Canyon Lake Boy’s Freshman team also played in the Wimberley Tournament this past week-end and below you will have a couple of games results.

Both games were played on Saturday and CL lost in their first game against Texas School for the Deaf, 53-37.

Some of the players were commenting on how quiet the game actually turned out to be. When their opponent did not talk, neither did the Hawks.

Communicating is important in any sport and The ReSporter is sure that even so their opponent was deaf, you can bet that they were communicating.

                      1   2   3   4   Final
 CL Freshman         13   6   8  10   37
 Tx School for Deaf  10  13  12  18   53
 Scoring:
 H. Lee 7; B. Ward 7; J. Arredondo 5; S. Langford 4;
 T. Soliz 4; Z. Gregory 4; R. Sarmiento 3; T. Romero 2;
 Z. Sawyer 1.

The battle for 5th Place in this tournament was a match-up with Lehman.

Canyon Lake started slow and could not get any traction as they scurried into the final quarter trailing, 44-38.

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Basketball Weekly Report:

The Canyon Lake Varsity Girls team lost their first two games in Johnson City Tournament last week and in so doing, could only tie the longest winning streak at six games.

Lago Vista and Marble Falls Faith teams were the two losses and CL was able to get back on the winning track in their last game playing host Johnson City.

Canyon Lake has a decent team with a 7-2 record and will have a tough opponent tomorrow night, when Lampasas comes to Hawk country.

The Badgers are on a seven game losing streak and Canyon Lake will need to take care of business this Tuesday.

Canyon Lake has been winning this season on pure hustle as all three scoring positions have a low percentage of success.

 Team             2Point       3Point      Free Throws
 Percentages      36.7%        32.9%       39.2%

As Katie Williams and Amber Ramsey go, so goes the Hawks.

This tandem has been a strong combo underneath the basket and when they can get active in scoring points, then a win can usually follow.

Williams and Ramsey together average over 21 points a game, which is almost half of CL’s total scoring this season.

These two girls also have 25 blocks which also totals the team’s amount in that category.

Rebounding, is also a part of their game where they are controlling both sides of the court, averaging over 17 ‘bounds per game.

Canyon Lake is deep, but presently only have three players with a percentage that is above 50% from the charity stripe.

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Canyon Lake Junior Varsity had a good run, finishing second in the Wimberley Baskeball Tournament this past weekend.

The Hawks won their morning contest against host Wimberley, which gave this never say die team a chance for a first place trophy.

Wimberley had a defense that forced eight turnovers in that first quarter and that allowed your Hawks only six shots at their basket.

Four made free throws helped close the gap for just a three point deficit going into their next quarter of action.

CL would win their next three quarters as the Hawks started taking better control of their possessions.

The third quarter was a telling stanza as Garret Winters was red hot from behind the arc scoring 12 points (all 3 pointers) that gave the separation from our friends to the North.

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Canyon Lake more scores from todays Tournaments:

The Hawks Freshman team split their two games on Friday in Wimberley and will have a morning game Saturday which will decide what place they will be playing for that afternoon.

A win will have the CL Freshman playing for 3rd Place and a loss will have your Hawks playing for 5th Place.

The Freshman were led by Hayden Lee in their win over Gonzales as 11 players were able to get on in the scoring book.

A good all around game.

In their second game the opposite was true, everything that fell in their first game would not go through the hoop in the second game.

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Tournament Time for Canyon Lake as Varsity Boys are in Marion, Varsity Girls are in Johnson City, and JV and Freshman Boys are playing in Wimberley.

CL Boys JV team won their second game on Friday and will play again in tomorrow at 9am against Wimberley with the winner playing for a Championship and loser for Third Place at Wimberley.

In CLJV second game, the Hawks were never threatened as this Gonzales JV team could not outscore any of CL’s individual quarters using every quarter adding up to only 13 total points.

Canyon Lake was lead by a whole host of players, but Garrett Winters was almost perfect with only one missed shot for the game.

Winters finished with 17 points and Austin Acosta had 16 points while also distributing six assists against the Apaches.

The Hawks shot 73% from beyond the three point arc and a salty 48% from the field in this game.

Nic Adams had 10 rebounds and seven players along with Acosta dished out an assist.

Total domination for your Hawks in this contest as the clock hit 6:30 left in the first quarter a three point shot from Trendon Martinez gave CL a lead that would never be threatened.

“We have an improving offense and we are moving the ball more,” Coach Brian Hooper said. “We did not make mistakes and we were taking good shots and hustling for the whole game.”

Hard to critique a 60 point win, but you could look at those free throws if you wanted to find something to do in your next practice.

Maybe you can petition the Basketball Officials and see if you could move that charity stripe back to the three point line.

Varsity Boys won their first game in Marion Tournament.
Varsity Girls lost their first game in Johnson City Tournament. Lago Vista won 47-36.
Freshman Boys finished 1-1 with a 53-23 victory over Gonzales and their loss was to St. Michael.

