Canyon Lake Junior Varsity lapped the Blanco Panthers Thursday night at Hawk Stadium, winning

their opener 38-14.

Running Back Hayden Dubois took the reins on the wagon and darted for 212 yards. The Blanco team was grabbing air as Dubois averaged over nine yards per carry with several impressive runs.

“It takes a good line to make a great back,” Dubois started. “All I see is the first down marker and then go for it.”

Go for it he did as Dubois did one better by also looking for the flags in the end zone too.

“When I’m running, I look for the hole and then just cut back, but without the upfield blocking I would not of had that.”

“My head is not on the yards I get, it is the team effort,” Dubois said eloquently in response to looking surprised when he heard how many yards gained in the game.

Dubois had his first scoring run come about in that manner when he reversed his field and cut threw the grain for 39 yards.
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	Bradford Doors	Parziale Pizzeria	LiveOak Medical	Gordon The Plumber	Lakview Cafe	No Shore Methodist	St Farm Banse	CL Golf Club
Hawks vs. Blanco	Hawks	Hawks	Hawks	Hawks	Hawks	Hawks	Hawks	Hawks
BCS vs. AusHillCo	Bracken	Bracken	Bracken	Bracken	Bracken	Bracken	Bracken	Bracken
SVHS vs. Brandeis	SVHS	SVHS	Brandes	SVHS	SVHS	SVHS	SVHS	SVHS
Wimb vs. Llano	Wimb	Wimb	Wimb	Wimb	Wimb	Wimb	Wimb	Wimb
Bandera vs. George	George	George	Bandera	George	George	George	Bandera	Bandera
Navarro vs. Antonan	Antonian	Antonian	Antonian	Navarro	Antonian	Navarro	Antonian	Navarro
Billies vs. Burnet	Burnet	Burnet	Burnet	Burnet	Burnet	Burnet	Billies	Burnet
Boerne vs. Hondo	Hondo	Boerne	Boerne	Boerne	Hondo	Hondo	Boerne	Boerne
Geneva vs. Rochele	Geneva	Rochele	Rochele	Rochele	Rochele	Geneva	Geneva	Rochele
OLH vs. CastleHill	Castle	OLH	Castle	OLH	Castle	OLH	Castle	OLH
Texas vs. Wyoming	Texas	Texas	Texas	Texas	Texas	Texas	Texas	Texas
SMU vs. Baylor	Baylor	Baylor	Baylor	Baylor	Baylor	SMU	Baylor	SMU
TexSt vs. Houston	Houston	TexSt	Houston	Houston	Houston	Houston	TexSt	Houston
Mich vs. Alabama	Alabama	Mich	Alabama	Alabama	Alabama	Alabama	Alabama	Mich
UTSA vs. So.Bama	UTSA	So.Bama	UTSA	UTSA	UTSA	So.Bama	UTSA	So.Bama

The Canyon Lake Freshman football team was all business as they sent the Lago Vista Vikings home without their boat in an 18-0 win last Thursday night at Hawk Stadium.

This Lago Vista club beat the Hawks last year and it seemed like this group of boys had not forgotten that game.

“We wanted to come out with a victory,” Running Back Cody Davis said. “They got us last year.”

Davis finished the contest with 134 yards on 21 carries as the Hawk offense methodically took control of this game and grounded the Vikings.

“I was just trying to follow my blocks,” Davis commented about the amount of yards he had accumulated for the evening.

The half-time statistics would give you an idea of the dominance of CL’s defense.

Lago Vista only had one first down and 22 total yards and for the game finished with 49 yards and yes, they got just one first down in that half also.

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Canyon Lake will have Coaches with new job descriptions this year, but you

might not know the difference except by looking at their face.

When Coach Matt Monzingo left for the Comal Athletic Director job, the brass was pretty careful on how they replaced the dominoes that fell based on that empty position.

Head Coach Charley Drum slid into his new office seamlessly and then the Hawks had to replace their Offensive and Defensive Coordinators.

Job completed and this Friday you will have a chance to see how no bumps in the road make for a smooth ride.

Defensive Coordinator Cody Means started with responding to the number of points scored on the Defense last season, “Just looking at the points scored is misleading, when we get ahead in a game, then we will let people in, kids getting to play is more important to me.”
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Coaches Corner will now be known as Drum Beat in honor of Head Coach Charley Drum.

