Bracken Christian started their season with a win over Temple Holy Trinity to the tune of, 54-24.

“Our guys executed and started off like they should have,” Head Coach Hosea Stredic said. “It was all about execution.”

It was music to the Warriors ears as Cristian De Leon opened the game with a 48 yard kick off return as BCS used that score and added two more for a 24-0 first quarter lead.

More music to the ears came at the sound of watching Carlos Navarro complete 7 out of 8 scores with extra point success that can many times spell doom or victory in 6-man games.

Daniel Forgione also was a first chair recipient as he returned to Bracken’s sideline after a one year absence by finishing with 2 touchdowns and 144 yards rushing.

Some rookies also played their horns well, as Presley Day finished this ensemble with 208 rushing yards, capping it off with a 74 yard touchdown run putting him with a good group of accomplished Warrior rushers.

    Player              Yds      Game                    Year
 1. Grady Achilles      78       Austin Hill Country     2010
 1. Eli Achilles        78       SA Winston              2012
 3. Presley Day         74       Temple Holy Trinity     2015
 3. Noah Boriack        74       San Marcos Home School  2013
 5. Grady Achilles      71       Emery-Weiner            2011
 6. Noah Boriack        70       Austin Veritas          2014
 6. Austin Wilkinson    70       New Braunfels Christian 2011

The music was not only played by the offense but the defense also hummed a couple of bars as newcomer Cade Middleton finished with 9 tackles and Day put 8 Temple players to the ground.

Noble Simmons not only had a sack, but he caused a fumble on the play and recovered the ball to complete the stanza.

“I believe the Defensive End is the most important position on defense,” Coach Stredic stated. “We are in trouble if the DE cannot keep the play going to the inside….it is not their job to get tackles.”

Another player that did not have a lot of time on the field was Senior Joshua Chu, but this young man made every play count as he had two tackles in a row for lost yardage.

“Chu, is our secret weapon,” Coach Stredic said strategically. “He came in and gave guys a breather.”

The maestro (Coach Stredic) was also waving his hands on the sidelines helping the participants to be sure to not miss a note, as this tune had all the parts playing and singing in unison.

On Bracken’s first drive, the Warriors took 4 plays to score with Forgione toting the ball for 71 yards on the drive with one play covering 58 yards to help relieve the pressure.

More of the same on Bracken’s next possession when Brady Beene sauntered in from 10 yards out to finish the 52 yard drive and increase the Warriors lead to, 24-0.

From there, BCS, hit some rough edges as penalties helped in having some promising drives to stall.

Temple then opened their second half with 49 yard drive on 9 plays to get on the board. Alternating with 4 passes and 5 running plays kept the Warriors guessing wrong and giving up that first score.

Day got better as the day turned to night and was 35 yards of the 45 yards totaled in the next drive.

Forgione intercepted a Temple pass on the next series of downs and BCS took 6 plays to score when Beene found De Leon for a 7 yard pass helping Bracken to enjoy their largest lead of the night, 38-6.

Do a little math and you will see how important having Navarro on your team.

The 8 touchdowns resulted in 14 extra points that in the past 4 years being successful on the pat has not been a given.

Temple Holy Trinity was 0fer on their point after attempts and those 14 points might not mean much in a game like this, but for future reference, those points will be gold when you are playing teams that every point is important.

With 4:00 minutes left in the game was when Day decided to turn out the lights on Temple when he scampered 74 yards for the, 54-18 score deep in the fourth quarter.

Bracken did a lot of things well for this first game of the season and now will see if they can continue to grow and mature as a team.

“We came out like we wanted to and did not run a whole lot of plays,” Coach Stredic closed. “We stayed in a tight offense for much of the game and played them straight up.”

The Warriors district is one of the toughest in the state and each game will be a test tube experiment on how to proceed with your goals in tact.

The music was nice on this night as the crescendo matched the anticipation as another year has started and knowing how this piece of music will end is anybodies guess at this point, but for this night it was music to the ears!

Go Warriors!!

                       1   2   3   4   Final
 Temple Holy Trinity   0   0  12  12   24
 Bracken Warriors     24   0  14  16   54
 Scoring Summary:
 BCS-Cristian De Leon 48 yard kick-off return (Carlos Navarro kick), 9:48, 1st
 BCS-Daniel Forgione 13 yard run (Carlos Navarro kick), 5:41, 1st
 BCS-Brady Beene 10 yard run (Carlos Navarro kick), 0:00, 1st
 THT-11 yard run (pat failed), 6:11, 3rd
 BCS-Daniel Forgione 10 yard pass from Brady Beene (Navarro kick), 5:23, 3rd
 BCS-Cristian De Leon 7 yard pass from Brady Beene (pat failed), 2:56, 3rd
 THT-65 yard run (pat failed), 1:33, 3rd
 THT-13 yard run (pat failed), 7:01, 4th
 BCS-Presley Day 19 yard run (Carlos Navarro kick), 6:02, 4th
 BCS-Presley Day 74 yard run (Carlos Navarro kick), 3:54, 4th
 THT-20 yard pass (pat failed), 0:02, 4th