                  1  2  3  4  Final
 Gonzales JV      2  7  2  2  13
 Canyon Lake JV  16 22 17 18  73

                             3pt               Rebounds
 Name              FG-FGM  FG-FGM  FT-FTM PTS OR DR TOT  A  S  B  TO
 Scott Taylor       1-2     1-1     0-0    3  2  1   3   1  0  0  0
 Garrett Winters    6-7     3-3     2-2   17  2  2   4   2  1  0  0
 Trendon Martinez   1-2     1-1     0-0    3  1  7   8   0  0  1  0
 Austin Acosta      6-10    3-3     1-3   16  1  3   4   6  1  0  3
 Michael Russell    2-5     0-1     3-4    7  2  1   3   0  1  0  2
 Branton Kindla     0-1     0-0     0-2    0  1  0   1   1  1  0  0
 Tommy Clark        2-5     0-0     1-1    5  1  3   4   1  3  0  0
 Nic Adams          3-8     0-1     0-0    6  5  5  10   0  2  0  2
 Qurion Banks       1-3     0-1     0-0    2  0  1   1   1  2  0  2
 Dave Pfaff         3-9     0-0     0-1    6  2  2   4   2  2  0  1
 Sean Nolan         4-8     0-0     0-0    8  3  4   7   0  1  1  3
 Total             29-60    8-11    7-13  73 20 29  49  14 14  2 13
 Percentage        48.3%   72.7%   53.8%
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 Varsity Girls    1   2   3   4   Final
 Canyon Lake      7   8  14   7   36
 Lago Vista       7   7  16  17   47

 Name            FG-FGM  FG-FGM  FT-FTM  Pts  OR DR TOT  A  S  B  TO
 Dulce Brown      3-4     0-0     1-2     7   0  2   2   1  2  0  7
 Hannah St John   0-4     0-1     0-0     0   0  1   1   0  0  0  7
 Trena Lorett     0-0     0-0     1-2     1   2  0   2   0  0  0  0
 Katie Williams   5-16    0-1     0-2    10   2  6   8   2  2  0  2
 Amber Ramsey     3-6     1-2     0-0     7   0  5   5   0  1  0  0
 Tammy Dean       0-1     0-0     0-0     0   0  1   1   1  1  0  3
 Kyndall Drum     0-2     0-0     0-0     0   0  3   3   0  2  0  0
 Olivia Flores    2-5     2-3     0-1     6   0  0   0   0  0  0  2
 Kelsey Long      0-1     0-0     2-2     2   1  0   1   0  0  0  1
 McKenna Beseda   0-2     0-1     0-0     0   1  0   1   1  0  0  2
 Cati Harrington  1-2     1-1     0-0     3   0  0   0   0  0  0  1
 Total           14-43    4-9     4-9    36   6 18  24   5  8  0 25
 Percentage      32.6%   44.4%   44.4%

Canyon Lake Boy’s Freshman team had a refreshing win over Stockdale Freshman squad last Tuesday night at Hawk Gym, winning 58-28.

All the Hawks got into this game and contributed in some fashion. It was a good game to work on different aspects of their game for future encounters.

Justin Ferris finished with six points and was like many other players as both his field goals were from beyond the arc. There were several players that launched a barrage of shots from down town.

“It’s all in commitment,” Ferris started. “Everybody is working hard and knowing what to do.”

In games that get enough separation, you will find Coaches in a learning mode.

“Trying to feed the ball to the post men and get them into the game,” Ferris said after asked on what part of this game, Coach wanted them to work on.

“We are still trying to get into basketball shape from football shape,” Coach John Barthels said. “We have players that have not picked up a basketball in a year.”

Coach Barthels also commented on how he managed this game, “We were able to make better passes and started playing more as a team. Our defense picked up and we were in the right spots today for our press.”

This Canyon Lake team did not lose any intensity or skill level no matter how deep in the bench, Coach Barthels went.

“We are a very athletic team,” Coach Barthels finished.

                        1   2   3   4   Final
 Stockdale Freshman     7   9   5   7   28
 Canyon Lake Freshman  15  19  15   9   58

Canyon Lake will be getting more air punps for game day as the Hawks started another game flat in their loss to Stockdate Brahmas last Tuesday night at Hawk gym, 53-49.

The Hawks left 14 points on their free throw line as well as putting a lid on their basketball rim which helped in this loss.

CL did not respond well to start the game and played from behind throughout this contest.

“There are a lot of bad things we did in this game, but at least we fought and did not give up,” Head Coach Lucas Chapman said. “We finally had a lot of pluses in this game.”

Late in the third quarter, Stockdale increased their lead to, 38-26 with 2:24 left in the quarter.

Canyon Lake cut into that lead and only trailed, 39-32 going to their bench.

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Canyon Lake Junior Varsity continues their strong play during first part of season as this Hawk team scored at will in a complete victory, 73-23 over the Stockdale Brahmas.

CL shot over 50% for each quarter as the Hawks played like they were in their 20th game this season.

More assists than turnovers and controlling every facet in this game.

