Junior Reagan Heun driving for the basket in loss to Lehman.                                    (photo by Karen Holmes)

Canyon Lake’s Girls Basketball future looks bright even after a 2 point loss to Lehman in a season opening contest at the Hawk Nest on Tuesday night, 38-36.

Lehman outscored CL by 6 points in the last 4 minutes of play to pull the win on a shot with 2 seconds on the clock.

“We had good effort,” Head Basketball Coach Zach Burleson commented. “This was a good learning experience and after we look at the film we will find what we will need to work on.”

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Hawks face Liberty Hill this Friday at the Hill.                                     (mjrphotog.com)

                       This Week       @      Canyon Lake

 Tue November 8        Lehman          @      CL Hawks JV1     530pm  Girls  Basketball
                       Lehman          @      CL Hawks JV2     530pm  Girls  Basketball
                       CL Hawks        @      Llano JV         600pm  Boys   Basketball
                                              Scrimmage
                       CL Hawks        @      Llano            600pm  Boys   Basketball
                                              Scrimmage
                       Lehman          @      CL Hawks         700pm  Girls  Basketball

 Fri November 9        Johnson City    @      CL Hawks JV1     500pm  Girls  Basketball
                       Johnson City    @      CL Hawks         630pm  Girls  Basketball
                      *Liberty Hill    vs     CL Hawks         730pm         Football
      *Game Broadcast on CLB                  Liberty Hill
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Canyon Lake Broadcasting’s Future

The idea was a simple one as we started thinking through the next phase of having the students at Canyon Lake highlighted in a market that leaves CL in the dark for the most part.

Yes, the New Braunfels’ paper covers the Hawks but for obvious reasons this paper has many other schools that are much larger that demands their attention.

Hence, The ReSporter and now Canyon Lake Broadcasting (CBL) is in their first year of working football games for the Hawk Nation.

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Canyon Lake has not only been fed some stellar athletes for the boys, but the girls these past few years has also been very accomplished coming out of Mountain Valley Middle School too.

Girls Athletic Director and Softball Coach John Gallagher

The ReSporter had a conversation with Girl’s Athletic Director John Gallagher to get the scoop.

The ReSporter: Hey Coach Gallagher give us your overall opinion on last year’s sports for the ladies.

Coach John Gallagher: “This year was a success throughout the athletic program. All of our female athletes worked very hard both in-season and off-season in the athletic period. As a whole our female athletes recorded improvement their strength, speed, and agility through a detailed workout program implemented by our coaches. There was also a higher level of academic achievement with many of our athletes being named to All-District Academic honors.”

The ReSporter: The Volleyball team set the bar high when they won the School’s first District Championship.

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Canyon Lake Broadcasting is on the air LIVE!

Go CL Hawks Broadcasting

Howdy! Canyon Lake Broadcasting (CLB) is now live and on the air covering Canyon Lake High School & Mountain Valley Middle School sports for the 2016 -2017 season.

CLB is an affiliate of K-MAC sports and will begin coverage starting August 25th with the CLHS JV football team starting at 630pm CST- live from CLHS.

Then CLB will broadcast the Canyon Lake Varsity Football game from Blanco Texas as the season opener begins against the Panthers.

The pregame show will start at 7pm.

CLB is now part of a 50 city team covering central and south Texas with live games in 26 towns and cities every Friday night.

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Recent Grad Haden Lee

Canyon Lake was blessed with many students that excelled with their sport from the football field to soccer field and diamond to hard wood.

Two athletes were voted as the MVP of their sport which was a record for the Hawks and the list below has all the athletes The ReSporter was told of accomplishments.

Bailey Drum in Volleyball and Haden Lee for Football topped the list for this past season and as Seniors will look forward to seeing how these two will adjust to College as Drum will be off to Angelo State University and Lee as aspirations of walking on and compete for an opening at Texas State.

Congratulations for an entertaining year as the Hawk Nation will now look forward to seeing more CL students this coming school year.

