Seniors.

Seniors playing last game:
Doug Hubnik; Caleb Kreiger; Paul Davis; Chandler Faulkner; Isaac Pruna;   
Ray Dailey; Robbie Ferris; Thomas McIntire; Spencer Wellings

            1   2   3   4   Final
 CL Hawks   2  11  10   8   31
 Bandera    6  13  15   6   40

                             3pt           Tot Rebounds
 Name              fgm-fga fgm-fga ftm-fta pts or-dr tot a  s  b  to
 Andrew Riali        3-14    2-11    0-0    8   3-1  4   0  2  0  1
 Robbie Ferris       0-1     0-1     0-0    0   0-0  0   0  1  0  0
 Chandler Faulkner   0-2     0-0     0-0    0   0-1  1   1  0  0  0
 Thomas McIntire     0-0     0-0     0-0    0   0-0  0   0  0  0  1
 Paul Davis          2-12    1-7     0-0    5   0-6  6   1  2  0  2
 Doug Hubnik         0-6     0-1     0-0    0   0-3  3   5  3  0  1
 Tyler Clark         1-2     0-1     0-0    2   0-0  0   0  1  0  0
 Caleb Kreiger       7-15    0-3     1-2   15   2-7  9   0  1  0  4
 Javier Mendez       0-0     0-0     1-2    1   3-1  4   2  2  0  3
 Ray Dailey          0-0     0-0     0-0    0   0-0  0   0  0  0  0
 Isaac Pruna         0-1     0-0     0-0    0   1-2  3   0  1  0  1
 Totals             13-53    3-24    2-4   31   9-21 30  9 13  9 13
 Percentages        24.5%   12.5%   50.0%

Canyon Lake Girls have finished their season and the Boys have one more game.

Games from District Top Three

 Girls                            Points               Boys
 Katie Williams        99                              Caleb Krieger        131
 Olivia Flores         77                              Andrew Riali         115
 Amber Ramsey          55                              Paul Davis            93

                                  Rebounds
 Katie Williams        87                              Caleb Krieger         70
 Amber Ramsey          80                              Andrew Riali          49
 Kyndall Drum          35                              Paul Davis            36

                                  Assists
 Katie Williams        11                              Doug Hubnik           55
 Amber Ramsey          10                              Caleb Kreiger         10
 Olivia Flores          8                              Paul Davis             9

                                   Steals
 Amber Ramsey          29                              Doug Hubnik           16
 Katie Williams         9                              Javier Mendez         12
 Dulce Brown            8                              Andrew Riali           9
 Olivia Flores          8

                                  3Point Goals
 Olivia Flores         14                              Andrew Riali         31
 Hannah St. John        3                              Paul Davis           12
 Katie Williams         2                              Caleb Kreiger         5

                                 Free Throws Pct.
 Amber Ramsey     9/14 .643                            Chandler Faulkner   8/9  .889
 Katie Williams  25/41 .610                            Andrew Riali       14/18 .778
 Olivia Flores   25/44 .568                            Paul Davis         19/29 .655

                                     Blocks
 Amber Ramsey           16                             Caleb Kreiger         24
 Katie Williams         11                             Paul Davis             3
 Trena Lorett            3                             Doug Hubnik            2

Fredericksburg has taken their 3A status to heart as they will shoot and make 3pointers at will to bury a team.

Canyon Lake was in this game and made several runs at this Billie team but there was always an answer in the form of a three pointer and 99% of the time that shot would find the bottom of the net.

The Hawks did shoot in the 30% range throughout this contest which did not help when your opponent is shooting over 50% from that 3 point circle.

CL has one consolation in that Fredericksburg is not a 4A school giving them another point to add onto their scoring.

This was the last night for several Seniors that was in their last home game.

Chandler Faulkner is one of those players that gives several intangibles for the Hawks that won’t always show up in a stat line.

Coach Lucas Chapman has used Faulkner as his go to guy when needing to a shut down defensive (more…)

Canyon Lake Freshman suffered a subpar second quarter that was too much to rekindle in their loss to Fredericksburg, 59-45.

