Senior Alexis Robinson in Wimberley last week with her serve as Bailey Drum gets ready
Canyon Lake had mixed results on their first day at the NEISD Tournament with two losses and one win.
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What you take from a day like this is focusing on the team the Hawks beat.
Clemens was that foe, and CL took a game against a team that had won earlier against the Hawks at home.
Hawks with a Block Party in Tex-Fest Tourney
Canyon Lake beat the Lockhart Lions on Tuesday night in a 3 game sweep as they will begin a 3 day NEISD Tournament starting this Thursday.
The Hawks had some good news as the injury to Addison Farley might not be as bad as first thought and an earlier return possible.
CL did take care of business against Lockhart as the Hawks improved their record to 7-2 with the sweep, 25-14, 25-11, and 25-23.
Canyon Lake ended the first game with an 8-2 run with their 11 point win when Hannah Wunderlich finished the Lions off with a kill and serving ace.
Canyon Lake is digging their 6-2 start to this season
This Week @ Canyon Lake
The Hawks had a decent week with a 3rd place finish in Volleyball, finishing, 6-2 for the week.
CL fashioned a 6 game winning streak during the Tex-Fest Wimberley tournament after missing by one game for a chance of playing for the championship game.
Canyon Lake will be waiting to see what the prognosis for Senior Outside Hitter, Addison Farley, who turned her ankle right before the Semifinal game with Peaster was about to start.
With that loss, Canyon Lake had to revamp their line-up and just could not muster enough to take that match.
Hawks zeroing in on another point
Canyon Lake’s Volleyball team placed 3rd in a 27 team field at Wimerley’s Tex-Fest Tournament.
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The Hawks started an early game against Boerne Geneva with two hard fought wins, 25-20 and 28-26.
That first game was nip and tuck as both teams could not get separation finding themselves tied, 10-10.
With a 16-13 lead, Faith Hasness service was able to expand the lead to, 21-14 with two kills from Addison Farley, a block with Emma Gray, and a Hasness ace along with good passing.
In the second game, Canyon Lake and Geneva were tied 10 times, the largest lead for CL was 23-20 with Gray getting the final kill for the win.
Farley and Bailey Drum both chimed in with 12 kills in the Hawks next game against district foe, Cuero.
Senior Outside Hitter Addison Farley getting her point across
CL Hawks have a 4 game winning streak after taking all three games opening Friday at Wimberley’s Tex-Fest Tournament.
Canyon Lake did not lose a game on Friday as they won both games in a 3 game series against Ingram, Hardin, and St. Andrew schools.
The duo of Addison Farley and Bailey Drum were instrumental in the onslaught as Farley finished the day with 20 kills while Drum accumulated 17.
The Hawks used several different lineups as the first week of games had Head Coach Kim Paisley moving the players around as a master in a chess match.
“We are just giving opportunities and trying to see what works with the girls in different spots,” Coach Paisley said. “It is still early and we are just in our fist week of games.”
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Canyon Lake Volleyball starts season with a win over Liberty Hill after losing their first match to Clemens.
The Hawks rebounded quickly in their games with Liberty Hill as they jumped out to a 14-9 lead and increased it to a 7 point win.
In the second game, CL took advantage of Panther’s unforced errors for an easy 12 point victory and momentum going into their best of 5 third game.
The 3rd game had LH with a 14-12 lead, but the Hawks outscored the Panthers 13-6 to close out that final game.
Canyon Lake had close games with Clemens, but just could not mount any rallies to help put one of their first two games away.
“It was good we played them close,” Head Coach Kim Paisley started. “We had to work for every point and they (Clemens) came out to play with enthusiasm and they were just outdoing us at the net.”
The first two games could have gone either way as the Hawks fought back in that first game to take their first lead, 22-21 as CL was behind as much as 5 points during this contest.
CL started with the lead, 10-6, in the second game but it was short lived as Clemens answered that Hawk rally and lead throughout that second game after they wrestled away the Hawks lead.
Clemens and Canyon Lake was a nip and tuck match, as the lead never got more than 2 points as each team battled to the finish line.
