It was a bad news/good news story on Friday night for Canyon Lake’s Freshman team in their game with Bandera.

Bad News: The Hawks came out and needed some plumbing done on their side of the basket when they shot just 14 percent from the field in that first quarter.

Good News: Lucky for Canyon Lake, Gordon The Plumber was watching his son at his baseball practice on campus. During the First Quarter Break, Gordon was able to clear the basket and make it larger than the ball, giving CL a better chance for producing points.

More Good News: After that dismal start, your Hawks had the lead by five points, 10-5. Thanks to some good free throw shooting from Brandon Ward.

More and More Good News: For the remainder of this contest, the Hawks shot a salty 55 percent and were never threatened by this Bulldog club.

Just put Good News in front of each of these next points and you will have an idea of how dominating Canyon Lake was in training a Bulldog.

Next on the docket, your Hawks took the Bull from the dogs and applied it to Robert ‘Bull’ Woods as he proceeded to shoot lights out in this battle.

During the first quarter Woods did not have one shot. All of his shots were recorded in those last three stanzas.

‘Bull’ Woods was 11 for 14 from the field as he took over the lane and had his way with whatever puppy dog came into his kennel.

“We knew Bandera would be playing a 1/3/1 defense and so we were just going to feed the big guys,” Head Coach John Barthels said. “It was a good thing we got our bad quarter out of the way.”

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Canyon Lake lost a heartbreaker game in overtime to Bandera Bulldogs Friday night at the Hawk gym, 50-58.

Sharp Shooter Andrew Riali

“We battled our tails off,” Head Coach Lucas Chapman said. “To be down 15 points and believe we could get it done and get back in it was a great testament to this team.”

The Hawks had 25 turnovers in their last game in Fredericksburg and were on a mission to not let that happen again.

“We started taking care of the ball and our goal was to have 12 or less turnovers in this game,” Andrew “Dead Eye” Riali exclaimed.

Mission accomplished as CL finished with nine miscues in four quarters plus an overtime.

That was a key element as Canyon Lake started their comeback in the second half erasing a 15 point deficit in those last two quarters.

A 34 to 19 advantage in the second half with clutch shooting and lock down defense was a great combination for Canyon Lake as the home crowd helped pump adrenaline into this comeback.

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The Hawks could not grab enough momentum from their previous game with Navarro to put a scare on Fredericksburg, as Canyon Lake fell to the Billies by 17 points.

Caleb was the only Hawk to finish with double digit scoring finishing with 12 points in the loss.

Canyon Lake now faces a must win game this Friday at home when Bandera comes to town.

Game 1 2 3 4 Final
CL Hawks 11 6 8 12 37
Fredericksburg 13 14 16 11 54
Scorers:
Caleb Kreiger 12, Andrew Riali 7, Paul Davis 5,
Javier Mendez 4, Isaac Pruna 4, Chandler Faulkner 3,
Luke Curry 2.

Canyon Lake Freshman Basketbal team lost a tough battle in Navarro last week in overtime, 56-55.

Navarro has a good club, but a bad fourth quarter left little in their tank to win the game in overtime.

“Tavian Soliz went from wing to point guard early and drove the lane and made some plays,” Coach John Barthels commented. “Robert Woods got several offensive rebounds and easy put backs.”

Both players responded with their best game of this season, but more work will be done as this upstart team goes to Fredericksburg today with a game against the Billies.

                    1   2   3   4   OT   Final
 Hawk Freshman     13  11  21   6   4    55
 Navarro Freshman   7  15  8   21   5    56
 CL Scorers:
 T. Soliz 20, R. Woods 12, H. Lee 6, Z. Gregory 6, B. Ward 6,
 D. Head 4, J. Ferris 1.

Canyon Lake’s Girls and Boys basketball teams do not need to win every game on their schedule, but there will be some important games played by other schools that will have a say on how the Hawks will fare in finishing district.

The Lady Hawks are now embarking on their final run through district starting this Tuesday when they host Fredericksburg.

In District 27-3A play you have Navarro and Boerne who have separated from the other four schools.

Now it is up to CL to win enough games this second round to get a ticket for a playoff spot.

In the first round Fredericksburg won a pivotal game against Boerne which helps them greatly if they are break even with Wimberley and Canyon Lake to end this season.

Now your Hawks will need to win games with Wimberley, Fredericksburg, and Bandera in order to give them a chance for a playoff game.

What will put them squarely into a playoff game will reside in a win against either Navarro or Boerne. If they can pull that off in this round, then a 5-5 record will put them in a tie with either Wimberley and Fredericksburg.

If Wimberley loses to Navarro, Boerne, and CL, then they will also have that same 5-5 record, but a CL win over one of the two top teams would trump the Texans and give your Hawks an inside trek to a playoff spot.

