Canyon Lake Golf team finished 11th place out of 19 teams in the Matador Classic last Monday with a

368 score at the Starcke Park Golf Course.

Once again the CL Hawks played in a tournament of several 4A and 5A schools.

Sophomore Garrett Winters scored an 87 leading the team followed by Andrew Riali (90), Ralph Gonzales (95), Skyler Tschoepe (96), and JJ Hererra (100).

The scores are added for the top five on each team for that final score.

One key note is how well Weimer a class A school did in this tournament. Two teams and both were in the top six schools participating.

    Scores   Team                  Classification
  1. 309     Smithson Valley            5A
  2. 312     Weimer 'A'                 1A
  3  326     Judson                     5A
  4. 327     Steele                     5A
  5. 334     New Braunfels              5A
  6. 339     Weimer 'B'                 1A
  7. 342     East Central               5A
  8. 344     Gonzales                   3A
  9. 351     Seguin Gold                4A
 10. 360     St. Mary's Hall TAPPS
 11. 368     CANYON LAKE                3A
 12. 373     Brandeis                   5A
 13. 383     Seguin Black               4A
 14. 393     Roosevelt                  5A
 15. 396     San Marcos                 5A
 16. 411     Highlands                  4A
 17. 415     Lockhart                   4A
 18. 419     Yoakum                     3A
 19. 476     Stevens                    5A

Canyon Lake could not even scare the basket in the first quarter as both teams combined for eight points, as the Hawks ended another season on a down note, losing 40-31 to Bandera.

Falling in love with the three point shot did not help matters as CL shot a dismal 12% from beyond the arc and those outside shots also resulted in only four free throws in this game.

Caleb Kreiger finished his season with 15 points and 9 rebounds on top of many records for his career played in just one season.

 Kreiger Finishes:
 1st   Rebounds           218
 1st   Blocks              59
 3rd   Points Scored      406
 5th   Made Free Throws    72

Other Hawk Players and Career Records:
 1st   Assists            Doug Hubnik     151 season 187 career
 2nd   3pt Goals          Andrew Riali     62
 4th   3pt Goals          Paul Davis       34
 4th   Steals             Doug Hubnik      62
 4th   Made Free Throws   Doug Hubnik      80

Canyon Lake will now go to work on trying to climb back into their district race for next year as both the Freshman and Junior Varsity will have several players ready to step in for these departing Seniors.

Seniors playing last game:
Doug Hubnik; Caleb Kreiger; Paul Davis; Chandler Faulkner; Isaac Pruna;   
Ray Dailey; Robbie Ferris; Thomas McIntire; Spencer Wellings

            1   2   3   4   Final
 CL Hawks   2  11  10   8   31
 Bandera    6  13  15   6   40

                             3pt           Tot Rebounds
 Name              fgm-fga fgm-fga ftm-fta pts or-dr tot a  s  b  to
 Andrew Riali        3-14    2-11    0-0    8   3-1  4   0  2  0  1
 Robbie Ferris       0-1     0-1     0-0    0   0-0  0   0  1  0  0
 Chandler Faulkner   0-2     0-0     0-0    0   0-1  1   1  0  0  0
 Thomas McIntire     0-0     0-0     0-0    0   0-0  0   0  0  0  1
 Paul Davis          2-12    1-7     0-0    5   0-6  6   1  2  0  2
 Doug Hubnik         0-6     0-1     0-0    0   0-3  3   5  3  0  1
 Tyler Clark         1-2     0-1     0-0    2   0-0  0   0  1  0  0
 Caleb Kreiger       7-15    0-3     1-2   15   2-7  9   0  1  0  4
 Javier Mendez       0-0     0-0     1-2    1   3-1  4   2  2  0  3
 Ray Dailey          0-0     0-0     0-0    0   0-0  0   0  0  0  0
 Isaac Pruna         0-1     0-0     0-0    0   1-2  3   0  1  0  1
 Totals             13-53    3-24    2-4   31   9-21 30  9 13  9 13
 Percentages        24.5%   12.5%   50.0%

Hawk JV Baseball team won their scrimmage game against Burnet Tuesday at the Hawk Diamond.

This game started during the daylight which was the phrase used by Coach Brian Owens when comparing their game with Seguin last week.

“Night and day from last week,” Coach Owens commented when asked the difference in their last two contests. “We have been working on focusing in the game and talked about the mental side of the game.”

The Hawks won this 11 inning affair 10-8 as CL held Burnet to only one run in their last eight innings.

A slow start as the Hawks found themselves down 7-4 after three innings and then 8-4 after the sixth.

That would be the Bulldogs last run of this game as Headrick, Kissell, Volz, and McCleary closed the door on Burnet for the rest of this outing.

Ten strikeouts and four walks was a winning formula along with a much sharper defensive game as this contest matured.

“We had a good game but we started slow,” Jordan Weber started. “We made our way to the top and were more consistent and we had our plays down. We also communicated more as a team.”

Yes, this was just a scrimmage, but Canyon Lake’s JV team had a lot of good pitchers take the mound and sound defense and timely hitting.

