Hawks Boys Cross Country team makes history with their first time to qualify for Regions when they finished in third place in last week’s District 26-4A Meet in Navarro.

Senior Nash Opperman is all smiles as the Boys Team made History in Qualifying for Regions

Canyon Lake’s Girls team also had a fifth place finish at the meet.

“I know that it has been very exciting for us to see such a great pay off for the hard work they have put in this season,” Head Cross Country Coach Mary Beth Gallahger said excitedly. “We have great young runners who will hopefully get a taste of what a regional is like and be hungry to return next season.”

Senior Christy Fowler finished 15th for the girls Varsity while the Hawks had three JV girls medal.

Sydney Young, Kaylie Yuill, and Amira Allen helped in giving the JV Hawk Girls a 3rd place finish in District 26-4A, last Wednesday meet.

For the Varsity Boy’s, Senior Nash Opperman was the man as he finished 10th in the meet which would of qualified as an individual.

Canyon Lake has not had much success in this sport and now the curtain has been pulled open by this crew and a chance of competing in a whole different realm.

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BCS had a much needed blow out win over Pflugerville Concordia last Friday night, 69-0.

This win now set outs the last two games of Bracken’s regular season and how they finish will help in what type of team to play in that first round of playoff games.

Concordia is competing in their first year and the Bracken faithful can empathize with how a season that you think will never end.

The Warriors finished with one win that year, but had a little more on their plate as they played many team on their schedule very close in that campaign.

2006 First Year Close Games:
Game                Scores   Comment
SA Lutheran         48-44    Only win for season, was third game.
Temple Central      42-44    A win here would have evened their season.
Marble Falls Faith  28-37    Good game after being blown out in two previous battles.
CC Annapolis        54-58    Loss by four and most points scored as season finished.

Bracken Christian had just 17 offensive plays and six of those plays were called on the first drive on this night.

Four of those plays were was accomplished by passing the ball as Bracken would had Jeff Camp with the most receiving yardage in Bracken’s history by finishing with 138 for the game.

Senior Coy Zunker hitting machine.

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Mountain Valley’s 8B team rushed out to a 14 point lead and held on for a win over Fredericksburg’s Middle School, 14-6.

Wyatt Meckel is all in on getting two more wins this year against Boerne

That first MV drive was all it would take to get this win as the Hawks drove 67 yards and the eventual win when Nic Robinson scored from four yards out and put a cherry on this TD with a run for the two point conversion.

The next Mountain Valley drive was cut short after reaching the Billies’ 19 yard line and fumbling that chance away.

Fredericksburg’s first three drives would end with punts as the Hawks would score their two touchdowns for a 14-0 lead going into halftime.

Christian Rhoades had a great set of downs on that scoring drive with a nifty 46 yard run and then a nine yard run two plays later for that score.

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Senior Hayden DuBois running in the trenches

 14-4A Football Standings
 Teams            W    L    Pct       District          W    L     Pct    GB
 Liberty Hill     6    2   .667       Liberty Hill      3    0   1.000    --
 Boerne           6    2   .667       CL Hawks          2    1    .667    1
 Bandera          4    3   .571       Boerne            2    1    .667    1
 CL Hawks         4    4   .500       Bandera           1    2    .333    2
 Fredericksburg   4    4   .500       Fredericksburg    1    2    .333    2
 Taylor           0    8   .000       Taylor            0    3    .000    3

 Last Week's Scores:
 October 24th        CL Hawks        49    Fredericksburg    31
                     Liberty Hill    37    Boerne            28
                     Bandera         31    Taylor            14

 This Week's Games:
 October 31st        CL Hawks         @    Taylor
                     Fredericksburg   @    Liberty Hill
                     Boerne           @    Bandera

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Fredericksburg could not keep a lead in loss to Canyon Lake, 49-31.

The Hawks upped their series record to 5-2 over the Billies and this game was not your ordinary, by the book, game as CL administered two kick-off run backs which finally broke Fredericksburg into a free fall and a loss.

“They are good,” Head Coach Charley Drum started. “We talked about last year’s team and how similar we are…but we will need to finish it.”

On Fredericksburg first drive of the game, the Billies moved from their 40 yard line to CL’s 26 in just three plays when a movement penalty on a first down, had Fredericksburg needing 15 yards for a first.

That little mistake changed up their play calling and after three passes and two incompletions, Jacob Eckhardt was good with a 41 yard field goal with 10:24 left in that first quarter.

