Hawk Freshman listening for where their next Gold Rush will take place.
The Canyon Lake Freshman (2-0) team continues to impress as they started a ‘gold’ rush with their win over the Tigers in Smithville Thursday night, 49ers-22.
Luke Justis started the game off with a 43 yard run and the Hawks would not trail in the game as an incentive had been placed in front of this Freshman team.
“We (the team) saw some gold pants in the dressing room and we liked them and asked the coaches if we could wear them,” Justis said. “The coaches said if we scored 50 points then we could wear them.”
By ground or by air, Justis proved he was running for gold as he finished the first half by jumping to snag a pass from Ben Fulton with no time left on the clock.
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Pre/Game: Bracken Warriors vs. CASA Rams September 5th 5:30pm
History: Warriors lead 6-0 in a series started in 2008.
BCS 58 CASA 13
BCS 64 CASA 19
BCS 50 CASA 00
BCS 74 CASA 06
BCS 53 CASA 00
BCS 67 CASA 21
This Season's Games:
Bracken Warriors 45 Temple Holy Trinity 18 CASA 6 Kerrville OLH 51
The Warriors did not have anyone hurt last week!!!! Yes, unfortunately that is the biggest statistics for this season’s team with so many players from last year missing and not playing will make this year a game of numbers.
Number of players on their roster, numbers.
That was carried out last week, when Bracken went on the road to Temple and took care of business playing a team that had enough players to field two teams.
The Temple game had 113 plays which is second on their play list, only behind the Gustine game played two years ago when the Warriors had 127 plays in that 98-56 victory.
Not much is known about CASA, except that they usually don’t field a team that will win many games, as you can note having been beaten by OLH last week, 51-6.
There has yet to be a game played by these two teams that went four quarters. The Warriors have averaged a 61-9.8 score through those years. You can even add up all the points scored by the Rams and it would still not add up to that 61 point average.
Domination has been the name of this series and with the results of last week’s game, BCS might be playing another game not going four quarters and that would be just what the doctor would order.
Once again based on having that injury word not being mentioned on this night and a scoreboard that can be turned off early and the Warriors on their way home.
Bracken will not have a home game for two more weeks, but one stat that will play in favor of this schedule comes with a 30-4 road record.
The Warriors will still need to do their business and get enough reps for many of the Freshman that are starting this year.
Also, just working the cobwebs out of their system, as this year will have more tough teams on the horizon and taking a Friday off would not be the best course of action.
Hopefully, BCS will be able to up that win total to 31 after Friday night.
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Smithville Tigers @ Canyon Lake Hawks September 5th 7:30pm
History: Hawks and Tigers have not played.
This Season's Games:
Canyon Lake 7 Blanco 35 Smithville 0 Rockdale 49
The Hawks will try to get a bad taste out of their mouth this week when they take on Smithville.
The Tigers did not have a good start to their season either and with two schools starting on the wrong foot, you will have two teams that will come out with a strong desire to change and get on the winning side of the ledger.
First Smithville, the Tigers were not very good on their opening day as they finished with no points, with no completions in their passing game, and a running game that could only muster two yards per play.
QB Garrett Mathis finished with negative 25 yards which would translate to enough sacks that HEB might be missing their allotment and not giving customers a paper or plastic option.
Running backs, Austin Green, Sean Moyer, Dameon Zepeda and Jake Dawson all finished with 18 to 35 yards rushing. Moyer had the best night of the four, with over five yards per carry.
Smithville’s defense had their problems too, in giving up over 500 yards with the majority of that real estate being gained through the air (414 yds).
When your best weapon is in the form of the punting formation, then you know it was not a good night. The Tigers had a 39 yard average per punt but that really just translated to more yardage that Rockdale could cover on their way for a score.
Canyon Lake is not in a position that they can snicker at those numbers as the Hawks were not much better with their game with Blanco.
Smithville ended with 92 total yards compared to the Hawks 158 yards.
Six of the seven touchdowns scored on Smithville was through the air and if CL can find a passing game, then that might be a way of breaking the Tigers’ for this night.
Rockdale had just 95 yards running which might suggest that Smithville’s best unit would be against the run.
Smithville had just one turnover and that bodes well as this team made their opponent play the whole field with no short scoring drives. Rockdale had just one score that did not cover more than 10 yards on those scoring plays.
Can the Hawks be opportunistic and make some long plays?
Last week the longest play covered 40 yards on a pass play to Evan Schuller with CL’s longest run covering 13 yards. That run happened on their scoring drive which had Blanco guessing on defense for the only time during the game.
Last year, Canyon Lake started in a similar fashion against Blanco only to break out of their funk with a whale of a game in Somerset.
The big three of McGuire Johnson, Hayden Dubois, and Josh DeVries ran for 199, 79, and 92 yards in that game. That allowed your Hawks to score 35 points and if not for an electrical storm, might have translated into a win.
Momentum was lost in that delay but the simple fact is that Somerset had that same delay. No excuses, but the main point was how much different Canyon Lake looked compared to their opening game just a week earlier.
Canyon Lake needs a win and with the injuries, this game will be huge in establishing a team that can improve as District 14-4A comes a calling next month.
Go Hawks!!
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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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