The Defensive Coordinator, Coach Charlie Drum was not pleased with the outcome after the game with Austin-Travis last season.

The reporters were getting talking points from players, when Coach Drum got close enough to the player being interviewed to tell him, “wipe that smile off your face!”

The Hawks had just given up 47 points to Austin-Travis and you could tell Coach Drum was not a happy camper after the game.

The 47 points was in the stratosphere that had not been reached since the inaugural season two years earlier. In fact, Canyon Lake had given up 47 or more points in six of the games that year.
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“We are having a great off season,” Defensive End Alex Kemp said. “We will have a different mind set this year.”

The All-District Defensive End will be the linchpin for how this defense will respond to the season. The Hawks lost players that had a lot of impressive stats, but the flip side are the number of players that are returning and ready to make their own mark.

For the Hawks to establish enough momentum heading into the last half of the season, then the performance needs to mirror last years team.
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The Hawks were a victim of several long plays last year resulting in touchdowns.
In fact, Canyon Lake gave up a total of 32 touchdowns last season and eight of the 18 touchdowns by the run were from 17 yards are further out. (The longest was 97 yards)

The defense gave up 14 touchdowns by passing and 10 of those touchdowns were from 20 yards are further from the goal line.

Canyon Lake can attribute many of those plays based on lack of speed in the backfield.
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The ReSporter has been writing on the offensive side of the ball the last few weeks and will now concentrate the next couple of weeks on the Defensive side.

We will start with Coach Bret Hodges, who coaches the defensive line for the Hawks.

The defense had some big shoes that graduated and the coaches will now go into the plugging the holes mantra.

“Graduation leaves us with unknowns,” Defensive Line Coach Bret Hodges said.
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The Canyon Lake football schedule is set and the anticipation can begin.

The Hawks finished with a .500 record last year, but you bet their were several teams not willing to play this team at the end of the season.

The team seemed to be jelling at just the right time and now as Summer beckons the Hawks can focus on maturing earlier in the season to have a banner year.
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The Canyon Lake Football team has high aspirations for the coming campaign and if you want to know how the team will fare, then a look at the offensive line can help in that evaluation.

The last couple of articles on the ReSporter, has been on the running game and how ‘it’ has improved each year.

‘It’ is easy to deduce when you look at the yardage gained the past two years.
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Back in the days when the Hilltop Reporter was getting started, we scheduled a visit with Head Coach Matt Monzingo to find out all things Sports at Canyon Lake High School and specifically football.

While going over the offense with Coach Monzingo, the question was asked about the running game. The response from Coach Monzingo, “We did not have a running game last year.”

All the offensive stats coming from the Coaches that meeting revolved around the passing game.

The team with no seniors won one game that year. The record might have been a better if the running game would of been evident. (more…)

The Canyon Lake Football team does not have long before the new season will be upon them.

The Hawks finished 6-6 last season and missed going to the third round in the playoffs by one yard on a missed field goal.
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Coach Monzingo has released a schedule of important dates for players and family.

Click to download the complete list of dates here >>>
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