Hawk Swimmers back in Action this Week in Burnet  (photo by Michelle Hicks)

                         This Week    @     Canyon Lake

 Monday  Jan 2  Lampasas Freshman     @     CL Hawks JV 2     11:00a  Girls  Basketball
                Lampasas JV           @     CL Hawks JV 1     11:00a  Girls  Basketball
                Lampasas              @     CL Hawks          12:30   Girls  Basketball

 Tuesday Jan 3  Poteet Freshman       @     CL Hawks Fresh     5:00p  Boys   Basketball
                Poteet JV             @     CL Hawks JV        5:00p  Boys   Basketball
                Poteet                @     CL Hawks           6:30p  Boys   Basketball
                Sequin                @     CL Hawks           6:45p  Boys   Soccer

 Friday  Jan 6  CL Hawks              @     Tex Robertson      All Day       Swimming
                                            Invitational at Burnet
                CL Hawks Freshman     @     Navarro            5:00p  Boys   Basketball
                CL Hawks JV           @     Navarro            5:00p  Boys   Basketball
                CL Hawks              @     Navarro            6:30p  Boys   Basketball
                CL Hawks              @     McAllum            7:15p  Boys   Soccer
                CL Hawks              @     Pleasanton Tourney TBA    Girls  Soccer

 Saturday Jan 7 CL Hawks              @     Pleasanton Tourney TBA    Girls  Soccer

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Hancock Mini-Mart Says Go Hawks

The busy season begins this first week of the new year as Canyon Lake Basketball readies for District 28-4A starting soon and Soccer’s scrimmage season was off and running last Friday. Add some water for Swimming and you have the start of more action as each week continues to spring up.

With the Girl’s Basketball games last week, the Hawks had the same result as the Boy’s team with an 0-fer during their first tournament after the Christmas Break, in Burnet.

There were some heavyweights in attendance with Fredericksburg giving CL a heavy dose of what they can expect when district games start. The 12th Ranked, Billies won their game convincingly over the Hawks and now a game with Lampasas on Monday will be the final tune-up game before the real contests start on January 10th.

The Lady Hawks will have Friday off and wait for another Top 25 State opponent in Boerne starts off district play.

One morsel of hope you can conclude from those tournament games last week was having 4 games with 4 or 5 freshman playing in those battles. The Holiday season had many players missing in action and those returning players can only help.

   Happy New Year & Go Hawks

CL’s Boys got back on track with a good game in beating Karnes City for the Badgers first loss of the season.

This game had some good signs, as the Hawks battled back throughout the contest in winning by 7 points as things fell into place in the 4th quarter. After suffering a bad 4 games in Fredericksburg’s Tournament, this win was needed.

Canyon Lake will face Poteet and Navarro this week with a home game this Tuesday and a short drive to Navarro for the Friday tilt. The Poteet squad has a loss to Hondo and Navarro before the Christmas Break which will help give the Hawks an idea of how they might rank with future games after facing the Poteet Aggies.

Swimming will have their one scheduled meet this month in Burnet as the Hawks will look to improve on their win in that same water last December during the 4A & Under State Championship.

Other Sports are coming with Softball as the next sport coming out of their egg shell as this time of year there is no rest for the weary.

Look for those Basketball home games to be, ‘On the Air’, when Canyon Lake’s Broadcasting will bring those games to you by Live Stream.

If you do not have the link, then The ReSporter will post that information before each contest. You can come to this weekly article to check out when those games will be ready to tip-off.

Happy New Year and Go Hawks!!

Benjamin Rowe helping Hawks get win over St. Paul        (photo by Karen Holmes)

Canyon Lake Freshman won their game over St. Paul Austin last Friday after outscoring the Guardians 10-1 in overtime for a final score, 46-37.

Benjamin Rowe is all smiles after sinking important Free Throws 

The Hawks went into their half-time locker room talk after a lethargic level of play during the first two quarters.

“Coach told us to take care of the ball and be more aggressive,” Nic Rivera said. “Our pick and row started working and every time we ran it I had a chance to either get the ball to ‘Rico’ (Zachery Griffin) or take it.”

“We were needing a wake-up call,” Rylee Spaulding recalled. “We were lazy on defense and we were just out of it….but the second half we got aggressive.”

The Hawks finally shook the cobwebs off their basketballs after scoring 10 points for the shorter period in giving CL a 9 point advantage when the final horn sounded in this win.

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Rory Preiss scored 21 points in win over Karnes City  (photo by Karen Holmes)

Karnes City brought their undefeated 18-0 season to the Hawk Nest and left a defeated team with a Hawk hard fought win, 55-48.

That 7 point victory was not as easy as it might look as Canyon Lake was fighting from behind for most of this contest. The Badgers jumped out to an, 11-2 lead as CL had committed 7 turnovers in the first 5 minutes in digging their 9 point deficit hole.

