Bracken Christian Warriors have been thrown a curve ball this week.

Head Coach Lloyd Fields

The game with SA Atonement was cancelled and BCS has been trying to find some teams with open dates to play.

The Pre/Game article with SA Atonement will have to be scrapped and now a new team and place to play will be the result.

Gustine, about a three hour drive up 281, contacted Bracken needing a game for this Friday. So, the Warriors will now be traveling to a Division I UIL destination.

Gustine was very proactive simply because this weekend was going to be their Homecoming game.

That is what put a sense of urgency for getting this game scheduled so quickly.

What do we know about Gustine? Not much…They have a 1-5 record this season, but this team has been decimated by injuries and finished one game with just six players.

The Tigers were picked for second place in their district to begin this season.

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Series History: First Game between these two teams.

This Season's Results:
 BCS 56 Austin Hill Country 06   SAA 00  Fredericksburg Heritage 46
 BCS 66 Sugarland Logos     20   SAA 55  SA Sunnybrook           21
 BCS 60 Brenham Christian   12   SAA 00  SA Castle Hills         47
 BCS 58 Boerne Geneva       58   SAA 12  Boerne Geneva           58
 BCS 58 SA Lutheran         00

So here is the pre/game talk for San Antonio Atonement and Bracken.

Both teams have played an immediate opponent in Boerne Geneva, and both teams were beaten by that team.

Bracken Christian lost 58-56 while Atonement went down 58-12. Both of these games have been played in the past two weeks, so now you have an idea of what will happen this Friday night at Warrior Stadium.

Another Mercy game.

This is the time of year that Bracken has a schedule with several San Antonio teams. The history of 6-Man football in San Antonio is not good. The teams rarely have a team that can take good teams to the limit.

Bracken has faced San Antonio Six Man teams 16 times in their short history. Bracken’s record is 14-2. The two losses were during Bracken’s first year when they won one game and that game was against a San Antonio team.
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Series History: Hawks lead 3-1
 2008 Hawks 14 Billies 65
 2009 Hawks 14 Billies 07
 2010 Hawks 35 Billies 20
 2011 Hawks 35 Billies 07

This Season's Results:
 Hawks 26 Blanco    21    Billies 21  Burnet      26
 Hawks 35 Somerset  54    Billies 45  SA Memorial 14
 Hawks 13 La Vernia 14    Billies 44  Brady       00
 Hawks 31 Burnet    37    Billies 22  Lampasas    19
 Hawks 09 La Grange 34    Billies 14  Llano       06

A lot has changed in the past year in the football world. Fredericksburg only needs one more win to match their win total the past three years. Night and Day could be another way of putting the difference between the past and now for the Billies.

Meanwhile, Canyon Lake has, ‘fallen and can’t get up’, so far this season.

Take a few game moments away and this Hawk team could also be 4-1 instead of 1-4. La Grange was the first team that did anything they wanted in their game with CL.

There was a chance that the Hawks could of easily been held scoreless in that game and the defense was abused by La Grange.

Canyon Lake has proven that they don’t like water.

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Team                W   L    Pct    District          W   L    Pct
 Berne Geneva       6   0  1.000    Boerne Geneva     1   0  1.000
 Bracken Warriors   4   1   .800    SA The Winston    1   0  1.000
 Kerrville OLH      4   2   .667    Bracken Warriors  1   1   .500
 SA The Winston     3   2   .600    Kerrville OLH     1   1   .500
 SA Lutheran        1   3   .250    SA Lutheran       0   1   .000
 CASA               0   5   .000    CASA              0   1   .000

This Week's Games:
 SA The Atonement     @    Bracken Christian   7:30pm
 SA The Winston       @    CASA
 SA Lutheran          @    Boerne Geneva
 Kerrville OLH        Bye

Last Week's Results:
 Bracken Christian    58   SA Lutheran     00
 SA The Winston       67   Kerrville OLH   36
 Boerne Geneva        58   SA Atonement    12
 CASA                 Bye

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 Bracken by the Numbers:
 -23 Rushing yardage for SA Lutheran in last Friday's game.
   1 BCS 2012 team ranks all-time with two Int. returns for TDs in same game.
   2 Only two other BCS teams have had less Total Yardage than SA Lutheran game.
   3 Average yards per rush for opponents this year.
   4 Number of times Bracken has scored 58 points in a game.
   7 With Coy Zunker's TD reception, Bracken has 7 players scoring this season
  13 Average yards per run for Bracken's offense.
  14 Bracken now has goose egged 14 teams in their history.
  29 Number of wins in last three years concurrently.
  58 Number of all-time wins for Bracken.
  64 Number of yds rushing Eli Achilles needs to break into top 5 for season rushing.
  77 Games that Bracken has never been shut out in.