ReSporter: How are you feeling about your first game as Head Coach?

Coach Drum: “It is a nervous energy. it has taken forever for Friday to get here.”

ReSporter: Where is the team right now as the season looms?

Coach Drum: “I think we are further along than where we had been this time last year. Scrimmages can be a good indicator, but sometimes they’re not.

ReSporter: Tell us about this week’s game with Blanco.

Coach Drum: “They always play us tough…Tim Goodman and Colton Childress will be hard to handle in the backfield. Blanco is basically a run base offense. We are looking for football fundamentals in our game this week.”

ReSporter: How do you try to handle the beginning of this season starting with Blanco?

Coach Drum: “They will always throw a few wrinkles into the game. They do a good job of trying to keep our offense off the field with their offense, conversely we want to do the opposite.
Last year we played well for the the first two downs but we would make a mistake to help the team we were playing to keep a drive alive.”

ReSporter: Good luck Coach and we look forward to more insights this season.

WARRIORS (0-0) VS. KNIGHTS (0-0)
 Game Time: 7:30pm August 31st
 History: Bracken Christian leads the series 5-2
 2006 BCS 16 AHC 64
 2007 BCS 54 AHC 48
 2008 BCS 44 AHC 16
 2009 BCS 64 AHC 72
 2010 BCS 54 AHC 21
 2011 BCS 68 AHC 48
 2011 BCS 60 AHC 42 (Playoff Game)
 This Year's Scores: First Game for both teams.

Bracken Christian will start this year on the road as the Warriors will try to finish this season with one more extra game.

The Warriors are playing a team that has beaten them two times. There are only two teams that have won two games against Bracken since they started play in 2006.

Austin Hill Country did finish last season in fourth place and will have a hard time having a better season.

Why? The Knights lost all six of their starters from last year’s team on offense and only one player returns on their defense.
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The Hawks had a slow start to the season last year and the Blanco game looked like Canyon Lake would be put in that situation again. The main item the past few months in the football write-ups has been the inability of the team to finish.

“Last year we didn’t finish,” Head Coach Matt Monzingo stated. “Tonight we finished, we controlled the game with ball control in the second half.”

Finishing did not happen until the end of the season and now the Hawks have acquired the taste of accomplishment in the second half as CLHS finished the Panthers off.

Here is the tale of the tape between the first and second half. Canyon Lake totaled 108 yards in the first half. Second half? 196

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History: Blanco series is tied 2-2
 2008 Hawks 00 Panthers 63
 2009 Hawks 21 Panthers 14
 2010 Hawks 07 Panthers 12
 2011 Hawks 14 Panthers 07
 This Year: First Game

This has been a home field advantage series thus far in games played.

The last three games have all been decided by seven points or less and this year could be in that same vein.

Canyon Lake comes off a very disappointing season in that their record (8-2) was the best ever, but there was nothing to show for all the accolades. Two losses in district play kept the Hawks out of the playoffs by five points in the tie breaker rule.

What type of team will come through the Hawk inflatable this year remains to be seen.

There will be several new players not seen running to the sidelines and the loss of Zach Henshaw a player that eclipsed the 2000 rushing total last season. Matt Magness will also be missing as a go to receiver, not to mention key losses on the offensive line.
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The Bracken Warriors continued their final warm up before next Friday’s opening game on the road in Austin.

BCS will start under the lights at Austin Hill Country as they look to finish in the final four and hopefully one game better this season.

This scrimmage was staged at Seguin Lifegate with San Marcos Home School and the Panthers from Seguin.

Bracken secured wins in both scrimmages leaving the field ready to start the season.
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The Hawks looked good with all three teams last Friday at Hawk Stadium. The Freshman, Junior Varsity, and Varsity were all in action and came out of the game ready for their five year old birthday party.

In the two 12 minute quarters after the set scrimmage, CL scored twice while holding Lehman scoreless.

“No injuries and we got better this week,” Head Coach Charley Drum said. “This week we played a better team and we seemed to be faster on defense.”

Defense is what will have the final say on how this team will finish and holding Lehman scoreless overshadowed all the scoring the Hawks had on this night.
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