Chloe Gray & Gabby Fory will be returning next year as the Hawks enter off-season as they continue to work to improve! Go Lake!
Canyon Lake’s Volleyball 2024 season concluded their second season under the tutelage of Coach Daniella Villarreal. The ReSporter had chance to get her thoughts on this season.
THIS WEEK @ THE LAKE Tue Sep 24 Luling SubVarsity @ CL Hawks 5:00p Volleyball Davenport Girls @ CL Hawks 5:15p Water Polo Luling @ CL Hawks 6:00p Volleyball Davenport Boys @ CL Hawks 6:15p Water Polo Wed Sep 25 The Lake @ Long Creek 400p Tennis The Lake Freshman @ JFK 500p Football The Lake JV @ JFK 630p Football Thu Sep 26 The Lake @ Davenport TBD Water Polo District Tourney JFK @ The Lake 700p Football Fri Sep 27 The Lake @ Pieper TBD Water Polo District Tourney The Lake @ McNeal 800a X Country The Lake SubVarsity @ Fredericksburg 500p Volleyball The Lake @ Fredericksburg 600p Volleyball Sat Sep 28 The Lake @ Marble Falls 830a X Country ===================================
Hawks will start District Play this Friday at Billie Town. Go Hawks!
Recap from Last Week had CL’s Boys Water Polo right at the front porch needing a win on Tuesday at home against Davenport as these two schools are undefeated with a chance of securing a #1 Seed for the tournament that will start on Thursday.
Chloe Gray, Kylie Rodriguez, Tira Cummings, & Remi Guzman bout to celebrate another: POINT HAWKS!
THIS WEEK @ THE LAKE Tue Sep 17 Smithson Valley @ The Lake Girls 515p Water Polo Smithson Valley @ The Lake Boys 615p Water Polo Wed Sep 18 The Lake @ Fredericksburg 400p Tennis Thu Sep 19 The Lake JV @ Smithson Valley 400p Tennis The Lake Freshman @ Veterans 500p Football The Lake JV @ Veterans 615p Football Fri Sep 20 The Lake @ Hoka/McNeal 800a X Country Lake SubVarsity @ La Vernia 500p Volleyball The Lake @ La Vernia 600p Volleyball Veterans Memorial @ The Lake 730p Football Sat Sep 21 The Lake @ Hoka/McNeal 730a X Country ===================================
RECAP FROM LAST WEEK
Go Hawks!
Football and Water Polo held serve last week while Volleyball broke even and Tennis continues their tough district bouts.
The Boys Water Polo (District 2-0) won their first outing (ever) against Canyon High School scoring a one goal win, 13-12. On Tuesday CL Polo will do battle against Smithson Valley (Start 5:15 Girls/6:15 Boys) and will have Davenport to finish the pool play round later this month.
In Water Polo the schools play each team once and then will be go into pool (pardon the pun) play….1st seed playing 4th and 2nd seed playing 3rd seed.
With a win against Smithson Valley the Hawks will be guaranteed being placed 1st or 2nd. This district has all the schools in Comal County.
The Lake is the smallest school in the State of Texas which can pose a larger hurdle to clear just based on number of students to recruit for a decent roster. (hint-hint…this sport is up there with Golf for a sport to play in high school)
Go Hawks!
The Lady Hawk’s Water Polo team has improved by leaps and bounds this season but still might be a year away.
Volleyball had a tough loss to Blanco last Tuesday but rebounded on Friday when they beat Randolph (22-6) to get back on track. Randolph will be playing Navarro this week and that should give CL a good indication on how well they stack up to a district opponent.
“Our win vs Randolph felt good as we played a lot better than we did vs Blanco,” Head Coach Daniella Villarreal said. “Randolph is a solid team and I thought the girls did a great job executing the game plan against them.”
On how the turnaround from the Blanco happened, “After the Blanco game we talked about the importance of consistent energy, momentum, and teamwork to make the magic happen, as we felt we had lacked that on Tuesday. On Friday we did a much better job bringing the energy and teamwork that we were able to get int a rhythm and the points ending in our favor. That 3rd set (a 10-25 set back) nothing was going our way as Randolph got on a roll offensively and we struggled to put the ball away. Although the 3rd set was not even close, I was proud of the way the girls were pulling together trying to slow the game down in the huddles between points to communicate and come together.”
On who Coach Villarreal thought had their ‘A’ Game, “Super proud of Gabby Fory and Mackenzie Dorn for stepping up as they both had 13 kills. Gabby being our middle, had 33 hitting attempts with a .303 hitting percentage. So that tells me that our passing and defense did an excellent job controlling that first contact to keep our offense in system to run a quick offense in the middle.”
There will be two more non-district (La Vernia away this Friday & Luling home that next Tuesday) contests before The Lake meets Fredericksburg on Friday 27th of this month.
Cross Country did not have an official meet last week but will be back in action this Friday and Saturday in Round Rock with the Friday runs having the Hawks qualifying for being able to compete on Saturday.
Canyon Lake ‘Hawk’ Proud!!
The Lake Football team had an impressive night in Navarro after finishing with more rushing yardage than a slot-t offense.
A home game this Friday against a 5A Veterans Memorial (1-2) team as CLHS will be working on staging another win for an early 3 game winning steak.
Way to GO HAWKS Athletics!
CL Hawk’s Green Volleyball team come out of their time-out after trailing, 9-2 and blitzed Blanco for a resounding, 25-14 win. Outscoring the Visitors, 23-5 for a team win.
