Bracken started their Spring Practice this past Monday when 14 players showed up to impress

Bracken Christian Warriors in first practice.

Coach Lloyd Fields (55-8) as next year’s edition readies for another chance to reach the post season.

Reaching the playoffs has been a staple each season, but that first year had a 1-9 slate during that inaugural 2006 campaign.

Bracken has won at least 9 games since that first year and are presently on a four year 10 or more win season streak.

Will that streak continue? That is what the Coaches will be discerning as this week’s Spring practice heats up.

Head Coach Fields commented after leaving the field after practice, “I thought it (practice) was pretty good. Our defense was good and our tight offense was good.”

“Our spread offense is a work in progress,” Coach Fields continued. “That offense will be a trial and error thing, but I’m happy with the defense.”

This season will be a different type of team as the Warriors will be more of up the middle and bowl them over type of club.

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Girls Basketball is next on The ReSporters quest for giving you who based on leadership and playing

Caitlyn Gillum enjoying her Senior Day in 2012

ability was the best in each sport as Canyon Lake will be graduating it’s third class this May.

Basketball just had a player that was tops in several categories and has just signed a scholarship to play Volleyball and Basketball.

Katie Williams certainly has the numbers to stake a claim for being the best Hawk in Basketball, but let’s break down some numbers and also see what other players have accomplished throughout the past seven years to get a good grasp of who the pick might be.

Three years ago, CL shocked the Basketball world when they improved 18 games and missed going to the second round by one point and three seconds.

That team will certainly have some nominees for having some well deserving players.

Megan Browning would certainly rank high as she is now playing basketball in Arkansas for Hendrix.

Browning ranks fourth in points scored with 428 and also ranks third in assists with 83 dishes to teammates.

Another player that would be considered a good candidate is Tiffany Arredondo who had the ability to dribble through trouble and presses as well.

Arredondo ranks first in assists (125) which attests to what a point guard should be noted for. Add her 90 steals and 332 points also would tell you how hard it would be to guard a player that can make you pay if you play off to help other players on the court.

Arredondo numbers were cut short when she was hurt before her Senior season and missing several games that would certainly cement her even more for this title of best player.

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Canyon Lake’s Marisa Ellis Standing on Top of the Podium

The Canyon Lake Girls Track Team beat Fredericksburg at the State Track Meet held in Austin last weekend.

The Hawks finished with 10 points while the Billies garnered one point in this contest.

Fredericksburg had won every track meet they had entered during the regular season and also lapped CL during the District 27-3A Meet, 193 to 84 held over a month ago.

But Marisa Ellis had other thoughts as she jumped back over the 5’6 High Jump Bar and not only scored enough points to beat the invincible Billies, but Jumped right into the Canyon Lake’s record books with the first Team or Individual to place first in a State event.

That 5’6 jump was a personal best for Ellis that just so happened to be at the right time and just enough for a win and 10 points for the Hawks.

Ellis was in a zone as she made all her marks without a miss when the field was reduced to five students in this competition as the bar was raised to a 5’8 standard.

Recap: Ellis was at that height without a miss which gave her the championship if she finished tied with any of the other four girls without having any other person clearing the bar.

Each athlete would have three more tries at this new height and now you can see how nerves would be on edge as this event whittled down with each rotation.

“I tried to not be so nervous,” State Champion Ellis said calmly.

There were two girls that had reached heights over this mark so thinking that might happen again was certainly on the minds of all the participants no matter how many misses had occurred at this stage of the high jump event.

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Tiffany Arredondo Stealing Home

All-District for 27-3A has been announced for Softball and the following players had a season worth mentioning.

 First Team All-District
 McKenna Beseda          Outfield

 Second Team All-District
 Vicky Henderson         Infield
 Kelsey Ahrens           Utility
 Brianna Young           Catcher

 Newcomer of the Year
 Alexis Robinson         Freshman

The ReSporter is also posting the Top Three for the All-Time Softball Records.

Here are a few of those highlights so you can reminisce about how the Hawks rank with their peers. Enjoy!!

Top Three All-Time CL Softball Records
 At Bats                 Runs                        Hits 
 Vicky Henderson   264   Missy Romero       77       Missy Romero        90
 Missy Romero      251   McKenna Beseda     74       McKenna Beseda      90
 McKenna Beseda    243   Tiffany Arredondo  53       Vicky Henderson     68

 Extra Base Hits         Base on Balls               Batting Average
 Missy Romero      35    Missy Romero       55       McKenna Beseda     .370
 Brianna Young     19    Brianna Young      27       Missy Romero       .359
 Katy Payne        14    Mary Jordan        24       Alexis Robinson    .359
 Kelsey Ahrens     14

 Wins                    Innings Pitched             Strikeouts
 Missy Romero      36    Missy Romero       498.1    Missy Romero        528
 Alexis Robinson    8    Alexis Robinson    130.2    Alexis Robinson     179
 Kelsey Ahrens      2    Megan Blackburn     42.2    Kelsey Ahrens        15

 Earned Run Ave.         Stolen Bases
 Missy Romero      2.77  Tiffany Arredondo    34
 Alexis Robinson   3.17  McKenna Beseda       34
 Megan Blackburn   6.97  Alex Henderson       25

