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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  Go Hawks

Canyon Lake continued their hot streak after waking the La Vernia Bears with 30 made free throws in their win, 64-52.

“La Vernia is a real good team and very aggressive,” Head Coach Zach Burleson stated. “I’m real impressed with them and to come out of this game with a win is awesome.”

Every Hawk got in the scoring book as Reagan Heun led with a double-double, pouring in 16 points from the charity stripe, 21 total and 11 rebounds for a game not ever witnessed by any CL team.

Those 16 made FT shots, by Heun, tied Ashley Pfaff who had a night that matched this feat in a game with Ingram Moore back on January 26, 2010.

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              Go Hawks

Canyon Lake Broadcasting will be ‘On the Air’, tonight as your CL Hawks take on the La Vernia Bears at the Hawk Nest. The Pre-Game will commence at 6:30pm before the 7:o0pm tip-off.

Below is the Link for the game as this will be the first  Lady Hawk Basketball game while CLB had their first ever Basketball game streamed last week when Canyon Lake Boys round ball team took care of Pleasanton.

http://kmacsports.com/Broadcasts/gamecast/id/4743

Go Hawks!!

Girl’s Basketball Coach Zach Burleson

The ReSporter: What is one of the biggest improvements you have seen since the first tip-off for this year?

Coach Burleson: “Probably our confidence. We have had a couple close calls that haven’t gone our way. And hopefully we are getting to where we can get over that and just move on to the next contest. I hope winning in Wimberley and Navarro would be deposits in the bank for when we need them down the road.”

The ReSporter: How has the Basketball IQ improved?

Coach Burleson: “We are trying to get better at what we do every day. I think we are starting to realize what it’s going to take for us to be successful down the road. Now we have to execute that.”

The ReSporter: The games during your tournaments were rough, what do you hope to achieve from those contests?

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Abby Bennett, Daisey Manriquez, Emily Boylan, and Adia Garcia get ready for throw in.           (photo by Karen Holmes)

                                       
                      This Month        @       Canyon Lake

 Mon December 19      La Vernia         @       CL Hawks JV 2      5:45p   Girls   Basketball
                      La Vernia         @       CL Hawks JV 1      5:45p   Girls   Basketball
                      La Vernia         @       CL Hawks           7:00p   Girls   Basketball

 Tue December 27      Savio             vs.     CL Hawks          12:00a   Boys    Basketball 
                      Cleburne          vs.     CL Hawks           4:30p   Boys    Basketball
                                                Fredericksburg Roundball Reunion

 Wed December 28      CL Hawks          @       Burnet Tourney      TBA    Girls   Basketball
                      Graham            vs.     CL Hawks          10:30a   Boys    Basketball
                      Elgin             vs.     CL Hawks           4:30p   Boys    Basketball
                                                Fredericksburg Roundball Reunion

 Thu December 29      CL Hawks          vs.     Fredericksburg    11:00a   Girls   Basketball
                      CL Hawks          vs.     San Angelo LV      3:30p   Girls   Basketball
                                                Lady Dawg Christmas Tournament (Burnet)
     
 Fri December 30      John Paul II      @       CL Hawks Freshman  10:00a  Boys    Basketball
                      Karnes City       @       CL Hawks JV        10:00a  Boys    Basketball
                      Karnes City       @       CL Hawks           11:00a  Boys    Basketball    
                      SA Brackenridge   @       CL Hawks JV        10:00a  Girls   Soccer
                                                Scrimmage
                      SA Brackenridge   @       CL Hawks           11:00a  Girls   Soccer
                                                Scrimmage
                      CL Hawks          vs.     Waco Robinson      12:30p  Girls   Basketball
                      CL Hawks          vs.     Burnet              5:00p  Girls   Basketball
                                                Lady Dawg Christmas Tournament

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Canyon Lake Defensive Season & All-Time Records             (photo by mjrphotog.com)

                                 Football Defensive Stats for Top 5

                                        Tackles

 2016 Season                        All-Time Season              Yr      Career
 Grayson Lee           79           Bobby Flint           175   ’10      Bobby Flint        435
 Kenneth Jowers        62           Haden Lee             149   ’15      Haden Lee          285
 Parker Reno           59           Bobby Flint           146   ’09      Jeremy Best        181
 Austin Brooks         58           Jeremy Best           140   ’11      Austin Acosta      176
 Trenton Lorett        56           Haden Lee             129   ’14      Chris Kopecky      164

                                    Tackels for Loss

 Parker Reno            9           Haden Lee              20   ’15      Alex Kemp           33
 Kenneth Jowers         8           J Garrett Grooms       18   ’10      Haden Lee           31
 Richard Rosas          8           Alex Kemp              18   ’11      Robert Woods        30
 Grayson Lee            6           Taylor Hocutt          17   ’11      Chris Kopecky       26
 Dylan Compton          5           Robert Woods           16   ’15      J Garrett Grooms    25