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 Team                W    L    Pct.
 Fredericksburg      3    0  1.000
 Boerne              3    0  1.000
 CL HAWKS            1    2   .333
 Bandera             1    2   .333
 Wimberley           1    2   .333
 Navarro             0    3   .000

This Week's Games
 Tuesday January 22nd
 Canyon Lake    @    Fredericksburg
 Bandera        @    Wimberley
 Navarro        @    Boerne

Friday January 25th
 Bandera       @    Canyon Lake
 Wimberley     @    Navarro
 Boerne        @    Fredericksburg

Team Offensive   Points         Team Defense     Points
 Boerne          209            Fredericksburg   135
 Fredericksburg  189            Boerne           139
 Bandera         163            Bandera          170
 Canyon Lake     155            Canyon Lake      180
 Wimberley       153            Wimberley        183
 Navarro         129            Navarro          188

Individual District Scoring
 Name               Team            Points
 Aaron Shackelford  Bandera         49
 Paul Davis         Canyon Lake     48
 Maverick Harris    Boerne          48
 Jameson Turner     Boerne          45
 Ty Neff            Bandera         44
 Griffin McHone     Boerne          44
 Clayton Braden     Fredericksburg  40
 Colin Reyes        Fredericksburg  40
 Seth Linker        Wimberley       39
 Hunter Fries       Fredericksburg  39
 Andrew Riali       Canyon Lake     35
 Caleb Krieger      Canyon Lake     33
 Bradley Veselka    Boerne          33
 Slade Hudson       Navarro         26
 Desmond Smith      Navarro         22
 Brook Boatright    Navarro         22
 Preston Hernandez  Navarro         22

Canyon Lake halted their seven game losing streak with a 59-54 win over Navarro last Friday night in Panther country.

The Hawks last win was against this same team, Navarro in the Randolph Tournament over a month ago.

This win was also the first District win in over two years. Yes, CL won a forfeit game two years ago against SA Hawkins, but this was an actual win which certainly means more.

Canyon Lake’s last win in district was 24 games counting that forfeit win with Hawkins. You would go back to 26 district games, when the Hawks beat Ingram Moore, 81-73 February 9th, 2010.

Paul Davis was on for this evenings game scoring 25 points while Andrew Riali finished with 17 points.

Caleb Kreiger contributed 12 rebounds and four blocks to his resume. With his next block he will pass Neal Whitehead for the most blocks in Canyon Lake history, both players are tied with 41.

Another milestone could be passed in the Hawks game with Fredericksburg with Point Guard Doug Hubnik needing only five more assists to pass Matt Magness total of 136 in his recently completed career.

Hubnik continues to rack up assists with 103 for this season.

“It was a gut check win, exactly the type of win that we haven’t been able to get the past few years,” a relieved Head Coach Lucas Chapman said. “It was a great win and something we can really build on. It was good to finally get over that hump.”

The Hawks will now see what type of building they might be constructing when they face 19th ranked Fredericksburg Billies on their court tonight.

                      3pt           Pt  Rebounds
 Name       fgm-fga fgm-fga ftm-fta tot or-dr Tot  a s b to
 Riali        5-12    4-11    3-3   17   0-4   4   2 1 1 0
 Faulkner     1-5     0-0     3-4    5   2-2   4   1 0 0 0
 McIntire     1-1     0-0     0-0    2   0-0   0   0 1 0 0
 Davis        7-17    2-6     9-11  25   2-4   6   1 0 0 2
 Hubnik       2-6     0-0     1-3    5   2-2   4   4 1 0 2
 Kreiger      1-5     0-1     0-0    2   1-11 12   2 0 4 3
 Mendez       1-1     0-0     1-2    2   0-3   3   2 0 0 2
 Curry        0-0     0-0     0-0    0   0-0   0   0 0 0 1
 Pruna        0-0     0-0     0-0    0   1-0   1   0 1 0 0
 Totals      18-47    6-18   17-23  59   8-26 34  12 4 5 10
             38%      33%     74%

Canyon Lake Freshman missed a win by three points as the Boerne Greyhounds had a comeback in the fourth quarter outscoring CL by seven points for a two point win, 64-62.

“We played our best game offensively,” Coach John Barthels interjected. “We picked a bad time to play our worst game defensively.We can fix that.”

The Hawks had 11 players scoring points showing off their depth and resolve.

“We were able to get more people involved and had several players step up when we asked them to,” Barthels continued. “We were 17 of 28 from the free throw line after going 8 of 10 against Wimberley, so we have stepped up in the last two games there after shooting just 36% on the year.”

Having so many players involved in games will only help as they take on the tasks of getting their best game going.

“We have really started to play as a team and although we are 0-2 in district I feel we are playing better basketball at the right time,” Coach Barthels finished.

Brandon Ward and Zach Gregory both finished with double figure points with 17 and 12 respectfully.

“We worked as hard as we can to come over the injury,” Gregory said after commenting on losing Joseph Arredondo during the second half. “We will try to work harder in practice and come together as a team more and the wins will come.”

A good game for Canyon Lake as they continue their schedule through District 27-3A.

