What a difference a game makes, as Canyon Lake improved their game by reducing Marble Falls JV

Freshman Rory Preiss starts season strong in Marble Falls

baseball team to 10 runs less for the second game of a doubleheader opening the Hawks Baseball season Monday night in the Falls.

That first game was over quick when the Mustangs scored in every inning in that first contest.

Problem? The Hawk pitching staff could not find the strike zone.

That resulted in way more base runners for Marble Falls and by adding an error here or there compounded the pounding, 14-2.

Case in point. That first inning had four strikes thrown by CL to six Mustang players and those four strikes resulted in three outs.

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Brianna Young knocked in 5 runs in the first inning with power as Canyon Lake cruised

Carly DuBois making wishes come true in Center Field

to a 19-5 win over Luling Eagles in their final game in the Navarro Tournament on Saturday.

Young had a double and home run in a 12 run first inning to give the Hawks a cushion that helped this young ball club to a 4-2 record opening their season.

“Overall, we improved over our Thursday games,” Head Coach John Gallagher started. “The players played hard and never quit…We will use these games with some teaching in the field.”

Every Hawk had a hit in this game as Canyon Lake batted around the order twice in those three innings before this game was called on a time limit.

CL starts the season with 5 home runs in their first six games and that is more dingers than Canyon Lake has had in their history.

Ahrens was one of the players with two home runs to start this season.

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Cameron Berger saves her best for her last at bat with a single driving in two runs in the last inning

Sophomores Alexis Robinson and Cameron Berger after walk-off single

for a one run win over Pearsall Mavericks, 5-4 at Navarro’s Tournament.

Canyon Lake finished their first day with a 2-1 record with a 13-12 loss to Connally and a win over Gonzales, 11-6 in their earlier games on Thursday.

“I am very pleased with how we played,” Head Coach John Gallagher said. “We did well offensively and hit the ball well and bunted well.”

The Hawks are so young that even their one of two seniors is Brianna YOUNG.

Freshman and Sophomores ‘make up’ many new faces, in fact, they might be so young that they don’t wear ‘make up’.

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Isaac Mendez has one of his best games in final contest against Bandera

Canyon Lake ends season on a losing note as the Hawks said good-bye to four Seniors who played their last game.

Bandera finished off the Hawks, 67-48, as CL once again started the game in a whole as the Bulldogs finished that first quarter in the lead, 18-7.

Isaac Mendez did have one of his best games of the season on this night as he was the only Hawk in double figure scoring finishing with 12 points and also chipped in with 9 rebounds which also led the Canyon Lake effort.

Canyon Lake did finish the season as the all time leading Hawk team with steals, rebounds, and blocks per game.

Those numbers still did not translate into victories as CL finished the season without a district win.

Conversely Canyon Lake also finished this season as the worst team for defense, assists, and turnovers was only 3 away from leading in that category (2009 team had 3 more turnovers).

The Hawk Seniors did make their presence known for their last game: Andrew Riali, Tyler Clark, Isaac Mendez, Javier Mendez, and Luke Curry.

                          ftm-fga  3ptm/3pta  ftm-fta   Pts  or-dr  tot  a  s  b to
 Senior Line Stats:        16-46     4-19       1-3     37    7-13  20   2  6  2 12
 Rest of team totals:       3-25     1-7        4-8     11    4-6   10   2  1  2  3

Player Quotes:
On what you think about last game and what wisdom for younger players:
Senior Isaac Mendez: “This went by quick….you can’t take days off and I hope for a different season than what we did.”
Senior Javier Mendez: “The season ending kind of stinks….the players got to understand the harder you work, the better you get.”
Senior Andrew Riali: “It is hard to say good-bye….this year all I wanted to do is concentrate on basketball. The players have to practice three times harder and work on what you are worse at doing. Work over the
Summer as much as you can on dribbling skills, finishing, and free throws.”
Senior Luke Curry: “We were building blocks for future teams.”
Junior Garrett Winters: “Ultimately, I would like to win some basketball games next year. We need to reduce our turnovers and just take care of the ball.”

The ReSporter will have final stats for the year and all-time stats tomorrow.

