Junior Lester Boehm makes his mark in scrimmage with Bears

With rain all week long, the Hawks took the field on Thursday afternoon and found sunshine and a great afternoon for football.

Canyon Lake also closed their exhibition season with La Vernia as the overall picture was positive with the Hawks doing well in several areas with the Sub-Varsity squads while the Hawk Varsity played a great set of plays in this contest.

“I think we came out better as we stepped up our competition while learning a valuable lesson on not putting them away,” Head Coach Charlie Drum started.

After having several plays of scrimmage the two teams had two 12 minute running clock to close the final part of the affair.

The Hawks started their play by dominating both defensively and offensively. With the first 3 Bear possessions being stopped by 2 interceptions and one recovered fumble.

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This Week @ Canyon Lake

 Monday   Aug. 15     CL Hawks          Practice 3rd Week        4:00pm      Football

 Tuesday  Aug. 16     CL Hawks Freshman     2-0   Lockhart       5:00pm      Volleyball
                      CL Hawks JV           2-0   Lockhart       5:00pm      Volleyball
                      CL Hawks Varsity      3-0   Lockhart       6:00pm      Volleyball
     
 Thursday Aug. 18     La Vernia              @    CL Hawks       5:00pm      Football

 Friday   Aug. 19     CL Hawks Varsity      2-1   East Central  10:15am      Volleyball
                      CL Hawks Varsity      0-2   SA Clark      11:30am      Volleyball
                      CL Hawks Varsity      2-0   Los Fresnos    2:00pm      Volleyball
                      NEISD Tournament @ Churchill High School

 Saturday Aug. 20     CL Hawks Varsity       vs.  SA Madison    10:00am      Volleyball
                      CL Hawks Varsity       vs.  tbd
                      NEISD Tournament @ Churchill High School

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By Cory Martelli

Zack Covington looks for more improvement as  Hawks enter 3rd week

The 2016 CLHS Varsity football season got underway Friday night in the usual August format; HOT! Temperatures to start the game as the field had to be in triple digits and the Texas heat spread across the fruited plains ushered in a long sought after football season to begin anew.

The Smithville Tigers came calling on Friday afternoon into Canyon Lake in the sweltering heat to find about 250 fired up Hawk fans waiting to greet them.

The Hawks met the Tigers last year in the regular season in Smithville and earned a win. The key words there in that sentence was “last year.”

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  Go Warriors

Bracken Christian has been going strong for 10 years now as they finished out of the playoffs in just their first year of existence as they have been winning ever since.

Last year the Warriors had a younger team than their first campaign back in 2006 and if a losing record could have been made, that was the year.

That young group of players not only pulled off another winning season, but played well in the playoffs too.

Now, one year later, BCS will have a chance of making more noise as 18 players will be ready for getting the Warriors in the thick of their district and a longer run in those playoffs.

On Friday, Bracken had three other teams in attendance at their stadium as the first scrimmage was in full gear to start the 10th year of Bracken football.

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By Cory Martelli

Go CL Hawks

The JV football team had its opening moments for the 2016 seeing eye to eye, meaning the scrimmage in which they started off with this season was played against each other, at least in the beginning.

Smithville fielded a smaller team this season and as it would happen the freshman got first shot at the Tigers on the other side of the field as Fridays scrimmage began in leaving the JV to bash one another up and down the field to start the season.

The Junior Varsity squad is full of Juniors and Sophomores this season, so much so, that there will be a JV Gold team and Green team with each team looking to compete for district title like last year’s JV team accomplished under Coach Bartels.

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Brandon Robinson readies himself for another good Hawk Season

By Cory Martelli

The CL freshman football team took the field Friday afternoon against Smithville Tigers in their first ever look at high school football and picked up where they left off last year as a district champs at Mountain Valley Middle School.

The offense as well as the defense seemed to have their starters already figured out as a few players swapped in and out on the first teams during the scrimmage.

The Hawks first string offensive-line appeared to have a consistent work ethic in blocking a well sized Tiger front four as well as down field blocking assignments with their linebackers and secondary.

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Senior Heath McDonough is ready for a fresh start

The first week of practices are in the book, as the Hawks had their first Saturday practice in pads.

Now, at the end of next week, there will be a scrimmage to see how this first month of practices might translate for this upcoming season.

“No injuries,” Head Coach Charley Drum stated after finishing the first week of practice. “We still need to work on conditioning but I am pleased overall.”

CL’s defense seemed to have the upper hand for this morning practice.

“The defense is ahead,” Coach Drum reiterated. “But we need to get better every week on both sides of the ball.”

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                                  Hawks Volleyball is Reaching for New Heights

Over 200 student’s took part in fall sports starting this week on Monday.

Football had in the neighborhood of 140 of those while Volleyball and Cross Country all got in gear for what could be another good start of the school year.

Last year, Canyon Lake had their first district championship with the Volleyball teams as well as Boys Cross Country and Football going further after their regular season ended.

All three sports should be in line of upping their game again this year with the new district line-up.

Football will have Austin Eastside Memorial as the new entrant while losing Liberty Hill and Bandera from last year’s district.

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                  Hawks will try to make Question Marks into Exclamation Points!!

Remember this answer: 77

What is the number of consecutive point after’s that Mike Thorpe made after his last game against Waco La Vega?

Go CL Hawks

That same young man made first team All-District as a Punter and second team All-District as a kicker.

There were two extra point tries that were blocked but only one missed try, in a career where Thorpe also made 9 out of 12 field goals.

That included the longest in Hawk history from 43 yards out in the Boerne game this past season.

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                                                  What a Swarming Hawk Defensive Unit Looks Like

The ReSporter continues the Hawk Football series and with just 10 days away for players to report we will go over CL’s defense and then finish inside a week going over the Special Team.

Repeat Boutique Says Go Defense

Last year’s defense had some rocky moments and was a very inconsistent group as a whole.

The only thing consistent about last years defensive unit was how inconsistent they were.

There were a couple of games where the CL Defense worked their way into the top 10 of all-time games.

Those two games were Fredericksburg and Bandera as Canyon Lake gave up 144 and 194 yards respectfully in those contests.

Six of the 10 games on that all-time defensive yardage list, are games with the Billies and Bulldogs. So, that information might suggest that the Hawks match up very well with those two teams.

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