Behemoths: Jonathan McGuire, Austin Kahil, Tristan Woodruff and Gordon McCleary

The ReSporter will always try to get their first article on the Offensive Line for many reasons.

They are bigger than The ReSporter and you always want to be sure they are happy. Another reason is simple, your offense and defensive lines will be that main ingredient for having a good team.

Winning a battle in the trenches will dictate how the opponents will run their offense and defense. Winning this battle will usually result in a win.

This year, The ReSporter wants to start with the strong side of the offensive line. Being the second year with a Slot-T offense, this line will usually take on a lot of responsibilities on blocking for those running backs and hopefully many yards.

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Addison Farley defeating Gravity.

CL Hawk Volleyball will go into Saturday games in Wimberley Tournament with a 4-1 record after sweeping through their Pool on Friday.

Lampasas, Hamshire-Fannett, and Uvalde all fell prey to a Hawk team that was only tested in their second game with Uvalde when they finally succumbed those Lobos, 25-20 for a chance of playing in the Gold Bracket.

Canyon Lake was quick and to the point(s) as all three games had their opponent collecting brooms after being swept.

The Hawks are in a groove with players grasping their roles on this team early.

Junior Addison Farley has made her presence known as she deprives gravity with any it’s rules when flying for a kill.

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Coaches Corner with Bracken’s Head Coach Lloyd Fields

The ReSporter: Well Coach you will be playing your first scrimmage tomorrow and so what would be your

Head Coach Lloyd Fields

thoughts going into this game?

Coach Fields: “Mystery, I have no idea of where this team is because of not having enough players to go full tilt. That causes us to be more careful for practice because we cannot afford any injuries.

In 2009 we had some mystery because we graduated a bus load of players. This year we are replacing five seniors from last year’s squad and of those five players four of them went both ways.”

The ReSporter: How many players will be suited up?

Coach Fields: “We have 11 players and two of those students will be limited tomorrow. In the last two years we have had 13 and 11 players and eight of those were starters. We will need to develop some young guys to give us depth.”

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Hawks will see if they can continue there quest for respect this season as they play this Friday & Saturday

Wimberley Tex-Fest Volleyball Tournament will start this Friday with 24 teams vying for a championship podium.

There will be two teams from CL’s district competing, Wimberley and Navarro.

Canyon Lake will be in Pool 3 on that first day and will play three games with Uvalde, Lampasas, and Hamshire Fannett.

The teams will be placed in one of 4 brackets based on how they finished in pool play. The Hawks will have six total games after this two day event. GO HAWKS!!

 Friday’s Games:

Bridges Gym   @   9am   Hawks   vs.   Lampasas

Bridges Gym   @  11am   Hawks   vs.   Hamshire Fannett

Bridges Gym   @   2pm   Hawks   vs.   Uvalde

This will be a best of three format and if games finish early, then an early start will commence. In other words the times above might not be that actual time a game will start.

Coach Paisley making a point in practice last week.

Canyon Lake made a statement in their first game for this 2014 Volleyball season.

Schertz Clemens went down in defeat, 3-1 after winning their first game. CL took care of their unforced net violations and swept Clemens in their next three games.

Last year, the Hawks, started with a 0-3 whitewashing to this same school and with some good passing, rallies, and communication Canyon Lake had an ‘A’ game with this win.

Canyon Lake also said good-bye to that nasty 8 game losing streak they had in district play to end last season.

The Hawks had a similar situation as last year when CL started their season with these same two teams.

Clemens won in three games with little resistance as graduate Amber Ramsey finished with 7 kills and 3 blocks. Hayley Melone counted 10 digs and then freshman Regan Mickey with 11 assists.

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Present Beats Past in Canyon Lake Volleyball, 2-1 as the Alumni rallied

Alumni will be sore tomorrow as they put on a good show against the Hawk Varsity

from a 18-8 deficit to make it an interesting finish to lose 25-23 final score.

The Past had some height and this Present team had to do some digs to keep the game out of reach for those Past players.

Present team one the first match with a little resistance, but as that second game got going, the Past hit their stride and won in overtime, 26-24.

Coach Kim Paisley will be fielding her second team at Canyon Lake and one thing should be apparent, this team will be one year older.

There were not many Seniors on last year’s squad and with a freshman playing and a few sophomores, CL could not count on having experience to help answer some shortcomings in last year’s season.

“They have come a long way,” Head Coach Paisley said when asked about how the younger players had progressed since the end of last season. “This group has always been competitive and they have kind of grown into themselves. During the off-season I started seeing it.”

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Hawks enjoying the Heat as Wednesday’s practice draws to a close.

Hawk Football is underway as Canyon Lake completed their third day of practices this Wednesday.

The ReSporter had some time with Head Coach Charley Drum and wanted to share some of his thoughts for this upcoming season.

The ReSporter: Where is your team at this time compared to last year?

Coach Drum: “We are way ahead on the offensive side of the ball.”

The ReSporter: I noticed your practice today ending with some work on special teams. The way you had some games lost based on that part of the game, is this a new emphasis?

Coach Drum: “Actually, we were trying to install a new offense last season, so we did not have a chance to spend as much time with special teams. We are finding that we can have more time to concentrate on special teams this year.”

The ReSporter: This time last year you did not have a kicker to count on and then Thorpe took that part of your game starting in your second game. How is that going this season? (more…)

Warriors taking a break during practice.

Fall football practice has begun and that long wait now becomes shorter as Bracken Christian began practice this past Monday.

“This year our second day of practice was better than our first day,” Head Coach Lloyd Fields said. “Many times your second day is a fall off and this is the best second day of practice in a while for Bracken.”

Six-Man football has critical dates and one of those times is that first day when Coaches can see if enough boys will show up in order to see they will have enough players for a team.

