Bracken Christian finished their season battling all the way in their loss to Veritas, 62-13.

“I hate going out this way for the Seniors,” Head Coach Lloyd Fields said. “The team stepped up and played very well…we never quit and did we did not quit in August when we knew we would be outmanned and outnumbered…but this team fought all the way.”

Bracken finishes last game of season against Austin Veritas

The Warriors still had problems in recovering that dastardly on-side kick helping speed up this loss.

Veritas controlled the line of scrimmage especially with their defensive line and the Warriors just did not have enough bodies to put up enough resistance against that line’s onslaught onto whoever the Bracken player with the ball would be.

Noah Boriack could only throw his passes away for many of the plays as he struggled to get open to find a receiver or get open to run.

“We started off slow and up until about 36 points it finally hit that this would be our last game,” Boriack said. “We gave it our all and showed heart when the game was finished.”

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Great Game

Canyon Lake has been down this road before….it was four years ago when the Hawks lost in the second round on a field goal try that missed crossing the bar by inches.

This time the heartbreak was in the form of an overtime game, a first for Canyon Lake and Rockport-Fulton pulled out a squeaker, 27-21.

Senior Linebacker Austin Acosta making the stop

“My hat goes off for them,” Head Coach Charley Drum said. “They made the stop and we didn’t.”

Coach Drum was speaking about the two possessions during that overtime period.

“This is one of the toughest losses,” Drum said with finality. “Especially when you are looking at the Seniors after the game….I’m proud of our Seniors.”

CL started this game with a lot of energy as the defense held the Pirates to two punts on their first two possession while Canyon Lake sandwiched those defensive stops with a Josh DeVries 60 yard bolt down the left sideline and a quick Hawk lead, 7-0.

That drive encompassed just two plays for 63 yards and a huge momentum shot.

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                  128-64    125-67    120-72     111-81      110-82
 CLHS/R-Fulton    CLHS      CLHS      CLHS       CLHS        CLHS
 Bracken/Veritas  Veritas   Bracken   Veritas    Veritas     Veritas
 CHills/Orange    CHills    CHills    CHills     CHills      CHills
 LibHill/Gonzales LibHill   LibHill   LibHill    LibHill     LibertyHill
 Vernia/Robinson  LaVernia  Robinson  LaVernia   LaVernia    LaVernia
 WVU/KState       KState    KState    WVU        WVU         KState
 IowaSt/Tech      Tech      Tech      IowaSt     Tech        Iowa St
 Baylor/OkieSt    Baylor    Baylor    Baylor     Okie St     Baylor
 OleMiss/Arkie    Arkie     OleMiss   Arkie      OleMiss     OleMiss
 Arizona/Utah     Utah      Utah      Utah       Arizona     Arizona
 USC/UCLA         UCLA      UCLA      UCLA       UCLA        USC
 Minn/Nebraska    Nebraska  Nebraska  Nebraska   Nebraska    Nebraska
 UNC/Duke         Duke      Duke      Duke       Duke        Duke
 Bengals/Texans   Texans    Bengals   Texans     Bengals     Bengals
 Dallas/Giants    Dallas    Dallas    Dallas     Dallas      Dallas

Pre/Game:   Canyon Lake vs. Rockport-Fulton     3:30pm Friday at Alamodome
            Hawks (5-6)     Pirates (8-3)

Canyon Lake’s Junior Varsity will have players dressed and ready for game with the Pirates

Series Record: This will be the first game between these two schools.

This Year's Games:
Hawks  07  Blanco          35    Pirates  41  Aransas Pass  20
Hawks  43  Smithville      14    Pirates  65  Sinton        53
Hawks  38  Marion          06    Pirates  28  King          11
Hawks  27  Wimberley       28    Pirates  48  Ingleside     49
Hawks  14  Lampasas        21    Pirates  28  Orange Grove  20
Hawks  14  Liberty Hill    19    Pirates  07  La Vernia     29
Hawks  37  Bandera         28    Pirates  14  Gonzales      42
Hawks  49  Fredericksburg  31    Pirates  58  Robstown      14
Hawks  31  Taylor          33    Pirates  56  Beeville      14
Hawks  35  Boerne          42    Pirates  27  Pleasanton    07
Hawks  49  Waco LeVega     26    Pirates  52  Zapata        16

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Coaches Corner with Bracken’s Coach Lloyd Fields

The ReSporter: Hey Coach, I heard it will be raining this Saturday, who does that favor if anyone?

Head Coach Lloyd Fields

Coach Fields: “Yeah, I heard there might be a 100% chance of rain. I don’t think it will make any difference, the field is turf and so that would make it equal for both teams.”

The ReSporter: You had a tough game last time you faced Austin Veritas…what are your thought about this week’s game?

