Another Kill for Gabby Fory as (7) Kylee Goff, (11) Chloe Gray and (12) Preslie Owens waits for the results. Go Lake!

The Lake opened up their season with a sweep over Marion Bulldogs at the Hawk Nest on Tuesday night, 25-23, 25-16, 25-19.

          Way to Make us Proud Hawks!!

Gabby Fory was the linchpin in this grenade with 16 kills with some degree of authority.

Canyon Lake started their first set jumping out 19-10 lead before having some unforced errors that allowed the Dogs to claw back and eventually took a lead, 22-20.

Gabby Fory served for 3 points which allowed CLake to reclaim the game off a Kylee Goff kill and 25-23 back and forth contest.

In that second set, The Lake, separated with a 4 point rally opening a, 10-4 Hawk lead. This rally had Izzy Fory serving an ace combined with Gabby Fory 2 kills, Bella Biasatti kill, and a Goff block.

Marion did make a run getting the score back to a 3 point deficit, 12-10 Hawks….it was Kinsley Van Meter’s highlights that finished the Dogs in this set when she had two kills and a final point block that added an exclamation point for Canyon Lake, 25-16.

Let’s GO LAKE!

It was a 3rd set that required a Hawk comeback to send Marion back home. This set was filled with several unforced errors by the Home Team that had these Bulldogs taking a bite out of the Hawks and a 10-6 lead.

In fact, Marion led most of the set before Goff’s service with The Lake scoring 7 straight points with Kylie Rodriguez dominating with 3 kills and a block. This barrage included a Goff ace and a kill for Chloe Gray that ended with a Hawk lead, 23-19.

The game ended on CL’s next serve with a Van Meter kill followed with a Gabby Fory block.

Senior Setter Chloe Gray (28 Assists) was instrumental throughout this win setting near the net for a killing spree.

Canyon Lake will be back on their home court against Gonzales next Tuesday with their first tourney this week at Corpus Christi Spike-Fest.

Stat Leaders:
Kills:                
Gabby Fory         14   
Kylie Rodriguez     6 
Kinsley Van Meter   4

Blocks: 
Kinsley Van Meter   3 
Gabby Fory          2

Aces: 
Gabby Fory          2 
Paisleigh Fahrney   1 
Izzy Fory           1 
Sabrina Steele      1

Digs: 
Kylie Rodriguez    17 
Izzy Fory          15 
Sabrina Steele     15

Assists:
Chloe Gray         28 
Sabrina Steele      4 
Gabby Fory          2

Keep it up and Go Hawks!!

Chloe Gray, Kylie Rodriguez, Gabby Fory, and Mackenzie Dorn looks to forge a playoff spot this season. Go Lake!

 Hit Man says get rid of those Pests Hawks! 

Canyon Lake’s Volleyball season will commence this Tuesday when Marion will travel to the Hawk Nest to open Coach Daniella Villarreal’s 3rd year

Improvement will hopefully continue this campaign after a 9 win start followed with a 17 win last year.

The Hawks missed the playoffs those first two tries in arguably one of the hardest districts in the state.

The Lake looks to change their focus for that word, ‘improvement’’, coming during their district schedule. Navarro has moved to another district this year while adding Long Creek (a new school in New Braunfels) taking that vacancy.

That will leave a recent State Champion Davenport and an always powerful Wimberley still presenting two major hurdles to clear.

                 Stay in Shape Hawks!

Fredericksburg has been a tough out these past few years leaving three schools fighting for that one more spot for a play-off chance.

Bandera who has split with Canyon Lake the last two years and already mentioned Long Creek.

Canyon Lake just finished their first week of team practice after ending last week with two scrimmages on Thursday and Friday.

Head Coach Daniella Villarreal shared her thoughts with the season gets started at 6pm Tuesday on a renovated court, “We play our best when we’re having fun and communicating well together! Our team served tough throughout the scrimmages, which helped keep opponents from running their offense. Out of all the matches, our best performance came on Day 2 against a solid Poth team. We executed well in all aspects of the game and looked like we were clicking on all cylinders.”

                              GO Lake!

Coach Villarreal continued with highlighting some of the players, “Kylie Rodriguez led the team in kills, finding smart shots offensively while also delivering tough serves and providing solid passing and defense in the back row.

Chloe Gray did an excellent job setting and running the offense, making sure all hitters were involved and in position to put the ball away.”

On thoughts as this year gets going…”We’re continuing to build our confidence and communication so we’re prepared for challenges and high-level competition. I’m excited to see this group keep working hard, growing together, and enjoying the season!”

The Hawks will travel to Corpus Christi for their first tournament starting on Friday and then back for another home game against Gonzales, Tuesday 19th starting at 6pm.

This year’s Varsity Roster:

# 1 Paisleigh Fahrney     Jr   DS
  2 Chylea Gray           So   Setter
  3 Mackenzie Dorn        Sr   OH
  4 Bella Biasatti        So   DS/OH
  5 Kinsley Van Meter     Jr   MB
  6 Izzy Fory             Jr   DS
  7 Kylee Goff            So   MB/RS
  8 Kylie Rodriguez       Sr   OH/DS
  9 Sabrina Steele        Sr   DS
 10 Te’a Gonzales         So   RS
 11 Chloe Gray            Sr   Setter
 12 Preslie Owens         Jr   OH
 13 KC Caraway            Sr   Setter
 15 Gabby Fory            Jr   MB/RS

Head Coach: Daniella Villarreal 
Assistants: Kara Barnes & Trevor Hamlet

Let’s GO LAKE!

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.

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                    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
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                                                    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.

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       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
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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.

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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

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(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.

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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.

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         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

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                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!!