Canyon Lake lost a heartbreaker game in overtime to Bandera Bulldogs Friday night at the Hawk gym, 50-58.

Sharp Shooter Andrew Riali

“We battled our tails off,” Head Coach Lucas Chapman said. “To be down 15 points and believe we could get it done and get back in it was a great testament to this team.”

The Hawks had 25 turnovers in their last game in Fredericksburg and were on a mission to not let that happen again.

“We started taking care of the ball and our goal was to have 12 or less turnovers in this game,” Andrew “Dead Eye” Riali exclaimed.

Mission accomplished as CL finished with nine miscues in four quarters plus an overtime.

That was a key element as Canyon Lake started their comeback in the second half erasing a 15 point deficit in those last two quarters.

A 34 to 19 advantage in the second half with clutch shooting and lock down defense was a great combination for Canyon Lake as the home crowd helped pump adrenaline into this comeback.

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The Freshman Lady Hawks fought a tough game with Fredericksburg, but could not get that last basket for a win, 50-47.

“We came out slow and it all was very mental,” Coach Shannon Hoberer said. “Our focus was not great, but after halftime they calmed down and started to execute.”

Several players had key baskets and free throws down the stretch in staging an eight point comeback in that fourth quarter that helped delay the Varsity game due to only having three refs for this evening.

This Freshman game was called by one referee for almost the entire affair with reinforcements arriving with under two minutes in that critical fourth stanza.

Canyon Lake found themselves down nine and eight points in the second half before their last push that barely missed a perfect comeback.

In their earlier game, Fredericksburg blew out CL but that game was not as bad as those results garnered. The Billies had borrowed some JV players for the game when several players were sick for that game.

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Turnovers and missed free throws spelled the downfall for Canyon Lake against Fredericksburg in their loss, 35-28.

Canyon Lake’s defense was pretty salty, but the Hawks needed some pepper for their offensive game as another low scoring game could not save the game or season leaving a bad taste in their mouth.

This loss will force Canyon Lake in a corner needing to win every game on their schedule to make the playoffs now.

Katie Williams finished with 10 points and 14 rebounds but finding points was much like finding eggs at a Easter Egg Hunt during a January night for most of the Lady Hawks.

Hard to do.

The Hawks shot 100% in the third quarter, the problem is having only three shots for that quarter.

With 21 turnovers in those middle two quarters CL could not get any shots to help stage a comeback.

“We need to play a tighter man to man defense,” Head Coach Mary Beth Gallagher exclaimed. “The only chance we had to get back into the game was staying in our man defense.”

Canyon Lake will hit the road to Bandera this Friday to try and right this ship. Good Luck.

                   1   2   3   4   Final
 Fredericksburg    4  13   6  12   35
 CL Hawks          5   7   8   8   28

                           3pt            Pt Rebounds
 Name            fgm-fga fgm-fga ftm-fta Tot or-dr Tot a s b to
 Dulce Brown       0-0     0-0     0-0    0   0-1   1  0 0 0 3
 Hannah St. John   0-0     0-0     1-2    1   0-0   0  0 0 0 4
 Trena Lorett      2-2     0-0     0-4    4   0-0   0  0 0 0 6
 Katie Williams    3-7     0-1     4-6   10   3-11 14  3 0 0 6
 Amber Ramsey      1-4     0-0     1-4    3   3-6   9  1 4 4 3
 Tammy Dean        0-1     0-0     0-0    0   0-0   0  1 0 0 2
 Kyndall Drum      0-0     0-0     0-1    0   2-1   3  0 2 0 2
 Olivia Flores     2-9     2-6     2-2    8   0-3   3  1 0 0 5
 Kelsey Long       1-1     0-0     0-0    2   0-0   0  0 0 0 1
 Total             9-24    2-7     8-19  28   8-22 30  6 6 4 32
 Percentage       37.5%   28.6%   42.1%

Quarter  First      Second    Half   Third     Fourth    Half   Game
FG       2-10 20%   2-7 29%   24%    3-3 100%  2-4 50%   71%    38%
3pt FG   0-3  00%   0-1 00%   00%    1-1 100%  1-2 50%   67%    29%
FT       1-2  50%   3-7 43%   44%    1-2 50%   3-8 38%   40%    42%
TO       5          12        17     9         6         15     32

The Hawks could not grab enough momentum from their previous game with Navarro to put a scare on Fredericksburg, as Canyon Lake fell to the Billies by 17 points.

