Avery Norris advancing The Lake’s Offense in their win earlier this year.
(photo by PacoCreates)

GO LAKE & Flatten them like our Pancakes!

Canyon Lake started district play with a win over Fredericksburg, 4-1 for their 10th straight victory.

Last year, The Lake, came into this first contest with the Billies with a lot of confidence opening at home.

That start was a tied battle at 2 goals which led to two more ties (against Wimberley) during district part of their schedule.

CL’s district added Long Creek which results in a 12 game uphill battle as all but one school (Bandera) presently has a .500 or better record.

The Lady Hawks Soccer has had an impressive run during Head Coach Kara Stracener’s 6th years at the helm.

Authentic Canyon Lake says Go Lake & Don’t Forget Valentine’s Day!

With two campaigns reaching 16 wins while already matching CL’s 10 wins during 2023 season. In Stracener’s 6 years she had raked in 80 wins with 43 losses that comes to a .642 winning percentage.

Head Coach Stracener commented bout the Fredericksburg win, “It was a good win to start district. We Struggled to control the game, but obviously were able to convert some of our chances into goals…We were challenged more defensively than we have been all season, so I’m proud of our defense for shutting down Fred’s attack.”

The Lake has ordered a lot more hangers to show off many firsts this season thus far that now has a ten game winning streak but as Coach Stracener commented on seeing a tougher defense with the Billies, then with more schools still to see in a district that presently have 3 teams in the Top 5 and 4 in the Top 10 it is apparent more challenges will be forthcoming.

                  Congrats Lady Hawks!

Savanna Olberholtzer led the team with 3 goals while Bella Biasatti recorded 2 assists and a goal and Senior Jordan Villareal produced an assist to finish the scoring.

Goalkeeper Liza Schexnayder and defender Chylea Gray were rewarded players of the game in this win.

Canyon Lake will be off this Friday and then open their district home schedule next Tuesday February 3rd against Bandera starting at 7:00pm.

The Lake is treading in water that has not been seen by any Hawk sport since the school started after being recognized in one poll as the #1 team in the state.

But with that caveat you will be seeing tough district play each week that has 3 other schools also hanging with impressive resumes to show-off to their fans. Sooo buckle up and Go Lake!

District 4A Region 4 District 26

Overall         W  L  T     Pct   GF   GA   Streak
Canyon Lake    10  0  0   1.000   60   12    10W
Davenport       9  1  0    .900   45    2     7W
Wimberley       9  1  1    .864   39    6     7W
Marble Falls    8  1  2    .818   44    4     1L
Long Creek      4  1  2    .714   20    4     1W
Fredericksburg  5  5  0    .500   25   18     1L
Bandera         3  9  0    .333   14   36     3L

District        W  L  T.    Pct   GF   GA
Canyon Lake     1  0  0   1.000    4    1
Wimberley       1  0  0   1.000    1    0
Davenport       1  0  0   1.000    9    0
Long Creek      0  0  0    .000    0    0
Marble Falls    0  1  0    .000    0    1
Fredericksburg  0  1  0    .000    1    4
Bandera         0  1  0    .000    0    9

Tuesday Results:
Canyon Lake     4  Freddie      1
Wimberley       1  Marble Falls 0
Bandera         0  Davenport    9

Tonight's Schedule:
Davenport       @  Wimberley
Freddie         @  Bandera
Marble Falls    @  Long Creek
Canyon Lake Bye

Tuesday Schedule:
Bandera         @ Canyon Lake   700p
Wimberley       @ Fredericksburg
Long Creek      @ Davenport
Marble Falls Bye

Anthony Hockman has been a help in the paint averaging 4 points & 5 rebounds this season. (photo by Step Rowe)

                         Way to Go Hawks!

The Lake Basketball team dominated in getting a must win over Fredericksburg, 62-45 on a delayed one day battle due to frigid weather.

Frigid was certainly not a word to describe this victory that saw these Hawks shooting 52% from the field, 43% beyond the arc and 64% from the charity stripe.

Canyon Lake only shot below 50% once with 40% shooting in that 3rd quarter.

Josh Rowe (14 pts) drained 4 three pointers which led to a total of 9 threes for the game topping with the most this season.

CLake would also share the rock matching a season best 21 assists which happened twice in wins over Yorktown and Luling. Cole Dees had 9 of those dishes just missing double digits which has happened twice during CL’s history when Doug Hubnik (2015) reached 14 in 2013 and Tyler Pauly’s (2021) 12 in 2021.

                         GO LAKE!

Gavin Cano fielded his stat sheet scoring 12 points, with 4 assists and led CL with 5 steals.

It has been the Cano~Rowe show these past three games which has both reaching double digit scoring helping in with consistency  as this game witnessed while adding defensive effort by recording 14 steals.

The Lake in this first district win scored the first 11 points which had Wyatt Sims, Cano and Rowe on point with 3 pointers which had Cole Dees’ assists attached to this fast start.

                            Let’s GO LAKE!

This scoring surge was capped off with a Harlon Wisdom short jumper off a Rowe pass which spread the scoring to 4 different players, 11-0 to start this game.