Yes, there was some Junior no shows that were present for Spring practice 3 months ago, but luckily, BCS also had some new faces also in attendance.

“We have a lot of young kids doing a lot of learning,” Coach Fields continued. “But we have some players like our wide receiver (Freshman Christian DeLeon) looking like our next RJ Braune.”

Braune still holds the single season best for receiving yardage in Coach Fields first year at BCS.

Braune would be top in more of those receiving stats, but in those first two years there were no stats documented. Simple math would tell you Braun would hold almost all of the receiving marks if those stats were known.

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CL Hawk Volleyball is getting excited!!

Canyon Lake Volleyball Camp

The goals of the CLHS camp will be to foster a love for the game of volleyball while teaching proper techniques of the game. The camp will introduce all players to ball control, serving, setting, attacking and overall team play. The camp will be taught by CLHS Head Volleyball Coach Kimberly Paisley and CLHS coaching staff.

WHEN: July 28-29 Monday-Tuesday, 9am-2pm (30 min break in between 2.5 hour session)
Who: incoming 5th-9th grade girls.
WHERE: CLHS Main/Aux GYM
PRICE: $50 (includes adult t-shirt) circle size: S M L XL
Make checks payable to: CLHS Girls Athletics
Water & light snacks will be provided.

Steve Hagenlocher’s 2014 Volleyball Clinic 9-12th Grade
July 30-31 @ Canyon Lake High School
9:00am-12:00 & 1:00-4:00 – 2 days/2 sessionsCost- $55.00 per athlete

Coach Hagenlocher has worked with athletes of all ages during his career and knows hundreds of drills to grow your skills as you prepare for your next season!!! Try-outs will be right around the corner! Will you be ready?

Coaching Experience:
NCAA Division 1 – St Francis College Assistant Women’s Volleyball Coach 1995
NCAA Division 1 – St Francis College Head Women’s Volleyball Coach 1996-2000
NCAA Division 1 – Manhattan College Assistant Women’s Volleyball Coach 2001-2003
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Champions 2002, 2003
NCAA Division 1 Volleyball Championship Tournament 2002,2003
NCAA Division 1 – Fordham University Assistant Women’s Volleyball Coach 2004-2010
William C. Bryant High School Head Boy’s Volleyball Coach 1990-2013 New York City Champions 2005, 2011
Aviation High School Head Boy’s Basketball Coach 1990-2013
Townsend Harris High School Head Girl’s Volleyball Coach 2012-2013
NYC Jrs Volleyball Club Coach 1998-2006

Click to download the flyers.

Hagenlocher Volleyball Camp Flyer

Canyon Lake Volleyball Camp Flyer

The Hilltop ReSporter got wind of one more athlete who was awarded for being the best female

Sophomore Bailey Drum with Girls AD John Gallagher after being named Best Multi Sports Athlete

multi sport athlete this past season.

With the addition of Girls AD, John Gallagher, this award was born with the intent of seeing if more girls would try their hand at more than one or two sports.

Enter this year’s winner.

Sophomore Bailey Drum who started in August and continued through the Region Track Meet in Kingsville a few weeks ago.

Drum played Varsity on both the Volleyball and Basketball team as a Sophomore and proved that this young lady will be a force as she continues her high school career.

Second Team All-District in Volleyball where Drum was also active in the class room with a 95 average during her season and making Academic All-District.

A side note for CL Volleyball in District 27-3A with teams that had Academic All-District recognition.

 School                        # of Girls
 Bandera                           0
 Boerne                            8
 Fredericksburg                    3
 Navarro                           0
 Wimberley                         0
 Canyon Lake                      10
 Bailey Drum       Regan Mickey      Alexis Robinson     Hannah Wunderlich
 Grace Allen       Kelsey Ahrens     Mariah Ellis        Hayley Melone
 Lillie Sander     Kacee Vrana       Emily Muniz         Trena Lorett
 Danielle Stansberry

That is one of the most impressive stats of this season as Bailey and nine other classmates dominated this honor.

Drum finished second with 207 kills, fifth with 140 digs, third with 14 blocks, and fourth with 21 service aces for Canyon Lake this past season.

The Hawks were a very young team as Freshman Mickey and Sophomore Wunderlich were the top two players in assists.

Junior Ellis, Junior Melone, and Freshman Mickey were the top three in digs and CL had the top five non-seniors with service aces.

 Melone       56
 Regan        30
 Wunderlich   26
 Ellis        21
 Drum         21

Bailey Drum Triple Jumping in the Blanco Track Meet this year

Bailey Drum also finished her basketball season finishing second in scoring with 102 points for the Hawks. With 68 rebounds, Drum, was only behind Kyndall Drum (not related) and Amber Ramsey this past season.

Drum ran or jumped (literally) to track and field after the basketball season ended, where she was active in several events this past year, but the Triple Jump was that one event that kept Drum in competition into April with a Region berth.

Drum picked a good time to unleash her best Triple Jump of her career, as she soared for a 36-02 mark in the Area Meet after finishing on the first place podium in the District Meet, jumping for 34-07.50.

How Bailey Drum performed with her best distances or times:

 100 Meter Hurdles        300 Meter Hurdles       4x400 Meter Relay
 17.00 Dist Meet          51.30 Dist Meet         4:13.63 District Meet

 Triple Jump              High Jump
 36-02.00 Area Meet       4-08.00 Blanco Meet

Notice how many of Drum’s best marks were performed near the end of her track season which certainly gives you an idea of her never ending energy and will to compete at her very best.

Congratulations Bailey Drum and The ReSporter looks forward to covering you the next two years as there will certainly be more stories ready to expound on your conquests.