Canyon Lake @ Blanco Friday August 29th 7:30pm History: Hawks and Panther's series is tied 3-3 2008 Hawks 00 Blanco 63 2009 Hawks 21 Blanco 14 2010 Hawks 07 Blanco 12 2011 Hawks 14 Blanco 07 2012 Hawks 26 Blanco 21 2013 Hawks 06 Blanco 13 This Season's Games: First Game
Canyon Lake starts their seventh year and seventh contest against Blanco this Friday night.
When taking that first game out of the formula you have a series that has been within 7 points after that final gun has sounded.
Bracken Christian ended their preseason scrimmages on a ‘blahhhh’ note as the Warriors went
Senior Coy Zunker
through the motions in a game with San Antonio New Life.
Both teams were short on having companions for their head coach on the sideline as New Life dressed 7 players while BCS could only muster two more.
New Life started their first series with a 60 yard run that helped up the ante for Bracken to get a game face on.
That would be New Life’s final score of the game.
“We only had 15 offensive plays and scored on four of them,” Head Coach Lloyd Fields started. “To play on this level (High School), the younger players will have to get better and we have three days to get there.”
Canyon Lake last pre season scrimmage was staged on a Thursday in front of a home crowd that had a chance to grasp what type of entertainment will be performed starting next Friday in Blanco.
Serious Junior Robert Woods
Medina Valley was our guest this Thursday evening and from a Varsity stand point both teams seemed pretty even as these two clubs finished their battle with two live 12 minute quarters.
Canyon Lake won that part of scrimmage with a 7-0 score after scoring in the second quarter when Senior Josh DeVries broke a 45 yard run around the right end helping set up a score four plays later moving16 yards.
Coaches Corner with Canyon Lake’s Charley Drum.
The ReSporter: Hey Coach, what are your overall thoughts after the first scrimmage against Gonzales?
Head Coach Charley Drum
Coach Drum: “I thought we responded well to adversity, our offense did not start well and then they scored on their first play. We had an open 12 minute quarter and our offense took the ball for a score while taking 11 minutes off the clock. Then our defense held them to a 3 and out series. I don’t think they will be wanting to scrimmage us again since we did not give them much time to work.
I like how our kids responded and showed mental toughness early in this season.”
The ReSporter: Did you find out anything about your defensive backs and other players?
Coach Drum: “Well, we came out of the game healthy and we tackled well. We had some players that got some separation. All of our defensive line tackled well for a first scrimmage.”
The ReSporter: What will you be working on as you get ready for next week’s scrimmage on Thursday? (more…)
Bracken Christian results from their Mystery Tour are in with a resounding scrimmage in Prairie Lea yesterday.
Warriors taking a break during practice.
In Coach Lloyd Fields talk earlier this week, he had mentioned that this year’s team is a mystery without knowing how some players would react.
Well, scoring 11 times and only giving up three touchdowns would be considered a successful day of work.
Granted, this group of teams will not be carrying any banners in a Parade this year, but when you are on a mystery tour yourself, then surviving and playing well would be a good barometer.
Behemoths: Jonathan McGuire, Austin Kahil, Tristan Woodruff and Gordon McCleary
The ReSporter will always try to get their first article on the Offensive Line for many reasons.
They are bigger than The ReSporter and you always want to be sure they are happy. Another reason is simple, your offense and defensive lines will be that main ingredient for having a good team.
Winning a battle in the trenches will dictate how the opponents will run their offense and defense. Winning this battle will usually result in a win.
This year, The ReSporter wants to start with the strong side of the offensive line. Being the second year with a Slot-T offense, this line will usually take on a lot of responsibilities on blocking for those running backs and hopefully many yards.
Coaches Corner with Bracken’s Head Coach Lloyd Fields
The ReSporter: Well Coach you will be playing your first scrimmage tomorrow and so what would be your
Head Coach Lloyd Fields
thoughts going into this game?
Coach Fields: “Mystery, I have no idea of where this team is because of not having enough players to go full tilt. That causes us to be more careful for practice because we cannot afford any injuries.
In 2009 we had some mystery because we graduated a bus load of players. This year we are replacing five seniors from last year’s squad and of those five players four of them went both ways.”