A first quarter, 13-4 lead would increase to a 14 point advantage going into halftime, 29-15.

These Hawks would increase their lead to 20 points, 59-39 with 1:37 remaining in this battle.

A must win for a team that will hopefully be adding more out-patients from their M.A.S.H Unit by their next contest with Bandera on the road this Friday.

That steal department this season now has two (Cano 55~ 8th place) and Rowe (51~ 9th place) in the Top 10 for steals in a season. While two other players knocking on the door with Dees and Fuentes~ 49 steals~ 12th place.

Fuentes reached triple digits steals with 100 where he joined 6 other Hawks for that category.

Fuentes stands with 130 assists now for 8th place on that All-Time list trailing Matt Magness (2011) who is next on that ladder with 136.

A good win to build on as the first round of games finishes this week in Bandera.

Way to Go Lake!

Game 28    1  2  3  4  Final
Freddie    4 11  7 23  45
CL Hawks  13 16 10 23  62

                         3pt           tot rebounds
               fga-fgm fga-fgm fta-ftm pts or-dr tot a  s  b  to
Phoenix Fuentes 1-2      0-0     4-4    6   1-3   4  4  2  0  1
Josh Rowe       5-12     4-8     0-0   14   3-2   5  1  1  0  3
Gavin Cano      5-9      2-5     0-2   12   0-4   4  4  5  0  1
Harlon Wisdom   3-4      0-0     1-2    7   0-4   4  0  1  0  3
Wyatt Sims      2-5      2-5     0-0    6   0-2   2  2  1  0  2
Thomas Inmon    0-0      0-0     0-0    0   0-0   0  0  0  0  0
Cole Dees       3-6      1-3     1-1    8   0-3   3  9  4  1  3
Korbyn Goodman  0-0      0-0     0-0    0   0-0   0  0  0  0  3
Anthony Hockman 4-6      0-0     1-2    9   1-6   7  1  0  1  0
Totals         23-44     9-21    7-11  62   5-24 29 21 14  2 16
                52%      43%     64%

             Cole Dees & Eli Hammons cause chaos in win earlier this season. (photo by Step Rowe)

                           Way to DAM the Bobcats!

The Lake battled back and then outscored Comfort, 32-11 in the 2nd Half leading to another good win as district play comes calling this coming Friday a home game against a salty Wimberley team.

Head Coach Monte Cole expressed his thoughts, “Total team effort. Everyone contributed in some way between scoring, rebounding and assists. Our first half was up and down but second half we really amped up our defense and started hitting shots to create the separation…Really good game for us going into our first district game next Friday.”

That Up & Down sequence played out via quarters after The Lake started with an, 18-15 advantage and then allowing Comfort making it unComfortable in during the second phase and a 4 point lead going into intermission, 30-26.

                       Way to Go Hawks!

These Bobcats feasted at their charity stripe in that first half sinking 12 for a 71% shooting percentage. In this game Comfort finished with a 71% free throw rate scoring 17 points. Which contrasted with The Hawks going 2 for 4 from the line and those two makes came by way of a technical foul.

Canyon Lake problem was committing fouls 20 or more feet from the paint resulted being outscored, 17-2 from the stripe.

CLHS shot 35% beyond to arc with 6 makes which has the last two games doing damage on that shot. CLake is shooting 21% this season up to these last two contests beyond the arc that produced at a 38% percentage.

                        Go Lake Beat Everyone!

Wyatt Sims (10 pts) and Josh Rowe (15 pts) did the most damage with their long range shots which was a welcomed sight helping in this victory.

Those ‘UPs’ happened when Anthony Hockman played the paint with 10 points while pulling down 8 rebounds.

Canyon Lake was down, 39-37 with 2 minutes remaining in that 3rd Quarter when the switch was turned on seeing, The Lake, outscoring Comfort 21-0 until the Bobcats scored their last two points from you guessed it, The Foul Line, with just one minute remaining in this contest.

The Lake brought Landon Brown (scored 4 points) up from Junior Varsity as these Hawks continue to fight short handed these past couple of weeks.

Now it will be a week of fine tuning before district play begins next Friday.

Way to GO LAKE!

Game 24    1  2  3  4   Final
Comfort   15 15  9  2   41
CL Hawks  18  8 19 13   58

                        3pt           tot rebounds
              fga-fgm fga-fgm fta-ftm pts or-dr tot a  s  b  to
Josh Rowe       6-12    3-5     0-2   15   2-3   5  2  3  0  1
Gavin Cano      4-11    0-5     0-0    8   0-3   3  3  6  0  5
Harlon Wisdom   0-0     0-0     0-0    0   0-1   1  0  0  0  0
Eli Cole        0-3     0-2     0-0    0   3-0   3  2  1  0  0
Wyatt Sims      4-6     2-3     0-0   10   1-1   2  1  0  0  1
Cole Dees       2-10    1-2     2-2    7   0-3   3  2  1  0  5
Korbyn Goodman  0-1     0-0     0-0    0   0-0   0  0  0  0  1
Anthony Hockman 5-6     0-0     0-0   10   3-5   8  1  0  0  0
Landon Brown    2-5     0-0     0-0    4   0-2   2  0  0  0  3
Eli Hammons     2-3     0-0     0-0    4   2-1   3  1  4  0  2
Totals         25-53    6-17    2-4   58  11-19 30 12 15  0 17
                47%     35%     50%

                Eli Hammons takes flight in game earlier this season.   (photo by Step Rowe)

                        Go Canyon Lake!