After a Rory Preiss 2 point shot, Jacob Ramirez would then respond with two 3 point shots in a row drawing the game back to a one point contest with 1:43 left on that first quarter clock.

KC had another 3 pointer to end this first stanza up by 4 points, as this undefeated team showed a lot of talent on the court.

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Hank Jordan controlling the inside in win over Karnes City JV (photo by Karen Holmes)

Canyon Lake’s JV team scored 18 points in the first quarter and coasted to a 42 point victory over KCJV as the Badgers struggled scoring 14 points in the contest winning, 56-14.

Those 2 Badger points were scored early in that first quarter and then a dry spell for the Badgers allowed the Hawks to forge to a 21-2 lead before the next KC point with just 3 minutes before halftime intermission.

After the 3rd period, Canyon Lake, enjoyed a 37 point advantage with all hands on deck. Every Hawk had some stat to show off with no drop off as the Hawk bench looked like a game for musical chairs.

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The ReSporter: What excites you about this year’s group of ladies?

Coach Tierney: “I am excited about the amount of experience we have coming back this season. The attitude these girls are bringing back this year should be exciting to watch.”

The ReSporter: Girl’s Soccer has been in a playoff several times now, what is the next step you would like to make with this group?

Coach Tierney: “The next step is playing with and even beating teams that are at that state championship level. We have to be able to play with quality teams to make a run in the playoffs.”

The ReSporter: Give us your strengths on offense for this year. (more…)

The ReSporter: These last couple of years the Soccer team has been improving, how do you feel as this season approaches?

Coach Graham: “I feel like we should be able to keep up the pattern of improving on the previous year. We only lost 2 seniors last year and we had another boy move. One of those spots will be filled by Jordan Sczech, who we lost to an ACL tear early last year, so we really only have 2 spots in the starting lineup that we have to replace.”

The ReSporter: How do you feel your pre-district schedule will prepare the team for the district games?

Coach Graham: “I tried again to schedule as many possible playoff opponents as I could in our non-district schedule. Like last year, we will be traveling a bit but I think that will be good for us. We have a scrimmage against Seguin at home and our first game will be against McAllum High School at House Field in Austin. We also have a tournament game and an away game against Floresville. All 3 schools are 5A schools and I’m hoping we will gain good experience from playing them.” (more…)

Senior Charlie McIntosh gets ready for action (photo by Karen Holmes)

Canyon Lake just finished their 4 game tournament at Fredericksburg needing to go to a beauty salon after some ‘ugly’ games coming from the tourney 0-fer.

Offense was not in gear for these contests as the Hawks averaged 38.3 points having just 6 players able to break into the double digit cumulative scoring.

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                         Girls Basketball 28-4A Standings

                         Team              W   L     Pct.
                         Fredericksburg   17   3    .850
                         Boerne           11   2    .846
                         Hondo            14   4    .778
                         CL Hawks         11   7    .611
                         Bandera           8   6    .571

   Fredericksburg            Common Opponents            Hondo Owls
   Billies 53  Lampasas   15                             Owls  42  Marion     58
   Billies 60  La Vernia  38                             Owls  56  Bandera    49
   Billies 47  Navarro    44                             Owls  63  Wimberley  55
   Billies 53  Wimberley  35
   Billies 47  Marion     33

   Boerne Greyhounds                                     Bandera Bulldogs
   Hounds 60  Marion      43                             Dogs  32  Marion     78
   Hounds 55  La Vernia   50                             Dogs  49  Hondo      56
                                                         Dogs  55  La Vernia  66
                                                         Dogs  62  Somerset   48

                                      CL Hawks
                              Hawks  51  Wimberley  49
                              Hawks  47  Lampasas   38
                              Hawks  57  Navarro    53
                              Hawks  64  La Vernia  52
                              Hawks  50  Somerset   37

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Gerrit Wilkins and Joseph Boyd hope to tighten down on their Defense                   (photo by Karen Holmes)

Canyon Lake has not been noted for being a Basketball school as the Boys are still looking for their first winning season while the girls have been to 2 playoff games and had a splendid team during the 2009-10 season with a final 19-10 record as their high water mark.

Those days for the Girls has been long gone while the Boys still yearn for any resemblance of a year that Hawk Girl’s Team accomplished during that magical season.

That would explain on how Canyon Lake has both Boy’s and Girl’s squads sporting records over .500 during the Christmas Break which has happened just once in 2011.

For the Boy’s, they would not win another game until the 2012-13 after reaching 9 wins before Christmas that year.

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Sean Nolan is still holding on to his Block Record while holding off Tyler Williams.

The ReSporter has the Top 10 for All-Time Boys Basketball and some present players who are on the list below.

The ReSporter has also added current players with their present stats so you can see how far they are in cracking that group of Top 10 Hawks.

Hope you enjoy going, ‘ Back to the Future’, in looking at these young man and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

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