The Mountain Valley 8th Grade ‘A’ team was all over Bandera Bulldogs and after the first kick-off the game was all over, in a 34-0 win last Thursday night.
This article can best be done by comparing another game within the game.
The Mountain Valley Offense vs. The Mountain Valley Defense and which one was more dominant.
Mountain Valley’s 8th Grade B and A team steamrolled over Bandera on Thursday night at Hawk Stadium.
Eric Hill, Hank Jordan, and Lee Stafford getting together after a win over Bandera
The Hawk ‘B’ squad started this contest with a whimper as their first four plays accounted for a negative three yards. The game might be a surprise for a club that has been clubbing opponents all year long.
Bandera then marched to the Mountain Valley 9 yard line where the Bulldogs finally ran out of gas.
The nine play drive covering 32 yards would be Bandera’s best drive of the night as these Bulldogs would only amass three more first downs in this game.
Canyon Lake JV took Bandera to the wood shed in their win at Hawk stadium on Thursday night, 30-0.
Lineman: Anthony Wagner, Cameron Susuki, and Chris Schultz
“The journey this year from that great comeback win in Blanco to not finishing games where we played 3 quarters here or there, but never a whole game,” Head Junior Varsity Coach Brian Owens stated. “We had to learn how to finish and we did not give up when this season got tough….we are playing with more enthusiasm.’
The Hawks held Bandera to no yards on their first drive which allowed the offense to set up shop and take a quick 8-0 lead. This drive was for 43 yards on 6 carries and a score that would be all CL would need for a win.
A key for this win was a line that dominated the trenches and running backs that shared the ball in running up the score and yardage.
Pre/Game CASA @ Bracken Christian
Rams(3-3) Warriors (4-2)
History: Bracken has a 5-0 record with the Rams.
2008 BCS 58 Casa 13
2009 BCS 64 Casa 19
2010 BCS 50 Casa 00
2011 BCS 74 Casa 06
2012 BCS 53 Casa 00
Season Records:
BCS 38 Austin Hill Country 61 Casa 06 Lifegate 44
BCS 34 Logos Prep 30 Casa 00 FEAST 46
BCS 50 Prairie Lea 00 Casa 59 Atonement 14
BCS 34 Emery-Weiner 27 Casa 46 Selma Believers 53
BCS 42 NB Christian 06 Casa 49 Pasadena Faith 00
BCS 06 Boerne Geneva 50 Casa 66 The Winston 18
Bracken Christian is having to regroup as they prepare in trying to start another streak of wins this season.
Last week’s game was not a good barometer for how to get into a playoff type of atmosphere and certainly some changes will need to be made on how this team will go into the last half of their schedule.
Casa Rams have three wins which is a high water mark for this team over the last few seasons.
This Ram team has a couple of players that will give you notice that the game might not be a runaway victory just because you suit up.
The ReSporter: Hey Coach Fields, what are your thoughts as you go into your game with
Head Coach Lloyd Fields
CASA this week?
Coach Fields: “We have a costly injury with Coy Zunker going down…we will need to see how Daniel Forgione will do at his position on defense and a work by committee.”
The ReSporter: What else will you do defensively now?
Coach Fields: “We will start Forgione, but he also plays offense and so we will bring Noah Boriack from offense to defense too.”
The ReSporter: Will there be a domino effect?
Coach Fields: “Yes, (Preston) Koch will and other players will be playing more on both sides of the line. The weather is cooler and we won’t have to worry about players getting as tired on the field. Boriack and Koch are two of our best defensive players but we have not had them play much on the defensive side because we were saving them for offense. Mason Anthony will be another player that will fill more roles.”
“Preston (Koch) is our only player that started on that State Championship game and now he is a senior playing his last four regular season games.”
The ReSporter: What do you expect this week?
Coach Fields: “In a perfect world both players (Koch and Boriack) are starters on defense and that should help us as this season goes on.
The ReSporter: Tell us about Casa offense.
Coach Fields: “Casa has a new head coach and they are a lot better coached…this team is quicker and they have a player that is very quick and this player will make you miss him in the open field.
They also have a fullback that is their go to receiver and so we will have to stop both of these guys to be in good shape, if we don’t then it could be a long night.”
The ReSporter: What about defensively.
Coach Fields: “They basically have five guys that will go both ways and those same two players on offense will be the same players we will need to watch on defense.”
The ReSporter: How do you progress after the loss last week?
Coach Fields: “We got beat after our first game this year and then rebounded with a four game winning streak and now we will need to go four in a row again. This is Homecoming game and this is probably the best Casa team we have faced since the 2008 year…Casa is big up front.”
The ReSporter: Final thoughts for this week?
Coach Fields: “The weather has not been cooperative this week and we have had some good practices this week.
We have everybody playing well and have that one injury to deal with and now just four more weeks to go and the weather finally has us into football season. We will have another tough game with OLH upcoming and we just have to take care of business to end this year.”
The ReSporter: Thanks Coach and we will come visit you at your Casa after the Casa game.
JJ Nance on his 52 yard touchdown run against Fredericksburg
Pre/Game Canyon Lake @ Bandera
Hawks (0-6) Bulldogs (2-4)
History: Canyon Lake leads series 3-0. 2010 Hawks 35 Bulldogs 06 2011 Hawks 55 Bulldogs 33 2012 Hawks 42 Bulldogs 07
This Season Records:
Hawks 06 Blanco 13 Bandera 42 George West 12
Hawks 35 Somerset 47 Bandera 34 Devine 20
Hawks 14 La Vernia 34 Bandera 17 Llano 21
Hawks 07 Burnet 34 Bandera 21 Comfort 38
Hawks 28 La Grange 48 Bandera 10 La Vernia 35
Hawks 14 Billies 38 Bandera 07 Wimberley 47
This week’s game with Bandera will be a dogfight for Canyon Lake as this team is searching for that right combination that might be able to dial up a win.