Canyon Lake had a good bounce back win with their fast start win over the Navarro Panthers, 52-41.

The Lake had lost two starters (Reese Pipkin & Phoenix Fuentes) to injuries in recent games and now stand with a 1-1 record starting with a loss to SA Cole last week.

“One of our emphasis has been getting off to better starts and we really focused on executing at the beginning of the game,” Head Coach Monte Cole stated. “The kids did a great job of having quality possessions on both offense and defense in the 1st quarter. With our injuries comes a shorter bench and guys came off the bench and contributed all game. I thought it was a good game to start in creating momentum to lead into district next week.”

District is starting January 16th at home against Wimberley.

                                      Let’s GO LAKE!

That first quarter would qualify as a fast start rushing out to a 10 point (13-3) lead within the first half of the opening quarter.

In fact it was three three-pointers (two for Cole Dees & one for Wyatt Sims) that cashed in. Dees scored eight points during that first quarter and CLHS finished that first period with 4 makes beyond the arc. That is one more than CLake has averaged per game this season for a, 18-4 advantage.

The Panthers did claw back 3 points in that second quarter but The Lake still had an 11 point lead going into halftime, 27-16.

Canyon Lake continued garnering double digit numbers in assists and steals but finished with 21 turnovers which allowed Navarro to stay close enough for a chance of getting a run to close for a chance to change the outcome.

                      Let’s GO HAWKS!

The Lake did have an answer for those mini Panther runs and ran their biggest lead up to 15 points, 40-25.

CLHS shot 50% from the field for the game and finished with seven three pointers with a balmy 41% which is by far the best this season.

The Stephenville game CL had a 33% on six makes and in a Yorktown win there were 8 makes (the most this season) with a 24% in that contest.

It was the charity stripe where Canyon Lake left 10 points on the floor shooting 33% which was less that beyond the arc. (Thought The ReSporter would never release that type of stat…..ever.)

Dees finished with 21 points as the only Hawk in double figures but it was an 8 assist-5 steal evening for Gavin Cano that helped with an overall good finish.

Cano has taken more responsibility with two guards not in the lineup as well as Sims being pegged as a starter.

Canyon Lake will finish their final regular season slate when they travel to Comfort Friday with the tip-off at 6:30pm.

Let’s GO LAKE!

Game 23    1  2  3  4   Final
Navarro    4 12 11 14   41
CL Hawks  18  9 13 12   52

                        3pt           tot rebounds
              fga-fgm fga-fgm fta-ftm pts or-dr tot a  s  b  to
Josh Rowe       2-4     1-3     1-2    6   1-0   1  3  1  0  3
Gavin Cano      1-7     0-3     0-0    2   0-3   3  8  5  0  6
Harlon Wisdom   0-0     0-0     0-0    0   0-0   0  0  0  1  1
Eli Cole        1-1     1-1     0-0    3   0-2   2  0  0  0  0
Wyatt Sims      3-7     1-4     0-0    7   1-0   1  0  0  0  0
Cole Dees       8-14    3-4     2-4   21   2-2   4  1  2  1  5
Anthony Hockman 2-2     0-0     2-7    6   1-6   7  2  3  0  3
Bobby Torres    2-4     1-2     0-0    5   0-0   0  0  0  1  2
Eli Hammons     1-1     0-0     0-2    2   1-5   6  0  1  0  1
Totals         20-40    7-17    5-15  52  6-18  24 14 12  3 21
                50%     41%     33%

                              Reese Pipkin with a rainbow shot against Graham in tourney. (photo Step Rowe)

The Lake did not start their game with Austin Travis very well (understatement) after posting a, 15-2 first quarter with those two lonely points courtesy of an Eli Cole put-back that had 1:30 remaining in the opening quarter.

You read that right….Canyon Lake was looking at a 15 point deficit to start this game.

            Way to make some Good Hits!

A start this bad would usually bring a family conversation in the crowd of,  ‘Where would be a good place to eat after this game?’

That meal turned out to be a full buffet affair that had this Hawk team not only getting back into this game but….finishing with an 11 point win.

What was the secret sauce? A heavy dose of defense that led to 14 steals and bruises on several Hawk players going after loose balls. Add reducing turnovers down from 11 in that first frame to only two for that next 8 minutes proved to be a winning eatery.

CLHS would score 25 points during that second period and realizing a 3 point lead going into halftime, 27-23.

