Canyon Lake’s Softball team will start this week with games that will count as the Hawks  travel to Burnet this Tuesday with the JV starting things off with a 5pm first pitch.

At 7pm, this year’s Varsity edition will take their first steps on realizing a goal many of the other Hawk sports teams have realized this season in making the playoffs.

 This year’s Sports      Playoffs         # of Years

 Football                   √            ’09,’10,’13,’14,’15
 Volleyball                 √            ’09,’10,’14,’15
 Girl’s Basketball          √            ’09,’16
 Boy’s Basketball           √            ’16

After this opening game, CL will then play 6 games in the Navarro tournament starting this Thursday-Friday-Saturday.

A week later, the Hawks, will host their tournament with Wimberley with 5 games on tap.

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Canyon Lake has finished their Football schedule for the next year and their will be a taste of Austin with those games.

The Hawks have been middling along in that 4th place spot in district for many of their playoff gigs and will be hoping for moving up that ladder this time around.

                           Games for 2016
                Scrimmage #1        Smithville
                Scrimmage #2        La Vernia
                Week  1             Canyon Lake    @   Blanco
                Week  2             Canyon Lake    @   Austin Reagan
                Week  3             Giddings       @   Canyon Lake
                Week  4             Canyon Lake    @   Wimberley
                Week  5             Lampasas       @   Canyon Lake
                Week  6             Austin Akin    @   Canyon Lake
                Week  7             Canyon Lake    @   Austin Eastside Memorial
                Week  8             Boerne         @   Canyon Lake
                Week  9             Canyon Lake    @   Fredericksburg
                Week 10             Bye                Week
                Week 11             Taylor         @   Canyon Lake

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Mason Blackburn goes to new heights in with his kicks in.                                           Pictures by Lynne Carpenter

                              This Week @ Canyon Lake

 Mon. Feb 8    Llano             @   CL Hawks            500pm       Baseball

 Tue. Feb 9    CL Hawks JV       @   La Vernia           500pm Boys  Basketball
               CL Hawks JV       @   La Vernia           500pm Girls Basketball
               CL Hawks JV       @   Wimberley           500pm       Baseball
               CL Hawks Fresh    @   La Vernia           615pm Boys  Basketball
               CL Hawks Varsity  @   La Vernia           630pm Girls Basketball
               CL Hawks Varisty  @   La Vernia           730pm Boys  Basketball
               CL Hawks Fresh    @   La Vernia           730pm Girls Basketball

 Thu. Feb 11   Harper            @   CL Hawks            600pm       Softball

 Fri. Feb 12   CL Hawks          @   Georgetown (East View)          Tennis
                                     Kerry Minzenmayer Classic
               Boerne            @   CL Hawks            500pm       Baseball
               CL Hawks JV       @   Boerne              500pm       Baseball

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Canyon Lake Lady’s Basketball lost their Friday game with Wimberley but with Gonzales taking some lumps from Navarro guaranteed CL to qualify after this Tuesday’s game.

Stay tuned to Hilltop and we will get you info on where and who the Hawks will be playing.

Congratulations!!

Likewise, the Boy’s Basketball squad finished the week 1-1 and will take on La Vernia this Tuesday.

The Hawks would settle things with an upset over the Bears this Tuesday.

Canyon Lake will have one other game a week later against Yoakum and the Bulldogs helped the Hawks cause immensely when they lost their game to Cuero last Friday.

The Boys team is coupled with CL’s Boys Soccer as the only team sport to yet make it out of district play by qualifying for playoffs.

Hawk Soccer has started to make some noise this season as they sport a 7-4 record and presently on a 5 game winning streak.

That will be the same until district starts up in two weeks and finding a way to also qualify for the playoffs would make this season one of the best in Hawk Sport’s history.

This week CL beat a high caliber team in San Marcos Academy on Tuesday and then followed that win with their first home win on Friday over Burnet.

CL’s Girls Soccer finished this past week with 2 ties with one of those games having the Hawks coming back from a 3 goal deficit.

Softball is still in exhibition stage with Harper’s game this Tuesday being the last game before contests start counting.

Baseball will also be starting this week as the Spring Schedule starts to get interesting.

The Varsity Tennis will have their first competition this Friday as they will travel to Georgetown’s Kerry Minzenmayer Classic.

