Bracken Christian’s Head Coach Hosea Stredic has a teaching moment after scrimmage last Friday

This Week   @   Canyon Lake  &   Bracken Christian

Tue Aug 25   CL Hawks    @  Billies Fresh/JV                      Volleyball
             CL Hawks beat  Billies 17-25, 25-16, 25-16, 25-14    Volleyball

Thu Aug 27   CL Hawks beat Giddings & Akins lost Keller           Volleyball
             CL Hawks lost Blanco JV          14-24               Football
             CL Hawks beat Lago Vista Fresh   48-06               Football

Fri Aug 28   CL Hawks Fresh lost & JV won games with Blanco       Volleyball
             CL Hawks Varsity beat Blanco                         Volleyball
             Blanco      14  CL Hawks Varsity  00                 Football
             Temple HT   24  Bracken Warriors  54                 Football

Sat Aug 29   CL Hawks    @  New Braunfels                         CrossCountry
             CL Hawks beat SA Southwest 22-25, 25-11, 25-13       Volleyball
             CL Hawks beat Bastrop      25-17, 25-16              Volleyball
             CL Hawks   vs. Weatherford (right now)               Volleyball
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Bracken Christian will be starting their 10th season in a week and this year will have a lot of newness to it.

First off, this might be one of the youngest teams the Warriors have ever fielded, so there is newness in that situation.

Then with a new head coach, there is certainly newness in that as you have a different system to go along with understanding and figuring out a new coach.

Head Coach Hosea Stredic will be taking the reigns for a team that has made the playoffs for the last 8 years and has amassed 80 wins which averages right at 9 wins per season.

Take into account that first year had just one win and you get the idea that Bracken is used to winning.

The second and final scrimmage was played on Friday with Austin Hill Country and San Marcos Hill Country teams as each school played a round robin affair with offense and defense.

Bracken’s scrimmage with Austin Hill Country turned out better than the scrimmage with San Marcos on this night.

“We are playing about the same,” Coach Stredic started when asked his overall assessment of the scrimmage. “We did not play with confidence in the game with San Macos like they did with Austin Hill Country.”

Coach Stredic was commenting on how much more sure the team was when they took the field with Austin HC compared to not playing to the same standard when coupled with San Marcos.

“Against Holy Trinity we will be at the right place with the young kids that we have,” Stredic commented on how the Warriors will take the field as the season starts in a week. “Maturity will need to come as they are still trying to get a new offense and play with confidence…we will have to be more offensive and fight, playing with more than just straight up hard nose.”

BCS will certainly have many more new faces on the field this season as one Sophomore, Cade Middleton, will play his first full fledge 6-man football game this week after transferring from Smithson Valley.

Cade Middleton will in his first 6-man game this Friday

“It has been going a little different,” Middleton stated. “I have to learn to trust everyone and you never know where the ball is going to go, so I need to stay on my feet.”

Middleton will have some nuances to his game as 6-man can be a much faster game as you have fewer players to cover if a mistake is made.

“I am going to play my hardest and try to know how everyone works out on the field,” Middleton closed.

Senior Daniel Forgione will be back for his Senior year after taking off a season.

“I want to play in the State Championship,” Forgione said unabashedly when commenting on what some of his goals for this season would be.

When commenting on what will need to transpire to accomplish that lofty goal, Forgione said, “Play as hard as you can and trust each other.”

Daniel Forgione will want to go out in style for his Senior campaign

Forgione will have a busy game plan as he could be playing on both sides of the ball.

“I will need to improve as much as I can as a running back,” Forgione commented. “We started out of shape, but we are in shape now after Coach (Stredic) has worked us…we have started a brand new system and I am just concentrating on getting it down.”

Another player, Junior Brady Beene will be calling the signals for his third year and his confidence and stature will attest to his readiness for the season to get started.

Beene’s stature was a funny start in talking with this confident young player.

Junior Quarterback Brady Beene is happy he is taller than his Sister now

The ReSporter: How tall are you now?

Brady Beene: “I hit 5’10 this year!!”

The ReSporter: Did you pass your older sister (Bailey)?

Brady Beene: “Yep, I am taller by 2 inches than she is now!”

Take note that Beene took a lot of tough hits through his first two years as he has been a rock on both sides of the ball.

“We are head over hills better than where we started the first of August,” Beene said in talking about where the team was since the first practice. “We started out of shape and now we know it (offense and being in shape).”

Beene will be one of the few upper classman that will need to lead this young group of players this season.

“The best way to lead is by example,” Beene said. “If you can’t do it on the field by yourself.”

“I hope to be better than last year as a team, and I will need to be a better leader, but I do want to go deeper in the playoffs,” a beaming Beene gleamed.

On what this team will need to do to reach these goals, Beene was quick with an answer, “As long as we get better every week then that would be our way for improving.”

Bracken has more players than last year’s team and that will go a long way in helping as the contests commence in less than a week.

