Bracken Christian’s Head Coach Hosea Stredic has a teaching moment after scrimmage last Friday
This Week @ Canyon Lake & Bracken Christian
Tue Aug 25 CL Hawks @ Billies Fresh/JV Volleyball
CL Hawks beat Billies 17-25, 25-16, 25-16, 25-14 Volleyball
Thu Aug 27 CL Hawks beat Giddings & Akins lost Keller Volleyball
CL Hawks lost Blanco JV 14-24 Football
CL Hawks beat Lago Vista Fresh 48-06 Football
Fri Aug 28 CL Hawks Fresh lost & JV won games with Blanco Volleyball
CL Hawks Varsity beat Blanco Volleyball
Blanco 14 CL Hawks Varsity 00 Football
Temple HT 24 Bracken Warriors 54 Football
Sat Aug 29 CL Hawks @ New Braunfels CrossCountry
CL Hawks beat SA Southwest 22-25, 25-11, 25-13 Volleyball
CL Hawks beat Bastrop 25-17, 25-16 Volleyball
CL Hawks vs. Weatherford (right now) Volleyball
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Bracken Christian will be starting their 10th season in a week and this year will have a lot of newness to it.
First off, this might be one of the youngest teams the Warriors have ever fielded, so there is newness in that situation.
Then with a new head coach, there is certainly newness in that as you have a different system to go along with understanding and figuring out a new coach.
Head Coach Hosea Stredic will be taking the reigns for a team that has made the playoffs for the last 8 years and has amassed 80 wins which averages right at 9 wins per season.
Take into account that first year had just one win and you get the idea that Bracken is used to winning.
The second and final scrimmage was played on Friday with Austin Hill Country and San Marcos Hill Country teams as each school played a round robin affair with offense and defense.
Bracken’s scrimmage with Austin Hill Country turned out better than the scrimmage with San Marcos on this night.
“We are playing about the same,” Coach Stredic started when asked his overall assessment of the scrimmage. “We did not play with confidence in the game with San Macos like they did with Austin Hill Country.”
Coach Stredic was commenting on how much more sure the team was when they took the field with Austin HC compared to not playing to the same standard when coupled with San Marcos.
“Against Holy Trinity we will be at the right place with the young kids that we have,” Stredic commented on how the Warriors will take the field as the season starts in a week. “Maturity will need to come as they are still trying to get a new offense and play with confidence…we will have to be more offensive and fight, playing with more than just straight up hard nose.”
BCS will certainly have many more new faces on the field this season as one Sophomore, Cade Middleton, will play his first full fledge 6-man football game this week after transferring from Smithson Valley.
Cade Middleton will in his first 6-man game this Friday
“It has been going a little different,” Middleton stated. “I have to learn to trust everyone and you never know where the ball is going to go, so I need to stay on my feet.”
Middleton will have some nuances to his game as 6-man can be a much faster game as you have fewer players to cover if a mistake is made.
“I am going to play my hardest and try to know how everyone works out on the field,” Middleton closed.
Senior Daniel Forgione will be back for his Senior year after taking off a season.
“I want to play in the State Championship,” Forgione said unabashedly when commenting on what some of his goals for this season would be.
When commenting on what will need to transpire to accomplish that lofty goal, Forgione said, “Play as hard as you can and trust each other.”
Daniel Forgione will want to go out in style for his Senior campaign
Forgione will have a busy game plan as he could be playing on both sides of the ball.
“I will need to improve as much as I can as a running back,” Forgione commented. “We started out of shape, but we are in shape now after Coach (Stredic) has worked us…we have started a brand new system and I am just concentrating on getting it down.”
Another player, Junior Brady Beene will be calling the signals for his third year and his confidence and stature will attest to his readiness for the season to get started.
Beene’s stature was a funny start in talking with this confident young player.
Junior Quarterback Brady Beene is happy he is taller than his Sister now
The ReSporter: How tall are you now?
Brady Beene: “I hit 5’10 this year!!”
The ReSporter: Did you pass your older sister (Bailey)?
Brady Beene: “Yep, I am taller by 2 inches than she is now!”
Take note that Beene took a lot of tough hits through his first two years as he has been a rock on both sides of the ball.
“We are head over hills better than where we started the first of August,” Beene said in talking about where the team was since the first practice. “We started out of shape and now we know it (offense and being in shape).”
Beene will be one of the few upper classman that will need to lead this young group of players this season.
“The best way to lead is by example,” Beene said. “If you can’t do it on the field by yourself.”
“I hope to be better than last year as a team, and I will need to be a better leader, but I do want to go deeper in the playoffs,” a beaming Beene gleamed.
On what this team will need to do to reach these goals, Beene was quick with an answer, “As long as we get better every week then that would be our way for improving.”
Bracken has more players than last year’s team and that will go a long way in helping as the contests commence in less than a week.
Last year’s team was certainly talented, but having so many player playing both ways and injuries hurt for a chance of advancing.
Bracken Warriors are a playoff team and this will be another year for continuing that trend at BCS will start that quest against Holy Trinity at home.
Go Warriors!!
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Hannah Wunderlich ready to finish off what Sam York digs up
Canyon Lake Hawks finish NEISD with win over SA Lee as they will enter their last phase of non-district games in a couple of weeks.
“We finished the tournament with a 3-5 record and we had some great games even though we lost some,” Head Coach Kim Paisley said. “The type of teams we played, we will not see that type of team for the rest of this season.”