There has to be a sport you can come and support this year’s Spring edition for Hawk sports.

Go Hawks!!

Julian De La Paz is figuring out a new dance move in Canyon Lake’s win over Burnet
Lynne Carpenter photos

Canyon Lake Boy’s Soccer is on a Roll after their win over Burnet on Friday night, 4-2.

This is now a 5 game winning streak which matches the most wins in a season except for the present campaign as CL now resides with a 7-4 record.

Mike Thorpe had a hat trick with 3 goals on the night which gave him 13 goals for this year and has more points for this year than his previous two campaigns.

“He’s (Thorpe) been our captain for 3 years now and he is our team leader,” Head Coach Warren Graham admonished. “Obviously he is very important for us offensively and players will try to key on him…but the key for us will be feed and dish.”

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Will Gray dished out 5 Assists in loss to Texans

Canyon Lake had their moments in a loss to Wimberley but those moments were fleeting as CL fell short, 58-49.

“They were on the boards and being physical and that limited our chances,” Coach Brian Hooper said as he filled in for an ill Coach Chapman. “We did a good job of breaking their press and we did some good things.”

Hawk fans have heard it before, but the free throw line was their downfall as the Texans took advantage with sharpshooting while the misses would be rebounded by the team in red for another chance of scoring.

Which Wimberley did on 6 different occasions for more points. Add those missed opportunities up and it would more points than this 9 point loss.

Oh yeah, that same free throw line for CL turned into 40% shooting or another six point left on the hardwood.

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Senior Alexis Robinson will be making strides on the Record Books this Season

                    Canyon Lake’s Softball All-Time Top 3

 at bats                  runs                     hits
 Kelsey Ahrens     328    Alexis Robinson    88    Kelsey Ahrens      109
 Vicky Henderson   289    McKenna Beseda     80    McKenna Beseda     103
 McKenna Beseda    274    Missy Romero       77    Alexis Robinson    100

 rbi’s                    doubles                  triples
 Kelsey Ahrens      76    Brianna Young      24    Alexis Robinson     11
 Brianna Young      75    Missy Romero       24    Missy Romero         9
 Alexis Robinson    62    Kelsey Ahrens      24    Kelsey Ahrens        4

 home runs                base on balls            stolen bases
 Alexis Robinson     7    Missy Romero       55    Tiffany Arredondo   39
 Kelsey Ahrens       6    Brianna Young      53    Carly Dubois        37
 Brianna Young       2    Alexis Robinson    43    McKenna Beseda      33
 Missy Romero        2

 batting ave.             pitching wins            strike-outs
 Carly Dubois     .408    Missy Romero       36    Missy Romero       641
 McKenna Beseda   .376    Alexis Robinson    32    Alexis Robinson    564
 Alexis Robinson  .368    Kelsey Ahrens       5    Kelsey Ahrens       31

             earned run ave.              misc (sac.sf.hbp)

             Missy Romero        2.77     Vicky Henderson      12
             Alexis Robinson     3.59     Megan Browning       10
             Lauren Mentzer      4.52     Taylor Robinson      10

Head  Coach John Gallagher

Canyon Lake Softball team will see if their hands fit the gloves as they will have their first scrimmage this Thursday.

The ReSporter had a conversation with Head Coach John Gallagher to get an idea of where this team might be as the season gets going.

The ReSporter: Let’s start with how you feel about the Hawks schedule.

Coach Gallagher: “I think our schedule gives us a great opportunity to get in some quality innings of work. The two stand alone games against very good teams and we always face high quality competition in the Navarro tournament. The next two tournaments have Center Point, Mason, Seminole, Harper, Fltonia, as well as Blanco and Johnson City. All will be solid opponents.

