Canyon Lake JV basketball team swatted the Panthers around in their victory last Tuesday night in the Hawk gym.
“We have been on a skid the last seven games,” Coach Brian Hooper said. “Overall our press helped us in getting turnovers and got our offense going.”Seven blocks recorded by five different players pretty much told Navarro that weak stuff was not going to be allowed as Canyon Lake controlled the boards with nine offensive rebounds and 37 total rebounds.
All but one player had at least one rebound and no player dominated the boards. A truly team effort as CLJV rushed out to a 10 point lead after that first quarter finishing with their 15 point margin of victory.
Sean Nolan was a recipient of a match-up offense as Navarro had no one who could body up to this 6’5 220lb mountain man underneath.
“We wanted to get Sean (Nolan) to work on finishing,” Coach Hooper said like a proud father.
In that final quarter Nolan’s longest shot was right under the rim, in fact all of his shots were right under the rim, hence only missing one shot for the game.
On having the offense isolating Nolan underneath in the fourth quarter Nolan commented, “Somewhat, because they (Navarro) don’t have any players my height and I was telling my teammates, Navarro had no one to match up with me,” Nolan said from his mountaintop.