The CL Hawks started their new season with a new coach and a lot of new players as they suffered two losses in the three team round robin to Clemens and Liberty Hill.

“It is all about coming to the game prepared and we have a lot of things to work on,” Head Coach Kimberley Paisley stated. “We are only as strong as our weakest link.”

Coach Paisley could be seen exhorting throughout each game as the Hawks had way too many unforced errors causing both losses.

“We had too many missed serves and we killed ourselves in both games,” Coach Paisley continued. “Our offense needs to be cleaned up.”

“There are some things we need to work through and we are not perfect….I’m looking for a solid eight players and I just don’t know who that core group is yet.”

This will certainly be a learning experience as this season commences.

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More articles on offensive lineman should make the running backs and quarterback very happy and so The Resporter found three more of these ‘in the trenches’ players after two-a-days this past week.

This year, Canyon Lake will need a big season from this group of players and finding out more about these students should help in coming up with an idea of what this year will resemble.

Corey Rustin, Austin Kahil, and Trey Saenz will all be counted on this season and The ReSporter wanted to know how each player was feeling about this season so far.

“We don’t have separate teams,” Rustin started. “The defensive line and offensive line are more of a one team one unit…we have better teamwork and everyone is pushing each other harder.”

“I feel a lot better about this line than last year,” Saenz said. “There is a lot more intensity and the program is working better with the new system.”

Kahil also had a word, “We are a younger team, but some of us have played eight years together so having that type of unity will help.”

The ReSporter had heard that this off season was pretty intense.

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The ‘Brains’ behind this new fangled offense is Coach Troy Moses as the Canyon Lake intrasquad game on

Saturday gave fans a good idea of what might be expected when Friday’s roll around in the Fall.

One thing is for certain. The players like this offense and that excitement can be seen in settings like was played out on Saturday.

“You could tell they were doing something new and for the first time at full speed,” Offensive Coordinator Moses parted. “Taking that into consideration we did pretty good today.”

Canyon Lake will have to be a quick study with this offense as the will soon be upon us.

Two scrimmages and then Blanco to open the season at home August 30th or in 20 days.

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The first week is over and at the last time The ReSporter had a conversation

with Head Coach Lloyd Fields he still had all of his players accounted for.

That is a very important item when you are covering 6-man Football.

Having enough players can let you know if you can even field a team for many schools.

The ReSporter did catch up with Coach Fields and he seemed to be in good spirits.

The ReSporter: Coach Fields how do you feel about your team so far this season?

Coach Fields: “We are a work in progress….we have more questions than we do answers and that could make for an interesting things on the field.”

The ReSporter: Tell us what you see with your offense and defense.

Coach Fields: “We don’t have a clue about our spread offense yet, but we do have a good and talented group of Seniors. We had 15 guys show up and they are all still out there.

But we have 1/3 of our team that has not taken a snap of high school football yet and that will make it interesting for sure.”

The ReSporter: Let us know what you have with some of your returning players.

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Canyon Lake’s Volleyball team won their first game on Thursday night as they took it to the Alumni Team.

After opening with a hard fought loss in the first game, the more fresher players were able to take the next two games and put the Alumni team to bed.

One thing you can notice with this team is that Senior Trena Lorett is very serious no matter who she is playing.

Her intense look on the court was intense.

Lorett had her serve down and served notice that this just not any game.

“I’m hoping with a new coach and a lot of new players that we can get to the playoffs this year,” Lorett surmised.

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Another ‘in the trenches’ player will be playing in his third season for the varsity and to say

he wants to have a good season would be an understatement.

With this new offensive scheme you might expect many of plays will be directed to his side of the ball for a maximum chance for success.

Who is this player? Senior Justin Monfils.

Monfils stepped it up this off season, “We are working harder, Coach said that you need to put time in to play.”

“I want to be faster and I improved my 40 time from 6.1 to 5.6 while losing 30 pounds.”

That might translate into a quicker player that can maul you which would be a welcome for those running backs.

“I don’t feel that much different than when I first started playing on the varsity,” Monfils said calmly.

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New Volleyball Head Coach Kimberley Paisley will make sure you understand

one thing when you watch her team play.

That team will at least be ‘Consistent’.

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary would state: (a) marked by harmony, regularity, or steady continuity : free from variation or contradiction. (b) marked by agreement : compatible…

Coach Paisley grew up in Wimberley and played on two Volleyball teams that made it to the Final Four with a State Championship resulting for one of those campaigns.

We are not finished as Paisley also played on two basketball teams that also made it to a Final Four and was beaten both times in the semi final game.

Coach Paisley played Volleyball for Kingsville in college and had a major in Biology.

She then proceeded to Alice and started her Coaching career for her first four years.

Alice was also just starting a Volleyball program and finished last to being just one spot from making the playoffs her final season.

Paisley then moved north to Smithville for three years where she inherited a team that was 0-10 in district play to playoffs for the first time in 20 years.

Each move has allowed Paisley to get closer to Wimberley where her Dad still lives.

“I was ready to get here,” Coach Paisley said excitedly. “I was excited.”

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The ReSporter has tabulated this past season in District 27-3A team sports by school and as

you can see last season was not a banner year for Canyon Lake.

If a school finished first then they garnered 1 point and if a school finished last, then they would accumulate 6 points.

So the school with the least amount of points would be the goal.

Canyon Lake is still looking for their first District 27-3A Title in any sport as their best finish is still a second place finish in their history. (Baseball ’10, Softball ’11, Boys Track ’11 and ’12)

This year the top four teams will be able to punch their ticket for a post season berth and if you used that same criteria for last year, then you will see that your Hawks would of only qualified in one team sport.

Football would of been that sport to qualify for a playoff if this new rule would of been in place.

In all the other team sports your Canyon Lake Hawks best finish was fifth place.

Last season in a word was not a banner year and as this new school season approaches, CLHS will have many opportunities to improve on that record.

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The Summer is over for the Volleyball and Football teams as both teams will

start up another year of sports and hopefully a better outcome with their finish.

When The ReSporter heard that this new offense would resemble what Navarro Panthers run, then thoughts of having a longer halftime than an actual game with the Panthers were some of what was going as a possibility.

Think about a game where both clubs run with the ball over 90 percent of the time and you basically have a running clock throughout the contest.

This would give both bands more time on the field in actual game time for both schools.

Yes, that is an exaggeration but it still has possibilities.

When talking to individual players throughout this Summer, The ReSporter has sensed an excitement about what this offense could bring forth and those words expressed were also in that expression on their face as well.

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Believe it or not football season is right around the corner.

The NFL has started practice and your Canyon Lake Hawks have been diligently working out in Speed and Strength sessions for the last few weeks.

As is The ReSporter’s habit, the first article will be dedicated to the trenches and the offensive line.

This year will have a special emphasis on this unit as these students will be preparing for a different offensive scheme which will require more snaps and an run based offense.

The ReSporter will be having more articles as we will try to catch up with Head Coach Charley Drum and the other coaches for this coming season.

Senior Drake Phillips has been one of those players that has been a fixture each evening on the high school campus working on his conditioning.

After a season that many players would like to forget, Phillips seems to have a different resolve as his final year approaches.

“Yeah, I think speed and strength is big in getting ready for the season,” Phillips said.

There are some publications that have Canyon Lake finishing in fifth place behind Fredericksburg.

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