                                        Sacks

 Richard Rosas          5           Alex Kemp              11   ’11      Alex Kemp           20
 Kenneth Jowers         3           Alex Kemp               9   ’10      Robert Woods        15
 Grayson Lee            2           Robert Woods            7   ’15      J Garrett Grooms    10
 Dylan Compton          2           J Garrett Grooms        6   ’10      Haden Lee            7
 CJ Parrish             2           Jacob Phillips          5   ’09      Chris Kopecky        6
                                    Richard Rosas           5   ’16

                                    Fumble Recoveries
 2016 Season                                                             Career
 Austin Brooks          3                                                Haden Lee            6
 CJ Parrish             2                                                Tommy Clark          5
 Dylan Compton          1                                                Brandon Berger       3
 Kenneth Jowers         1                                                Austin Brooks        3
 Trenton Lorett         1                                                several with        (2)
 Richard Rosas          1

                                    Fumbles Caused
 2016 Season                                                             Career
 Kenneth Jowers         5                                                Kenneth Jowers       8
 Richard Rosas          2                                                Clint Goodman        7
 Dylan Compton          2                                                Alex Kemp            6
 Ross Snowden           2                                                Matt Adams           5
 Grayson Lee            2                                                James Richard        5

                                    Pass Break Ups

 2016 Season                        All-Time Season                      Career
 Heath McDonough        6           Isaac Mendez            10   ’13     Javier Mendez       14
 Caimen McDonough       4           Javier Mendez            7   ’13     Isaac Mendez        10
 Trenton Lorett         4           Javier Mendez            7   ’12     Devin Collins       10
 Dylan Compton          3           Cody Powell              6   ’14     Matt Adams           9
 Parker Reno            3           Matt Adams               6   ’14     Brandon Berger       9
                                    Heath McDonough          6   ’16     Kevin Buxkemper      9
                                    Interceptions

 2016 Season                        All-Time Season                      Career
 Heath McDonough        3           Eric Nelson              9   ’09     Eric Nelson          9
 Caimen McDonough       2           Heath McDonough          3   ’16     Doug Hubnik          4
 Trenton Lorett         2           Matt Noyola              3   ’11     Todd Pippin          3
 Colton McDonald        1           Doug Hubnik              3   ’11     Cody Powell          3
 Jackson Neel           1                                                Matt Noyola          3
 Austin Brooks          1                                                Heath McDonough      3

                    Go Hawks

A five game winning streak is now in the books as Canyon Lake took care of Austin Travis with a, 45-19 win.

“We struggled shooting tonight,” Head Coach Zach Burleson started. “We had looks but we just did not hit many shots.”

The Hawks were short handed in this victory as Christmas break seemed to take some players on this night.

This did turn out to be a good game for the freshman players as they contributed 20 points and 19 rebounds to the Hawk cause.

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Parker Mott is all smiles after having 7 assists in his first start.

Canyon Lake got their game going in the second half to pull out a win over Jourdanton as the Hawks kept their 3rd straight team to 47 points in the win, 58-47.

“It was ugly,” Head Basketball Coach Luke Chapman said. “We executed in the 2nd half as we put a new offense in and when we ran it, it looked good.”

Ugly wins are still wins and there was a time not too long ago that any type of win would have been accepted like a 6 year old going after presents on Christmas day under the Tree.

The Hawks will take a Christmas Break as they go back to the hard wood in the Fredericksburg Tourney, December 27th and hopefully after opening some presents will reap more improvements in their game.

This contest had CL with a chance to open some presents early with a good night of free throw shooting (84%) from the line and that went a long way in keeping the distance needed for this victory.

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Head Basketball Coach               Lucas Chapman

The ReSporter: How low does your turnovers need to be in order to be in games and a chance for wins? You are averaging right at 20 per game after 12 games.

Coach Chapman: “Our goal is to have 15 or less turnovers a game or a 20% turnover rate. Right now we are at a 28% turnover rate, which is way too high. We just have to be more disciplined with the ball and make more crisp passes. That has been our emphasis for a while now, so we will continue to work on it.”

The ReSporter: The team blocks seem to be coming from anyone on the court is that just the athleticism of the team or do you look for match-ups that can give you that type of advantage?

Coach Chapman: “Well we have a lot of size, which always helps. Really we don’t ever talk about blocks. We are more focused on not fouling and taking a charge when we get dribble penetrations, but obviously in certain situations it is nice to have some length and size and get some blocks.” (more…)