It was a game that a fourth quarter comeback led to a victory…the only difference on this Thursday

Anthony Wagner, Jakob Merritt, and Matt Adams after tough loss to Somerset JV

night for the Canyon Lake JV team was being on the wrong end of that score, losing 16-14 to Somerset.

Last week, the Hawks responded with 19 points in a 4th quarter blitz over Blanco giving a nice ride home with three point win.

This time it was Somerset winning a game in that same stanza by scoring 14 unanswered points in a game your Hawks let fly away.

That flight was an 81 yard pass play with just one minute left on the clock that spelled Canyon Lake.

“We started great,” JV Coach Brian Owens stated. “This is something every JV team has to experience and they will need to learn from this lesson.”

“They (Hawks) did everything we asked and we just have to have toughness and intensity that will last till the end of the game…we hit a plateau during the middle of the game and we never regained our momentum.”

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Canyon Lake Freshman had a tough time with the Somerset Freshman team losing 36-2 at Hawk

Tyler Shipman and Tyler McCleary after game with Somerset

Stadium last Thursday evening.

Those two points did not result from a safety, rather an opportunistic Tyler McCleary caught a wayward pass on a two point conversion and ran untouched 97 yards for two points.

A couple of Bulldogs looked like they might have a chance of catching McCleary, but after reaching the 10 yard line int route to the goal line, McCleary seemed to turn on the afterburners leaving the opposition with no chance of catching him.

“I just held my hands up and if I would not have had on my gloves, then I would not of caught it (the ball),” McCleary said calmly.

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 Bracken Christian       @       Sugar Land Logos
 Warriors (0-1)                  Lions (1-0)

 History: Bracken Christian Leads Series 2-0
 2012 BCS   66   Logos   20
 2012 BCS   60   Logos   30  Playoffs

 Season Results:
 BCS 38 Austin Hill Country 61    Logos   67   SA The Winston   18

If Bracken Christian can see the end of the tunnel then they better be sure they are not running on a train track.

Sugar Land Logos will be a much improved team this year and the Lions even showed a much improved team during the playoffs last season after a Warrior blow out to begin last year.

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      Canyon Lake          @           Somerset
      Hawks (0-1)                      Bulldogs (1-0)

History: Bulldogs leads series 2-0.

2010 Canyon Lake 24 Somerset 25   Playoff Loss by inches (literally)
2012 Canyon Lake 35 Somerset 54

Season Results:
Canyon Lake 6 Blanco 13           Somerset 39 SA Lanier 6

Two teams that are black and white, dirt and water, clear and cloudy, conceal and reveal, hill and valley…you get the idea.

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 Standings        W    L     Pct
 Bandera          1    0   1.000
 Navarro          1    0   1.000
 Wimberley        1    0   1.000
 Canyon Lake      0    1    .000
 Fredericksburg   0    1    .000
 Boerne           0    1    .000

 Last Week's Results
 Blanco     13   Hawks             6
 Bandera    42   George West      12
 Wimberley  31   Llano             7
 Navarro    27   SA Antonian      21
 Burnet     40   Fredericksburg   27
 Hondo      42   Boerne           21

 This Week's Games
 CL Hawks        @     Somerset
 Bandera         @     Devine
 Navarro         @     SA Christian
 Boerne          @     Medina Valley
 Wimberley       @     Giddings
 Fredericksburg  @     SA Memorial

 Stats Leaders (no Fredericksburg stats)
 Passing Yardage
 Player        Team        Comp Pct.    Yards
 Snelling      Boerne        55.9       279
 Cerday        Wimberley     50.0       181
 Rodriquez     Bandera       52.2       178
 Tschoepe      Hawks         28.6        60
 Durham        Navarro       66.8        52

 Rushing
 Player        Team          Att        Yards
 Lambert       Wimberley     22         132
 Jaroszewski   Navarro       17         108
 Leal          Navarro       12         106
 Ventura       Bandera       13          83
 Snelling      Boerne        17          67
 DeVries       CL Hawks      13          50

 Receiving
 Player        Team          No         Yards
 Lees          Boerne        8          168
 McDorman      Wimberley     3           62
 Stoufflet     Bandera       3           61
 Mireles       Wimberley     1           54
 DeVries       CL Hawks      3           49

Bracken Warriors started their year with a loss as Austin Hill Country Knights jumped on the home team with an answer  and then some for every touchdown but Bracken scored.

There are glimpses of great play, but those glimpses just don’t last long enough to gather that elusive ‘momentum’ word.

“Our goal this week is to play better and play four quarters,” Head Coach Lloyd Fields said. “In order to do that we will need to start playing with a sense of urgency.”

What air that was in the balloon seemed to be sucked out as soon as Bracken failed to score on their second possession while resting on the three yard line with nothing to show for a drive that could of tied or put BCS in the lead.

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Hawks have started their learning curve in a loss to Blanco on Friday at Hawk Stadium, 13-6.

Classes started this week at Canyon Lake and for those students that put on pads had to learn some hard lessons on Friday night and will certainly be doing some homework as they now prepare for Somerset next week.

“This was a typical game with Blanco,” Head Coach Charles Drum started. “The last time this happened in 2010 we went two rounds into the playoffs…and that is what we told the boys.”

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Mike Thorpe, Matt Adams, and Tim Romero pose after each having an improbable play in CL’s comeback win

Canyon Lake JV started their season after three quarters into the game with Blanco offensively on Thursday night as the Hawks found gold in that quarter with 19 unanswered points in a historic win.

The game was not a good start to this season but perseverance was dialed up as the Hawks started their onslaught just in time for a timely victory, by keeping their eye on the prize.

Offensively, Canyon Lake had not done much beginning this match.

                     Off Plays    First Downs   Yards   Ave Per Play   Turnovers
First 3 Quarters       21              1          56        2.7           3
Fourth Quarter         12              4         179       14.9           0

Now you can see how CL just turned on the light for a dominating fourth quarter.

Defensively, Canyon Lake was impressive in only giving up one touchdown on the Panthers first drive of the game and then shutting Blanco down for the duration of this contest.

Three fumbles with one being returned like a hand off from 53 yards away from the goal line kept CL from getting any pressure on Blanco.

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The ReSporter: Last year it was the special teams that resulted in some early season loses…what is the status of this squad this year?

Coach Drum: “We have spent more time on special teams in fact, our work out is during the middle of the day now and that is all we worked on today.”

“Ian Acosta will be our kick-off and extra point player this year and we also have Mike Thorp who plays soccer on the JV and he has a chance of moving up.”

“Nick Cahill will be our punter.”

The ReSporter: I would think that the pre/district games would be used as an audition for special teams starters.

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The ReSporter: The Castle Hills scrimmage was an eye opener.

Coach Fields: “Castle Hills was the best scrimmage team we have ever played…We are a work in progress and the quicker we grow up the better we will be.”

The ReSporter: What set that Castle Hills squad different than those other scrimmages?

Coach Fields: “That was the best back we have faced since Walker with Kerrville OLH two years ago. We are not as fast as we used to be…we have have run out of preparation time and we are not there yet, we had four weeks now (of practice) and we could use two more weeks, but the season starts this Friday ready or not.”

The ReSporter: What have you done as a result of last week’s game?

Coach Fields: “We have taken Davis Scott from defensive end to linebacker and moved John Colby from linebacker to x-backer and Jeff Camp from x-backer to defensive end and now we will retool.”

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