A Quick 2nd Quarter Recap:
First Quarter 2-15   Who Scored Goal/FT       Assist   Time
              3-15   Free Throw Fuentes                7:01
              6-15   Eli Cole 3 Pointer        Cano    6:49
              6-17   FThrows Austin Travis             6:29
              7-17   Free Throw Cole Dees              5:40
              9-17   Fuentes Bucket                    4:51
              9-19   Austin Travis Bucket              3:36
             11-19   Fuentes Bucket                    3:07
             12-19   Dees Free Throw                   2:38
             14-19   Fuentes Two Free Throws           2:33
             16-19   Josh Rowe Bucket          Dees    2:10
             18-19   Josh Rowe Bucket          Steal   1:50
             21-19   Dees 3 Pointer            Rowe    1:21
             21=21   Austin Travis Bucket              1:12
             23-21   Fuentes Bucket            Torres  0:50
             24-21   Fuentes Free Throw                0:25
             24-23   Austin Travis Bucket              0:14
             27-23   Rowe 3 Pointer            Torres  0:01

     Let’s Go Hawks Great Comeback!

Canyon Lake would continue their pressure starting the 2nd Half garnering their largest lead in this segment, 9 points (38-29) when Gavin Cano sank a free throw with 1:27 left before the final quarter, the Hawk lead was still tenuous tho, 40-34.

Starting that last period, two buckets for Fuentes and Torres along with assists for Torres & Rowe during the first 90 seconds gave CL a, 44-34.

The Lake kept their distance for the remainder of this quarter as Austin Travis cut into CL’s lead to 8 points while Canyon Lake was able to up their advantage to 12 points on a Fuentes bucket with 3:55 remaining, 48-36.

Basically…Canyon Lake scored 52 points in 3 quarters and outscoring these Rebels, 52-28 during that span.

Another good,  gut check,  in seeing the possibilities when communication and an all out energy burst that caused chaos on your opponent that led to good offensive play.

                            Go Lake!

Bobby Torres led The Lake with 5 assists while Josh Rowe forced 5 steals while the team reached 15 steals and assists to end this win.

Canyon Lake did finish with a 3-1 tourney record and lost in a Championship against Stephenville.

Head Coach Monte Cole commented on what the team accomplished, “I think this tournament helped us regain some confidence and start moving in the right direction. It was a great tournament for us and in championship game we played really good Stephenville team and were competitive for a majority of the game.

Coach Cole continued, “The younger guys are learning how hard you have to play at the Varsity level to win games and it’s showing. Very proud of this group of guys.”

A good showing which left the Hawk fans never being able to come to a destination for that elusive win…which made that non-decision a good decision.

Hawk Nation is Proud of The LAKE!

Game 20         1  2  3  4  Final
Austin Travis  15  8 11  9  43
CL Hawks        2 25 13 14  54

                           3pt           tot rebounds
                 fga-fgm fga-fgm fta-ftm pts or-dr tot a  s  b  to
Phoenix Fuentes    4-5     0-0     4-6   12   2-4   6  2  4  0  9
Josh Rowe          5-8     1-2     2-2   13   1-1   2  3  5  0  2
Gavin Cano         0-0     0-0     1-2    1   2-0   2  2  0  0  0
Harlon Wisdom      3-4     0-0     0-0    6   2-3   5  1  1  0  0
Eli Cole           3-4     1-2     0-2    7   0-0   0  0  0  0  0
Wyatt Sims         0-1     0-0     0-0    0   0-0   0  0  0  0  2
Cole Dees          1-6     1-5     3-6    6   1-6   7  1  3  1  4
Korbyn Goodman     0-2     0-2     0-0    0   0-1   1  1  1  0  1
Anthony Hockman    0-2     0-0     0-0    0   2-1   3  0  0  1  0
Bobby Torres       3-6     0-1     1-2    7   1-2   3  5  0  0  2
Eli Hammons        1-3     0-0     0-0    2   1-0   1  0  1  0  1
Totals            20-41    3-13   11-20  54  12-18 30 15 15  2 21

            Hawk’s coming out of a time-out ready to implement Coach Cole’s instructions! Go Lake!

              Make us Proud Hawks!

The Canyon Lake Hawks’ basketball recent struggles received a respite after starting their Hays Tournament with two wins.

The Lake’s record was 1-8 with most of those losses coming when an illness struck during their Christmas Tourney in Lampasas.

Having a healthy team led to this two game stretch as CLHS was able to succumb their last win against Graham needing to erase a 10 point deficit with 6:17 left on a 4th quarter clock down, 44-34.

CLake answered with an all out defensive effort which led to a Bobby Torres 7 point response (2 free throws~3 pointer~2 assists) barrage which saw Torres’ assist to Anthony Hockman ending the 3rd quarter.

The Lake got the score down to a 3 points, 44-41 when Graham got a fast break two pointer which would turn out to be their last points at the 2:42 mark.

            Plug those Leaks (Turnovers) Lake!

Another combo assist to bucket when Phoenix Fuentes found Cole Dees which brought this game down to a one point, 46-45 for these Steers.

Fuentes and Dees combined for 9 assists which would have Dees curtain call when he had his twisting dance move turn into the paint while finding a wide open Hockman for that winning bucket and one point win, 47-46.