The ReSporter: How many players will be suited up?
Coach Fields: “We have 11 players and two of those students will be limited tomorrow. In the last two years we have had 13 and 11 players and eight of those were starters. We will need to develop some young guys to give us depth.”
Hawks enjoying the Heat as Wednesday’s practice draws to a close.
Hawk Football is underway as Canyon Lake completed their third day of practices this Wednesday.
The ReSporter had some time with Head Coach Charley Drum and wanted to share some of his thoughts for this upcoming season.
The ReSporter: Where is your team at this time compared to last year?
Coach Drum: “We are way ahead on the offensive side of the ball.”
The ReSporter: I noticed your practice today ending with some work on special teams. The way you had some games lost based on that part of the game, is this a new emphasis?
Coach Drum: “Actually, we were trying to install a new offense last season, so we did not have a chance to spend as much time with special teams. We are finding that we can have more time to concentrate on special teams this year.”
The ReSporter: This time last year you did not have a kicker to count on and then Thorpe took that part of your game starting in your second game. How is that going this season? (more…)
Warriors taking a break during practice.
Fall football practice has begun and that long wait now becomes shorter as Bracken Christian began practice this past Monday.
“This year our second day of practice was better than our first day,” Head Coach Lloyd Fields said. “Many times your second day is a fall off and this is the best second day of practice in a while for Bracken.”
Six-Man football has critical dates and one of those times is that first day when Coaches can see if enough boys will show up in order to see they will have enough players for a team.
Yes, there was some Junior no shows that were present for Spring practice 3 months ago, but luckily, BCS also had some new faces also in attendance.
“We have a lot of young kids doing a lot of learning,” Coach Fields continued. “But we have some players like our wide receiver (Freshman Christian DeLeon) looking like our next RJ Braune.”
Braune still holds the single season best for receiving yardage in Coach Fields first year at BCS.
Braune would be top in more of those receiving stats, but in those first two years there were no stats documented. Simple math would tell you Braun would hold almost all of the receiving marks if those stats were known.
The Reporter would like to thank all the many readers that have frequented this website this past year.
The ReSporter would like you to Vault into next year by placing an Ad on this site.
This has been a very successful year for the website as each month this season had more visits than any previous month since we started four years ago.
The ReSporter had 315 articles this past school year and since starting this quest, The ReSporter, has finished a total of 1,159 posts or articles.
Another way of saying, a lot of stories.
Now it is time for The ReSporter to take a few months off and hopefully come back with enough energy to get another year finished.
Our apologies for these past couple of weeks, The ReSporter, has suffered ‘Burn Out’ much like many of the Seniors have suffered from Senioritis.
With that being said, The ReSporter would like to invite you to think about helping with posting an Ad through this venue.
Since, The ReSporter, likes numbers then chew and calculate how these stats might help your business.
School Year starting August 1 through May 28 Year Visits Pageviews Ave Time Top 3 Cities in Visits 2013-14 25,334 62,610 3:02 CL-8689/SA-4560/NB-2388 2012-13 21,241 49,631 2:45 CL-6035/SA-3434/NB-2164 2011-12 16,142 43,868 2:55 CL-4940/SA-2365/NB-1868 *2010-11 3,005 14,826 2:34 CL- 885/NB- 519/SA- 443
The * for 2010-11 represents just three months as this endeavor started after the basketball season that year, so those numbers will not have the same amount of days you could visit.
This also shows how each year has topped each previous season which should hopefully give you an idea of what might happen this coming school year.
SA and NB for the cities represent San Antonio and New Braunfels. Austin and San Marcos were right behind those two cities giving you an idea of how far this site can reach what you might be needing to sell or get across to your audience.
Thanks once again for showing support for this site and know that an Ad would cost $50 per semester and an extra $35 if you would like to have your Ad placed with articles, which many of you have noticed we started doing this past spring.
The ReSporter would also welcome ideas and thoughts that you might like to see for this upcoming school year.
Be Blessed and enjoy the Summer and tell my Advertisers you saw their Ad on my site…and Congrats to all the Seniors from Bracken and Canyon Lake. You don’t know how much I have enjoyed covering your events these past 4 years.
