The Freshman Team was late, but all that proved was sometimes warming up might make you cold as Canyon Lake Freshman win 53-36.

Traffic was the culprit, but as these Hawks will attest it made no difference.

“Not warming up prior to this game may have helped the cause as we were able to put 21 points in the first period,” Coach John Barthels started. “Our defense stepped up another notch as we forced multiple turnovers that led to quick baskets.”

That might be the ticket for Canyon Lake for future games, keep the team on the bus as long as you can and then unleash that energy for a good lead and eventual victory.

The Hawks held Gonzales to only 13 points the second half as CL increased their lead to an eventual 17 point relaxing win.

“We are getting better at attacking the basket and moving the ball around that creates open shots,” Coach Barthels closed.

Hayden Lee finished with 21 points leading the pent-up Hawks with Brandon Ward also scoring in double figures with 10 points.

The ride home was much more relaxing for Canyon Lake as they prepare for Wimberley this coming Friday night.

A win could be had with a large crowd that gets the parking lot full causing players to arrive late and ready to take care of their next opponent.

                 1   2   3   4   Final
 CL Freshman    21  11  10  11   53
 Gonzales       12  11   7   6   36
 Scorers:
 H. Lee 21, B. Ward 10, J. Arredondo 7, R. Woods 6,
 Z. Gregory 3, T. Soliz 2, R. Sarmiento 2, M. Montgomery 2.

Canyon Lake had a late start to their game with Gonzales but the Hawks still could not get out of traffic in time to pull out a win, losing 46-49.

The CL Freshman got delayed in traffic on their route to Gonzales that delayed all of the contests for this evening of action.

Canyon Lake did have some good things come out of this contest, but that most important item was still stuck in traffic, losing, as the Hawks are now mired in a six game losing streak.

Under 10 turnovers and a much better shooting percentage were all good signs but it only took one category that snarled traffic up for the delays…Free Throw Shooting was that flat tire.

The Hawks had been shooting much better in that facet, in fact in their last two games, CL was shooting 70% from the line.

“We just couldn’t get a stop when we needed it,” Head Coach Lucas Chapman said. “There is a lot more hope after our game than there was after Friday’s game but free throws hurt us again.”

Paul Davis had a tying three point field goal with 40 seconds left in the game but then also committed a foul with 16 seconds while Gonzales was waiting for a last shot.

Gonzales was also abysmal from the charity stripe up until that foul and this Apache player sank both free throws to give them the lead and game.

Davis was fouled on CL’s last offensive set, but missed his first shot which forced Davis to miss the second with a chance for rebound and another shot.

To no avail as the Hawks had to foul again that resulted in your final score.

Other notables was Andrew Riali with 12 points on 50% shooting while Doug Hubnik continues to have a record year in the assist department totaling seven in this contest giving him 92 for the season.

Canyon Lake’s next game will be the start of District 27-3A, when Wimberley visits the Hawk Gym this Friday night.

            1   2   3   4   Final
 CL Hawks   7   7  13  20   46
 Gonzales   9  12  10  18   49

                              3pt           Pt  Rebounds
 Name               fgm-fga fgm-fga ftm-fta Tot or-dr Tot a s b to
 Andrew Riali         4-8     3-7     1-2   12   0-3   3  0 0 0 1
 Chandler Faulkner    1-2     0-0     3-4    5   1-0   1  1 0 0 1
 Thomas McIntire      0-0     0-0     0-0    0   0-0   0  0 0 0 0
 Paul Davis           4-9     1-5     1-6   10   1-2   3  2 1 0 0
 Doug Hubnik          2-5     0-0     3-6    7   0-3   3  7 1 0 3
 Spencer Wellings     0-0     0-0     0-0    0   0-0   0  0 0 0 1
 Tyler Clark          0-1     0-1     0-0    0   0-0   0  0 0 0 0
 Caleb Kreiger        4-11    0-2     0-0    8   0-6   6  0 0 3 1
 Javier Mendez        2-3     0-0     0-0    4   1-1   2  2 1 0 1
 Isaac Pruna          0-2     0-0     0-0    0   3-3   6  0 1 1 0
 Totals              17-41    4-15    8-18  46   6-18 24 12 4 4 8
 Percentage          41.5%   26.7%   44.4%

