“We are having a great off season,” Defensive End Alex Kemp said. “We will have a different mind set this year.”

The All-District Defensive End will be the linchpin for how this defense will respond to the season. The Hawks lost players that had a lot of impressive stats, but the flip side are the number of players that are returning and ready to make their own mark.

For the Hawks to establish enough momentum heading into the last half of the season, then the performance needs to mirror last years team.
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The Hawks were a victim of several long plays last year resulting in touchdowns.
In fact, Canyon Lake gave up a total of 32 touchdowns last season and eight of the 18 touchdowns by the run were from 17 yards are further out. (The longest was 97 yards)

The defense gave up 14 touchdowns by passing and 10 of those touchdowns were from 20 yards are further from the goal line.

Canyon Lake can attribute many of those plays based on lack of speed in the backfield.
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The ReSporter has been writing on the offensive side of the ball the last few weeks and will now concentrate the next couple of weeks on the Defensive side.

We will start with Coach Bret Hodges, who coaches the defensive line for the Hawks.

The defense had some big shoes that graduated and the coaches will now go into the plugging the holes mantra.

“Graduation leaves us with unknowns,” Defensive Line Coach Bret Hodges said.
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The Canyon Lake Gold and Green teams played one more game to settle who would take out the trash.

The Juniors baseball season had concluded last week, but the two teams with the same home town on their name did not play each other until now. The Green team is composed of mostly eighth graders and the Gold team seventh.

Going to the same school will entice the players to talk, and to put it succinctly the ReSporter got news from a Dad, that their was some ‘Trash’ talking between some players that needed to be resolved on the diamond.
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The Canyon Lake Softball and Baseball teams get honors from this past season of action.

The Softball team turned things around very quickly and the District took notice as seven Hawks were awarded.

DISTRICT 26-3A
All District MVP: Missy Romero-Jr.
1st Team All District Infield: Alex Henderson-Sr.
1st Team All District Outfield: Tiffany Arredondo-Sr.
1st Team All District Catcher: Katy Payne-Sr. (Unanimous)
2nd Team All District Infield: Vicky Henderson-So.
Honorable Mention: Megan Browning-Sr. and Caroline Jordan-Jr.
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The Canyon Lake football schedule is set and the anticipation can begin.

The Hawks finished with a .500 record last year, but you bet their were several teams not willing to play this team at the end of the season.

The team seemed to be jelling at just the right time and now as Summer beckons the Hawks can focus on maturing earlier in the season to have a banner year.
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The Canyon Lake Green squad learned a valuable lesson from the first game of the final tournament. The game was a loss to Blanco 9-8. The loss also was only the second one of the season.

The lesson learned was don’t take any team for granted.

The result of the lesson learned gave a new focus and a knock out punch to end the season with a solid victory over the Red Sox.

The game on Sunday was during the middle of the day and a 94 degree heat. Canyon Lake started the game much like they played the previous game, with two errors and giving up three unearned runs in the top of the first.
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The Canyon Lake Football team has high aspirations for the coming campaign and if you want to know how the team will fare, then a look at the offensive line can help in that evaluation.

The last couple of articles on the ReSporter, has been on the running game and how ‘it’ has improved each year.

‘It’ is easy to deduce when you look at the yardage gained the past two years.
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Back in the days when the Hilltop Reporter was getting started, we scheduled a visit with Head Coach Matt Monzingo to find out all things Sports at Canyon Lake High School and specifically football.

While going over the offense with Coach Monzingo, the question was asked about the running game. The response from Coach Monzingo, “We did not have a running game last year.”

All the offensive stats coming from the Coaches that meeting revolved around the passing game.

The team with no seniors won one game that year. The record might have been a better if the running game would of been evident. (more…)

The Canyon Lake Football team does not have long before the new season will be upon them.

The Hawks finished 6-6 last season and missed going to the third round in the playoffs by one yard on a missed field goal.
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