The Lake’s first win on this day was a much different style that had The Lake with a convincing, 73-25 win over Yorktown.

This win had 3 Hawks scoring double digits, Fuentes (13), Reese Pipkin (14), Torres (14) and every Hawk but one with a rebound…. this contes produced another double digit game with 18 assists and 16 steals.

The Lake had another 4th quarter awakening scoring 25 points which also produced CL’s best game this season beyond the arc with 8 makes.

Canyon Lake thus far has outscored their competition, 100 points (298-198) during those last 8 minutes.

The Lake will continue their last tourney for this season with a battle against Austin Travis with tip-off at 1:00pm this Tuesday at Barton Middle School in Kyle, Texas.

Way to GO Lake!

Game 19    1  2  3  4  Final
Graham    16  9 14  7  46
CL Hawks   9 15  8 15  47

                          3pt           tot rebounds
                fga-fgm fga-fgm fta-ftm pts or-dr tot a  s  b  to
Phoenix Fuentes   2-4     0-0     1-2    5   2-3   5  5  1  0  3
Josh Rowe         2-10    0-2     1-1    5   4-2   6  1  2  0  2
Reese Pipkin      1-2     1-2     0-0    3   0-0   0  0  1  0  1
Gavin Cano        2-4     1-3     0-0    5   0-0   0  0  1  0  0
Harlon Wisdom     1-3     0-0     0-0    2   0-0   0  0  0  2  0
Eli Cole          0-2     0-2     0-0    0   1-1   2  0  1  1  0
Wyatt Sims        0-2     0-2     0-0    0   0-0   0  1  0  0  1
Cole Dees         3-7     0-0     0-0    6   0-4   4  4  1  0  0
Anthony Hockman   4-5     0-0     0-0    8   2-1   3  0  0  0  1
Bobby Torres      4-9     1-3     2-2   11   2-1   3  2  3  0  3
Eli Hammons       1-3     0-0     0-0    2   0-0   0  0  0  0  0
Totals           20-51    3-14    4-5   47  11-12 23 13 10  3 11

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Game 18    1  2  3  4  Final
Yorktown   6  8  6  5  25
CL Hawks  17 17 14 25  73

                           3pt           tot rebounds
                 fga-fgm fga-fgm fta-ftm pts or-dr tot a  s  b  to
Phoenix Fuentes    6-12    1-4     0-0   13   3-3   6  4  1  2  1
Josh Rowe          3-8     2-5     0-2    8   4-2   6  2  3  0  1
Reese Pipkin       5-9     2-5     2-2   14   1-4   5  5  3  0  2
Gavin Cano         1-9     0-5     0-0    2   2-0   2  2  2  0  1
Harlon Wisdom      2-4     0-0     0-0    4   1-2   3  0  2  2  2
Eli Cole           1-3     0-2     0-0    2   1-2   3  0  1  0  2
Wyatt Sims         1-2     1-2     0-0    3   0-0   0  1  0  0  0
Cole Dees          4-11    0-6     0-0    8   1-2   3  3  1  1  1
Anthony Hockman    2-3     0-0     1-2    5   0-4   4  0  0  0  2
Bobby Torres       6-8     2-4     0-0   14   1-1   2  1  3  0  0
Eli Hammons        0-0     0-0     0-0    0   3-3   6  0  0  0  2
Donavan Menchaca   0-0     0-0     0-0    0   0-2   2  0  0  0  0
Totals            31-69    8-33    3-6   73  17-25 42 18 16  5 14

                    Eli Hammons lending a helping hand for Phoenix Fuentes.  (photo by Step Rowe)

Canyon Lake got an All-Meat at High Noon Pizza in the Hancock Plaza after their win over Bastrop, 45-37.

The Lake had laid a Gluten Free Pizza in their previous Burnet contest on Tuesday and knew that those type of efforts lead to an empty stomach.

This win still had some ups & downs but good times were enough to get this win with another game of double digit steals (13) which has CL averaging 14 for this season.

Cole Dees and Phoenix Fuentes both led the Hawks finishing with 12 points and a strong game for Eli Hammons with his 6 points and 9 rebounds.

Those Up times had The Lake opening up with an, 8-2 lead that got thing going before a Down episode when the Bastrop Bears worked this game back to a tie, 17 all at the 1:24 mark before half.

Canyon Lake would open the second half with an improved focus after running their lead to 9 points, 29-20 at the 4:00 minute mark in the 3rd stanza.

But another Gluten Free episode to end that quarter resulted in a, 31-30 advantage going into CL’s final quarter.

That 4th quarter had a rare event when Fuentes found himself on the charity stripe with 5:31 left in the contest. It had been 7 straight quarters of not having a chance for a free throw finally being realized.

The Lake would finish with 7 made free throws while adding a 3 pointer coming from Cole Dees and assist by Fuentes which would result in a, 40-32 lead with a little under 4 minutes remaining. Dees’ with that 3 pointer ended with 6 points in that final 8 minutes.

A good defensive effort allowing 7 points that helped Canyon Lake to rid themselves of that Gluten Free Pizza to a good tasty regular Pizza whether by the Slice or whatever size needed for this filling win.