“We are getting better,” Head Coach Brian Hooper said. “We played well down low and our defense was very strong.”

“This team has some good basketball skills.”

Two players, Trendon Martinez and Austin Acosta, were both perfect from the floor with both players making six shots a piece.

“This is my first year back since my seventh grade year,” Martinez reminisced. “We have a great chemistry and we play as a family.”

On how this game went compared to earlier games, Martinez commented, “We played better, looking for better shots and not settling for outside shots.”

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Canyon Lake is still a work in progress as they lost to a very athletic team in Stacey last Friday night at Hawk Gym.

The game started and ended with some exciting play at both ends of the court.

CL started with a press and ended with a press.

In between, a maize set in and Stacey slowly increased their lead to as much as 16 points in the third quarter.

Caleb Kreiger started strong with 6 straight points, but then some point blank shots just could not find the bottom of the basket and that caused that deficit to increase.

Paul Davis was a spark plug for the Hawks as he poured in 19 points in the loss.

Davis was the only player to hit a basket in that third quarter as he had 10 of those 12 points.

When asked about how he is viewing this season after a rough go at it last year, “Consistency with my shot, I just have to perfect it and get it (shot) down during the game,” Davis said. “I was able to create space and I got a chance to run the offense and execute the offense more.”

However, Davis also fell victim to three turnovers in a row in the second quarter that allowed a run for Stacey, “I need to try and stay calm when I’m under pressure, it kind of freaked out on that and I need to work on keeping calm and poised.”

Canyon Lake fought back to within eight points in the fourth quarter, when the Hawks installed their press again to get some easy shots.

“I have to trust it (the press) a little more,” Head Coach Lucas Chapman lamented. “Especially a team like that, the more we ork on it and I will have more confidence. We are still trying to figure out our identity and play up tempo. Offensively we found some pick and roll stuff with Caleb (Kreiger) and found out some guys who can help offensively.”

Canyon Lake is still a work in progress and improvement will need to be the key as pre-district games will certainly allow you to see what to have confidence in.

 Score by Quarter  1   2   3   4  Final
 Stacey           22  16  16  11  65
 Canyon Lake      18   9  12  15  54
 Scoring:  
 Davis-19, Kreiger-15, Hubnik-11, Faulkner-3, McIntire-3,
 J. Mendez-2, Ferris-1.

Canyon Lake Junior Varsity Basketball team pulled away from Stacey in the third quarter after hitting for 70% from the field.

That quarter allowed the Hawks the separation needed to coast for a 16 point win, 50-34.

The first quarter, CLJV was not in sync, as they were only able to get eight shots off. When shooting 50% for a quarter, you will usually like to get more chances at the basket.

A two point lead was not a good indicator on how this game might transpire.

Good defense helped Canyon Lake increase that two point lead up to seven points going into halftime.

The third quarter was when CL got their bearings, while shooting a lofty percentage and big Sean Nolan setting up shop underneath the basket for what proved to be the deciding quarter in this game.

Nolan finished with 10 rebounds and altered many more shots that gave the Hawks that elusive momentum.

“Just trying to get rebounds and put backs,” the 6’5″ Nolan bellowed. “This was just our second game and we need to work on our shots.”

Well said, from a man that was twice the size, of this reporter, as this reporter looked up during the interview.

Austin Acosta also had a good game as he shared the leading scorer accolades with Trendon Martinez with nine.

“I was trying to get good looks and having to move the ball around to get our offense going,” Acosta said. “We can get pretty good when we get into better condition.”

A good game for Canyon Lake to see how far they need to go as this season progresses.

Now you can go work on those FREE Throws!

Good Luck Hawks!!!
                   Points     3pt                  Rebounds
 Name              FGM-FGA  FGM-FGA  FTM-FTA  Pts  OF  DE  Tot  A  S  B  T0
 Trendon Martinez    4-9      1-3      0-1    9    2   5    7   0  0  0  1
 Garrett Winters     1-3      1-2      1-2    4    0   3    3   2  0  0  3
 Scott Taylor        0-1      0-0      0-0    0    0   1    1   0  0  0  0
 Austin Acosta       4-8      1-2      0-2    9    1   0    1   1  2  0  1
 Michael Russell     0-3      0-1      0-2    0    0   0    0   1  2  0  3
 Skylar Tschoepe     2-3      0-0      0-0    4    0   2    2   2  0  0  1
 Nic Adams           2-6      0-0      1-2    5    2   6    8   2  0  0  2
 Sean Nolan          4-5      0-0      0-4    8    3   7   10   0  3  1  1
 Qurion Banks        1-3      0-0      2-2    4    0   1    1   1  1  0  4
 Tommy Clark         1-1      0-0      0-0    2    0   1    1   3  1  0  2
 Branton Kindla      1-1      0-0      0-0    2    0   1    1   0  0  0  0
 Dave Pfaff          1-4      0-0      1-2    3    1   2    3   1  1  0  1
 Total              21-47     3-8      5-17  50    9  29   38  13 10  1 19
 Percent            44.7%    37.5%    29.4%