BCS Warriors working on drills during Spring Practice

Bracken Christian finished their Spring practice last week and it turned out to be a surprise party as several players jumped out of their box and seemed in step for what could be a decent season.

“If we can make stops then I think we will have a better season than last year,” Head Coach Lloyd Fields said.

BCS would have been in a much better position when they reached the playoffs last year if the defense could of been a little more stout.

“We could not make stops on defense last year,” Coach Fields continued. “We gave up too many fourth down plays in our game with Austin Hill Country and other games….those contests had a chance of changing the outcome with those stops.”

The defense will have Noah Boriack more often this season. Boriack primarily played offense. He still finished with 3 interceptions with very limited snaps.

Another interceptor will be Coy Zunker who suffered a season ending injury last year but still ended fourth in tackles last year with 60 and 3 interceptions.

“I will not let the injury I had last year hold me back for my senior year,” Zunker said with a stethoscope around his neck. “I am going to play the best that I can,”

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The ReSporter will continue a series on most exciting games this past sports year for Canyon Lake students.

Hawks Scoring on Boerne with largest comeback in Canyon Lake history

Last week, The ReSporter, went back through the football win over Wimberley and how that was as much a mental hill than anything else for this Hawk squad.

This week we will rehash the Hawk’s game with Boerne.

The Greyhounds had been a team that had knocked CL out of a chance for a playoff spot for two years in a row. Those losses, especially two years ago was when the Hawks had just had their loss to Wimberley after starting the year 6-0. Then a tough loss to Boerne for their second loss with both setbacks coming in district play, was enough to leave the Hawks on the outside looking in.

During the 2012 season, Canyon Lake started the game with a 9-0 lead and Eduardo Covarrubias had 100 yards rushing in the first quarter.

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Canyon Lake has Scoreboard on Wimberley

The ReSporter would like to go back through this past school year and share some sport events that were off the charts exciting or had significance for that team.

To start this series off, The ReSporter will go to last Fall during their Football campaign.

The season started with a lot of trepidation as wins would be hard to come by and when district started with another loss to Fredericksburg, it did not instill much confidence for a team looking for something to hang their hat on.

In fact, CL was on a 9 game losing streak after that loss to the Billies and a win over Bandera was nice but that elephant in the room with a Texan name tag was looming.

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Bracken Christian started their 2014 Spring practice this past Monday after saying

Sophomore Brady Beene ready to take the Reigns

good-bye to the last class that played in a State Championship game.

“I was really impressed with the young guys,” Coach Fields started. “I will go to bed tonight presently surprised.”

BCS will be starting their second first year quarterback this season after Sam Hilgendorf put up his cleats after last season and Eli Achilles enjoyed a 4 year reign at the position before that.

Sophomore Brady Beene will take over this year and will look to continue a Warrior given of playing in the playoffs.

“Beene throws the ball very well,” Coach Fields added.

Bracken has only missed out on the postseason their first year which also happened to be their last season with a losing record.

A tradition of winning is a common occurrence with Bracken Christian.

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Bracken Christian Warriors have all their ducks in a row as TAPPS has realigned BCS into a new district and this year’s schedule has been set.

“Four of the top six teams will be coming from our district,” Head Coach Lloyd Fields said. “OLH has everyone coming back and Castle Hills was the Division II State Champ last season.”

Bracken has been playing these past few years with 12-14 players on the sideline when other same division schools might have over 20 suited up and not playing.

Those type of numbers in 6-Man will always give the advantage to the larger school.

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With the storm of waiting for Re-Alignment comes lightning for coaches as they have to be ahead of the game in putting their schedule together.

Many times a non-district game can become a district game based on what the UIL in moving schools to different locations and partners.

Head Coach Charlie Drum has been burning the midnight oil since Sunday as he waited for the curtain to fall and find out who his new friends will be.

“Our degree of difficulty did not change much,” Coach Drum said when assessing new and departing teams in District 14-AAAA. “We traded two playoff teams for two playoff teams so our district did not change much.”

Wimberley and Navarro was lost while Liberty Hill and Taylor were added from their district to the north.

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Canyon Lake has Scoreboard on Wimberley

Canyon Lake’s All-District Selections

The Hawks have put their finishing touches to a season that started out with a lot of angst and ended up rivaling their best playoff season in three years when Canyon Lake went two games deep into the playoffs.

There is certainly a lot of work that goes into a year that starts out with the heat of Summer to finally end with cold temperatures in November.

Canyon Lake installed a new offense this season and with that construction started the year riding a six game losing streak before a win against Bandera that certainly righted a ship and moved this team to a third place finish in District 27-3A.

This year had three wins that will certainly go down in the books as classics.

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Mountain Valley Middle School 8th Grade is just one year away from walking down Canyon Lake High

Eric Hill, Hank Jordan, and Lee Stafford getting together after a win over Bandera

School halls and below, The ReSporter, has compiled the stats on a limited number of games this that were played at home.

The total stats will have both 8th Grade team’s combined numbers.

MVMS doubled their yardage over the competition and by looking at those players you will see that having running backs for next season will not be a problem.

Rushing was dominant as the Hawks almost tripled the yardage of their opponent.

Just like the 7th Grade, MVMS 8th grade team won the offensive battle, but  it was their defense that might be even more impressive as many of these same players below doubled on the defensive side of the ball.

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Mountain Valley Seventh Grade had a Grade A football season and The ReSporter would like to

Cade Dunavant and Landry Moore are happy after Win over Fredericksburg.

play a tribute to this group of players.

Canyon Lake will be well represented in the next few years as MVMS will be feeding two teams the 7th and 8th Grades into high school and that will certainly give the Hawks a chance to improve as these teams finish their eligibility at Mountain Valley.

Mountain Valley doubled yardage gained against their opponents and looking at the players average yards per run gives you an idea of how dominant this team performed.

The stats below were compiled based on home games this season for both A and B squads.

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Matt Magness holds CL record for most touchdowns receiving

The ReSporter was bored during the Christmas Break and studied all of the scores since competition started and recorded those students with longest touchdowns by receiving and rushing.

There are a few players that most fans will remember after seeing this list and will help you put those scores in perspective.

First item The ReSporter noted was how unique a player Doug Hubnik was for the Hawks.

Hubnik while playing for CL scored several ways.
Interception Return against Luling during the 2011.
Kick-off return against Luling during that same game.
Receiving several times during his two year offensive career.
Rushing while being a QB during the La Grange game in 2011.

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