The ReSporter: Last year you lost some games due to weather, that might mean you would be the one person praying for no rain. (more…)

                District 26-4A Girls and Boys Basketball Standings

 Girls         W   L    Pct   GB          Boys         W   L    Pct   GB
 Wimberley     9   1   .900    —          Navarro      9   0  1.000   —
 Navarro       9   2   .818   0.5         Wimberley    7   1   .857   1.5
 La Vernia     8   3   .727   1.5         La Vernia    5   4   .571   4.0
 CL Hawks      5   5   .500   4.0         CL Hawks     5   4   .571   4.0
 Gonzales      3   7   .300   6.0         Yoakum       3   5   .333   5.5
 Yoakum        1   9   .100   8.0         Gonzales     1   8   .143   8.0
 Cuero         1   9   .100   8.0         Cuero        0   9   .000   9.0

 Feb. 2   CL Hawks    39    Cuero      38   CL Hawks    61    Cuero      34
          Navarro     54    Yoakum     40   Navarro     78    Yoakum     34
          Wimberley   54    La Vernia  38   Wimberley   57    La Vernia  52

 Feb. 5   Wimberley    @    CL Hawks
          Cuero        @    Yoakum
          Navarro      @    Gonzales

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                           Boys and Girls Top 3

 shooting pct              3pt goal pct            free throw pct
 Rory Preiss       .467    Joseph Boyd      .500   Brandon Ward     .682
 Tyler Williams    .451    Jacob Ramirez    .357   Sam Langford     .625
 Heath McDonough   .443    Gerrit Wilkins   .294   Justin Ferris    .588

 points                    3pt goals                made free throws
 Rory Preiss        225    Jacob Ramirez      25    Brandon Ward      45
 Brandon Ward       204    Brandon Ward       23    Gerrit Wilkins    36
 Will Gray          182    Will Gray          19    Rory Preiss       36

 offensive reb             defensive reb            total rebounds
 Rory Preiss         62    Rory Preiss       103    Rory Preiss      165
 Tyler Williams      41    Heath McDonough    85    Heath McDonough  125
 Heath McDonough     40    Will Gray          81    Will Gray        111

 assists                   steals                   blocks 
 Geritt Wilkins      55    Brandon Ward       38    Tyler Williams    33
 Brandon Ward        43    Rory Preiss        35    Heath McDonough   16
 Will Gray           43    Will Gray          33    Rory Preiss       15

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 shooting pct              3pt goal pct             free throw pct
 Emma Gray         .433    Char Hutson      .333    Sarah Russell    .917
 Skylar Hurst      .382    Emily McDonald   .333    Caitlin Mabry    .714
 Sarah Schneider   .375    Sarah Russell    .265    Morgan Vardeman  .555

 points                    3pt goals                made free throws
 Emma Gray          182    Sarah Russell      32    Emma Gray          32
 Sarah Russell      182    Alexa Ramos         7    Alexa Ramos        28
 Alexa Ramos        155    Mia Riali           3    Mia Riali          26

 offensive reb             defensive reb            total rebounds
 Emma Gray           64    Emma Gray          85    Emma Gray         149
 Sarah Schneider     46    Sarah Schneider    64    Sarah Schneider   110
 Skylar Hurst        33    Mia Riali          50    Mia Riali          69

 assists                   steals                   blocks
 Emma Gray           37    Alexa Ramos        71    Sarah Schneider    33
 Alexa Ramos         34    Sarah Russell      42    Emma Gray          27
 Mia Riali           18    Mia Riali          41    Caitlin Mabry      10

Canyon Lake Girls Soccer won a tied game when they came from 3 goals down to knot the score as time expired on Tuesday night against Burnet, 3-3.

Burnet jumped out to a 3 goal lead and had CL on their heels until an awakening happened allowing this comeback.

“The girls played aggressive last night and the first half was rough for us offensively,” Head Coach Ryan Tierney said. “We had opportunities but could not put the ball in the net.”

Coach Tierney was commenting on that first half where the Hawks found themselves digging a hole that would be hard to escape from.

“The girls dug deep and made a decision as a unit to fight,” Coach Tierney got excited. “Rachel Bennet sent a the ball to Meredith Ellery who then scored off her left foot and Captain Chloe Cullen fired a shot into the back of the net inside the 18 yard box bringing the score to 2-3.”

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Senior Brandon Ward scored 21 points in game with Cuero

Canyon Lake did what needed to be done to realize their chance for a playoff game by flying away from the Cuero Gobblers on Tuesday night, 61-34.

Brandon Ward was the hot player on this night as he finished with 21 points and making 4 shots from beyond the arc.

The Hawks also had surprise points from Gerrit Wilkins and Sam Langford as these two players combined for 20 point to offset the scoring woes from Rory Preiss and Will Gray.

Canyon Lake is averaging right at 10 points a game from Ward, Preiss, and Gray for district play and having those two players combine with 7 points meant other players would need to step up.

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