Football, Sport News | September 3, 2014
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Addison Farley ready to score in game with Lockhart earlier this year
Canyon Lake Volleyball won the Bronze Bracket at the San Marcos Tournament last weekend, sweeping their bracket to get their game back after losing to Blanco on Friday night.
That Blanco game was on the Hawks off day for the tournament and CL had played several larger teams from the Dallas area.
Canyon Lake beat Connally, Weatherford, and SA Southwest on Saturday claiming that bracket with a Hawk flag.
This was the last regular season tournament for the Hawk girls as they will enter into District play in a couple of weeks in hopes to ending their season by earning the right for a berth in the UIL Tournament.
Canyon Lake has already matched last year’s win total and will want to now take aim on the all time 25 win season set in 2009.
The Hawks also continue to close in on evening their all time record as they will need three more wins to get that record (109-112) to .500.
The top 4 teams will qualify and you can start to see what each team will be bringing to the court as there has been enough games to get a feel on what might happen.
Navarro has played 27 games already while Canyon Lake is close behind with 25 in the books.
The ReSporter has to search for records so the District 26-4A Standings below will not be complete.
District 26-4A Standings W L Pct Cuero 17 3 .850 Wimberley 14 4 .778 CL Hawks 18 8 .692 Navarro 19 9 .679 Yoakum 13 8 .619 La Vernia 6 14 .300 Gonzales 1 9 .100 This Week's Games: 9/01 Wimberley Won Devine 9/02 CL Hawks Won Marion Yoakum Won Vanderbilt Industrial Yoakum Won Beeville Jones La Vernia Lost SA East Central Cuero Won Nixon-Smiley Navarro Won Shiner Gonzales Lost Hallettsville 9/04 Wimberley @ Hays Rebel Bash Tournament La Vernia @ Hays Rebel Bash Tournament 9/05 Sinton @ CL Hawks 6pm Hallettsville @ Yoakum Navarro @ Luling
Bracken Christian started another year in familiar territory, a win, as the Warriors took care of
Senior Running Back Noah Boriack had a busy night in Temple
business in beating the Temple Holy Trinity Celtics in Temple last Friday night, 45-18.
“Emotionally we played well but we still had too many mistakes,” Head Coach Lloyd Fields fielded. “I had to keep reminding myself that we were playing three freshman on offense, but we will improve the most this week between our first and second games.
Thomas Johnson, one of those freshman, started at center and contributed with two catches for 29 yards.
“I started pulling the ball down for my runs and start taking off,” Senior Noah Boriack said. “But they (Celtics) would leave him wide open and he just did his job.”
Boriack was also responsible for the first six tackles on defense and then decided to play some offense just to get a good work out.
CL Hawks ready themselves against Blanco
Canyon Lake had a rough time in Blanco Friday night as the Panthers spanked the Hawks into submission by controlling every facet of the game in a resounding 35-7 win.
“They beat us physically,” Head Coach Charles Drum said. “We had played two spread teams in our scrimmages and we met a team that was just more physical than us.”
The Hawks went to Blanco to eat steak but only brought their butter knife, as this game showed that they will need to sharpen their weapons.
“I’m disappointed,” Coach Drum finished. “But this is a long season and we proved last year that we can come back.”
Quarterback Ben Fulton zeroing in on Braden Duke
Canyon Lake’s Freshman class opened with a bang as the Hawks scored 22 points in the first quarter providing more than enough cushion to coast to a win over the visiting Lago Vista Vikings.
CL Freshman busted out like a caged Hawk but could not keep that momentum offensively.
The Defense and Special Teams were a different story as these two units controlled this game from start to finish.
CL gave up just three yards per play for the game while the special teams was successful with two onside kicks and a punt return for a touchdown giving this Viking team looking for the North Star for a way get back home.
If you arrived five minutes late for this party then you were absent for all the festivities as Canyon Lake opened all the presents and had eaten the cake before they would blow out the candles.
CLJV, relishing an after game talk, after a solid win
This might be a good year for Canyon Lake football as the CLJV finally got that long awaited win as they took the Blanco Panthers to the wood shed on Thursday night winning, 27-8.
“They got after it this week against the Varsity and it showed,” Head JV Coach John Barthels said. “This year, the Offensive Line knows where to go.”
That was an understatement as Canyon Lake rushed for over 300 yards while averaging a lofty 9 yards per carry.
With all that being said, this game was won as the Hawks were clinging to a 13-8 lead to start the second half.
Coaches Corner with Bracken’s Lloyd Fields
The ReSporter: Hey Coach have you had a chance to get that ‘blahh’ feeling after last week’s scrimmage during this week’s practices out of your system?
Coach Fields: “Yes and no, today’s practice was better but the bottom line is that we are still young and we are just trying to fight through it.”
The ReSporter: Is it hard for a crowded field football team to transition to 6-Man?
Coach Fields: “I don’t know, I have never been in that position but many times it is hard for an 11-Man to play 6-Man with 11-Man tactics.”