                 1   2   3   4   Final
 Bandera        18  15  16  18   67
 Canyon Lake     7  11  15  15   48

                               3pt            tot  rebounds
 name                fgm-fga fgm-fga ftm-fta  pts  or-dr tot  a  s  b  to
 Andrew Riali          1-10    1-7     1-2     4    1-1   2   0  0  1  2
 Trendon Martinez      0-2     0-0     0-0     0    0-0   0   0  0  0  1
 Garrett Winters       1-6     1-6     0-0     3    0-0   0   0  0  0  0
 Tyler Clark           4-7     0-2     0-0     8    1-2   3   1  2  0  0
 Austin Acosta         0-1     0-1     0-0     0    0-0   0   0  0  0  2
 Isaac Mendez          6-16    0-0     0-1    12    4-5   9   1  3  0  5
 Skyler Tschoepe       0-0     0-0     0-0     0    0-0   0   0  0  0  0
 Haden Lee             0-0     0-0     1-2     1    0-2   2   0  1  1  0
 Javier Mendez         2-4     0-1     0-0     4    1-3   4   0  1  0  3
 Luke Curry            3-9     3-9     0-0     9    0-2   2   0  0  1  2
 Robert Woods          1-1     0-0     1-2     3    2-2   4   1  0  1  0
 Sean Nolan            1-5     0-0     2-4     4    2-2   4   0  0  0  0
 totals               19-61    5-26    5-11   48   11-19 30   3  7  4 15

Senior night for Canyon Lake Girls Basketball said good-night to several players in their loss to Navarro, 42-25.

Freshman Sarah Russell will come out guns blazing for next Basketball season

 
Amber Ramsey finished in double figure rebounds with 12 while also finishing up her career with two more blocks as she added a number that might be passed any time soon.

Emily Muniz was another Senior that improved this season after dusting off the moth balls from being inactive from not playing last year.

Freshman Sarah Russell came on as this season culminated as she finished with 8 points while she was perfect from outside the three point arc.

Junior Kyndall Drum also finished up a very productive season as this player continued to improve in all aspects of her game.

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Garrett Winters ready to attack.

Canyon Lake lost to front runner Fredericksburg in Basketball on Saturday after the scheduled game on Friday was postponed due to weather, 68-45.

Fredericksburg jumped on CL with a 21-8 first quarter and the game was all but over as the Hawks had only eight players ready for action on this rescheduled affair.

Canyon Lake had a decent day of shooting when you take the misses from beyond the arc.

With two shots made out of 16, CL would have a hard time sustaining any sort of rally. From inside the arc, the Hawks made almost half their tries which has been the case for most of this year.

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The Canyon Lake JV Girls Basketball team finished this season on an upbeat note as this team got on a

Lexy Jackson helped lead a successful end of season for Hawk JV Basketball

winning track as the scheduled matured through the season.

“They got tired of losing,” Head JV Coach Jimmy Chamberlin said when asked about how this turnaround started.

The Hawks hung a loss on Navarro for the season finale Tuesday night, 37-28.

Navarro came back from their five point deficit after the first quarter to forge into a 17-16 advantage at intermission.

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Congratulations to the Canyon Lake Swim Team on a great showing at the UIL 28-4A District Championships this past weekend. Competing in one of the largest and most competitive 4A District’s in the state, the Hawk Swimmers placed 5th in the boy’s division and 6th in the girl’s.

First Place Trophy from Burnet’s 3A & Under Championships held earlier this year.

Highlights of the meet include:

Christian Duarte (12): 3rd place in the 100 Backstroke, two school records, qualified for the Region 7 Championships in the 200 Freestyle & 100 Backstroke

Phoenix Duarte (9): Qualified for Region 7 Championships in the 100 Backstroke

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Canyon Lake’s Freshman squad came out of the gate shooting and used that 11 point first quarter lead

DJ Dorroh, Heath McDonough, Rory Preiss relax after another win over Wimberley Freshman

for their second victory over the Texans this season.

In their first match, CL forged a hard fought overtime win, but in this game shooting 50% for the game allowed this Hawk team to get enough cushion to finish off Wimberley.

Take DJ Dorroh for instance, this young man was perfect from the floor as he made all of his five shots and two free throws to boot.

“We were just moving the ball around and getting good shots,” Dorroh said perfectly. “Then in the second half we were getting too confident and started slowing down.”

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Senior Andrew Riali passed Matt Magness as the all-time leading scorer for Canyon Lake in game against Wimberley

A common phrase when thinking about how close someone or team came to winning or making a winning shot.

Wimberley was on the foul line with a one point lead when their shooter missed with six seconds left in the game.

Sean Nolan got the rebound and passed it off for one last chance with Andrew Riali in place with a pass that was fumbled and then grabbing the ball from the floor and heaving a shot from 30 feet which found nothing but the bottom of the net.

Game over and a last second win…..except the shot was just after the horn sounded ending the game.

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