The Bracken Christian Warriors got to their Homecoming Dance early as they beat SA Lutheran 58-0 with

Sophomore Coy Zunker with a smile that says a thousand words

a Mercy game at Bracken Stadium on Friday night.

The SA Lutheran Mustangs took the opening kick and started the game with a very impressive drive. The Mustangs muffed the kick off and started on their three yard line.

Bracken was licking their chops with this opportunity, but were surprised by a methodical drive down the field. A 12 play drive that churned out 47 yards of real estate and had taken five minutes off the first quarter clock before the Warriors could finally get their bearings and halt the Mustangs at the Warriors 30 yard line.

“We started slow,” Head Coach Lloyd Fields started. “We were looking at a new offense and our defense was lined up incorrectly. We adjusted and then played much better.”

San Antonio Lutheran would not pass the midfield stripe for the rest of the game as Bracken’s defense became opportunistic and stingy.

Those 47 yards on Lutheran’s first drive, was also a high water mark for this Mustang team as the rest of their game went backwards to the tune of -23 yards.

The Defense also scored twice on two interceptions that were returned for touchdowns.

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The ReSporter: How has your team handled their first loss of the

Head Coach Lloyd Fields

Coach Fields: “We lost our first game during the regular season since 2009 and these players are very workmanlike and don’t show a lot of emotion, they understand what we need to do and will display that on the field.”

The ReSporter: How do you handle the rest of this season as District play starts in earnest?

Coach Fields: “We are real happy with our offense, but we will be making some adjustments in our games coming up. We have moved Davis Scott from running back to receiver to help replace losing Arnold Adame. We had lost our vertical game with Adame’s loss and that will help replace that hole. Scott is also faster than Arnold was, but Arnold had more size.
Eli (Achilles) will be moving to running back and Sam Hilgendorf will be our quarterback. Preston Koch will stay as our power back.”
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Coaches and 7th Grade 'A' Team talk after Victory over Boerne

Mountain Valley 7A team whitewashed the Greyhounds from Boerne on Thursday at Hawk Stadium.

The drive was right before halftime when this Hawk team took the ball on their 13 yard line after Caimen McDonough intercepted a Greyhound pass stopping a drive that would of had Boerne drawing first blood.

Mountain Valley set up shop on their 13 yard line and then proceeded to drive 87 yards in 12 plays to take the lead and in so doing taking the air out Boerne’s balloon.

Two passes for 32 yards and eight running plays that covered 55 yards and the touchdown.

The Hawks had 153 total yards and 87 of those yards were on this one drive.

Running back Micah St John had 68 yards rushing and 24 came on this drive, with the final seven ending this set of downs.

“I was able to see the what the defense was doing and then I started doing what the Coaches had taught me,” St John said. “I planted my foot and just went the other way.”

St John was commenting on how he got yardage on one of his runs and made yardage out of a play that could of had a loss on that play.
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Canyon Lake's Rush Defense

What is interesting is that Canyon Lake has had many stats that would indicate a record that could be better if you did not know any results of games.

Five Game Stats          Opponents       CL Hawks
 Total Yardage           1554            1560
 First Downs             78              69
 Rushes/Yards            187/876         172/873
 Comp/Att/Int            48/75/1         36/75/0
 Passing Yards           678             687
 Punts/Average           10/38.9         18/40.9
 Fumbles/Lost            7/5             6/3
 Penalties-Yards         16-110          28-224

Only six yards separate CL with teams played. The Hawks have a better per rush average and a better yards per catch.

Canyon Lake is also winning the turnover battle giving up three while forcing six so far this season.

The Hawks have been penalized over 100 yards more than their counterpart, which is certainly a negative and many games can be traced to this as a reason for a loss or two.
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SA Lutheran vs. Bracken Christian Warriors 7:30pm
 History: BCS leads series 3-0.
 2006 BCS 48 SA Lutheran 44
 2010 BCS 68 SA Lutheran 00
 2011 BCS 68 SA Lutheran 06

This Year Results:
 BCS 56 Austin Hill Country 06     SA Lutheran 18 Granbury Academy   66
 BCS 66 Sugar Land Prep     20     SA Lutheran 53 SA River City      06
 BCS 60 Brenham Christian   12     SA Lutheran 63 Cedar Park Summit  74
 BCS 56 Boerne Geneva       58

Bracken Christian is now in the part of their schedule that will not have a lot of resistance as far as going more than two quarters in any given game.

SA Lutheran does not have a home field and so they have the added burden with being on the road for all of their games.

Their record for the three teams played so far is a respectable 9-5 season. In the past SA Lutheran has struggled to score and this might be a more potent scoring team, but The ReSporter would think that they would not be able to score more than Sugar Land Logos Prep’s 20 points against BCS earlier this season.

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