Senior Linebacker Hayden Lee is second leading tackler for Hawks only trailing Bobby Flint

Canyon Lake had a tough night in loss to Liberty Hill with an anemic offensive night losing, 31-7.

“We turned the ball over and then we faced a defensive line that is the best I have seen in the last few years,” Head Coach Charley Drum calculated. “When an team defers during the pre/game coin toss, then you know they will have a pretty stout defense.”

Canyon Lake had a decent first half only trailing by 7 points and that from a fumble return being the difference.

“They took advantage of our three mistakes,” Coach Drum continued. “Our younger kids grew up tonight and there are a lot of positives we can take from tonights game…..We are right into ball games and we need to find ways of cleaning up mistakes.”

The Hawks first half numbers had 117 yards and during the second half CL totaled another 9 yards of offense with 3 turnovers giving you an idea that a 24 point loss not looking as bad as it sounds.

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Preston Nelms thinking about that next play in his pursuit for a win next week

Mountain Valley 7th Grade lost both games against Liberty Hill Middle School last Thursday at the Hawk nest as the Panthers brought a large contingence of players in both wins.

In that first game, Mountain Valley made a game in what was started as a romp.

Liberty Hill enjoyed a 16-0 lead going into halftime as well as dominating both lines of scrimmage.

Then, Running Back Preston Nelms was awakened with only 16 yards rushing in that first half, Nelms then turned on his after burners as he almost broke the 100 yard barrier.

“Coach asked who would step up during our halftime talk,” Nelms said with resolve. “Our lineman finally started doing what they were suppose to do.”

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Hawks getting 1 more thought as they contemplate their 1 point win

CL Hawk Freshman team now have a 12 game winning streak after a thrilling comeback win over LH Panthers at the Hawk nest, Thursday night.

“I am proud of these young man,” Head Freshman Coach Bill Greene started. “We talked on how this game we would be setting our pads and this would be the first time someone would come back.”

Coach Greene was commenting on how most of the teams played this season have not challenged this group of players.

The Hawks had not had a team this year that has scored more than one touchdown against them and some of those scores were after the game had been decided.

Liberty Hill started the game with a first play fumble that was recovered by Hawk’s Cameron Hebert.

A 12 play drive by the Hawks where there were 3 fourth down plays was a good eye opener with some tough play being common.

The bad news was that Canyon Lake came up one yard short on that final fourth down play resulting in the Panthers taking over on LH’s 9 yard line.

The Panthers would respond with a 14 play drive covering 91 yards and the first score after Running Back Kyle Harrison took a 29 yard run to paydirt.

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               68-35   68-35    67-36    66-37   64-39    63-40     59-44
Hill/Hawks     Hawks   Hawks    Hawks    Hawks   Hawks    Hawks     Hawks
NBC/BSC        Bracken Bracken  Bracken  Bracken Bracken  Bracken   Bracken
Billie/Bandera Billies Billies  Billies  Billies Billies  Billies   Billies
Boerne/Taylor  Boerne  Boerne   Boerne   Boerne  Boerne   Boerne    Boerne
OLH/Concordia  OLH     OLH      OLH      OLH     OLH      OLH       OLH
Texas/OU       OU      OU       OU       OU      OU       OU        OU
OkieSt/WVU     WVU     WVU      Okie St  Okie St OkieSt   WVU       WVU
TCU/KState     TCU     TCU      TCU      TCU     TCU      TCU       TCU
Florida/Mizzou Florida Florida  Florida  Florida Mizzou   Florida   Florida
Cal/Utah       Utah    Utah     Utah     Utah    Utah     Utah      Utah
Wis/Neb        Wis     Wis      Wis      Wis     Wis      Wis       Neb
TLU/ETBU       ETBU    TLU      TLU      TLU     TLU      TLU       TLU
LaTech/UTSA    UTSA    LaTech   La Tech  La Tech La Tech  LaTech    LaTech
Dallas/Pats    Pats    Pats     Pats     Dallas  Pats     Pats      Pats
Colts/Texans   Texans  Colts    Colts    Colts   Texans   Colts     Texans

Robert Woods fighting for a first down against Liberty Hill in last year’s game.

                             This Week @ Canyon Lake
Oct 8th      CL Hawks JV     @    Liberty Hill             Football     7:00pm
             Liberty Hill    @    CL Hawks Freshman        Football     7:00pm

Oct 9th      Yoakum          @    CL Hawks Freshman        Volleyball   5:00pm
             Yoakum          @    CL Hawks JV              Volleyball   5:00pm
             Yoakum          @    CL Hawks                 Volleyball   6:00pm
             NB Christian    @    BCS Warriors             Football     7:30pm
             Liberty Hill    @    CL Hawks                 Football     7:30pm

Oct 10th     CL Hawks        @    Navarro                  X Country    TBA

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With Home Plate as a backdrop, Hawk’s steal home in win over Lanier

Canyon Lake’s Freshman squad remained undefeated as the batted around the order in a win over the Lanier Viking team, 41-8 while playing on a baseball field.