 CANYON LAKE BOYS            Points         CANYON LAKE GIRLS
 1. Caleb Kreiger   290                     1. Katie Williams    261
 2. Paul Davis      188                     2. Amber Ramsey      180
 3. Andrew Riali    158                     3. Olivia Flores     137
                   FG Percentage (25 or more shots)
 1. Caleb Kreiber   47.5%                   1. Kyndall Drum      46.5%
 2. Javier Mendez   40.0%                   2. Amber Ramsey      39.1%
 3. Andrew Riali    37.4%                   3. Katie Williams    37.3%
                   Free Throw Percentage (14 or more shots)
 1. Caleb Kreiger   66.7%                   1. Olivia Flores     71.2%
 2. Doug Hubnik     66.3%                   2. Katie Williams    63.0%
 3. Paul Davis      54.2%                   3. Kelsey Long       61.1%
                             Rebounds
 1. Caleb Kreiger    158                    1. Amber Ramsey      180
 2. Andrew Riali      88                    2. Katie Williams    140
 3. Paul Davis        71                    3. Kyndall Drum       80
                              Assists
 1. Doug Hubnik       97                    1. Dulce Brown        20
 2. Paul Davis        18                    2. Olivia Flores      16
 3. Chandler Faulkner 13                    2. Katie Williams     16

Hawk Freshman almost pitch a shut-out in win over Blanco, Friday January 4 in the Blanco gym.

What doldrums the Hawks had suffered in their last couple of outings was not in attendance in this contest as Canyon Lake jumped out to a 14 point first quarter while pitching a No-No in that quarter.

“We jumped out to a quick lead and never looked back,” Coach John Barthels commented. “After a couple of disappointing losses we decided to not get fancy and go back to what works best for our team, pressure.”

Wow, Coach Bartels can make adjustments sound so easy.

“We caused turnovers that led to easy baskets for our team,” Coach Barthels closed.

Hayden Lee finished with 10 points leading the team in scoring. The Hawks had nine players that scored in the contest while staying focused in a 29 point whitewash.

“We got a lot of of good rebounds and our defense turned into our offense,” Forward Hayden Lee said. “This type of game gives us a good feeling as we go into our next game….this was a nice relief. It also helped to make our threes and that helped open things up.”

Hawks next test will come against Gonzales this coming Monday as they try to keep that good feeling to continue throughout the rest of their season.

Based on Coach Barthels, all this team needs to do is keep up the pressure.

                   1   2   3   4   Final
 Hawks Freshman   14   9  11  10   44
 Blanco Freshman   0   6   7   2   15
 Scorers:
 H. Lee 10, S. Langford 7, B. Ward 5, R. Woods 4, T. Solid 4,
 M. Montgomery 4, J. Arredondo 4, J. Ferris 3, T. Romero 3.

Canyon Lake’s Junior Varsity outscored Blanco, 24-4 in the second half to complete a comeback and put the finishing touches to the Panthers, 40-27.

In the first half, CL only had two players that scored while shooting 28 percent and twice had a 10 point deficit. The last time was 23-13 score with just over a minute left in the first half.

Blanco scored quickly to start the second half, but that was their last basket for this evening as the other two points scored by this Panther team was from their free throw line.

The drought that had hampered this Hawk team for the past few games seemed to still be lingering in starting this contest on this rainy and dreary evening.

The Hawks then woke up and scored 27 points while holding Blanco to four the last 16 minutes of this contest.

Trendon Martinez and Tommy Clark were the only players that scored in the first half combining for 16 points.

Austin Acosta and Skyler Tschoepe had 4 and 5 assists respectfully helping in giving players easy shots and confidence as this game progressed.

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Canyon Lake continues their cold front as the Blanco Panthers go on a 20-0 run from the second to third quarter and coast to a win, 45-32.

The Hawks are searching for answers as their shots have gone cold for their last five games all losses.

 Game           Total Points    Percentage
 Blanco             32             25%
 Lampasas           29             20%
 NB Christian       49             38%
 La Vernia          41             32%
 Randolph           36             33%

“The way we finished was certainly a positive,” Head Coach Lucas Chapman opened. “We continued to compete.”

Confidence is not overflowing and the Hawks do have some impressive wins on their resume, they just need to revive those games and get back on that saddle.

