The ReSporter: Hey Coach Fields, how was your first scrimmage?

Coach Fields: “Very pleased with the defense…our defense will hit you. Our x-backer (Jeff Camp) and our defensive ends controlled the line.”

The ReSporter: What happened offensively?

Coach Fields: “Our offense was hit and miss, but we got better as the night went on. Our spread offense is still a work in progress and we might have a power spread.”

The ReSporter: Where are you compared to this time last year?

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Canyon Lake finally was able to hit someone without knowing who it was last night as the Green and Gold took on Llano Yellowjackets and Early Longhorns.

There will plenty of film to study after the four hour marathon in Llano, Texas.

“We are getting better,” Head Coach Charley Drum stated. “We have installed a new offense and had a chance to see it under game speed with another team.”

“We stayed healthy and I like what I saw.”

There were several key players on the sideline without pads on for this scrimmage as bumps and bruises is part of the game.

“The majority of our team was playing JV or Freshman ball this time last year,” Coach Drum beat. “We have gotten better every day.”

That is an important statement considering how fast this new season in

approaching.

Canyon Lake will have one more scrimmage next week in Buda so every day will have this team working like they are on their final exams to be accepted into their next realm on the ladder.

Coach Drum also commented on his defense, “We have a lot of fine tuning but these kids are smart and we are also working with a different front on our defensive line.”

The Hawks don’t seem like they have many days of taking anything for granted or having an off day.

Everything will be getting faster as this team starts to hone in on improving their game as Blanco will be calling soon on the horizon.

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Uncertain future would be the theme this year as Bracken Warriors prepare

for their two team scrimmage this Friday.

“Everything is in flux,” Head Coach Lloyd Fields said. “Our offense is still a work in progress and we are starting over from square one.”

The Warriors have been ahead of the curve these past three years with a returning QB Eli Achilles calling the signals. All three of those years had that returning quarterback.

Now BCS has replaced those three years of experience for three quarterbacks vying for a chance to call the signals.

“All the positions are open,” Coach Fields fielded.

There is one given for this year’s team and that would be the Warriors tight offensive set. Bracken has some proven entities in that formation which will give Coach Fields a softer pillow on Friday nights after games.

“We have a Sophomore center Gunnar Stolhandske who proved himself last season as a freshman and he has continued to improve. Then having Goober (Preston Koch) and Davis Scott back as Seniors makes this our gold standard,” Coach Fields elaborated.

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More articles on offensive lineman should make the running backs and quarterback very happy and so The Resporter found three more of these ‘in the trenches’ players after two-a-days this past week.

This year, Canyon Lake will need a big season from this group of players and finding out more about these students should help in coming up with an idea of what this year will resemble.

Corey Rustin, Austin Kahil, and Trey Saenz will all be counted on this season and The ReSporter wanted to know how each player was feeling about this season so far.

“We don’t have separate teams,” Rustin started. “The defensive line and offensive line are more of a one team one unit…we have better teamwork and everyone is pushing each other harder.”

“I feel a lot better about this line than last year,” Saenz said. “There is a lot more intensity and the program is working better with the new system.”

Kahil also had a word, “We are a younger team, but some of us have played eight years together so having that type of unity will help.”

The ReSporter had heard that this off season was pretty intense.

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The ‘Brains’ behind this new fangled offense is Coach Troy Moses as the Canyon Lake intrasquad game on

Saturday gave fans a good idea of what might be expected when Friday’s roll around in the Fall.

One thing is for certain. The players like this offense and that excitement can be seen in settings like was played out on Saturday.

“You could tell they were doing something new and for the first time at full speed,” Offensive Coordinator Moses parted. “Taking that into consideration we did pretty good today.”

Canyon Lake will have to be a quick study with this offense as the will soon be upon us.

Two scrimmages and then Blanco to open the season at home August 30th or in 20 days.

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The first week is over and at the last time The ReSporter had a conversation

with Head Coach Lloyd Fields he still had all of his players accounted for.

That is a very important item when you are covering 6-man Football.

Having enough players can let you know if you can even field a team for many schools.

The ReSporter did catch up with Coach Fields and he seemed to be in good spirits.

The ReSporter: Coach Fields how do you feel about your team so far this season?

Coach Fields: “We are a work in progress….we have more questions than we do answers and that could make for an interesting things on the field.”

The ReSporter: Tell us what you see with your offense and defense.

Coach Fields: “We don’t have a clue about our spread offense yet, but we do have a good and talented group of Seniors. We had 15 guys show up and they are all still out there.

But we have 1/3 of our team that has not taken a snap of high school football yet and that will make it interesting for sure.”

The ReSporter: Let us know what you have with some of your returning players.

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Another ‘in the trenches’ player will be playing in his third season for the varsity and to say

he wants to have a good season would be an understatement.

With this new offensive scheme you might expect many of plays will be directed to his side of the ball for a maximum chance for success.

Who is this player? Senior Justin Monfils.

Monfils stepped it up this off season, “We are working harder, Coach said that you need to put time in to play.”

“I want to be faster and I improved my 40 time from 6.1 to 5.6 while losing 30 pounds.”

That might translate into a quicker player that can maul you which would be a welcome for those running backs.

“I don’t feel that much different than when I first started playing on the varsity,” Monfils said calmly.

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The ReSporter has tabulated this past season in District 27-3A team sports by school and as

you can see last season was not a banner year for Canyon Lake.

If a school finished first then they garnered 1 point and if a school finished last, then they would accumulate 6 points.

So the school with the least amount of points would be the goal.

Canyon Lake is still looking for their first District 27-3A Title in any sport as their best finish is still a second place finish in their history. (Baseball ’10, Softball ’11, Boys Track ’11 and ’12)

This year the top four teams will be able to punch their ticket for a post season berth and if you used that same criteria for last year, then you will see that your Hawks would of only qualified in one team sport.

Football would of been that sport to qualify for a playoff if this new rule would of been in place.

In all the other team sports your Canyon Lake Hawks best finish was fifth place.

Last season in a word was not a banner year and as this new school season approaches, CLHS will have many opportunities to improve on that record.

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The Summer is over for the Volleyball and Football teams as both teams will

start up another year of sports and hopefully a better outcome with their finish.

When The ReSporter heard that this new offense would resemble what Navarro Panthers run, then thoughts of having a longer halftime than an actual game with the Panthers were some of what was going as a possibility.

Think about a game where both clubs run with the ball over 90 percent of the time and you basically have a running clock throughout the contest.

This would give both bands more time on the field in actual game time for both schools.

Yes, that is an exaggeration but it still has possibilities.

When talking to individual players throughout this Summer, The ReSporter has sensed an excitement about what this offense could bring forth and those words expressed were also in that expression on their face as well.

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Believe it or not football season is right around the corner.

The NFL has started practice and your Canyon Lake Hawks have been diligently working out in Speed and Strength sessions for the last few weeks.

As is The ReSporter’s habit, the first article will be dedicated to the trenches and the offensive line.

This year will have a special emphasis on this unit as these students will be preparing for a different offensive scheme which will require more snaps and an run based offense.

The ReSporter will be having more articles as we will try to catch up with Head Coach Charley Drum and the other coaches for this coming season.

Senior Drake Phillips has been one of those players that has been a fixture each evening on the high school campus working on his conditioning.

After a season that many players would like to forget, Phillips seems to have a different resolve as his final year approaches.

“Yeah, I think speed and strength is big in getting ready for the season,” Phillips said.

There are some publications that have Canyon Lake finishing in fifth place behind Fredericksburg.

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