The Hawks are loaded, with their largest class of Seniors in a while, as this group of players has been instrumental in bringing Canyon Lake back to the playoffs with their 2nd place district finish last season.
The ReSporter had a chance to catch this group of seniors after their win over Liberty Hill.
The ReSporter: You have had a lot of success throughout the years, how do you plan of making this year work?
Bailey Drum: “We are very close and Emma (Gray) will fit in great!”
The ReSporter: Drum was talking about newcomer Senior Emma Gray playing as the middle blocker.
Hannah Wunderlich: “We have all grown physically and mentally with our skills and now we are ready to go more rounds in the playoffs as well having a better record than last year.”
The ReSporter: What is it like to be here for your first year as a Senior?
Emma Gray: “It is hard to get the chemistry but this has not been that bad….I love the middle blocker and that is my favorite position.”
The ReSporter: It is a good fit when one of the main positions lost from last year’s group of seniors was losing Lillie Sander the middle blocker and now you get to fill that role right off the bat.
Alexis Robinson: “That was what we needed, Emma (Gray) will fill in nicely for us.”
The Resporter: What has Coach Paisley done to help you have the right mental strategy for your games?
Addison Farley: “She does not like to lose and that helps us to want to win and do better than last year’s team.”
Bailey Drum: “It started last year and it is how she teaches us to take each game.”
The ReSporter: Good luck girls and The ReSporter looks forward to following you this season! Go Hawks!!
Seniors: Emma Gray Middle Blocker Addison Farley Outside Hitter Jessica Moore Defensive Specialist Bailey Drum Outside Hitter Hannah Wunderlich Right Side Hitter Alexis Robinson Middle Blocker Ashlyn Hubertus Right Side Hitter
Stats for Clemens/Liberty Hill Games: Clemens Games: 24-26, 24-26, 21-25 Liberty Hill Games: 25-18, 25-13, 25-18 Kills: Addison Farley 20 Bailey Drum 19 Assists: Regan Mickey 37 Digs: Sam York 24 Amber Voigt 10 Blocks: Alexis Robinson 7 Emma Gray 3 Aces: Drum 4 Farley 2 Mickey 1 Wunderlich 1
Hawk Volleyball is Jumping into another season
The Volleyball season is looming and Canyon Lake finished with their best season ever last year.
The Hawks have been going at it ever since school has finished and the time to play for real is right around the corner.
Below this interview with Coach Paisley, The ReSporter, has put this year’s schedule up to district starting so you can mark your calendars for this year’s edition of Hawk Volleyball.
The ReSporter: If you could improve one aspect of the game for this season what would that be?
Coach Kim Paisley: Consistency!
The ReSporter: What has happened this Summer in the player’s league?
Coach Kim Paisley: “We had three teams in our summer league and they all did well with our first team winning it all.”
“We had all of our returnees on the first team and that consisted of 10 players….the other two teams had 8 each on their rosters.”
Hawks paying tribute for America before it’s Bi-District game with Taylor
Game 5 Canyon Lake 70 Yoakum 52 Basketball Game 4 Canyon Lake JV 2 Wimberley 1 Volleyball Game 3 Canyon Lake 49 Fredericksburg 31 Football
Game 2 on the count down will be featuring the Varsity Volleyball team as they had a banner year and proved they belonged in the playoffs after missing this venture for the past 3 years.
Addison Farley getting her point across with the Ducks
Canyon Lake swept Taylor in their first round in the playoffs and that was a ‘Bucket List’ item that Head Coach Kim Paisley was really wanting for this year’s team.
The Hawks finished 2nd in District 26-4A and that helped, in getting a lower seeded team in District 25-4A, the Taylor Ducks.
First off, CL had just finished their regular season by getting their 30th win and that number was 5 more than the 2009 club that finished with 25 victories.
Canyon Lake also advanced the Hawks to a better than .500 record for the first time in Hawk history. CL will go into their next season sporting a .515 winning clip. (123-119 record)
Hawks lose to Wimberley for another close loss in last year’s season.