Coach Fields: “I know that they were excited when they got off the bus for our game and we were coming off a bye week and I just felt like they were a lot more fired up than our team…I just don’t know what their mind set will be when they play us this week.”

The ReSporter: You had a game last week in the first round and you have mentioned in the past how you like to play a game and not take a week off before the playoffs start…

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Pre/Game: Bracken   vs.  Austin Veritas  @  Dripping Springs      SATURDAY NOON                  Warriors (7-4)   Defenders (8-2)

 Veritas Leads series with their game earlier this year against the Warriors, 1-0.
 Series Scores:
 2014 BCS 14 Austin Veritas 60

 Scores from this Season:
 BCS  45 Temple Holy Trinity  18     Aus Veritas  28 Capital City         45
 BCS  51 CASA                 06     Aus Veritas  36 Seguin Lifegate      46
 BCS  66 Austin Hill Country  40     Aus Veritas  32 Round Rock Christian 26
 BCS  49 SA The Winston       00     Aus Veritas  76 Temple Holy Trinity  28
 BCS  14 Austin Veritas       60     Aus Veritas  70 Concordia            18
 BCS  51 NB Christian         00     Aus Veritas  60 Bracken Christian    14
 BCS  13 SA Castle Hills      60     Aus Veritas  60 Cedar Park           14
 BCS  69 Concordia            00     Aus Veritas  72 Kerrville OLH        69
 BCS  73 Kerrville OLH        76     Aus Veritas  44 SA Castle Hills      34
 BCS  46 Cedar Park           60     Aus Veritas  60 NB Christian         00
 BCS  39 Conroe Covenant      08

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Coaches Corner with Canyon Lake’s Charley Drum

This is certainly a big week for the Hawks and The ReSporter had a chance to catch up with Coach Drum for this week’s edition of the Coaches Corner.

Canyon Lake’s Head Coach Charley Drum

The ReSporter: Can Coach Moses read minds better than his coaching friends from Rockport?

Coach Drum: “Yeah, they will know our offense, but we can be a little more diverse than they are. We kind of have something to compare.”

The ReSporter: Do you know if Rockport-Fulton played a team that runs the slot-t?

Coach Drum: “I don’t think they did.”

The ReSporter: Well, when I think back on last year in our game with Navarro, you could tell that they were just more advanced with this type of offense both defensively and offensively in our game with them.

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There are two Hawk players that have been playing for Canyon Lake during the last part of the season when Will Joyner joined the team for a game with Smithville and then invited again near the end of this season.

Freshman Will Joyner and Jacob Foster relaxing at a Hawk Basketball game

You would see Joyner on kick-off teams and also playing on the defensive side of the ball these past few games.

Meanwhile Senior Ian May went down over two weeks ago and CL had Jacob Foster filling that void on the offensive line.

Both of these players had carved a nice niche with that Freshman Class as that team has been heralded as the calvary to help stave off an indian attack on the local village.

Yes, that village might have been able to hold their own, but having the Calvary joining this fight will make those losses in war to be reduced.

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Junior Running Back Robert Woods waiting for the Offensive Line’s next hole to plow through

The Hawks are presently 0-2 when facing teams in the second round of playoffs.

Back in 2010, Canyon Lake, was pitted against a Somerset team that had a ton of excitement and experience and in the end it was the Bulldogs that were smiling after a missed field goal when time expired.

During that two game stint in the 2010 playoff season, CL had won their first half in both games by a 52-13 advantage and in that first game with Burnet the Hawks withheld a furious rally to hold on with a Bi-District win, 27-20.

Somerset was let off the hook in that Area matchup when the CL’s Juan Martinez was just short on a 42 yard field goal with no time left on the clock.

Martinez was true on a 40 yard field goal at the end of the first half in that same game which proved to be the Hawk’s last points for that season.

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Austin Rodruguez being presented his Jersey for All-Star Game with EastBay Scout Anthony Williams and MV Coach Brandon Pawelek in attendance.

Austin Rodriguez was honored on Monday at Mountain Valley Middle School when he was awarded a chance to play in an All-Star game this December 20th, in Naples, Florida.

EastBay Scout and Former San Francisco 49er Anthony Williams talking to 8th Grade assembly at MVMS

Rodriguez, an 8th Grader, was selected to play in The Eastbay Youth All-American Bowl and will suit up to represent the West Squad.

Rodriguez played on the Mountain Valley District Champions on the offensive line which helped in the Hawk team to dominate this season in every facet of the game.

“He separated himself by not only by his playing skills….but also how he is good in the classroom because having a well rounded students is first in making our decisions,” EastBay Scout Anthony Williams said. “To be able to play in this game you have to bring the full package in being a good teammate and being a good student.”

The award was presented during the noon time when the whole 8th Grade class was present in the MV cafeteria.

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