Coach Paisley had a reason for her optimism with the Hawks record as each team played was in the largest private school size or a 6A school.
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Canyon Lake vs Medina Valley Panthers
Canyon Lake Football served up a big glass TD’s to the Panthers.
Defensive Back Jesse Andrade had an Interception in game with Medina Valley
The second and final scrimmage of the 2105 Hawk football season got under way this past Thursday at 5pm in Castroville as the 5-A Medina Valley Panthers took on the 4-A Canyon Lake Hawks on a breezy and cooler than expected night for high school football in August.
When this night was over and was all said and done, the Panthers were glad to see the Hawks leave.
The evening started with a scrimmage format, having the field split into two with each team starting on their 45 yard line in opposite directions with a 30 minute continuous running clock.
The idea with the running clock was to get as many plays as possible during that time frame.
The Junior Varsity started on defense and while the freshman started on offense to begin the evening and it wasn’t long before both Hawk teams had scored.
The JV’s defensive CB Jesse Andrade cut in front of a Panther wide receiver in the flats and picked off the pass at full speed and had more open real-estate in front of him than what Donald Trump owns.
“I just covered my area like coaches had been teaching us all month and closed the distance with the receiver as fast as I could and cut him off and grabbed the ball” said Andrade.
There wasn’t a Panther around for fifteen yards in any direction as the whistle blew to end the play.
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Senior Alexis Robinson in Wimberley last week with her serve as Bailey Drum gets ready
Canyon Lake had mixed results on their first day at the NEISD Tournament with two losses and one win.
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What you take from a day like this is focusing on the team the Hawks beat.
Clemens was that foe, and CL took a game against a team that had won earlier against the Hawks at home.
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HAWKS Greet & Eat
Raising money for the new CLHS Hawk Varsity Football Tunnel
What: * Meet the 2015 CLHS Varsity Football Players *Get autographs from the players
*Take a picture with your favorite players
*Run through the new tunnel!
*Buy a $10 ticket and get a sandwich deal provided by The Yippee Coyote
*1⁄2 the ticket proceeds go to the purchase of the new football tunnel
When: August 29, 2015 from 1p.m. to 4p.m.
Where: Jackson’s Open Air Market
6341 FM 32(1.3 miles from the intersection of 3424 & 32 towards San Marcos)
Tickets will be available for purchase on the following dates:
*August 21st at the Meet the Hawks night at CLHS *August 28th at the first home football game at CLHS *August 29th at the HAWKS Greet & Eat
Can’t make it, but still want to contribute? Buy a ticket and The Yippee Coyote will honor it any Saturday or Sunday that you can swing by for your sandwich deal!
Hawks with a Block Party in Tex-Fest Tourney
Canyon Lake beat the Lockhart Lions on Tuesday night in a 3 game sweep as they will begin a 3 day NEISD Tournament starting this Thursday.
The Hawks had some good news as the injury to Addison Farley might not be as bad as first thought and an earlier return possible.
CL did take care of business against Lockhart as the Hawks improved their record to 7-2 with the sweep, 25-14, 25-11, and 25-23.
Canyon Lake ended the first game with an 8-2 run with their 11 point win when Hannah Wunderlich finished the Lions off with a kill and serving ace.
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Canyon Lake is digging their 6-2 start to this season
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The Hawks had a decent week with a 3rd place finish in Volleyball, finishing, 6-2 for the week.
CL fashioned a 6 game winning streak during the Tex-Fest Wimberley tournament after missing by one game for a chance of playing for the championship game.
Canyon Lake will be waiting to see what the prognosis for Senior Outside Hitter, Addison Farley, who turned her ankle right before the Semifinal game with Peaster was about to start.
With that loss, Canyon Lake had to revamp their line-up and just could not muster enough to take that match.
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Hawks hold their own in scrimmage with Gonzales last Friday at Hawk Stadium.
Canyon Lake will be using younger players when the season starts in two weeks and that was certainly noted in the Friday scrimmage.
Chris Schultz and Matthew O’Connell ready go dish out some pain
“I was pleased on how our scrimmage went,” Head Coach Charley Drum started. “We were wide eyed and I thought we matched them punch for punch.”
With the youth age upon the Hawks being wide eyed is certainly something that might have been expected as Canyon Lake suited up some players that were waiting another 2 weeks last season as 8th graders to find their jersey number.
A well oiled machine will not be expected at this time of year as the Hawks also search for a quarterback and two running backs lost in last year’s senior class.
Between those players lost, Canyon Lake, will need to replace 74% of their rushing yards and a whopping 86% of yards gained by the forward pass.
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Hawks zeroing in on another point
Canyon Lake’s Volleyball team placed 3rd in a 27 team field at Wimerley’s Tex-Fest Tournament.
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The Hawks started an early game against Boerne Geneva with two hard fought wins, 25-20 and 28-26.
That first game was nip and tuck as both teams could not get separation finding themselves tied, 10-10.
With a 16-13 lead, Faith Hasness service was able to expand the lead to, 21-14 with two kills from Addison Farley, a block with Emma Gray, and a Hasness ace along with good passing.
In the second game, Canyon Lake and Geneva were tied 10 times, the largest lead for CL was 23-20 with Gray getting the final kill for the win.
Farley and Bailey Drum both chimed in with 12 kills in the Hawks next game against district foe, Cuero.
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