Pleasanton is nice enough to lend a hand in pushing McGuire Johnson over the goal line.

Canyon Lake just made every fan who has ever said, “That is why you play the game,” a truism as the Hawks jumped out to a 14 point lead and held on for a 24-21 win on a Mike Thorpe, 19 yard field goal in the fourth quarter.

“We did not get breaks during the first of the year,” Head Coach Charles Drum said. “This team just kept fighting back and now this game is important because of all the confidence we lost in the Navarro game has come back.”

Pleasanton came into this game as a one loss team, but found out Canyon Lake was no slouch and were succumbed at the hands of this 3-7 team.

The Eagles (9-1) did have a good record, but their non-district opponents were over 20 games below .500 ball

A Pleasant Sandwich

while CL had played a non-district schedule with teams sporting a 20-42 record.

Pleasanton won the toss and had moved into Canyon Lake’s territory when Christian Dittman put a hit on an Eagle causing a fumble that Dominick Theisz pounced on.

That play allowed the Hawks to drive 63 yards on 9 plays and a quick 7-0 score when McGuire Johnson ran it in from the 8 yard line.

On that drive, Josh DeVries had first dibs with a 20 yard run and Hayden DuBois then helped the Hawks overcome a penalty and gained 14 yards when 15 yards was needed for a first.

Two plays later the Johnson score gave Pleasanton a sad start.

The Hawk Defense then contributed on the Eagles next set of plays with a Dittman sack and a punt.

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Is the drought over for Canyon Lake as this football team plays in their first Bi-District tussle tonight against Pleasanton in San Antonio since playing Burnet three years ago?

Hawks getting Defensive

As many of Hawk fans know, one rain does not end a drought, but the Hawk Ladies also were able to jump this same playoff bar in Soccer howbeit in a 4A classification last Spring.

Another facet, with this being a year where UIL ruled that four teams per district would be eligible for qualifying for extra games.

Based on that statement, Canyon Lake would of had just one team qualify last year if that same criteria of having four teams qualify.

What sport? Football was that sport as all of last year’s programs finished in the 5th or 6th spot in their respective beauty contest while CL’s football team did finish in fourth place.

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 Bracken Christian    vs.      Sugar Land Logos   Saturday 6pm Giddings
Warriors 8-2                            Lions 8-2

History: BCS leads series 3-0
2012 BCS  66  Logos Lions   20
2012 BCS  60  Logos Lions   30 Playoff
2013 BCS  34  Logos Lions   30

This Season's Games:
 BCS 39 AHC            61      Logos Prep 67 SA The Winston          18
 BCS 34 Logos Prep     30      Logos Prep 30 BCS                     34
 BCS 50 Prairie Lea    00      Logos Prep 45 High Island             44
 BCS 34 Emery-Weiner   27      Logos Prep 56 SM Hill Country         06
 BCS 42 NB Christian   06      Logos Prep 38 Austin Hill Country     10
 BCS 06 Boerne Geneva  50      Logos Prep 36 Huntsville Alpha Omega  37
 BCS 67 CASA           21      Logos Prep 60 Pasadena FBC            14
 BCS 60 Kerrville OLH  44      Logos Prep 49 Conroe Covenant         00
 BCS 57 SM Home School 12      Logos Prep 01 Kingwood NE Christian   00
 BCS 46 SA The Winston 00      Logos Prep 56 Baytown Christian       18

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Canyon Lake had a rude awakening to their season last Tuesday as they absorbed a 50 point loss to Cedar Creek.

One item to take note would be playing a higher classification school will not result in good things when many players are still in pads and helmets.

The Hawks are still without a compliment of players and this is not to imply a loss would not have still been the outcome. But, that outcome would have not been of this magnitude.

“Obviously it is disappointing any time you lose,” Head Coach Lucas Chapman stated. “I was very proud of our effort. We were outmanned and the guys we did have suit out, played as hard as they could.”

Playing a game when many of your players have not practiced and will not be implemented until the football season ends does give a coach a chance to see other tendencies with a team besides a score.