Wait, that is what suppose to happen in baseball when you want to be successful.

Just two errors and cutting down on walks was a whole different team playing from last week’s game.

This team will be fun to watch this year, in fact, you will have another chance this Friday, when Canyon Lake plays Llano in a makeup game cancelled last week.

Come on out for the Day game and hopefully the Night game will have bright lights on for another win.

             1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11   R  H E
Burnet       2  1  4  0  1  0  0  0  0  0  0   8 11 4
Hawks JV     3  1  0  0  0  0  3  3  0  0  X  10 10 2

Fredericksburg has taken their 3A status to heart as they will shoot and make 3pointers at will to bury a team.

Canyon Lake was in this game and made several runs at this Billie team but there was always an answer in the form of a three pointer and 99% of the time that shot would find the bottom of the net.

The Hawks did shoot in the 30% range throughout this contest which did not help when your opponent is shooting over 50% from that 3 point circle.

CL has one consolation in that Fredericksburg is not a 4A school giving them another point to add onto their scoring.

This was the last night for several Seniors that was in their last home game.

Chandler Faulkner is one of those players that gives several intangibles for the Hawks that won’t always show up in a stat line.

Coach Lucas Chapman has used Faulkner as his go to guy when needing to a shut down defensive (more…)

Canyon Lake Freshman suffered a subpar second quarter that was too much to rekindle in their loss to Fredericksburg, 59-45.

A three for fourteen from the field in that quarter was enough to bury the Hawks while Fredericksburg buried three pointer after three pointer.

Both teams were evenly matched for the other three quarters as Robert Woods once again had a double-double with 13 points and 12 rebounds.

Hayden Lee also had some very nice drives to the basket in helping to keep the Hawks close to their visitors.

Free throws were not free for CL as a 4-13 tally would indicate. Oh yeah, Fredericksburg does use that word ‘Free’ for their Throws.

“I am very proud of the way we played tonight,” Coach John Barthels opened. “This was the first game in a long time that we kept our composure against a press and we up tempo defensively.”

Canyon Lake did have some spurts getting Fredericksburg’s lead back into single digits.

“The score might not reflect good defense, but were where we needed to be initially and force them to be out of rhythm, unfortunately one of the two areas we did not do well was rebounding,” Coach Barthels finished. “We did get 29 points from our big men tonight and I am really looking forward to seeing this group develop next year.”

                     1   2   3   4   Final
 Billies Freshman   13  15  19  12   59
 Hawks Freshman     10   6  14  15   45
                           3pt               Pt  Rebounds
 name                fgm-fga fgm-fga ftm-fta tot or-dr tot  a  s  b  to
 Rodrigo Sarmiento     0-2     0-1     0-0    0   0-1   1   0  0  0  1
 Dalton Head           1-2     0-0     0-0    2   2-1   3   0  0  0  0
 Justin Ferris         0-1     0-0     0-0    0   0-0   0   0  0  0  0
 Joseph Arredondo      3-6     0-0     2-5    8   0-1   1   5  4  0  6
 Timothy Romero        0-0     0-0     0-0    0   0-1   1   0  0  0  2
 Mason Montgomery      0-2     0-1     0-0    0   0-1   1   0  0  0  1
 Sam Langford          0-2     0-0     0-0    0   1-1   2   0  1  0  3
 Hayden Lee            4-9     0-0     0-0    8   1-3   4   0  3  0  1
 Brandon Wood          3-11    1-7     1-2    8   1-1   2   0  5  0  1
 Zach Sawyer           0-1     0-0     0-0    0   0-0   0   0  0  0  0
 Robert Woods          6-10    0-0     1-4   13   4-8  12   1  0  0  1
 Zach Gregory          3-3     0-0     0-1    6   2-0   2   0  1  0  2
 Totals               19-49    1-9     4-13  45  11-18 29   6 14  0 18
 Percentage           40.8%   11.1%    30.8%

Quarter First     Second    Half   Third      Fourth      Half    Game
FG      5-9 56%   3-14 21%  35%    6-12 50%   6-14 36%    46%     41%
3Pt FG  0-1 00%   0-2  00%  00%    1-3  33%   0-4  00%    14%     11%
FT      0-2 00%   0-1  00%  00%    1-2  50%   3-7  43%    44%     31%
TO      5         6         11     3          4           7       18

Canyon Lake Junior Varsity scored eight points in the last 40 seconds to overcome a seven point deficit, beating Fredericksburg last Friday night.

Fredericksburg had a lead or was tied for 31:58.7 of this game and Canyon Lake took over for :01.3 and that lead is still there at this writing.

Having trouble in the first half in getting the ball down the court was the culprit in playing catch up for this game.

The Billies press was not giving the Hawks any chances for shots and proving that Fredericksburg’s 47 point win last go around would be more of the same.

Canyon Lake Junior Varsity had other plans however as they started inching back into this game after intermission.

