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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Canyon Lake had one of their best shooting games in their loss to Boerne last Friday night.

The Hawks went crazy beyond the arc in this game setting a new Canyon Lake record for three pointers in this game.

A record 11 three point shots made on just 18 attempts beat Canyon Lake’s old record of 9 shots made from the outer limits three years ago in a game against San Antonio Lutheran in the CL Tournament.

Record Three Point Games
Year    Team              Date     3pt/Shot      Percentage
'12-13  Boerne          02/01/13    11/18        61%
'10-11  SA Lutheran     12/10/10     9/28        32%
'10-11  Blanco          12/20/11     8/20        40%
'09-10  Bandera         01/09/10     8/24        33%
'09-10  Lehman          11/24/09     7/17        41%
'10-11  Fredericksburg  01/11/11     7/18        39%
'10-11  Randolph        12/28/10     7/19        37%

Another slow start put CL on a steep hill to climb for the rest of this game. With just 20 points in that first half you can make an argument that two quarters like the last two with 38 points might have had the just right amount of pressure on those Greyhounds.

To no avail but it did allow Canyon Lake to open it up and respond accordingly with a red hot finish from the floor.

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Senior’s Katie Williams, Hannah St. John, Tammy Dean, and Kelsey Long played valiantly in their final game at Canyon Lake on Friday night in a loss to Boerne, 39-32.

The stat line for this crew of girls was an impressive sight with this combined total:

                       3pt           Pts  Rebounds
             fgm-fga fgm-fga ftm-fta tot  or-dr tot Steals Blocks
Four Seniors   8-18    2-4     3-5   21    1-8   9    2     1

Boerne was the front runner in district play and showed it as this game started when they jumped out to a nine point lead after the first quarter.

That Greyhound lead increased to 15 points as the teams went into halftime for instructions.

Canyon Lake answered the bell by cutting into that lead seven points after that third quarter, 33-25 deficit.

The Hawks were down just three points with 2:30 left in the fourth quarter, but the rim closed for the rest of this contest as Boerne closed with four points giving them their seven point victory.

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CL Boy’s Basketball cut it close in their loss to Wimberley last night, needing only one three point basket to win the game.

The Hawks stumbled in that second quarter spelling their doom as that helped the Texans to get all the breathing room needed to hold off this Hawk team.

Garrett Winters and Trendon Martinez both finished in double figures in this game with 20 and 10 points respectfully.

“Overall, it was the best we have looked since district has started,” Coach Brian Hooper said. “The guys played as a team and battled hard all game.”

Coach Hooper assessed the game, “A few too many turnovers that led to points and the lack of offense in that second quarter was the difference in this game.”

              1   2   3   4   Final
 CLJV        14   4  13  16   47
 Wimberley   10  11  14  14   49
 Scorers:
 Garrett Winters 20; Trendon Martinez 10; Skyler Tschoepe 6;
 Tommy Clark 5; NIc Adams 2; Dave Pfaff 2; Austin Acosta 2.

              1st  2nd  3rd  4th   Final
 CL Freshman   8   13    6   17    46
 Wimberley    17   13   15   16    61

Scoring – Z. Gregory 12, R. Woods 10, M. Montgomery 4, J. Arredondo 5, B. Ward 7, H. Lee 4, T. Soliz 2, Z. Sawyer 2

Hawks struggle in the 1st and 3rd quarters and lost their composure against the press as Wimberley had their way on this night.

“Zach Gregory and Robert Woods played well down low,” Coach John Barthels said.  “At times when we pushed the ball and looked up court we had good looks for open shots.”

Now as the learning process continues through the season this group of freshman will continue to finish this season strong.

Canyon Lake did not have a good day in competition on Tuesday night as the Hawks drew a blank in their games against Wimberley in girls and boys play.

CL Hawk girls basketball started their game scoring just one point in their first quarter and that start would be to hard to overcome in their loss, 44-30.

Katie Williams scored eight points to lead CL and also pulled down 10 rebounds, she was followed by Hannah St. John with six points.

Poor shooting continues to haunt Canyon Lake as they shot 22% from the field.

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CL Boy’s basketball also could not keep up with Wimberley as the Texans increased their lead in that decisive fourth quarter for a victory over a ‘Backs to the Wall’ Hawk team.

Canyon Lake will now have to win out to have a legitimate chance for making the playoffs this season losing, 73-53.

Wimberley outscored CL 23-8 in that final stanza sealing this loss.

Coaches Corner with Soccer Coach, Katie McWhorter.

The ReSporter: Canyon Lake did not lose a lot of Seniors, how young is your team and who will be some athletes you hope to carry your squad?

Coach McWhorter: “Although we didn’t lose many seniors last year, we only have two this year, so our team is a very young team. We are working hard at becoming a more aggressive and explosive team in the hopes that we will be one of the top contenders in our district for playoffs.”

The ReSporter: You have another year of facing schools that are much larger than the Hawks, how will that translate with how the team will approach this season?

Coach McWhorter: “While we are facing schools that are much larger than us, our team has a lot of skill and fight in them. We participated in three tournaments preseason, and most of the teams we played were from much larger schools with excellent soccer teams – some of them were even 5A schools. We held our own and did a really good job in our play.”
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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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