Caleb was the only Hawk to finish with double digit scoring finishing with 12 points in the loss.

Canyon Lake now faces a must win game this Friday at home when Bandera comes to town.

Game 1 2 3 4 Final
CL Hawks 11 6 8 12 37
Fredericksburg 13 14 16 11 54
Scorers:
Caleb Kreiger 12, Andrew Riali 7, Paul Davis 5,
Javier Mendez 4, Isaac Pruna 4, Chandler Faulkner 3,
Luke Curry 2.

Canyon Lake Freshman Basketbal team lost a tough battle in Navarro last week in overtime, 56-55.

Navarro has a good club, but a bad fourth quarter left little in their tank to win the game in overtime.

“Tavian Soliz went from wing to point guard early and drove the lane and made some plays,” Coach John Barthels commented. “Robert Woods got several offensive rebounds and easy put backs.”

Both players responded with their best game of this season, but more work will be done as this upstart team goes to Fredericksburg today with a game against the Billies.

                    1   2   3   4   OT   Final
 Hawk Freshman     13  11  21   6   4    55
 Navarro Freshman   7  15  8   21   5    56
 CL Scorers:
 T. Soliz 20, R. Woods 12, H. Lee 6, Z. Gregory 6, B. Ward 6,
 D. Head 4, J. Ferris 1.

Canyon Lake halted their seven game losing streak with a 59-54 win over Navarro last Friday night in Panther country.

The Hawks last win was against this same team, Navarro in the Randolph Tournament over a month ago.

This win was also the first District win in over two years. Yes, CL won a forfeit game two years ago against SA Hawkins, but this was an actual win which certainly means more.

Canyon Lake’s last win in district was 24 games counting that forfeit win with Hawkins. You would go back to 26 district games, when the Hawks beat Ingram Moore, 81-73 February 9th, 2010.

Paul Davis was on for this evenings game scoring 25 points while Andrew Riali finished with 17 points.

Caleb Kreiger contributed 12 rebounds and four blocks to his resume. With his next block he will pass Neal Whitehead for the most blocks in Canyon Lake history, both players are tied with 41.

Another milestone could be passed in the Hawks game with Fredericksburg with Point Guard Doug Hubnik needing only five more assists to pass Matt Magness total of 136 in his recently completed career.

Hubnik continues to rack up assists with 103 for this season.

“It was a gut check win, exactly the type of win that we haven’t been able to get the past few years,” a relieved Head Coach Lucas Chapman said. “It was a great win and something we can really build on. It was good to finally get over that hump.”

The Hawks will now see what type of building they might be constructing when they face 19th ranked Fredericksburg Billies on their court tonight.

                      3pt           Pt  Rebounds
 Name       fgm-fga fgm-fga ftm-fta tot or-dr Tot  a s b to
 Riali        5-12    4-11    3-3   17   0-4   4   2 1 1 0
 Faulkner     1-5     0-0     3-4    5   2-2   4   1 0 0 0
 McIntire     1-1     0-0     0-0    2   0-0   0   0 1 0 0
 Davis        7-17    2-6     9-11  25   2-4   6   1 0 0 2
 Hubnik       2-6     0-0     1-3    5   2-2   4   4 1 0 2
 Kreiger      1-5     0-1     0-0    2   1-11 12   2 0 4 3
 Mendez       1-1     0-0     1-2    2   0-3   3   2 0 0 2
 Curry        0-0     0-0     0-0    0   0-0   0   0 0 0 1
 Pruna        0-0     0-0     0-0    0   1-0   1   0 1 0 0
 Totals      18-47    6-18   17-23  59   8-26 34  12 4 5 10
             38%      33%     74%

Lady Hawks had some good moments against one of the top teams in District 27-3A, but once the dam broke, Canyon Lake could not stop the onslaught as Navarro won going away, 55-34.

Canyon Lake went 10 minutes from the third into the fourth quarter without scoring a bucket while Navarro was scoring 20 points. In that time span, CL could not find any water in their lake and now find themselves needing to reverse this next half of district play with some wins.

The Hawks are not out of the race and if they can find that same feeling of wins from their non-district schedule, then anything can happen.

“We have not put together a full game yet this year,” Head Coach Mary Beth Gallagher said. “We are just not making the changes needed.”

Canyon Lake spent their first two minutes of the second quarter controlling the back board and getting to that foul line.

The result was three points and closing the deficit to four points. Another Canyon Lake seven point run had the Hawks with a lead, 18-17 with over three minutes still to play in the quarter.