“The first half we were not attacking Fredericksburg’s press and allowing them to trap us,” Coach Brian Hooper said with his lost voice. “We talked about getting the ball and taking it up the court instead of sitting back and allowing them to trap us.”

“We started dribbling through the press and that was allowing us to get some calls.”

Sean Nolan made his presence known again with just one missed shot in this contest and that miss was retrieved by Nolan with a put back.

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Canyon Lake Golf team started their season with an impressive 6th Place tournament finish at the Northeast ISD Spring Invitational held last Monday February 4th, at the Willow Springs Golf Course.

The Hawks posted a team score of 344 which placed them in sixth place out of 20 other schools.

Leading the way for Canyon Lake was Junior Skyler Tschoepe with a round of 82 which included nine pars and one birdie.

Senior Ralph Gonzales was only one stroke back of Tschoepe by shooting an 83 with nine pars on his round. Sophomore Garrett Winters shot 88, with seven pars and Junior JJ Herrera shot 91 followed by Andrew Riali finishing with a 97.

The Hawks next competition in Monday, February 11th when CL travel to Starcke Park in Seguin to compete in the Matador Spring Classic.

Thanks to Coach Greg Norris for help with this article.

Canyon Lake’s Freshman squad did not have a good game in their loss to Navarro last night.

Last time these two squads met, it was a great comeback but an overtime loss to this same group of players.

Apparently, Navarro was allowed to put their Superman Cape on as the Panthers took a nine point lead in that first quarter and were never threatened for the rest of the evening.

“We turned the ball over too many times in this game and once again lost our composure when the pressure was on,” Coach John Barthels said. “We did play a good fourth quarter when I asked them to step up and get after it.”

Sounds like their might have been some frustration for the Hawks as the proverbial ‘Snowball’ going down hill syndrome.

“We still have a lot of things to get better at before the end of the season,” Coach Barhels said with resolve. “We will see what kind of fight we have left in us as we play the best team in our district as far as pressure goes this Friday with Fredericksburg’s press.”

It sounds like Coach Barthels has laid the ground work on what practices will be encompassing for the rest of this week.

That third quarter four point outburst will need to be corrected and then a turnaround might be forthcoming.

Come out and support the Hawks for their last game at home for this basketball season.

                    1   2   3   4   Final
 Navarro Freshman  19  15  19   8   61
 Hawks Freshman    10  14   4  13   41
 Scorers:
 Joseph Arredondo 11, Brandon Ward 9, Hayden Lee 8,
 Robert Woods, Mason Montgomery, Tavion Soliz 2,
 Sam Langford 1.

Canyon Lake JV basketball team swatted the Panthers around in their victory last Tuesday night in the Hawk gym.

“We have been on a skid the last seven games,” Coach Brian Hooper said. “Overall our press helped us in getting turnovers and got our offense going.”

Seven blocks recorded by five different players pretty much told Navarro that weak stuff was not going to be allowed as Canyon Lake controlled the boards with nine offensive rebounds and 37 total rebounds.

All but one player had at least one rebound and no player dominated the boards. A truly team effort as CLJV rushed out to a 10 point lead after that first quarter finishing with their 15 point margin of victory.

Sean Nolan was a recipient of a match-up offense as Navarro had no one who could body up to this 6’5 220lb mountain man underneath.

“We wanted to get Sean (Nolan) to work on finishing,” Coach Hooper said like a proud father.

In that final quarter Nolan’s longest shot was right under the rim, in fact all of his shots were right under the rim, hence only missing one shot for the game.

On having the offense isolating Nolan underneath in the fourth quarter Nolan commented, “Somewhat, because they (Navarro) don’t have any players my height and I was telling my teammates, Navarro had no one to match up with me,” Nolan said from his mountaintop.

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Lay ups can be one of the most mystifying shots in the heat of battle for basketball games.

Many times shots go in and out or just bounce the wrong way and when you add up those shots then you know that a game was well within your reach to come away with a victory, IF….if we only had those shots go in…

“We talked about turnovers during halftime,” Head Coach Lucas Chapman started. “When a team is not even pressing and you have 11 turnovers in a half….turnovers just diminish your chances of scoring.”

“Our turnovers were also timely ones,” Lucas also stated. “We have to come out and play with energy and tenacity and we just did not get that done.”

Canyon Lake was still right on that door step of taking a game against Navarro, but a missed lay-up here and an untimely turnover there will add up many times in giving way too many gifts to your opponent netting a loss.

The Hawks rebounded from a 13 point deficit to close to within two points late in the fourth but just could not find a way to get that shot in a loss to the Panthers, 45-40.

Canyon Lake has not had a warm reception at home with another loss and a 3-10 record.

That last home win was during the Canyon Lake Tournament a 48-47 win over Somerset, December 7th, 49 days and seven games ago.

Speaking of streaks, CL went over a quarter of playing time without scoring a point. The Hawks took a 12-10 lead and when they scored again with 1:05 left in the second quarter, Navarro enjoyed 14 unanswered points.

Without Spencer Wellings two buckets the quarter would of been a shut-out.

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