High Noon is a new ‘Home Grown’ Pizza place right next to Authentic Canyon Lake across from Brookshire’s. Give them a try after Canyon Lake’s next win and GO Lake!

Game 12    1  2  3  4  Final
Bastrop    7 10 13  7  37
CL Hawks  13  8 10 14  45

                          3pt           tot rebounds
                fga-fgm fga-fgm fta-ftm pts or-dr tot  a  s  b  to
Phoenix Fuentes   4-7     0-0     4-4   12   3-1   4   4  2  1  5
Josh Rowe         4-6     1-2     0-0    9   0-1   1   0  3  0  3
Reese Pipkin      0-4     0-1     0-0    0   1-4   5   2  1  0  2
Gavin Cano        0-3     0-2     0-0    0   2-2   4   1  1  0  0
Harlon Wisdom     1-3     0-0     0-0    2   1-1   2   0  0  0  0
Eli Cole          0-2     0-1     0-0    0   0-0   0   0  0  0  0
Wyatt Sims        1-5     0-1     0-0    2   0-1   1   1  1  0  0
Cole Dees         5-11    1-4     3-4   12   0-1   1   2  2  0  2
Korbyn Goodman    0-1     0-1     0-0    0   0-1   1   0  0  0  1
Anthony Hockman   0-1     0-0     0-0    0   1-0   1   0  0  0  0
Bobby Torres      0-1     0-1     0-0    0   0-0   0   0  2  0  2
Eli Hammons       3-6     0-0     0-2    6   4-5   9   0  1  0  0
Totals           18-50    2-13    7-10  45  12-17 29  10 13  1 15

                                     Eli Hammons contributing fighting for Hawk Rebounds.      (photo by Step Rowe)

Let’s Go Lake Great Win Over The Pass

Canyon Lake came back from a 20 point deficit in scoring 51 second half points for a 2 point win over Aransas Pass, 71-70.

It was an offensive rebound put-back for Anthony Hockman with three seconds left that sealed the deal.

The Lake did start this contest storming to a, 13-6 first quarter advantage.

The Aransas Pass would take over with a 24 point 2nd quarter and outscored The Lake, 17 points that produced a 12 point advantage to end that first half.

“We made a lot of mistakes early versus AP (Aransas Pass).” Head Coach Monte Cole recapped. “Unforced turnovers, missed layups, missing open guys with our passing…but the kids were resilient and kept battling to give themselves a chance and then guys made plays at the end to win.”

      Let’s Go Hawks Great Comeback!

Canyon Lake will go into Saturday game against Gainesville who has a 5-1 record, “This is a great tournament for us because we’re identifying the little things we have to do a lot better and execute more consistently”….on playing Gainesville, “They’re big and good. A good test for us.”

AP increased their halftime advantage into a 20 point (51-31) lead with just 1:43 remaining in that 3rd stanza, but this Hawk team would turn on a firehose scoring 40 points in a  9:43 time frame.

CL had 4 players reach double digit scoring with Cole Dees (14 pts) leading and being joined with Phoenix Fuentes (13), Josh Rowe (12), and Gavin Cano (10).

Way to GO LAKE!

CL got contributions from a bench that pitched in 26 points in this improbable comeback.

That last quarter was a classic being down, 51-41 to start and Fuentes with a steal (20 steals forced by CL’s defense) cut AP’s lead to single digits, 51-43 to start this avalanche of scoring.

It was a back and force game and The Lake had trouble cutting that lead below 7 points after a Dees three pointer with 6:42 left, 53-46.

The Pass pushed their advantage back to 10 points with under 6 minutes, 60-50.

In fact, CLHS cut the lead to 7 again with an old fashion 3 pointer for Fuentes before quick 4 points giving the Home Team an 11 point lead, 64-53 with 3:24 remaining.  From  there  CL  scored 18 points while giving up 7 points for AP.

CLake would score the next 7 points and finish this game with a nail biter victory.

                                                      Remaining
A) Cano 3 pointer off a Hockman assist,        56-64    3:12 
B) Fuentes with another old fashion 3 pointer, 59-64    2:15 
C) Rowe basket after a Hawk steal,             61-64    2:02 
D) Rowe after a Pass miss,                     63-64    1:53 
E) Aransas free throw,                         63-65    1:35 
F) Aransas free throw,                         63-66    1:19 
G) Aransas bucket,                             63-68    0:58 
H) Dees two FT’s on rebound of Pass miss FT,   65-68    0:57 
I) Dees bucket on a Rowe assist,               67-68    0:29
J) Rowe score and Cano assist,                 69-68    0:14 
   1st lead since 7:06 First Quarter
K) Aransas made 2 FT’s,                        69-70    0:09 
L) Hockman offensive Reb put back off glass,   71-70    0:03 

                  Way to Go Hawk Basketball.

As Easy as ABC for a Hawk Team that ran their record to 7-1 with this win.

Cano came up with a huge dishing up a good plate of grub with 6 assists and was nails after Fuentes had to sit with foul trouble earlier in this quarter.