Canyon Lake’s Varsity was just not able to climb the hill for a victory after losing those first two sets by identical, 22-25 scores. These two sets CL would only get to within 1 point of tying the score only to be turned back by BHS.
Hawks finish in 3rd Place in the Silver Bracket in Spike Fest Tourney in Corpus. Go Hawks!!
THIS WEEK @ THE LAKE Tue Sep 10 Blanco Sub Varsity @ CL Sub Varsity 500p Volleyball CL Hawks Ladies @ Canyon 515p Water Polo Blanco Varsity @ CL Hawks 600p Volleyball CL Hawks Men @ Canyon 615p Water Polo Wed Sep 11 CL Hawks @ Wimberley 400p Tennis Thu Sep 12 Navarro Fresh @ CL Hawks Fresh 500p Football Navarro JV @ CL Hawks JV 630p Football Fri Sep 13 CL Hawks Sub Varsity @ Randolph 500p Volleyball CL Hawks @ Randolph 600p Volleyball CL Hawks @ Navarro 730p Football Sat Sep 14 CL Hawks Sub Varsity @ Navarro Tourney ?? Volleyball ===================================
(L-R) Kylie Rodriguez, Chloe Gray, and Gabby Fory get ready to receive serve in Hawk win earlier this season.
Canyon Lake Volleyball started their best of 5 matches after completing a 9 game Seguin Tournament last week.
Canyon Lake was able to extend their current win streak to 3 games after blowing Somerset’s Fuse for this Blow-Out sweeping the Bulldogs, 3-0.
Goalie Greyson Patton found the perfect sport for August. Way to Swim Hawks!!
THIS WEEK @ CANYON LAKE Tue Aug 27 Davenport @ CL Hawks 400pm Tennis CL Hawks SubVar @ Somerset 500pm Volleyball CL Hawks @ Somerset 600pm Volleyball Wed Aug 28 CL Hawks @ Comfort 830a XCountry Thu Aug 29 CL Hawks @ Seguin TBA Volleyball Wimberley Fresh @ CL Hawks 500p Football Wimberley JV @ CL Hawks 630p Football Fri Aug 30 CL Hawks @ Seguin TBA Volleyball CL Hawks @ Wimberley 730p Football Sat Aug 31 CL Hawks @ Seguin TBA Volleyball ========================================================
Stay in Shape Hawks!
It was a week that saw some growing pains (in the form of losses) and positive strides in all the games.
First off, The Hawks Volleyball, saw some decent competition after winning one game in the Peiper Tournament. The ladies came out of the tourney sporting a, 7-7 record and will have a road game on Tuesday in Somerset and then off to another large school tournament in Seguin.
Tournament Hawk Leaders: KILLS BLOCKS ACES Kylie Rodriguez 35 Makenna Lightcap 7 Chloe Gray 6 Brooklyn Andrews 22 Gabby Fory 5 Kylie Rodriguez 5 Gabby Fory 21 Brooklyn Andrews 4 Sabrina Steele 5 DIGS ASSISTS Kira Cummings 82 Chloe Gray 95 Sabrina Steele 36 Kira Cummings 19 Chloe Gray 36 Kylie Rodriguez 3 Sabrina Steele 3
Water Polo saw some firsts for the Ladies as this is the first season with a full contingent of players. The CL Women did take a win for their 2nd of the season and continues to get offensive moments which was not happening last season.
Let’s GO HAWKS!!
“The girls have scored more goals in five games than they did in eight games last season plus 2 program wins,” Coach Page Small said excitedly. “We are scoring more goals per game but our inability to play counterattack defense appears to be our achilles heel.”
Coach Small then turned his attention to the boys, “We are struggling with consistency. Taking too many possessions off and swimming station to station instead of releasing for the ball helping and these are glaring issues we’re trying to clean up.”
After the tournament Coach Small summed it up, “Boys ore improving in a lot of areas, mostly they are now setting up for power plays and learning to play zone defenses.”
TEAM TOURNAMENT LEADERS: GOALS STEALS ASSISTS Rianna Gonzales 9 Macey Gill 14 Macey Gill 8 Macey Gill 8 Rely Essary 5 Audie Meucci 4 Mariah Mendoza 1 Delaney Hersel 2 Mariah Mendoza 3 Rianna Gonzales 2 GOALS STEALS ASSISTS Levi Garner 14 Levi Garner 6 Milo Martin-Rider 4 Milo Martin-Rider 7 Dion Villavicencio 4 Nate Morris 3 Felix Ciotti 2 Chief Rendon 3 Levi Garner 3 Milo Martin-Rider 3
Tennis took last week off and will face Davenport at the Hawk Nest this Tuesday with a 4pm start time.
Football looked like a team that used some WD-40 and the results had some smooth improvements as the real deal begins this week with the Freshman’s kick-off will start the season at 5:00pm at home followed by the Junior Varsity.
Varsity will take the Devil’s Back-Bone with a 7:30pm kick-off.
A lot on the schedule and Let’s Go Hawks!!
Gabby Fory and teammate go for the Block against Poth.
Canyon Lake’s Volleyball team finished strong after starting their game with two set losses before finding their mojo and winning the next 3 sets for the 6-2 Hawks, 21-25 26-28 25-16 25-22 and 15-8.
Lake finish in 3rd Place in the Silver Bracket during the Spike Fest Tourney in Corpus. Go Hawks!!
Canyon Lake Volleyball finished their first week with a 5-2 record and will be looking to improve on that record when they meet Poth on Tuesday and then have their 2nd Tournament at Pieper this weekend.