Next game is this coming Monday at Gonzales and then District 27-3A starts the following Friday when Wimberley will visit.

              1   2   3   4   Final
 HAWKS       10   6   4  12   32
 Blanco      11  13  13   8   45

                           3pt            Pt  Rebound
Name             fgm-fga fgm-fga ftm-fta Tot or-dr Tot a  s  b  to
Andrew Riali       1-5     1-3     0-0    3   1-2   3  0  2  0  1
Robbie Ferris      0-2     0-0     0-0    0   0-0   0  0  0  0  0
Chandler Faulkner  1-4     0-1     2-2    4   3-0   3  0  0  0  0
Thomas McIntire    0-0     0-0     0-0    0   0-1   1  0  0  0  0
Paul Davis         3-9     0-6     0-0    6   1-2   3  2  0  0  1
Doug Hubnik        2-8     0-1     4-4    8   1-2   3  2  2  0  3
Spencer Wellings   0-3     0-2     0-0    0   0-3   3  0  0  0  2
Tyler Clark        1-4     0-2     0-0    2   1-2   3  0  2  0  0
Caleb Kreiger      3-7     0-3     0-0    6   1-8   9  0  1  0  4
Javier Mendez      0-1     0-0     0-0    0   1-0   1  0  0  0  0
Luke Curry         0-3     0-1     0-0    0   0-0   0  0  2  0  0
Ray Dailey         0-0     0-0     0-0    0   0-0   0  0  0  0  0
Isaac Pruna        1-2     0-0     1-4    3   1-2   3  0  1  0  0
Totals            12-48    1-19    7-10  32  10-22 32  4 10  0 11
Percentage        25.0%    5.3%   70.0%

Quarter First      Second      Half       Third      Fourth     Half       Game
FG      3/12..25%  3/12..25%   6/24..25%  1/10..10%  5/14..36%  6/24..25%  12/48..25%
3Pt FG  0-5...00%  0-5...00%   0-10..00%  1-3...33%  0-6...00%  1-9...11%  1-19....5%
FT      4-4..100%  0-0...00%   4-4..100%  1-2...50%  2-4...50%  3-6...50%  7-10...70%
TO      2          5           7          3          1          4          11

Canyon Lake continues their cold streak that started at the end of their semester as the Lampasas Badgers make SnowHawks in, 63-29 win.

What was once a three game cushion (9-6) has now become a one game deficit (9-10) as this Hawk team will try to stop their skid this coming Friday when CL tips off against Blanco at Blanco High School.

It took four minutes before CL could sink a basket and the Hawks did not even get a shot off in the first three minutes of this contest.

If this would of been a Ski Slalom event, then not only was Canyon Lake playing in shorts (Cold…burrrr), but also going down the hill very fast. (Black Slope fast)

It took a Spencer Wellings three point bank shot as the first half horn sounded before your Hawks would break into double figures.

“We haven’t played a game in a week and a half,” Head Coach Lucas Chapman said. “I used the whole bench trying to get our kids enough reps.”

Lampasas was a very athletic team that had played four games in a tournament after Christmas, but excuses will not lower the hurdle that is next on Canyon Lake’s schedule as District 27-3A looms in the very near future.

Layer your clothes when you ski and wear some long johns in this next game and hopefully this contest will start out much warmer with a better outcome.

             1   2   3   4   Final
 Lampasas   11  24  16  12   63
 CL Hawks    3   7  14   5   29

                              3pt           Pt   Rebounds
 Name               fgm-fga fgm-fga ftm-fta Tot  or dr Tot  a  s  b  to
 Andrew Riali         0-5     0-2     0-0    0   2  2   4   0  1  0  0
 Robbie Ferris        0-5     0-3     0-0    0   0  1   1   1  1  0  2
 Chandler Faulkner    0-0     0-0     3-4    3   0  1   1   0  0  0  1
 Thomas McIntire      0-1     0-1     0-0    0   0  0   0   0  0  0  1
 Paul Davis           1-5     0-3     2-3    4   2  1   3   0  1  0  5
 Doug Hubnik          0-2     0-0     1-2    1   0  1   1   1  2  0  4
 Spencer Wellings     2-3     2-3     0-0    6   0  1   1   0  1  0  2
 Caleb Kreiger        3-7     1-1     3-4   10   3  0   3   1  0  2  2
 Javier Mendez        0-1     0-0     0-0    0   1  0   1   0  0  0  4
 Luke Curry           0-4     0-3     0-0    0   0  0   0   0  0  0  1
 Ray Dailey           0-0     0-0     0-0    0   2  1   3   1  0  0  0
 Isaac Pruna          1-2     0-0     3-4    5   1  0   1   0  1  0  0
 Total                7-35    3-16   12-17  29  11  8  19   4  7  2 22
 Percentage          20.0%   18.8%   70.6%