Scoring more points in the last stanza than CL did combined in those first two quarters was a good recipe for this improbable comeback.

Way to GO LAKE!

              1  2  3  4  Final
Aransas Pass  8 24 19 19  70
CL Hawks     13  7 21 30  71

                          3pt           tot rebounds
                fga-fgm fga-fgm fta-ftm pts or-dr tot  a  s  b to
Phoenix Fuentes   6-11    0-0     2-2   13   2-6   8   4  4  0  4
Josh Rowe         6-9     0-2     0-0   12   0-1   1   1  3  0  4
Reese Pipkin      2-2     0-0     0-0    4   0-0   0   1  4  0  2
Gavin Cano        4-10    1-2     1-1   10   0-1   1   6  1  0  1
Harlon Wisdom     0-3     0-0     1-2    1   2-3   5   0  0  0  1
Eli Cole          0-3     0-2     0-0    0   1-1   2   0  1  0  0
Wyatt Sims        1-6     0-2     0-0    2   1-1   2   0  2  0  2
Cole Dees         5-17    2-8     2-2   14   2-5   7   1  1  0  1
Korbyn Goodman    0-0     0-0     0-0    0   0-0   0   0  0  0  2
Anthony Hockman   1-2     0-0     1-2    3   2-2   4   1  2  0  1
Bobby Torres      2-4     1-3     0-0    5   0-0   0   0  2  0  1
Eli Hammons       3-6     0-0     0-0    6   3-1   4   0  0  0  0
Totals           30-73    4-19    7-9   71  13-21 34  14 20  0 19

          Anthony Hockman getting things started in win over Sinton earlier this year. (Photo by Step Rowe)

                         Let’s Go Lake!

Canyon Lake’s Boys Basketball has started their season with a blistering pace with a 3-1 start a loss to New Braunfels Unicorns last Wednesday.

In the Lake’s first three games, the Hawks outscored their opponents by 119 points with a very impressive 61% assist to field goals made during this 4 game start.

Nine of CL’s 11 players have 20 or more points led by Senior point guard Phoenix Fuentes.

“I thought our game with New Braunfels that we did some good things but against good teams like NB, we can’t lose focus as much as we did,” Head Coach Monte Cole assessed. “Good teams will make us pay for it. It was a great game for us to see what areas we need to improve moving forward.”

On Coach Coles thoughts on what he has seen thus far? “I like our team, we have a lot depth and good chemistry. We just have to keep improving everyday and every game. Looking forward to seeing where this team is when we get to January and February.

                           Plug those Leaks Lake!

The Hawks are averaging a little over 16 assists and 14 steals per outing and at this writing having a 65 points per game clip.

There are a lot of changeable players which gives CL’s Coaching staff many options based on in game situations.

Fuentes did turn in an impressive 14 points in that loss to the Unicorns as that team had lots of length which led to very few offensive rebounds and passing lanes not as open as in those previous three wins.

Canyon Lake will be back in action this coming week with a home game against Ingram-Moore on Tuesday (5:00pm Sub-Varsity & 6:30p Varsity tip-off).

The Lake will then be off to Aransas Pass on Thursday playing in their first tournament.

The Stats Below are based on the first four contests and Let’s Go Lake!

            1   2   3   4  Final
Opponent   35  58  43  38  174
CL Hawks   62  77  68  53  260

                           3pt           tot rebounds
Stats            fga-fgm fga-fgm fta-ftm pts or-dr tot  a  s  b to 
Phoenix Fuentes   13-21    0-0     9-15  35   7-8   15 14  7  0 11 
Josh Rowe         14-31    3-13    0-1   31   6-2    8  4 10  0 11 
Reese Pipkin       8-13    3-6     2-4   21   6-8   14 10  6  0  6 
Gavin Cano        13-39    4-17    1-2   31   2-4    6 11  7  1  2 
Harlon Wisdom     10-20    0-0     0-2   20   3-8   11  6  3  2  2 
Eli Cole           7-15    2-10    0-0   16   5-9   14  3  1  0  4 
Wyatt Sims         8-29    2-8     5-9   23   8-7   15  1  3  0  5 
Cole Dees         13-29    3-9     4-6   33   7-15  22  7  7  1 12 
Korbyn Goodman     1-4     1-3     0-0    3   4-0    4  2  5  0  2 
Anthony Hockman   10-13    0-0     3-6   25  11-13  24  2  5  2  4 
Bobby Torres      10-24    1-6     1-2   22   6-3    9  3  4  0  1 
Eli Hammons        0-3     0-0     0-0    0   0-2    2  0  0  0  0 
Totals           106-241  19-72   25-47 260  
Percentage         44%     26%     53% 

Receiver Peyton King scored twice but ended with one TD in loss to Cats.       (photo by Daniel Clifton)

What If Canyon Lake would not have had any Bug-a-boos? That was said by many Hawk fans (maybe not a lot but at least one or two) after a, 42-14 loss to Calallen in an Area Round battle.