Freshman     1   2   3   4   Final
Boerne      14  16  15  17   64
CL Hawks    18  17  15  10   62
Scoring: B. Ward 17, Z. Gregory 12, R. Woods 7,
H. Lee 7, J. Arredondo 6, D. Head 4, R. Sarmiento 2,
T. Soliz 2, M. Montgomery 2, S. Langford 2, Z. Sawyer 1.

The Hawk’s Junior Varsity made up nine points in the third quarter but could not finish, losing 50-46 to Boerne.

The second half was a different team for Canyon Lake…again.

“Coach said to stay calm and don’t give up,” Trendon Martinez started. “We came out and we got some traps which resulted in easy baskets. We just need to stay focused and get that energy for the whole game with an unstoppable mindset and keep up a good defense.”

A much more active team in the second half helped as Canyon Lake was much more energetic on the boards and defense, which turned into offense.

Half of CL’s field goals, in that second half, was a result of an assist which tells you how good this offense was humming as this game matured.

Skyler Tschoepe was a recipient of many of those assists as he also made several other shots having one of his best overall games of this season with 19 points.

“Our second half we started off and got some easy baskets and then that led to momentum,” Tschoepe said with resolve. “Our transition points were wide open especially on our three’s.”

Garrett Winters also returned with a three point clinic making five long shots throughout this contest.

Seven different players were credited with an assist while also bringing down that turnover epidemic this team was suffering in their last outing.

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Canyon Lake’s effort did not translate to points as Boerne showed the Hawks how a good shooting team can control a game and pulled away for a 22 point win, 63-41 at the Hawk gym.

The Hawks started the game in good shape as they scored 14 points with four assists, eight rebounds and a tied score after the first eight minutes.

That hot shooting quickly became a cold night shooting when Boerne outscored the Hawks by seven points and that same number for the halftime score.

If CL would of converted their free throws in that second quarter, then they could of had a lead or at least a much closer game.

The Hawks did come out with a great play to start the second half, finding Andrew Riali wide open under the basket for their first play, but a missed shot was an omen for what would become a familiar event for the remainder of this contest.

Hard to win when your highest percentage of shooting tops out at 33 percent and that was from the free throw line.

Canyon Lake had open shots but very few would find the bottom of the net. The Hawks almost shot as many three pointers compared to shots inside the perimeter for the game.

Caleb Kreiger led the Hawks with 16 points and 8 rebounds. Riali also found a double digit night with 12 points.

Paul Davis had 22 points in his first district game but in this game his shot would not go in as he drew a blank. Along with many of the other players on this Cold night.

“They’re a good team,” Head Coach Lucas Chapman started. “You pick your poison with a team like this. Guard their point man and he will find their inside game, or let him slash and he can find their outside shooters.”

“We battled and had some guys step up and played some big minutes and none of our team had any let downs.”

Canyon Lake will now go on the road as they play Navarro this Friday and try once again to get off this losing streak that has been infested with some Cold weather, don’t forget your coat.

               1   2   3   4   Final
 Boerne       14  11  25  13   63
 Canyon Lake  14   4  15   8   41

                            3pt            Pts  Rebounds
 Name              ftm-fta ftm-fga ftm-fta Tot  or-dr tot a s b to
 Andrew Riali        4-10    4-9     0-0   12    0-1   1  1 0 0 0
 Robbie Ferris       0-1     0-1     0-0    0    0-0   0  0 0 0 0
 Chandler Faulkner   1-3     0-0     0-0    2    0-0   0  0 0 0 1
 Thomas McIntire     2-3     0-1     0-0    4    0-0   0  0 0 0 1
 Paul Davis          0-8     0-3     1-3    1    1-5   6  2 0 1 2
 Doug Hubnik         2-5     0-2     0-0    4    0-0   0  2 0 0 3
 Spencer Wellings    0-3     0-3     0-0    0    0-1   1  0 0 0 0
 Tyler Clark         0-1     0-1     0-0    0    1-0   1  0 0 0 1
 Caleb Kreiger       6-7     1-1     3-9   16    1-7   8  1 0 1 2
 Javier Mendez       0-3     0-0     0-0    0    1-4   5  1 0 0 2
 Luke Curry          0-1     0-1     0-0    0    0-0   0  2 1 0 1
 Ray Dailey          0-0     0-0     0-0    0    0-0   0  0 0 0 0
 Isaac Pruna         1-4     0-0     0-0    2    1-1   2  0 0 0 0
 Totals             16-49    5-22    4-12  41    5-18 23  9 1 2 13
 Percentage         32.7%   22.7%   33.3%

Quarter First     Second    Half    Third     Fourth     Half   Game
FG      6-16 38%  1-6 17%   32%     6-11 55%  3-16 19%   30%    33%
3pt FG  1-8  13%  0-1 00%   11%     3-5  60%  1-8  13%   31%    23%
FT      1-3  33%  2-8 25%   27%     0-0  00%  1-1 100%  100%    33%
TO      2         6         8       3         2           5     13