Bailey Drum going for the Kill
Smithville started the match scoring the first two of three points and with that 2-1 lead, the Hawks would run away with a victory in three games and Smithville would not have a lead again.
Canyon Lake (13-5) would have won all of their games even by adding all the points scored by Smithville which added up to just 24 points.
A 25-13 first game, 25-4, and 25-7 whitewash set the table for an earlier than usual time for supper with the family.
Canyon Lake had won their previous match against Smithville in tournament play in Bastrop but this game would be at home and this young team would not disappoint.
Addison Farley led the team with 15 kills as Bailey Drum was not that far behind with 13 put downs.
Mariah Ellis had to have her arm put in a sling with ice as she served 12 points. Ellis started her serve with a Hawk 7-2 lead and when she finished her serve the score was a comfortable 19-3 lead.
Grace Allen finished the game serving, as CL only needed four players serving to win this game, 25-4.
Head Coach Kim Paisley had a chance in letting all the players in the game which will hopefully pay dividends as this season closes in on district play.
“This was a developing game,” Coach Paisley said. “We were able to add depth from our bench.”
Canyon Lake has reached the 13 win total earlier than any previous year in their history. Finishing has been their downfall for many of those five losses.
Season Game Reached 13 Wins Total Record 2014 Game 18 13-5 2013 Game 25 18-20 2012 Game 26 16-22 2010 Game 28 20-20 2009 Game 28 25-15 2011 Game 39 13-27 105-109
“We played our level and we did our jobs,” Coach Fields closed. “We had a chance to work on more plays for our offense.”
One of those plays was having Bailey Drum being set from the back row.
“It is fun,” Drum said while commenting on getting some kills from the back court. “They usually don’t see it coming and it is more of a quick offense.”
Drum also talked about some of those losses when the team might not be in sync for the whole game, “We are trying to shake things off and play our game and we definitely were able to get a sneak peak in this win.”
Canyon Lake will be busy for another weekend of non-stop games. The San Marcos Tournament starts on Thursday and then a break on Friday when your Hawks travel to Blanco for a tough opponent before a Saturday of more games in tourney play.
Lot’s of games in a short amount of time and you can feel that this might be a special year as Canyon Lake continues to rack up wins before district comes calling.
Game Stats: CL Wins 25-13, 25-4, 25-7 Kills: Addison Farley 15, Bailey Drum 13 Assists: Regan Mickey 26 Blocks: Destiny Riccio 2 Digs: Regan Mickey 8 Aces: Mariah Ellis 8
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Canyon Lake JV also pulled off a convincing win which would also mark their first victory, 25-11 and 25-13.
Kaylie Duke and Faith Hasness are all smiles after recording their first win of the season.
This win was JV Coach Helmey first and she was all smiles after a winnable game last week in Lockhart that just got away.
“Yeah, that was my first win as a coach,” Helmey stated proudly. “I thought the girls were more comfortable and I had noticed before play started they were playing more as a team.”
Coach Helmey made these comments in response to how many girls had moved in which was hurting their communication and just getting to know each other better.
“In practice this last week, Faith (Hasness) has been getting more vocal and leading, before the girls were not prepared for the Lockhart game,” Coach Helmey closed. “I could tell in warmups that they would be ready tonight.”
Freshman Faith Hasness scored on her serve with 8 aces for the match. Hasness finished the first game and helped give the Hawks enough space to coast to their first game win scoring on her seven serves.
“We started talking a lot more and we would talk after each point,” Hasness talked. “We minimized our errors and we are just getting to know each other and we are starting to play better together.”
Hasness started the second game serving while the Hawks raced off for a 6-0 lead and helping CLJV dominate through the rest of this contest.
Sophomore Kaylie Duke is another newcomer who came on in that second game when she had 4 kills.
“This was a home game,” Duke duked it out. “After losing our last game, we did not want to have that feeling again and wanted to correct it and have a better outcome.”
That Lockhart game was a tough loss as CLJV had a chance to win the match but just could not finish.
“My approach to the ball is what I wanted to be better with,” Duke finished. “In that last game (Lockhart) we had a really big lead and then lost it and that was not going to happen again.”
True to form, Canyon Lake now has all three teams starting to jell and this will be a good time to come out and watch these teams come together.
Blanco is this Friday come out and fill the stands in Blanco.
Go Hawks!!!
Bracken Christian Warriors @ Temple Holy Trinity Celtics August 29th 7:30pm
Game: Hawks and Celtics
This Season's Games: First Game
Series History: First Game
Bracken Christian will be going into the twilight zone to start this season as this Warrior team will be facing off with a school that has played in a crowded field arena and is moving down to 6-Man game.
That would usually not be that big of a deal, except that BCS is not playing with a full deck as they have in previous years.
In last week’s scrimmage, Bracken had just three players keeping Head Coach Lloyd Fields company on the sideline.