Turnovers was the bug-a-boo that led to this set-back with 4 that would turn this game in favor and  giving these Cats extra lives leading to a win for Calallen.

Canyon Lake started slow when the Cats only needed a 32 yard drive, for their first score, after a good kick-off runback.

Then those bug-a-boos started to appear with one on a 3rd down pass play that CL’s defense swarmed all over…yet to have a face-mask penalty that now had these Cal-Cats with a 1st down on CL’s 12 yard line. Instead of a 4th down needing 9 yards for a first. Four plays later the Lake was down, 7-0.

CLake’s first drive garnered one first down and then punted on a 4th down and two yards needed. That was followed when Cal-Cats offense with a 3 plays and punt sequence.

The Lake would take their next possession down to Calallen’s 31 yard line when that first turnover, an interception, was returned 71 yards to pay dirt. This Hawk drive had 7 plays and 3 first downs.

The dye had been cast as this first quarter had CL’s offense starting to jell while Defensively the Lake would end up allowing just 238 total yards for this game.

CL’s Offense ended up with 419 balanced yards as that first drive would be the only punt in this contest. CLHS ended with 223 rushing and 196 yards through the air.

After another interception Calallen did have an impressive drive going 16 plays with 12 of those snaps 5 yards or less. But an eventual time eating scoring drive that went 57 yards and a, 21-0 lead leaving 2:14 left before halftime.

A score would get CL back into the game by receiving the 2nd half kick-off and with a score a hawk/cat fight would ensue.

Well that first part played out when CL used 10 plays with a tush-push score for Chris Brown and a little Hawk momentum being down, 21-7.

That drive was highlighted by two consecutive pass plays. The first had QB Jace Wheeler finding Lucas Schexnayder for a 20 yard 3rd down conversion on Calallen’s 29 yard line. Schexnayder led CL with 75 receiving yards with several eye-opening catch and runs.

Wheeler then put the ball in the basket down the far sideline to Peyton King for 26 yards to the 3 yard line setting up those 3 consecutive tush-push plays.

Now a second half opening drive was going as planned with two more Schexnayder catches covering 34 yards and a 16 yard and a scamper for Gram Simpson that had CL needing 25 yards to put this contest in overdrive.

But that bug-a-boo interception presented itself, this time, the Cats returned this bug 81 yards and what would be a 14 point snafu swing and a, 28-7 score.

Wait…then the last bug-a-boo happened but this time it was a first play 53 yard run for Brown who was stripped  tackled resulting in a fumble.

Calallen took advantage of these bug-a-boos which accounted to scoring 4 TD’s.

Canyon Lake scored two more times but was only allowed to count one of those scores after a motion penalty nullified an incredible one handed catch for King being called back.

King, earlier scored on a 9 yarder late in that 3rd quarter.

Canyon Lake’s line of scrimmage was on top of their game on both sides of the ball with all the proof needed would be perusing those team stats at the end of this article.

Between the 20 yard lines it would be all Canyon Lake but with all those bug-a-boos it would be a wait till next year mantra as this season certainly had some good ole  fashion football by The Lake and this  Great Senior Class.

Way to Go Lake and next time CL can work on projecting those Bug-a-Boos on their opponents.

The ReSporter will have some Year-End rewards and season stats articles so stay tuned.

           1  2  3  4  Final
Calallen  14  7 14  7  42
CL Hawks   0  7  7  0  14
Scoring Summary:
CA-Cats 3 yard run (pat good), 9:05, 1st
CA-Cats 71 yard Int Return (pat good), 0:45, 1st
CA-Cats 1 yard run (pat good), 2:14, 2nd
CL-Chris Brown 2 yard run (Jack Stracener kick), 0:02, 2nd
CA-Cats 81 yard Int Return (pat good), 7:53, 3rd
CA-Cats 41 yard run (pat good), 3:55, 3rd
CL-Peyton King 9 yard pass from Jace Wheeler (Stracener kick), 2:45, 3rd
CA-Cats 17 yard run (pat good), 11:17, 4th


Team Stats        Cats      Hawks
Total Yards       238       419
First Downs       18        18
Rush/Yards        39/203    31/223
Comp/Att/Int      7/9/0     19/30/3
Passing Yards     35        196
Punts/Average     1/33.0    1/27.0
Fumbles/Lost      0/0       1/1
Penalties-Yards   6-40      6-50

Passing           Comp  Att  Pct  Yds Int TD
Jace Wheeler       19   30  .633  196  3   1

Rushing            Att  Yds  Ave  Lg  TD
Gram Simpson       13    78  6.0  16  0
Jace Wheeler        8    73  9.1  30  0
Chris Brown         9    72  8.0  53  1
Lucas Schexnayder   1     0  0.0   0  0
Totals             31   223  7.2  53  1

Receiving          No   Yds  Ave  Lg  TD
Lucas Shexnayder    5   75  15.0  24  0
Peyton King         4   50  15.0  19  1
Hayes Holladay      4   34   8.5  15  0
Gram Simpson        5   33   6.6  19  0
Chris Brown         1    4   4.0   4  0
Totals             19  196  10.3  24  1