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Dominic Theisz getting a tackle against Boerne

 

Pleasanton       vs.     Canyon Lake    Nov 15th 7:30pm D. W. Rutledge Stadium
 Eagles (9-1)             Hawks (3-7)

History: First game with Pleasanton.

Playoff History for Canyon Lake: Record (1-2)
 2009 Hawks 20 China Springs 31
 2010 Hawks 27 Burnet 20
 2010 Hawks 24 Somerset 25

This Season's Games:

Hawks 06  Blanco          13  Eagles  40  SA Edison         07
Hawks 35  Somerset        47  Eagles  53  SA Jefferson      28
Hawks 14  La Vernia       34  Eagles  42  SA Lanier         14
Hawks 07  Burnet          34  Eagles  35  Lytle             14
Hawks 28  La Grange       48  Eagles  35  Carrizo Springs   06
Hawks 14  Fredericksburg  38  Eagles  46  Crystal City      00
Hawks 27  Bandera         06  Eagles  26  La Vernia         32
Hawks 28  Wimberley       13  Eagles  50  SA Sam Houston    36
Hawks 37  Boerne          28  Eagles  41  Poteet            00
Hawks 00  Navarro         62  Eagles  22  Somerset          15

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Coaches Corner: Lloyd Fields

The ReSporter: How has your week of practice been going Coach?

Head Coach Lloyd Fields

Coach Fields: “We have been getting ready to play a ballgame…when we played this game earlier this year after our contest with Austin Hill Country and our game with Sugar Land helped right our ship.”

The ReSporter: What is your overall thought about the game this week?

Coach Fields: “They are bigger and faster, but we are more physical…looking at the polls they have this game as even and that would be a good way of looking at this contest since we just won by four points in our earlier game.”

The ReSporter: What do you tell your players in getting them prepared for this game?

Coach Fields: “We have to bring our ‘A’ game and make no mistakes because this game will be decided in the fourth quarter, this is the most evenly matched game in the first round of playoffs, the other teams can put a check by their name and go to the next round.”

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Point Hawks!!

Last week the Canyon Lake community lost another icon when Scott Watson passed away.

Remembering the first encounter with Scott, The ReSporter was then The Hilltop Reporter.

While working on the sports page, Scott, called and wanted to know why The Hilltop Reporter would put the word, Lady, to describe the Hawks when writing a Volleyball headline.

Scott, quite frankly wanted us to know that he would rather that phrase be done in another way.

That conversation was over five years ago and from that one encounter, The Hilltop Reporter had found a friend.

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Canyon Lake improved to 2-0 on the season after winning their second away game against Bastrop

Lady Hawks Basketball after win in Johnson City

last Friday.

The Hawks were in a battle the whole game but were able to lead by 6 at halftime.

Amber Ramsey was able to control the boards while getting her second double figure total finishing with 11 karooms.

Freshman Sarah Russell was the only Hawk to finish in double figures scoring as she finished with 11 points.

This game could of been a blow out if the Hawks could of shot 30% or more percent from the field.

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Bracken beat The Winston, 46-0, running 15 plays on offense.

In fact, Coach Lloyd Fields was using his bonus point play as a scrimmage play near the end of the game.

The Warriors, in the past have beaten teams before they got off the bus coming to the games based on reputation. The Winston was beaten many days ago based on their effort in this contest.

BCS had four one play drives for touchdowns that covered a total of 166 yards. That number could have been five drives if receiver Jeff Camp had not stumbled after catching a pass from QB Sam Hilgendorf. The play finished six yards from paydirt.

Every statistic offensively for Bracken had a player with over a 10 yard average each time the ball was touched.

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Ballroom dancing takes lots of room and the Panthers had no problem on the dance floor after locking Canyon Lake in a broom closet.

The game got ugly fast when Navarro found the Hawk’s girl friend to boot and did some break dancing with the Hawk’s date.

Two plays and a fumble for the Hawks and one play and a score for Navarro and with 11:02 left in the first quarter, the Panthers had already scored more points than CL, in what proved to be their second worse loss, trailing their very first game ever.

Blanco has those honors when the Hawks lost 63-0 on that night in 2008.

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