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Senior Mike Thorpe sets his sights on a Goal as CL prepares to open district play this Friday with Boerne                                                        (Picture by Lynne Carpenter)

                                 This Week @ Canyon Lake

 Feb 16   CL Hawks Fresh     @      Yoakum               500pm  Boys   Basketball
          CL Hawks JV        @      Burnet               500pm         Softball
          Canyon             @      CL Hawks JV          500pm  Boys   Soccer
          CL Hawks JV        @      Burnet               500pm         Baseball
          Burnet             @      CL Hawks             500pm         Baseball
          CL Hawks JV        @      Yoakum               615pm  Boys   Basketball
          La Vernia          @      CL Hawks             700pm  Girls  Soccer
          CL Hawks Var       @      Burnet               700pm         Softball
          Liberty Hill       vs     CL Hawks             700pm  Girls  Basketball
                             @      Lake Travis High School     Playoffs
          CL Hawks Var       @      Yoakum               730pm  Boys   Basketball

 Feb 18   CL Hawks JV        @      Matador Invitational               Tennis
                                    Seguin
          CL Hawks           @      Huber Ranch Navarro Tourney        Softball
                                    8:00am and 2:00pm

 Feb 19   CL Hawks           @      Huber Ranch Navarro Tourney        Softball
                                    10:00 am and 2:00pm
          CL Hawks Var       @      Matador Invitational               Tennis
                                    Seguin
          CL Hawks           @      Marion               430pm         Baseball
          CL Hawks JV        @      Boerne               500pm  Girls  Soccer
          Boerne             @      CL Hawks JV          500pm  Boys   Soccer
          CL Hawks Var       @      Boerne               700pm  Girls  Soccer
          Boerne             @      CL Hawks Var         700pm  Boys   Soccer

 Feb 20   CL Hawks           @      Huber Ranch Navarro Tourney        Softball
                                    8:00am and 12:00 noon
          CL Hawks Relays Track & Field                  AllDay        Track

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Mason Blackburn goes to new heights in with his kicks in.                                           Pictures by Lynne Carpenter

                              This Week @ Canyon Lake

 Mon. Feb 8    Llano             @   CL Hawks            500pm       Baseball

 Tue. Feb 9    CL Hawks JV       @   La Vernia           500pm Boys  Basketball
               CL Hawks JV       @   La Vernia           500pm Girls Basketball
               CL Hawks JV       @   Wimberley           500pm       Baseball
               CL Hawks Fresh    @   La Vernia           615pm Boys  Basketball
               CL Hawks Varsity  @   La Vernia           630pm Girls Basketball
               CL Hawks Varisty  @   La Vernia           730pm Boys  Basketball
               CL Hawks Fresh    @   La Vernia           730pm Girls Basketball

 Thu. Feb 11   Harper            @   CL Hawks            600pm       Softball

 Fri. Feb 12   CL Hawks          @   Georgetown (East View)          Tennis
                                     Kerry Minzenmayer Classic
               Boerne            @   CL Hawks            500pm       Baseball
               CL Hawks JV       @   Boerne              500pm       Baseball

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Canyon Lake Lady’s Basketball lost their Friday game with Wimberley but with Gonzales taking some lumps from Navarro guaranteed CL to qualify after this Tuesday’s game.

Stay tuned to Hilltop and we will get you info on where and who the Hawks will be playing.

Congratulations!!

Likewise, the Boy’s Basketball squad finished the week 1-1 and will take on La Vernia this Tuesday.

The Hawks would settle things with an upset over the Bears this Tuesday.

Canyon Lake will have one other game a week later against Yoakum and the Bulldogs helped the Hawks cause immensely when they lost their game to Cuero last Friday.

The Boys team is coupled with CL’s Boys Soccer as the only team sport to yet make it out of district play by qualifying for playoffs.

Hawk Soccer has started to make some noise this season as they sport a 7-4 record and presently on a 5 game winning streak.

That will be the same until district starts up in two weeks and finding a way to also qualify for the playoffs would make this season one of the best in Hawk Sport’s history.

This week CL beat a high caliber team in San Marcos Academy on Tuesday and then followed that win with their first home win on Friday over Burnet.

CL’s Girls Soccer finished this past week with 2 ties with one of those games having the Hawks coming back from a 3 goal deficit.

Softball is still in exhibition stage with Harper’s game this Tuesday being the last game before contests start counting.

Baseball will also be starting this week as the Spring Schedule starts to get interesting.

The Varsity Tennis will have their first competition this Friday as they will travel to Georgetown’s Kerry Minzenmayer Classic.

There has to be a sport you can come and support this year’s Spring edition for Hawk sports.

Go Hawks!!

