Somerset Bulldogs tore some feathers off the Canyon Lake Hawks in a route of special proportions.

‘Special’, since the loss can be attributed to Special Teams failures and Penalties.

“We told them last week that we were lucky to win that game,” Head Coach Charley Drum said. “Costly penalties and we lost the turnover battle.”

“We need to get more intensity with our special teams,” Offensive Coordinator Levi Montgomery said. “We will show them what they did wrong and get it fixed.”

Take away the third quarter and your Hawks would of won by one point. However the rules still state for a game to be official the third quarter must be played.

“We did anything we wanted to do offensively,” Coach Drum beat. “Everything we did tonight is correctible.”

For the second game in a row, Canyon Lake’s special teams are becoming special for their opponents as Somerset started the second half with a kickoff return for a touchdown, a repeat from last week.

Add to that a pooch kick that was not fielded on Somerset’s next kick and nine plays later another score. In what seemed liked a close game after halftime, ballooned to 33-21 lead for the Bulldogs in four minutes.

Last weeks penalties creeped back into the Hawk’s game plan and on their very next play Canyon Lake had a 72 yard touchdown pass called back by a holding penalty.

“A lot of errors and penalties,” Quarterback Belcher chimed. “On both sides with the offense, defense, and special teams….just killed us.”

The Hawks could not keep their momentum and had a punt travel 10 yards and Somerset was looking at 59 yards for another chance to score. Which they did in eight plays with one play that had another 15 yard penalty helping a five yard gain become 20 yards giving the Bulldogs a first down on CL’s 17 yard line.

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Canyon Lake’s Freshman squad started the game on fire, but the Sun got hotter and welted this Hawk team as they melted away in the final half losing, 20-8 at Somerset last Thursday. The 5:00 pm start had the temperatures in the triple digits.

The first score was set up by a great punt return by Matthew Adams for 36 yards. This play allowed Canyon Lake to set up shop on Somerset’s 34 yard line.

A Joseph Arredondo pass to Gordon McCleary for 10 yards and with 22 yards rushing from Cody Davis helped Arredondo to sneak it in from the one yard line.

Arredondo found Zach Gregory for the two point conversion and with the second quarter just getting started the visitors had an 8-0 lead.

The Hawks defensive five quarter scoreless streak was a thing of the past when Somerset answered with a 70 yard pass play to Villareal on their next possession.

Villareal was really all the Bulldogs would need for this game as he snatched an interception on the first play of the second half,  going untouched for their go ahead touchdown.

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The Canyon Lake Junior Varsity improved to 2-0 for the season after staving off a comeback rally from

Head JV Coach Brian Owens addressing team after Win over Somerset

Somerset last Thursday night Bulldogs stadium.

The Hawks started the game with an impressive 70 yard 13 play drive that took a little over six minutes off the clock.

Canyon Lake served a good dose of Running Back Hayden Dubois on this drive as he accounted for 84 yards of real estate by air and run. The two pass plays were back breakers for Somerset with both passes coming from a screen pass.

Dubois was the recipient on both passes of 40 and 12 yards, the final one ending in the endzone.

If you were trying to do the math, then you will notice that Dubois had more yardage than the distance needed to travel for the touchdown. Penalties and one sack for Skyler Tschoepe was the cause for that anomaly.

Canyon Lake struck again when Dayton Dingman blocked a Somerset punt and then had teammate Gavin Rutherford return the punt 20 yards to the Somerset nine yard line.

From there it only took the Hawks two plays to score, when Nick Cahill caught a slant pass over the goal line for what would be a 12 point lead.

Somerset also had some decent returns on kick-offs and helped their cause when they returned the next kick to the Canyon Lake 49 yard line.

The Bulldogs took three running plays with the last one going for 33 yards by Avila. This young man ended the game with 175 yards and was hard to get a hold of for the remainder of this game.

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

History: This will be the first game played between the two schools.

This Year's Results:
 BCS 56 Austin Hill Country 06         Calvert 40 Logos 38

Sugar Land Logos team were beat last week, but the game was a squeaker by two points to a perennial UIL squad.

The season is still too young to take a lot away from a team’s first game, but just from a first look, Logos Prep did well considering how weak their district has been the past several years.

That loss certainly gives this team an inside track to a district championship. Especially with the departure of Tomball Christian to 11-man this year.

Six-man football is a hard sport to find enough information to make an article to give the fans ideas of what too watch for in their game for that week.

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              SOMERSET   @    CANYON LAKE   7:30pm
              (1-0)           (1-0)

History: Somerset leads series, 1-0
 2010 Somerset  25 Canyon Lake  24    2nd round playoffs

This Year's Games:
 Canyon Lake 26  Blanco 21      Somerset 42  SA Lanier 21

The last time these two teams played was two years ago as Canyon Lake fell short with a field goal falling one foot short of the goal post in the second round of playoffs and no time left on the clock.

Somerset Bulldogs are coming off a 42-21 victory over San Antonio Lanier last week and you better get ready for some flying footballs this week.

Sophomore Koy Detmer Jr. will be the signal caller as his name should bring back glimpses of other Detmer’s playing their way into College Football lore.

Detmer started his first game on varsity with 353 yards passing and three receivers catching 15 throws for 232 of those yards.