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The Lady Hawks played the second half even but still had some problems sinking shots in the first half resulting in a loss to Boerne Greyhounds, 45-32.

Canyon Lake still held Boerne 10 points below their seasonal average but grasping hold of some offensive power would of been a great equalizer.

The Hawks also reduced their turnovers and the free throw percentage was back up but combining a perfect storm is sometimes like catching that prize butterfly on a windy day.

“We played good defense but struggled to score from the outside,” Head Coach MaryBeth Gallagher said. “We tied their score in the second half after making some halftime adjustments, but we just did not get into sinc until the second half.”

Amber Ramsey pulled off a double double with 10 points and 12 rebounds while also getting her patented three to four steals a game.

Canyon Lake will now have another tough opponent on their docket when Navarro comes to visit this Friday night at the Hawk Gym.

               1   2   3   4   Final
 Canyon Lake  10   5   4  13   32
 Boerne       16  12   5  12   45

                           3pt           Tot Rebounds
 Name            fgm-fga fgm-fga ftm-fta pts or-dr Tot a s b to
 Dulce Brown       0-0     0-0     1-2    1   1-1   2  0 2 0 1
 Trena Lorett      1-1     0-0     0-0    2   0-0   0  0 1 0 0
 Katie Williams    3-12    0-0     2-2    8   2-5   7  2 0 1 3
 Amber Ramsey      5-13    0-0     0-0   10   3-9  12  2 4 2 1
 Tammy Dean        0-0     0-0     1-2    1   0-1   1  0 0 0 5
 Kyndall Drum      1-2     0-0     0-1    2   0-2   2  2 0 0 0
 Olivia Flores     2-7     1-4     3-4    8   0-0   0  1 2 0 9
 Kelsey Long       0-0     0-0     0-0    0   1-0   1  0 0 0 1
 Totals           12-35    1-4     7-11 32    7-18 25  7 9 3 20
 Percentages      34.3%   25.0%   63.6%

Canyon Lake Freshman missed a win by three points as the Boerne Greyhounds had a comeback in the fourth quarter outscoring CL by seven points for a two point win, 64-62.

“We played our best game offensively,” Coach John Barthels interjected. “We picked a bad time to play our worst game defensively.We can fix that.”

The Hawks had 11 players scoring points showing off their depth and resolve.

“We were able to get more people involved and had several players step up when we asked them to,” Barthels continued. “We were 17 of 28 from the free throw line after going 8 of 10 against Wimberley, so we have stepped up in the last two games there after shooting just 36% on the year.”

Having so many players involved in games will only help as they take on the tasks of getting their best game going.

“We have really started to play as a team and although we are 0-2 in district I feel we are playing better basketball at the right time,” Coach Barthels finished.

Brandon Ward and Zach Gregory both finished with double figure points with 17 and 12 respectfully.

“We worked as hard as we can to come over the injury,” Gregory said after commenting on losing Joseph Arredondo during the second half. “We will try to work harder in practice and come together as a team more and the wins will come.”

A good game for Canyon Lake as they continue their schedule through District 27-3A.

Freshman     1   2   3   4   Final
Boerne      14  16  15  17   64
CL Hawks    18  17  15  10   62
Scoring: B. Ward 17, Z. Gregory 12, R. Woods 7,
H. Lee 7, J. Arredondo 6, D. Head 4, R. Sarmiento 2,
T. Soliz 2, M. Montgomery 2, S. Langford 2, Z. Sawyer 1.

The Hawk’s Junior Varsity made up nine points in the third quarter but could not finish, losing 50-46 to Boerne.

The second half was a different team for Canyon Lake…again.

“Coach said to stay calm and don’t give up,” Trendon Martinez started. “We came out and we got some traps which resulted in easy baskets. We just need to stay focused and get that energy for the whole game with an unstoppable mindset and keep up a good defense.”

A much more active team in the second half helped as Canyon Lake was much more energetic on the boards and defense, which turned into offense.

Half of CL’s field goals, in that second half, was a result of an assist which tells you how good this offense was humming as this game matured.

Skyler Tschoepe was a recipient of many of those assists as he also made several other shots having one of his best overall games of this season with 19 points.

“Our second half we started off and got some easy baskets and then that led to momentum,” Tschoepe said with resolve. “Our transition points were wide open especially on our three’s.”

Garrett Winters also returned with a three point clinic making five long shots throughout this contest.

Seven different players were credited with an assist while also bringing down that turnover epidemic this team was suffering in their last outing.

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