 Top Ten Players All-Time based on Batting Average:
 name                 ab   r   h  bi  2b  3b  hr  bb  so  sb   Ave  
 McKenna Beseda      243  74  90  30  10   2   0  16  58  34  .370  
 Missy Romero        251  77  90  55  24   9   2  55  32  22  .359  
 Alexis Robinson      78  19  28   9   5   2   0   4   7   3  .359 
 Brianna Young       132  11  46  37  18   0   1  27  12   0  .348
 Katy Payne          210  25  63  40  11   2   1  10  35   8  .300 
 Tiffany Arredondo   190  53  55  12   2   1   0  18  51  34  .289 
 Ashley Magness      122  21  35   7   2   0   0  19  36  16  .287 
 Alex Henderson      180  39  50  17   3   0   0  19  43  25  .277 
 Kelsey Ahrens       141  24  37  21  14   0   0   9  34   1  .262
 Vicky Henderson     264  47  68  28   4   1   0  17  68  24  .258

The ReSporter caught up with Missy Romero who has just finished her first year of College

Missy Romero: Offensive Player of the Year for Co-Lin

Softball.

Romero, you might say, had a great break out year at Copiah-Lincoln with a decent batting average and playing a pivotal part for the Wolfpack team.

Romero was CL’s, in the circle, player for four years and also finished her career with several Hawk records.

 Romero's Records for the Hawks: Played 2009-10-11-12
 Batting Stats         #'s          Place
 At Bats               251          2nd
 Runs                   77          1st
 Hits                   90          1st
 Doubles                24          1st
 Triples                 9          1st
 Home Runs               2          1st
 Base on Balls          35          1st
 Batting Ave.         .359          2nd
 Pitching
 Wins                   35          1st
 Innings Pitched     498.1          1st
 Strikeouts            528          1st
 ERA                  2.77          1st

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The ReSporter is now in its fourth year of covering Canyon Lake and Bracken Christian schools. The ReSporter has just finished it’s 1,043rd article and has also had 62,039 visits and 162,238 pages read as of February 5, 2014 stats.

As you know, this site is free for those who would like to frequent these pages after a sporting event. The ReSporter would like to introduce you to a new ‘Ad’ that was added about 10 days ago.

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That way The ReSporter can keep up this coverage as the fall season looms right around the corner.

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If this is not realized, then there is a chance that The ReSporter might close shop before the start of next school year.

Just making it known that letting the Advertisers know that they are seen on this site will certainly help with getting, by word of mouth, other companies to also think about advertising with The ReSporter.

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This just in….Marisa Ellis won State in the High Jump with a personal best of 5’6 as she finished tied with other jumpers, but by having no misses entering the 5’8 mark makes History for Canyon Lake.

A win in this event gives the Hawks there first individual team best and will certainly go down as a great honor for Ellis and makes this community proud.

There were five jumpers that reached the 5’8 standard but within that group of athletes, Ellis had no misses.

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The ReSporter will be running articles through the month of May on athletes from each sport from two

Eduardo Covarrubias on a run to 100 yards during first quarter of Boerne game

perspectives.

1. The all-time student athlete in that sport from a performance stand point. Do note that this would be just an opinion from the ReSporter Staff.

2. A spotlight player that The ReSporter thinks will be the athlete to watch as this next year will unfold.

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Jerry Besselman has been a face that many fans have seen at any Hawk Sporting event that would involve refreshing your tastes.

The ReSporter went on a search to find someone that might have been to more games and events that wasn’t a player or Coach. Besselman fit that bill as the man behind the counter where you will find liquids or food to keep that Hawk fan strong enough to end the game and yelling on their Hawk team flavor of that event.

The ReSporter had an opportunity to get with Besselman at the end of a Hawk Softball game for a formal introduction to you the fan.

The ReSporter: Hey Jerry are you having fun?

Jerry Besselman: “Yes, I get to be around students and they all know my name.”

The ReSporter: Do they know you as Jerry or Besselman?

Jerry Besselman: “There was a time when Coach Nicole Creek needed to get a hold of me to change a time of a game or something like that and she was wanting to look up my phone number. She could not find me because she knew me by my first name. So yes, I’m thinking most of the students and teachers just know me by my first name.”

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Bracken Christian will be starting their Spring Practice next week as the Warriors will soon have something that might be different, with no Achilles on the field for the first time in five years.

But that is ok, since the brains of BCS football powerhouse really belongs to Head Coach Lloyd Fields as he will also enter his sixth year at the helm of Bracken Football.

The ReSporter woke Coach Fields from his slumber the other day to get his take on next week’s spring work outs.

The ReSporter: Hey Coach next week is the start of spring practice, what are your expectations this season?

Coach Fields: “We will start next Monday and this will be one of our shortest spring practices as we will only be on the field for five days. But I feel we can get a lot done and try to find out how we might be able to compete next season.”

The ReSporter: Let’s break down your team with the defense first.

Coach Fields: “For the last two years we have been running our defense on auto pilot, I had players that had a good grasp of what we were doing and all we had to do is tweak a thing or two.”

“This year we will be going back to basics and hopefully we can find some players we can count on.”

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