Three of Detmer’s passes were from 45 yards or more and two passes scored points for the Bulldogs.

Somerset took their foot off the gas pedal in the fourth quarter as they had a 35-7 lead allowing them to coast the rest of the way.

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 Team                W    L    Pct
 Bracken Christian   2    0   1.000
 Boerne Geneva       2    0   1.000
 Kerrville OLH       1    1    .500
 SA Lutheran         1    1    .500
 SA The Winston      0    2    .000
 CASA                0    2    .000

This Week's Game
 Bracken Christian     Open
 SA Lutheran       @   Selma River City Believers
 CASA              @   SA FEAST
 SA The Winston    @   Austin Hill Country
 Austin Veritas    @   Boerne Geneva
 Kerrville OLH     @   Cedar Park Summit

Last Week's Scores
 Bracken Christian  66    SugarLand Logos Prep  20
 Boerne Geneva      53    SA Castle Hills       07
 SA Lutheran        53    SA River City         06
 Seguin Lifegate    50    Kerrville OLH         00
 Aus. Hill Country  48    SA The Winston        44
 SA Town East       64    CASA                  18

Bracken Christian By The Numbers
    2 How many times Bracken has had a three game losing streak
    4 Longest shutout game streak for Bracken's Defense
    4 Times BCS has won a District Title in last six years
    4 Number of games lost by this Senior Class
    4 Number of times BCS has scored 68 points in a game
   18 Wins in District play the last four years
   36 Games won by this Senior class
   74 Consecutive game scoring streak. (BCS has never been shutout)
   78 Points scored by Receiver Arnold Adame for his career
 1315 Rushing yards for Eli Achilles, ranks second in yardage for Warriors

DISTRICT 27-3A STANDINGS
 Team               W    L    Pct.
 Canyon Lake        1    1    .500
 Wimberley          1    1    .500
 Boerne             1    1    .500
 Navarro            1    1    .500
 Fredericksburg     1    1    .500
 Bandera            0    2    .000

 Upcoming Games:
 9/14 La Vernia         @    Canyon Lake   7:30pm
      Dripping Springs  @    Wimberley
      SA Holy Cross     @    Navarro
      Brady             @    Fredericksburg
      Boerne            @    SA Antonian
      Llano             @    Bandera

 Last Week's Scores:
 Somerset     54    Canyon Lake      35
 Giddings     31    Wimberley        26
 Devine       60    Bandera          25
 Boerne       49    Medina Valley    47
 Billies      45    SA Memorial      14
 Navarro      36    SA Christian     34

 District Stat Leaders: (Wimberley and Fredericksburg have no stats yet)
 Team       Quarterback     Comp    Att   Pct.   Yards   TD   Int
 Boerne     Dormady           49     75   65.3    586     5    1
 Hawks      Belcher           10     21   47.6    281     3    0
 Bandera    Miller             5     19   26.3     47     0    1
 Navarro    Cowan              3     10   30.0     30     0    0

 Team       Rushing          Att    Yds   Ave.    TD
 Bandera    Miller            24    268   11.2     3
 Hawks      Covarrubias       44    264    6.0     3
 Navarro    Conlin            26    228    8.8     3
 Bandera    Muniz             27    223    8.3     2
 Boerne     Collins           29    218    7.5     4

 Team       Receiving         No    Yds   Ave.    TD
 Hawks      Camarillo          5    194   38.8     2
 Boerne     Woodie            17    165    9.7     0
 Boerne     Veselka            7    128   18.3     2
 Boerne     Collins            8     82   10.3     1
 Hawks      Hubnik             4     79   19.8     0

Bracken Christian Warriors came out of the blocks while blocking their opponent in a Mercy

Davis Scott and Eli Achilles

Game, beating Austin Hill Country Knights, 56-6 last Friday night in Austin, Texas.

The Knights lost all of their starting offense and all but one defensive starters from last year’s team.

Bracken made them pay for their youth with enough fire power to run away from AHC. This win was the 22nd in a row on the road.

BCS has a lot of new players with different responsibilities and Running Back Davis Scott made his presence known with his first carry going for 13 yards and a score.

Of course, Bracken’s defense did not allow the Knights much in the way of yardage as AHC’s first set of downs netted minus 19 yards.

Next set of downs had an Eli Achilles interception and 40 yard return for another score.

“They had a botched snap and that made the quarterback a pass only situation,” Achilles surmised. “I knew he was going to throw and he only had two options and Preston (Koch) had his guy covered.”

One offensive play and a 12-0 lead would tell you how much Austin Hill Country would want to go get players from last season to come and help out again. TAPPS would have something to say about that and so the route was on.

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Canyon Lake wins Nail Biter over Blanco, 26-21 in the opening game of the

Running Back Eduardo Covarrubias getting some valuable real estate

Canyon Lake played a close game against Blanco again. What else is new?

The last four games have all been by seven points or fewer.

“Typical Blanco game,” Head Coach Charley Drum sighed a breath of relief. “This team is tough, tough, tough and they proved that they have a solid football team that can execute.”

“This was an ugly win, but it is better than a loss. A lot of kids haven’t played much and have not been in these situations.”

Blanco was Canyon Lake’s first loss five years ago and now Blanco was the game where the Hawks reached the .500 winning percentage.

Coach Drum has now won his inaugural game.
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