Canyon Lake is on their longest losing streak since play started five years ago and certainly can not take any team for granted.
CL Volleyball lost a must win game with Navarro last night at Mountain Valley Middle School Gynasium.
Canyon Lake whether you like it or not is in one if not the toughest Volleyball District in the State of Texas.
Simple fact with the poll from Texas Girls Coaches Association just released.
2. Wimberley 21. Fredericksburg 26. Navarro 34. Boerne
The Hawks will need to beat Bandera this Friday and then win two of the three teams that are ranked above.
Bracken Christian scored 42 unanswered points in win over New Braunfels Chrisitan.
The Warriors almost doubled Wildcat’s yardage as BCS’s run game just wore down their opponent as this game got into the third quarter.
NB had a 79 yard drive with a touchdown run of 74 yards on their first drive and that would be the ……. last score.
That NB offense only had 139 total yards for the rest of this game or 3 yards per play which is not a first down in four plays in 6-man football.
It is hard to get any momentum when a defense is clamping down on the run or pass with an average of yards that low.
The Warriors stopped this Wildcat offense four times inside their own 20 yard line, in a bend but don’t break mode throughout this ball game.
Drives Plays Yards Yard Line stopped What Happened
1st 3 79 Goal Line Touchdown
2nd 9 57 Bracken's 10yd line Downs
3rd 7 36 Bracken's 15yd line Interception
4th 2 2 Wildcats 39yd line Interception
5th 4 8 Bracken's 38yd line Half
6th 3 5 Wildcats 37yd line Interception
7th 8 7 Wildcats 14yd line Punt
8th 8 26 Bracken's 7yd line Downs
9th 4 -20 Wildcats 11yd line Downs
10th 9 30 Bracken's 12yd line Downs
Bracken Christian’s running game had Preston Koch and Noah Boriack both breaking the century mark as the Warriors averaged right over 9 yards per carry.
Eleven plays of over 10 yards helped in allowing Bracken’s defense to be fresh when they were called upon to stop these Wildcats.
This game was a put together contest that came about after Giddings State School cancelled their game two weeks ago.
Bracken played well on both sides of the ball as Coy Zunker came away with two interceptions and Sam Hilgenforf also with an interception on this night.
Boriack continued to have some tough runs as Bracken only had two runners with 100 yard rushing for the fifth time in their history.
Players Yards Game Result
Noah Boriack 150 New Braunfels Won
Preston Koch 127 Christian 42-6
No. 1 game
Eli Achilles 134 Kerrville Won
Grady Achilles 389 OLH 60-42
This was a game that had every facet of the game humming as the season will begin in earnest during the second half of this campaign.
1 2 3 4 Final New Braunfels Christian 6 0 0 0 6 Bracken Christian 8 22 0 12 42 Scoring Summary: NBC-74 yard run (pat failed), 6:57, 1st BCS-Noah Boriack 28 yard run (Preston Koch kick), 4:30, 1st BCS-Preston Koch 43 yard pass from Boriack (Koch Kick), 8:22, 2nd BCS-Noah Boriack 10 yard run (Preston Koch kick), 3:09, 2nd BCS-Preston Koch 2 yard run (pat failed), 0:48, 2nd BCS-Noah Boriack 8 yard run (pat failed), 6:03, 3rd BCS-Mason Anthony 12 yard run (pat failed), 4:16, 4th
Game Stats Wildcats Warriors
Total Yards 218 396
First Downs 8 10
Rushes/Yards 30/121 37/335
Comp/Att/Int 10/21/3 2/5/0
Passing Yards 97 61
Punts/Average 1/39.0 1/39.0
Fumbles/Lost 1/0 2/2
Penalties-Yards 3-25 2-20
Passing Comp Att Pct. Yards Lg TD Int Noah Boriack 2 4 .500 61 43 1 0 Sam Hilgendorf 0 1 .000 0 0 0 0
Rushing Att Yds Ave. Lg TD Noah Boriack 19 150 7.9 28 3 Preston Koch 13 127 9.8 47 1 John Colby 2 49 24.5 41 0 Mason Anthony 1 12 12.0 12 1 Daniel Forgione 1 -1 --- -- 0 Jeff Camp 1 -2 --- -- 0
Receiving No Yds Ave Lg TD Preston Koch 1 43 43.0 43 1 Davis Scott 1 18 18.0 18 0
Josh DeVries in game with La Grange
Canyon Lake loses their first District 27-3A contest, 38-14 as the Hawks could not translate their total yards into points.
“They (Fredericksburg) came out ready to play and we didn’t,” Head Coach Charles Drum said. “We got knocked down in the first round tonight, they had 14 points just like that… but we have four more rounds to get in this fight and it is not over.”
“This was just our first district game and we can even our record next week,” Coach Drum said confidently. “This game was the story of our season, we can’t make our 3rd downs and we could not stop their 3rd downs.”
The Hawks out gained the Billies but when you can’t capitalized that aspect of this game, then those numbers don’t mean much.
Mountain Valley 7A squad released their arsenal on Fredericksburg with a convincing 40-6
Sheldon Flint and Jacob Ruff were a good Combo in Win over Freddy
victory completing a Hawk sweep of our neighbors from the west.
This game had a slow start as Mountain Valley was 1 for 3 on scoring after acquiring the ball from the Billies.
Two penalties on MV first drive helped in getting a dose of reality and an empty opportunity of taking control of this game early.
To put it simply, Mountain Valley had a Ruff start to this affair.