The Hawks have a decent set of games as they keep piling on the runs and pitching shutouts against their opponents.

Winning Streak:
Dating back to the 8th Grade Mountain Valley games this group of students now have an 11 game winning streak as they prepare for Liberty Hill next Thursday.

 This Year's Games:
 CL Freshman   48    Lago Vista      06
 CL Freshman   34    Smithville      00
 CL Freshman   16    SA Cole         08
 CL Freshman   48    Wimberley       00
 CL Freshman   29    Lampasas        08
 CL Freshman   41    Austin Lanier   08

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             61-26    58-29     56-31    56-31    55-32    51-36    53-34
BCS/Veritas  BCS      BCS       Veritas  Veritas  Veritas  BCS      Veritas
NBCany/SVHS  SVHS     SVHS      SVHS     SVHS     SVHS     SVHS     SVHS
Texas/TCU    TCU      Texas     TCU      TCU      TCU      TCU      TCU
WVU/OU       OU       OU        OU       WVU      OU       OU       OU
KU/IowaSt    KU       Iowa St   Iowa St  Iowa St  Iowa St  Iowa St  Iowa St
Tech/Baylor  Tech     Tech      Baylor   Baylor   Baylor   Tech     Baylor
KSU/OkieSt   KSU      Okie St   Okie St  Okie St  Okie St  OkieSt   Okie St
MSU/A&M      A&M      A&M       A&M      MSU      A&M      A&M      A&M
OleMiss/Flor OleMiss  OleMiss   Ole Miss Ole Miss Ole Miss Ole Miss Ole Miss
Bama/Georgia Georgia  Bama      Georgia  Bama     Georgia  Georgia  Bama
NDame/Clemsn Clemson  Clemson   NDame    Clemson  Clemson  NDame    Clemson
UTSA/UTEP    UTEP     UTSA      UTEP     UTEP     UTEP     UTSA     UTSA
HPU/TLU      TLU      TLU       TLU      TLU      TLU      HPU      TLU
Texan/Falcon Falcons  Falcons   Falcons  Falcons  Falcons  Falcons  Falcons 
Cowboy/Saint Saints   Saints    Cowboys  Cowboys  Saints   Saints   Saints

Thinking back on better nights as Robert Woods takes down a Smithville Quarterback

CL Hawks get badgered in loss to Lampasas, 42-14.

“We did not show up in the first half and we got whipped,” Head Coach Charley Drum stated. “Our effort wasn’t there we have to learn from it.”

Lampasas’ offense was a well oiled machine against Canyon Lake on this night as they ran all night long without much resistance.

“All of us are to blame as we need to figure it out,” Coach Drum continued. “We just had some success after the Marion game when we faced Wimberley and we did not handle that success very well…..we will need to heal up and get back to work and fix our bad habits.”

Canyon Lake was a no-show on Friday night as there was, nothing to see here, as they were drawing chalk around a Hawk on the sidewalk.

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Brent Hemphill and Jeremiah Soliz taking care of business as an undefeated season

The Canyon Lake Freshman team continued their winning ways through non district play Thursday night against the Lampasas Badgers on their home turf, but in a most unlikely fashion of what seemed like the Texas two step all night long scoring a, 29-8 win.

Having home field advantage when you’re from Lampasas is definitely an advantage over a team, especially as you travel from Canyon Lake and the sand man keeps you drowsy on the bus all the way to kickoff time, or so it would seem.

The Badgers opened up on offense to begin the game and methodically as they drove the Hawks backwards on their heels after starting off with good field position on a failed onside kick from the Hawk’s forty nine yard line.

The Badgers picked up 18 yards on four plays and got help from a Hawk defense with a fifteen yard personal foul and putting the Badgers just outside the twelve yard line after a couple small gains up the middle.

After a false start by the Badgers and a team tackle by Triston Chacon and Greyson Lee, the badgers faced a second and eleven in which their pass ended incomplete.

The Hawk defense came to life after a wall of Hawk jerseys piled up the middle for a one yard gain.

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Fullback Rolando Maronge helped in dispatching the Badgers finding Gold

The Canyon Lake Gold team that is mixed full of sophomores and freshman struck Gold by winning Thursdays game against the Lampasas Badgers, 22-0.

The CL Gold team started the game on offense and probably because of the long bus rides being still asleep as their first offensive series ended up with -3 yards and an interception on the Hawks own 41 yard.

As the Badgers took the field and moved down field for 29 yards, they had a holding call but 19 yards later it appeared it would pay off until Linebacker Charles Madzy for CL stepped up and sacked the Badgers for a 5 yard loss igniting a sleeping giant and turning away the Badgers from a score.

The Hawks got the ball on a turnover of downs and never looked back.

The Hawks first two runs from the line of scrimmage totaled 52 yards and after a holding call Johnny Soliz took the pig skin home from 17 yards out for the first score for Canyon Lake.

After this point the meager Badger offense had six possessions and averaged 18.5 yards per possession with six first downs totaling 111 yards for the night.

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