Using 13 seconds, Josh DeVries took the Billie kick-off on the press box sideline and with some Houdini like dance moves, DeVries was crossing the goal line and CL would surprise the shocked home crowd, leading 7-3.

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Another running clock and another game being played by Mountain Valley’s 8th A squad when they put a hurt on Fredericksburg winning, 46-0.

Mountain Valley’s 8A Victory Run after Win over Fredericksburg

This game would have some more runners with a chance of showing off some of their skills as Connor Rose and Landry Moore both averaged over 12 yards per carry and accounted for four touchdowns.

“We had not played much and this was the first game we could show that we were tough enough,” Rose said.

“I wanted to show that I was true asset,” Moore said with the same resolve as Rose earlier.

Mountain Valley scored on seven of their eight times with the ball.

That one time a score was not a result? The Hawks had just two plays as they were running out the first half clock.

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The ReSporter: Hey Coach, thanks for taking the time to answer some questions….How many total yards have you thought that would mean the Hawks had a good offensive game?

Head Coach Charley Drum

Coach Drum: “We feel if we can get reach 300 yards or more then we have had a decent outing. If we have 250 yards of rushing then that will give us a good chance for a win.”

The ReSporter: In your game last week you did not reach that goal for total yardage yet you still put a ‘W’ on the record sheet.

Coach Drum: “We did some good things with other parts of our game like our Special Teams and Defense…Cody (Thompson) and Tommy (Clark) both played good games last week….Tommy has been one of our most consistent players and those interceptions were a key to that win.”

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Canyon Lake’s JV taking Bandera Bulldogs to the Pound

Canyon Lake reverses last year’s season as they dominated Fredericksburg for another district win, 26-12.

“We kind of do what the defense is going to give us,” Head JV Coach John Barthels said. “Everybody out here likes to play football and with this offense, it can put other team’s defense in bad situations.”

Go back to last year when most of this team’s players were playing as freshman and a good play would be an interception on a two point conversion that would result in two points for Canyon Lake.

Last year this team did not win a game and those two points that were scored would be viewed as a huge play.

Fast forward to this past Thursday when Canyon Lake won their second District 14-4A-I game out of three contests with a chance of finishing first.

The Billies started this game with some degree of authority as they stuffed the Hawk’s running game and preceded to take just four plays for a score.

“That middle linebacker was hauling in with a blitz every time,” Running Back Cody Davis said shaking his head. “It was a tough game and they were fighting but we were also matching them we just fought harder.”

Glimpses of last year would be dancing in the fans head as CLJV would get in that familiar kick-off formation as the receiving team.

They did that a lot last season.

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The ReSporter: Hey Coach, it is hard to find information out about teams and we would like to know what type of offense Concordia will run this Friday?

Head Coach Lloyd Fields

Coach Fields: “They run a tight pistol and take their snap about five yards behind the center. They are mainly a running team but will pass, but the most of their offense is the run game.”

The ReSporter: What else would be good to know about this team?

Coach Fields: “This team is where Bracken was back in 2006 as this is their first football team at the school. So, they don’t have any Seniors, but we don’t have any Juniors.”

The ReSporter: So, will it be the younger class of players that will make or break this game?

Coach Fields: “No, we still have Seniors and I hope they will be the difference in this game…but our Freshman have had to grow up fast this year….in previous seasons, our Freshman for the most part have stood on the sideline with me. Now they are getting a lot of playing time and starts from this group of players.”

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Cody Thompson with an interception in last week’s Bandera game. Another game like last week and CL will have a chance to upset the Billies

 
 Pre/Game:    Canyon Lake     @     Fredericksburg     Friday Oct. 24th  7:30pm
              Hawks (3-4)           Billies (4-3)

 Series Record with Fredericksburg is in Canyon Lake's favor, 4-2.
 Series Scores:
 Hawks  14   Billies  65
 Hawks  14   Billies  07
 Hawks  35   Billies  20
 Hawks  35   Billies  07
 Hawks  27   Billies  17
 Hawks  14   Billies  38

 Scores from this year:
 Hawks  07  Blanco        35       Billies  22  Lampasas       15
 Hawks  43  Smithville    14       Billies  48  Austin Travis  35
 Hawks  38  Marion        06       Billies  07  Burnet         55
 Hawks  27  Wimberley     28       Billies  30  Llano          00
 Hawks  14  Lampasas      21       Billies  07  La Grange      34
 Hawks  14  Liberty Hill  19       Billies  21  Bandera        14
 Hawks  37  Bandera       28       Billies  20  Boerne         38

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