Game 5: Canyon Lake 70 Yoakum 52 Basketball Game 4: Canyon Lake vs. Wimberley 25-21, 21-25, 25-23 Volleyball Game 3: Canyon Lake 49 Fredericksburg 31 Football
Canyon Lake had an up and down season so far up to this game with Fredericksburg and beating the Billies would go a long way in giving this team their confidence back with a total win via, offense, special teams, and defense (when they needed The stop).
Two years ago Fredericksburg beat CL at home and did not take any prisoners in this game, winning, 38-14.
This time, Canyon Lake returned the favor as the Hawks not only controlled the clock with their running game, but also had quick answer touchdowns via kick-off returns.
The Billies could not muster any momentum giving up those two special team scores and then add two costly fumbles and Canyon Lake would not look back.
One of those fumbles happened on the one inch line as a Billie lost the ball jumping over the goal line after a jarring hit.
Josh DeVries only had one carry at home in the loss, but on this night, DeVries ran for 120 yards and had Robert Woods join him when he broke the 100 yard barrier too.
Canyon Lake has now rushed for 661 yards the last two years as the Hawks have had success with Fredericksburg these past few years.
The number, 165 is what helped win this game as that number was the total yardage for the two kick-off returns by DeVries and Matt Adams.
Both returns were in the first half and both happened right when the Billies had taken a lead. The first was after a Billies field goal and then Adams return nullified a 17-14 Fredericksburg lead.
Canyon Lake would hold Fredericksburg after that second return and then score with just 1 second on the clock before halftime.
The Hawks would have the ball first to start the second stanza and after taking 7 minutes off the clock ran the score to, 35-17.
Defense would stop Freddie again and Canyon Lake would score again with a little over 3 minutes left in the third quarter, 42-17, giving your Hawks their 28 unanswered points.
Hayden Dubois would score again to finish the game, his fourth touchdown run for this game.
Special Teams: No Punts and 2 kickoff returns. √ Offense: Controlled the clock 33:10 and Fredericksburg 14:50. √ Defense: 2 stops saving a td and drive giving the CL a quick score. √
The win would turn out to be a game to get Canyon Lake in the Playoff door for the second year in a row.
CL had 7 losses and of those games the Hawks would lose by a touchdown or less in 6 of those evenings.
Losses Score Difference Blanco 07-35 -28 Wimberley 27-28 -01 Lampasas 14-21 -07 Liberty Hill 14-19 -05 Taylor 31-33 -02 Boerne 35-42 -07 Rockport-Fulton 21-27 -06 overtime
That first game with Blanco would be the only contest that Canyon Lake was a no-show and a play here and there could have had a team with a much better season record.
That would explain how Canyon Lake would score more points than they gave up with 2 more losses on their ledger. (365 offense– 310 defense)
This win was big and would set up another run in those playoffs!!
Go Hawks!!
CLJV celebrating after beating Wimberley
Game 5: Canyon Lake 70 Yoakum 52 Basketball
Game 4 in the count down of the Top 5 games played this past season will certainly be a surprise to some of you since this game did not involve a Varsity team.
This year, Canyon Lake had many sub-varsity teams that finished at the top district races as Mountain Valley keeps feeding some salty classes to the halls in CL that are transferring to a sporting event.
The Hawks had a break out year in Volleyball this season, but many times when a Varsity team comes through with a good season, the Freshman and Junior Varsity might not be as talented.
You might say that those Varsity teams were successful because they needed those younger players to help get them in a better position to compete in those all important district games.
Wimberley has been a thorn in the side of Hawk fans ever since the first year of competition and this past season, the Junior Varsity made great strides as they too were a much improved group of ladies that will be ready to take the baton from those Senior Volleyball players.
Canyon Lake’s Varsity finished by hitting the 30 win plateau, but one of the better games played came during a home game against Wimberley.
The Varsity had an undefeated district record as did Wimberley in the first half of the round robin of district games and the stands would fill up with more people to ever witness a home game.