                District 26-4A Girls and Boys Basketball Standings

 Girls         W   L    Pct   GB          Boys         W   L    Pct   GB
 Wimberley     9   1   .900    —          Navarro      9   0  1.000   —
 Navarro       9   2   .818   0.5         Wimberley    7   1   .857   1.5
 La Vernia     8   3   .727   1.5         La Vernia    5   4   .571   4.0
 CL Hawks      5   5   .500   4.0         CL Hawks     5   4   .571   4.0
 Gonzales      3   7   .300   6.0         Yoakum       3   5   .333   5.5
 Yoakum        1   9   .100   8.0         Gonzales     1   8   .143   8.0
 Cuero         1   9   .100   8.0         Cuero        0   9   .000   9.0

 Feb. 2   CL Hawks    39    Cuero      38   CL Hawks    61    Cuero      34
          Navarro     54    Yoakum     40   Navarro     78    Yoakum     34
          Wimberley   54    La Vernia  38   Wimberley   57    La Vernia  52

 Feb. 5   Wimberley    @    CL Hawks
          Cuero        @    Yoakum
          Navarro      @    Gonzales

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                           Boys and Girls Top 3

 shooting pct              3pt goal pct            free throw pct
 Rory Preiss       .467    Joseph Boyd      .500   Brandon Ward     .682
 Tyler Williams    .451    Jacob Ramirez    .357   Sam Langford     .625
 Heath McDonough   .443    Gerrit Wilkins   .294   Justin Ferris    .588

 points                    3pt goals                made free throws
 Rory Preiss        225    Jacob Ramirez      25    Brandon Ward      45
 Brandon Ward       204    Brandon Ward       23    Gerrit Wilkins    36
 Will Gray          182    Will Gray          19    Rory Preiss       36

 offensive reb             defensive reb            total rebounds
 Rory Preiss         62    Rory Preiss       103    Rory Preiss      165
 Tyler Williams      41    Heath McDonough    85    Heath McDonough  125
 Heath McDonough     40    Will Gray          81    Will Gray        111

 assists                   steals                   blocks 
 Geritt Wilkins      55    Brandon Ward       38    Tyler Williams    33
 Brandon Ward        43    Rory Preiss        35    Heath McDonough   16
 Will Gray           43    Will Gray          33    Rory Preiss       15

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 shooting pct              3pt goal pct             free throw pct
 Emma Gray         .433    Char Hutson      .333    Sarah Russell    .917
 Skylar Hurst      .382    Emily McDonald   .333    Caitlin Mabry    .714
 Sarah Schneider   .375    Sarah Russell    .265    Morgan Vardeman  .555

 points                    3pt goals                made free throws
 Emma Gray          182    Sarah Russell      32    Emma Gray          32
 Sarah Russell      182    Alexa Ramos         7    Alexa Ramos        28
 Alexa Ramos        155    Mia Riali           3    Mia Riali          26

 offensive reb             defensive reb            total rebounds
 Emma Gray           64    Emma Gray          85    Emma Gray         149
 Sarah Schneider     46    Sarah Schneider    64    Sarah Schneider   110
 Skylar Hurst        33    Mia Riali          50    Mia Riali          69

 assists                   steals                   blocks
 Emma Gray           37    Alexa Ramos        71    Sarah Schneider    33
 Alexa Ramos         34    Sarah Russell      42    Emma Gray          27
 Mia Riali           18    Mia Riali          41    Caitlin Mabry      10

Coach Mary Beth Gallagher

The Lady Hawks won a close one over Cuero to stay on the inside track for a chance at playing more games.

“Last night was another example of finding a way to win despite not having our outside shooting on par and also struggling to get to the line,” Head Coach Mary Beth Gallagher recounted. “We feel blessed to have walked away with that win, it was a dog fight.”

Canyon Lake won just one quarter, as the Lady Hawks outscored the Gobblers by 6 points in the 3rd quarter which held up for a win.

Alexa Ramos continues her strong play as she pumped in 13 points with 2 goals coming beyond the 3 point line.

“Alexa (Ramos) and Mia (Riali) were in foul trouble again and that killed us,” Coach Gallagher said. “Ramos is our energy and heartbeat as well as Mia, so we struggled at times to keep the tempo up.”

Ramos continues her climb on the All-Time lists as she is now behind just two players in steals, needing just 8 more to pass Katie Williams who finished her career with 139.

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