 Quarter    First     Second      Half  Third       Fourth    Half  Game
 FG         1/5  20%  1/12   8%   12%   4/9   44%   1/9  11%  28%   20%
 3Pt FG     0-3  00%  1/5   20%   13%   1/3   33%   1/5  20%  25%   19%
 FT         1-1 100%  4/6   67%   71%   5/7   71%   2/3  67%  70%   71%
 TO         8         7           15    4           3         7     22

Canyon Lake’s quest for another playoff team will continue through this Winter and Spring.

Right now you have two promising scenarios with the Hawk Basketball programs.

The Girls and Boys teams have a legitimate chance to snag a T-Shirt company this coming season with help to design such a shirt.

Soccer has been tough to garner a playoff spot since this sport has been dominated by much larger schools since these teams play in a different district than CL’s other sports.

Because of a reduced number of teams that play that sport, the UIL combines 3A schools with 4A schools to crown a champion in Soccer each year.

The same is true for Canyon Lake’s Swimming team in having a district with larger schools. Another fact is that the Hawk Swimming program is still in it’s infancy stage and that makes competing in this tougher venue doubly hard.

Swimming also is much like Track and Field where playoffs are based on individuals in each event advancing instead of a Team getting in a bus for their next round of events after a District crowns a champion.

Canyon Lake has a few teams that have not had a chance to compete after a district race yet.

(more…)

The Canyon Lake Hawks had costly free throws in their loss to New Braunfels Christian Wildcats in their final game of this year losing, 55-49.

The Hawks barely outscored their second quarter in the second half as they went cold again during that time span.

“Being able to know how to score when we need to score is what we need to work on,” Coach Lucas Chapman exclaimed. “They (NB Christian) got us out of what we wanted to do.”

Canyon Lake was just three for 12 from the stripe in that second half and each miss would of either extended their lead or drawn the game closer during some very crucial segments of the game.

Andrew Riali had a spurt of three points in that second quarter giving your Hawks the lead going into halftime.

The Wildcats and Hawks were swashbuckling during the last minutes of the second quarter. Riali had nine points during a two minute stretch that helped give Canyon Lake a 30-27 lead at intermission.

(more…)

Canyon Lake found themselves at the North Pole on Tuesday night in their games with La Vernia Bears.

In fact, La Vernia could change their mascot name to Polar Bears based on how cold the shooting was for how the Hawks played in their games at Hawk Gym.

The Freshman team was ‘As Cold as Ice’…sung by Foreigner several years ago scoring just two points in their first quarter and with seven total points by halftime.

The Junior Varsity did not do much better, finishing with 27 points in their game, just one more point scored by their Freshman counterparts.

Canyon Lake’s Varsity team fared a little better, but missed lay ups during the fourth quarter that doomed a game that had just 13 points in their two middle quarters.

The Varsity Hawks did speed the game up with a press during the fourth quarter,  that did lead to several chances of closing the gap, but their end result was no different than two other games that had teams with Hawks spelled across their jerseys.

Missed shots and opportunities were in abundance on this night. Canyon Lake’s final stats was dismal when combining all three teams:

Team            FG Percentages    Three Point Goals     Free Throws
Freshman        10-46   21.7%     0-5   00.0%            6-22   27.3%
Junior Varsity   8-36   22.2%     1-7   14.3%           10-20   50.0%
Varsity         15-47   31.9%     4-13  30.8%            7-13   53.8%
Combined        33-129  25.6%     5-25  20.0%           23-55   41.8%

The ReSporter saw some Polar Bears in route to the Hawk gym after leaving.

Global Warming has been confirmed a hoax the Ice Age is another matter however.