Last year’s team was certainly talented, but having so many player playing both ways and injuries hurt for a chance of advancing.

Bracken Warriors are a playoff team and this will be another year for continuing that trend at BCS will start that quest against Holy Trinity at home.

Go Warriors!!

Canyon Lake vs Medina Valley Panthers

Canyon Lake Football served up a big glass TD’s to the Panthers.

Defensive Back Jesse Andrade had an Interception in game with Medina Valley

The second and final scrimmage of the 2105 Hawk football season got under way this past Thursday at 5pm in Castroville as the 5-A Medina Valley Panthers took on the 4-A Canyon Lake Hawks on a breezy and cooler than expected night for high school football in August.

When this night was over and was all said and done, the Panthers were glad to see the Hawks leave.

The evening started with a scrimmage format, having the field split into two with each team starting on their 45 yard line in opposite directions with a 30 minute continuous running clock.

The idea with the running clock was to get as many plays as possible during that time frame.

The Junior Varsity started on defense and while the freshman started on offense to begin the evening and it wasn’t long before both Hawk teams had scored.

The JV’s defensive CB Jesse Andrade cut in front of a Panther wide receiver in the flats and picked off the pass at full speed and had more open real-estate in front of him than what Donald Trump owns.

“I just covered my area like coaches had been teaching us all month and closed the distance with the receiver as fast as I could and cut him off and grabbed the ball” said Andrade.

There wasn’t a Panther around for fifteen yards in any direction as the whistle blew to end the play.

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HAWKS Greet & Eat
Raising money for the new CLHS Hawk Varsity Football Tunnel
What: * Meet the ​2015 CLHS Varsity Football Players *Get autographs from the players
*Take a picture with your favorite players
*Run through the new tunnel!
*Buy a $10 ticket and get a sandwich deal provided by The Yippee Coyote
*1⁄2 the ticket proceeds go to the purchase of the new football tunnel
When:​ August 29, 2015 from 1p.m. to 4p.m.
Where: ​Jackson’s Open Air Market
­ 6341 FM 32(1.3 miles from the intersection of 3424 & 32 ­ towards San Marcos)
Tickets ​will be available for purchase on the following dates:

*​August 21st ​at the Meet the Hawks night at CLHS *​August 28th ​at the first home football game at CLHS *​August 29th ​at the HAWKS Greet & Eat
Can’t make it, but still want to contribute? Buy a ticket and The Yippee Coyote will honor it any Saturday or Sunday that you can swing by for your sandwich deal!

Canyon Lake is digging their 6-2 start to this season

This Week @ Canyon Lake

The Hawks had a decent week with a 3rd place finish in Volleyball, finishing, 6-2 for the week.

CL fashioned a 6 game winning streak during the Tex-Fest Wimberley tournament after missing by one game for a chance of playing for the championship game.

Canyon Lake will be waiting to see what the prognosis for Senior Outside Hitter, Addison Farley, who turned her ankle right before the Semifinal game with Peaster was about to start.

With that loss, Canyon Lake had to revamp their line-up and just could not muster enough to take that match.

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Texas RV supports Canyon Lake Football

Hawks hold their own in scrimmage with Gonzales last Friday at Hawk Stadium.

Canyon Lake will be using younger players when the season starts in two weeks and that was certainly noted in the Friday scrimmage.

Chris Schultz and Matthew O’Connell ready go dish out some pain

“I was pleased on how our scrimmage went,” Head Coach Charley Drum started. “We were wide eyed and I thought we matched them punch for punch.”

With the youth age upon the Hawks being wide eyed is certainly something that might have been expected as Canyon Lake suited up some players that were waiting another 2 weeks last season as 8th graders to find their jersey number.

A well oiled machine will not be expected at this time of year as the Hawks also search for a quarterback and two running backs lost in last year’s senior class.

Between those players lost, Canyon Lake, will need to replace 74% of their rushing yards and a whopping 86% of yards gained by the forward pass.

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Hawks are 16 days away from suiting up

Canyon Lake is busily working each day for their first scrimmage this coming Friday at Hawk Stadium and from all indications the practices are going well.

The Hawks will be a young team this season, but conversely, that younger group of players have a lot of talent or that proverbial word……potential.

The ReSporter had a series of Hurdle articles this Summer and will be bumping them back to the front page as we get closer to the start of the season.

Those slow starts was the first of those series and that next hurdle article will be bumped up today.

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Volleyball will start their season at home against Liberty Hill and Clemens starting at 10 am

This Week @ Canyon Lake

The Hilltop ReSporter will try to have a weekly ‘This Week’, like is done during the Spring.

You will be able to come back to this page for score updates with each passing day and many times the score will be reported on this page before the write-up will be posted.

The ReSporter would also like to remind many of you that if you would like to ‘Ad’ on this site then to be eligible for the Advertiser’s Football Pick’em Contest the time to get aboard is August 21st.

