The Bracken Christian Warriors have started the climb to their second State Championship today.

Last year’s season has now become a distant memory as the morning heat swept this new Warriors team into shape for another Championship run.

“We had a good first day of practice,” Head Coach Lloyd Fields said. “Nobody got hurt.”

Coach Fields is not at his first rodeo and knows all to well on how to prepare a team for another run for the prize. “We won last year because of what we did in August, not what we did in November or December,” Fields reiterated.
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Bracken Christian Championship Ring

The Bracken Christian 6-Man Championship season was full of broken records. The season had many memorable moments and the list below are some of the records tabulated by the ReSporter.

Please note the records are sketchy for the first three years, and many records in passing in those years are not noted.

However, you would not be far off in guessing that the chance of the vast majority of the first year’s feats would not be in the same area code from this past season.

Read and enjoy the accomplishments and get ready for another chance starting this August to rewrite some of the records that are mentioned below.
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Coach Trent Dunavant

The season is at the doorstep and the ReSporter caught up with Coach Trent Dunavant for some more ammo.

Coach Dunavant is the Junior Varsity Head Coach while also helping the Varsity as the Receivers and responsibilities in the Special Team area.

The JV finished on a roll last year and Coach Dunavant let us know how the players would handle the step up.
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Josh and Jake Robinson

The ReSporter likes to talk to twins especially since the writer is also a twin. In fact, as soon as it was found that Jake was the second born, the ReSporter sided with him on the interview.

The second born twin need to always stick together.

Josh and Jake Robinson started playing soccer at a young age and did not get into football until their eighth grade year. The twins were everywhere last year playing on the JV squad.

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Zach Henshaw and Grady Achillies

The ReSporter continues part two on the Dynamic Duo.

Zach Henshaw and Grady Achilles are the two running backs for Canyon Lake and Bracken Christian respectfully.

The two backs have a decorated career and are now on their final chapter in the High School arena. Both players have helped in taking their team to heights that are significant based on the age of the two programs.
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Bobby Flint

Bobby Flint will be off to San Angelo soon with a chance to continue playing football. The Angelo State University Rams will be the new stomping grounds for the recent graduated linebacker off the Canyon Lake team.

Flint will have an ongoing journal of what he has done and will do throughout his first year playing football at the College level.

This journal will be posted so others might take some lessons on what to expect if they take their skills to the next level. The ReSporter hopes you enjoy this feature.

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The ReSporter has the privilege of covering two of the better running backs in the region this year. Both teams go unnoticed for similar reasons…Bracken Christian will be competing in their sixth season while the Canyon Lake Hawks will be in their fourth season against Varsity teams.

Many of the players will not get the same ink as players from established schools. Both programs made significant strides last year with Bracken celebrating a Division I Championship and Canyon Lake winning their first playoff game.

Both teams have running backs that will have records that will be hard to top in the years to come.

Grady Achilles and Zach Henshaw will both be Seniors playing in the backfield. Both players have put a lot of skins on the wall the last two years…here are some samples:

Zach Henshaw

1. Rushed for 2,259 yards in the last two seasons.
2. Averaging 119 yards per game.
3. Finished last season  with 771 yards in his last four games.
4. Henshaw averaged 7.5 yards per carry during that stint.
5. Topped 100 yards rushing in eight of the last ten games played.
6. Henshaw has averaged 211 yards in the last three playoff games.
7. He has averaged over 5 yards per carry for his career.
   

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The obvious reason was the Warriors being better. There were several items that fell together that helped in the undefeated season.

The ReSporter will go into some of the reasons Bracken won it all.

Turnover Ratio: The Warriors won the turnover battle in every game but one last season. Bracken intercepted 12 passes and threw five. The plus seven ratio helped BCS but that stat alone did not catapult the team to the championship.

Bracken Christian won the fumble stat overwhelmingly—28 to 8, or a plus 20. The opposition fumbled 42 times all together also helping Bracken hold the team without a first down.
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Junior Branson Belcher

The quarterback position is up for grabs and now we will talk to Junior Branson Belcher who will be battling the position out with Brandon Berger.

If you haven’t already noticed the quarterback job can only have players with the letter ‘B’ as their initials.

On the serious side, Belcher was the player who orchestrated the Junior Varsity last season. There are some decent stats for this young man that will give you an idea of what might be in store for the offense this year.
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Bracken Christian Warriors have a lot of work in front of them. The good thing about the upcoming season would be the view before the campaign starts.

The Warriors are looking at all of Division I football teams while being on top of the mountain. The view is great, but when the season gets going the team will be embarking on the 2011 Mountain and last year will be a memory.

“We had a veterans football team last year,” Head Coach Lloyd Fields said. “This year we have a lot of question and have to rebuild our defense.”
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