A three for fourteen from the field in that quarter was enough to bury the Hawks while Fredericksburg buried three pointer after three pointer.

Both teams were evenly matched for the other three quarters as Robert Woods once again had a double-double with 13 points and 12 rebounds.

Hayden Lee also had some very nice drives to the basket in helping to keep the Hawks close to their visitors.

Free throws were not free for CL as a 4-13 tally would indicate. Oh yeah, Fredericksburg does use that word ‘Free’ for their Throws.

“I am very proud of the way we played tonight,” Coach John Barthels opened. “This was the first game in a long time that we kept our composure against a press and we up tempo defensively.”

Canyon Lake did have some spurts getting Fredericksburg’s lead back into single digits.

“The score might not reflect good defense, but were where we needed to be initially and force them to be out of rhythm, unfortunately one of the two areas we did not do well was rebounding,” Coach Barthels finished. “We did get 29 points from our big men tonight and I am really looking forward to seeing this group develop next year.”

                     1   2   3   4   Final
 Billies Freshman   13  15  19  12   59
 Hawks Freshman     10   6  14  15   45
                           3pt               Pt  Rebounds
 name                fgm-fga fgm-fga ftm-fta tot or-dr tot  a  s  b  to
 Rodrigo Sarmiento     0-2     0-1     0-0    0   0-1   1   0  0  0  1
 Dalton Head           1-2     0-0     0-0    2   2-1   3   0  0  0  0
 Justin Ferris         0-1     0-0     0-0    0   0-0   0   0  0  0  0
 Joseph Arredondo      3-6     0-0     2-5    8   0-1   1   5  4  0  6
 Timothy Romero        0-0     0-0     0-0    0   0-1   1   0  0  0  2
 Mason Montgomery      0-2     0-1     0-0    0   0-1   1   0  0  0  1
 Sam Langford          0-2     0-0     0-0    0   1-1   2   0  1  0  3
 Hayden Lee            4-9     0-0     0-0    8   1-3   4   0  3  0  1
 Brandon Wood          3-11    1-7     1-2    8   1-1   2   0  5  0  1
 Zach Sawyer           0-1     0-0     0-0    0   0-0   0   0  0  0  0
 Robert Woods          6-10    0-0     1-4   13   4-8  12   1  0  0  1
 Zach Gregory          3-3     0-0     0-1    6   2-0   2   0  1  0  2
 Totals               19-49    1-9     4-13  45  11-18 29   6 14  0 18
 Percentage           40.8%   11.1%    30.8%

Quarter First     Second    Half   Third      Fourth      Half    Game
FG      5-9 56%   3-14 21%  35%    6-12 50%   6-14 36%    46%     41%
3Pt FG  0-1 00%   0-2  00%  00%    1-3  33%   0-4  00%    14%     11%
FT      0-2 00%   0-1  00%  00%    1-2  50%   3-7  43%    44%     31%
TO      5         6         11     3          4           7       18

Canyon Lake Junior Varsity scored eight points in the last 40 seconds to overcome a seven point deficit, beating Fredericksburg last Friday night.

Fredericksburg had a lead or was tied for 31:58.7 of this game and Canyon Lake took over for :01.3 and that lead is still there at this writing.

Having trouble in the first half in getting the ball down the court was the culprit in playing catch up for this game.

The Billies press was not giving the Hawks any chances for shots and proving that Fredericksburg’s 47 point win last go around would be more of the same.

Canyon Lake Junior Varsity had other plans however as they started inching back into this game after intermission.

“The first half we were not attacking Fredericksburg’s press and allowing them to trap us,” Coach Brian Hooper said with his lost voice. “We talked about getting the ball and taking it up the court instead of sitting back and allowing them to trap us.”

“We started dribbling through the press and that was allowing us to get some calls.”

Sean Nolan made his presence known again with just one missed shot in this contest and that miss was retrieved by Nolan with a put back.

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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.