 Varsity            1   2   3   4   Final
 La Vernia Bears   13  12   8  16   49
 Canyon Lake Hawks 12   6   7  16   41

                             3pt           Pts  Rebounds
 Name              fgm-fga fgm-fga ftm-fta Tot  o-d  Tot a  s  b  to
 Andrew Riali        2-5     1-3     1-2    6   2-3   5  0  0  0  1
 Chandler Faulkner   1-3     0-0     0-0    2   0-0   0  0  0  0  0
 Thomas McIntire     0-1     0-1     0-0    0   1-0   1  0  0  0  0
 Paul Davis          3-12    2-5     0-0    8   1-2   3  0  1  0  1
 Doug Hubnik         3-11    0-1     5-8   11   0-3   3  5  1  0  3
 Spencer Wellings    1-1     1-1     0-0    3   0-2   2  0  0  0  0
 Tyler Clark         0-0     0-0     0-0    0   0-0   0  0  0  0  0
 Caleb Kreiger       4-11    0-1     1-1    9   5-3   8  0  0  2  1
 Javier Mendez       1-1     0-0     0-2    2   0-1   1  0  1  0  4
 Luke Curry          0-2     0-1     0-0    0   0-1   1  0  0  0  1
 Ray Dailey          0-0     0-0     0-0    0   0-0   0  0  0  0  0
 Totals             15-47    4-13    7-13  41   9-15 24  5  3  2 11
 Percentages        31.9%   30.8    53.8%

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 Junior Varsity   1   2   3   4   Final
 La Vernia Cubs   9  12  26  14   61
 Canyon Lake JV   5   6   6  10   27

                            3pt               Rebounds
 Name             fgm-fga fgm-fga ftm-fta Tot or dr Tot a  s  b  to
 Garrett Winters    1-4     0-3     1-1    3  0  0  0   1  1  0  7
 Trendon Martinez   1-3     0-1     4-4    6  0  0  0   1  1  0  3
 Austin Acosta      0-5     0-1     1-2    1  2  1  3   0  1  0  1
 Michael Russell    1-5     0-1     1-2    3  0  1  1   0  1  0  2
 Skylar Tschoepe    1-7     1-1     2-4    5  1  2  3   1  1  0  1
 Branton Kindla     0-0     0-0     0-0    0  0  0  0   0  1  0  1
 Tommy Clark        1-4     0-0     0-4    2  2  2  4   0  1  0  0
 Nic Adams          1-3     0-0     1-2    3  1  0  1   0  0  0  1
 Qurion Banks       0-2     0-0     0-0    0  1  0  1   0  0  1  0
 Dave Pfaff         1-1     0-0     0-1    2  0  2  2   0  0  1  0
 Sean Nolan         1-2     0-0     0-0    2  1  6  7   0  1  0  0
 Totals             8-36    1-7    10-20  27  8 13 21   3  8  2 16
 Percentages       22.2%   14.3%   50.0%

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 Freshman               1   2   3   4   Final
 La Vernia Young Cubs  13   3  18   6   40
 Canyon Lake Fr.        2   5   7  12   26

                      3pt               Rebounds
 Name       fgm-fga fgm-fga ftm-fta Tot or dr Tot a  s  b  to
 Sarmiento    0-0     0-0     0-0    0  1  0   1  0  0  0  1
 Soliz        1-7     0-1     1-3    3  1  0   1  2  0  0  3
 Head         0-4     0-0     0-0    0  3  1   4  0  1  0  1
 Ferris       0-0     0-0     0-0    0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0
 Romero       1-3     0-0     1-4    3  0  1   1  0  2  0  1
 Arredondo    3-13    0-1     1-4    7  1  1   2  0  3  0  3
 Montgomery   0-0     0-0     0-0    0  0  0   0  0  0  0  1
 Langford     0-1     0-0     0-0    0  0  1   1  0  0  0  2
 Lee          1-8     0-0     2-6    4  5  5  10  0  2  1  3
 Gregory      1-3     0-0     1-4    3  2  4   6  0  1  0  4
 Ward         2-6     0-3     0-0    4  1  1   2  2  1  0  1
 Sawyer       1-1     0-0     0-1    2  0  2   2  0  2  0  3
 Totals      10-46    0-5     6-22  26 14 16  30  4 12  1 23
 Percentages 21.7%   00.0%   27.3%