Just a reminder that the cost for having an ‘Ad’ is $50 per semester and if you pay an extra $35 then your Ad will be added to articles written. Many advertiser’s will tell The ReSporter if they have a preference on the type of article they would like to be seen.

The ReSporter had more readership this past year with 26,754 pages consumed vs. 22, 954 the previous school year.

There were 8,287 users which also topped the previous year by over 800 people.

This is a break even business and helping in this way would keep The ReSporter having the site turned into a subscription bases.

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Canyon Lake’s football season had their first intra-squad scrimmage this past Saturday as the first week of practice came to a close.

Senior Matt Adams will be all over the field as he looks to add running back to his resume

The Hawks will be a young team this year after losing 25 seniors on graduation day and returning 8 offensive/defensive starters from last season.

Good news is how well the Junior Varsity squad played in 2014 and a loaded Sophomore class that will more than be ready to take their next step in replacing those players.

“Were young,” Head Coach Charley Drum stated after the scrimmage. “We look young and we were a good JV team today….but we had a good week of practice and we are now in the process of finding the pieces for this year’s team.”

Canyon Lake will go into their third year of the slot-T and that will help this young group of players in their adjustment time.

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Rendition of what the Hawk Tunnel will look like

This past Saturday the CLHS Football team s players and Dad’s had another Car Wash Fundraiser to help gather funds for the new Hawk run through tunnel for the Varsity games and hit the $1101.00 dollar mark. The Family Dollar Store, ORielys Automotive in Sattler and CVS in Startzville again came through in true Hawk spirit and allowed the Football teams to hold the event from 0930 -230pm. The Store Managers Ms. Faye Kuykendall at the Family Dollar Store, Wendy Rohimeier at ORielys and Johnny Laho of CVS in Startzville all are huge CL Hawk supporters and have committed to come to some of the football games this season.

The two Car Wash fund raisers put on by the football team generated over $3,600.00 in working donations which is more than half needed for the CLHS Hawk Tunnel. “It is great to see these young men working to earn their way towards this new tunnel in which putting a little skin in the game themselves , this will build a sense of accomplishment, pride, team work and community awareness in the sense that they will pass down this new tradition which will add the CL spirit”, said Mr. Martelli who help organize both events with Rufus Woods.

Seniors Dylan Hodges, Austin Camacho, Roberts Woods showed CL leadership by their action by working at both Saturdays fundraisers as did Sophomores -Micah St.John , Ross Snowden and Tanner Faris. Sr. and Three Year Varsity Letterman Robert Woods said, “We wanted to show the community, our Coaches, the school and our teammates that we could step up to the challenge and do our part for this new tunnel but also to start build traditions for others to follow”. Each person getting a car wash received a 2015 Football schedule and was asked to attend at least one home game if possible.

CLHS football Alumni Tristan (Woody) Woodruff and Hayden Dubios showed up and donated their time and money towards this new tunnel. “Woody stated that “I wish more players would take pride in CL not for only a season but for their entire up bringing here at Canyon Lake and understand that what we have going on here is really cool, ya just gotta get into their heads early on”.

Team mates Eathan Killgore (Soph) Wesley Madzy (Soph), Jacob Foster(Soph) and Caimen McDonough(Soph.) all pitched in Saturday as well as Chris Shultz (Sr.), Austin Brennan(Sr.)Haden Lee(Sr.) and Dylan Dittman(Sr.). Heath McDonough and Colton McDonald were the only two Juniors to ever show up in both car washes as was Jordan Burke was the only (Fresh) there to represent this past Saturday. Last week Freshman Cameron Hebert, Chance Martelli and Tristan Chacon came out to work to put their time in.

A big thank you goes out to Mr Woods, Mr Faris and Mr. Martelli for being supportive and helping put in time for both of these Car Washes.

The new Hawk Tunnel has been ordered and will be able to be delivered by August -17th upon completion. The final payment to get the delivery of the Hawk Tunnel must be made by August 12th here to CLHS on time for this season “Meet the Hawks” on August -21st. So if you’re going to donate please do so now at the information listed below. Mr. Woods stated that “there are many people who said they are going to donate but have yet to do so thus far. If we could get some of these folks to come to the table then we will be on target in getting the total needed to remit final payment”. As of now the CLHS Football still needs to generate about $3,600.00 by the August 12th deadline, it’s as simple as that.
Each person or business contributing a tax deductable donation will have their name(s) listed in this year’s sports program under a special section on the New Hawk Tunnel.
If you are business or parent in the Football pipeline which your boy(s) will run through this tunnel and are willing to donate towards the Tunnel Fund go to www.CLHSABC.com and click Hawk Tunnel through Pay Pal. All donations are Tax deductable through the CLHS Booster Clubs 501(c)3 – CLHS ABC 8555 FM 32 Fischer Texas 78623, memo : Hawk Tunnel.
On another quick note, stay tuned here on the Hilltop News Paper for upcoming news and announcement in August for the push on “Painting of the CL Water Tower” this fall.
Keep it, HAWKSTRONG!

Cory Martelli