 Game Stats       Temple      Warriors
 Total Yards      275         442
 First Downs      8           11
 Rushes/Yards     27/199      33/390
 Comp/Att/Int     10/19/1     5/8/0
 Passing Yards    76          52
 Punts/Average    4/40.8      0/0
 Fumbles/Lost     2/1         3/2
 Penalties-Yards  3-30        10-87

 Passing          Comp  Att   Pct  Yds  TD  Int
 Brady Beene      5     8    .625  52   2   0

 Rushing          Att   Yds    Ave   Lg   TD
 Presley Day      15    208   13.9   74   2
 Daniel Forgione  12    144   12.0   58   1
 Brady Beene       3     26    8.7   16   1
 Cristian De Leon  1      4    4.0    4   0
 Joshua Chu        1      4    4.0    4   0
 Cade Middleton    1      4    4.0    4   0

 Receiving         No   Yds   Ave   Lg   TD
 Cade Middleton    1    22   22.0   22   0
 Daniel Forgione   2    20   10.0   10   1
 Cristian De Leon  2    10    5.0    7   1

Hawks after Winning Silver Bracket at Rattler Tournament

Canyon Lake won the Silver Bracket Championship in the San Marcos Rattler Tournament that finished on Saturday.

“We won the Bronze bracket last year and we wanted to bring some hardware home tonight,” Head Coach Kim Paisley said proudly.

The Hawks swept three games on Saturday winning the final over 6A Weatherford Kangaroos in three sets.

A good week of Volleyball for the Hawks after upping their schedule to play in last week’s NEISD Tournament against larger schools.

“This was a good day…..great day,” Coach Paisley said as her voice was leaving her. “Hannah’s (Wunderlich) serving was on fire, she had good muscle memory and she was on fire….our defense is getting better and we are heading in the right direction.”

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Tough going for Hawk’s offense

Blanco was able to reload much quicker than Canyon Lake as the Hawks could not find their revolver in time for the game and when they did it would not shoot in their opening loss, 14-0.

“I loved the effort,” Head Coach Charley Drum said. “We were just not finishing and had crucial mistakes.”

Canyon Lake rebounded last season after having an offense that looked similar to this year’s start.

“We will get better and this game was night and day different from last year,” Coach Drum continued. “I am proud of these young kids and we just have to get better every week as many of them found out about Friday night lights and our confidence will get better.”

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Newcomer Andrew Kullberg loves playing on Defense

The season opener for the 2015 Freshman football season kicked off Friday at Lago Vista’s brand new beautiful High School as the Canyon Lake Hawk freshman took on the Lago Vista JV Gold Vikings.

The Vikings won the coin toss and at the time no one knew, but it would be the Vikings last time in which they won anything.

On the opening possession for Lago Vista, on a 3rd and nine, Trenton Lorett swooped down and picked off a pass on the Canyon Lake 42 yard line and sent the Vikings packing.

On the Hawk’s first possession after a false start from an eager offensive line, the O-line plowed head first into the Vikings defense on three consecutive plays and drove the defense back 55 yards when Lorett scored from 5 yards out and added his own 2 point conversion. 8-0 Hawks.

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          CLJV take instructions after loss to Blanco last Thursday night, 24-14

Canyon Lake Junior Varsity went through the motions for their opener with Blanco as turnovers spelled dome for any chance of a comeback in their 10 point loss, 24-14.

The Hawks had the ball first and after three running plays with the longest being 2 yards a punt was needed.

“Turnovers and we did not do a good job of executing,” Head JV Coach John Barthels started. “We practiced against the Varsity this week and we just did not come out with that same intensity and did not respond well.”

Blanco then marched down to the Hawk 2 yard line when they fumbled away a chance for their first score of the season and CL staved off that early damage.

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Hannah Wunderlich ready to finish off what Sam York digs up

Canyon Lake Hawks finish NEISD with win over SA Lee as they will enter their last phase of non-district games in a couple of weeks.

“We finished the tournament with a 3-5 record and we had some great games even though we lost some,” Head Coach Kim Paisley said. “The type of teams we played, we will not see that type of team for the rest of this season.”

Coach Paisley had a reason for her optimism with the Hawks record as each team played was in the largest private school size or a 6A school.

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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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Senior Alexis Robinson in Wimberley last week with her serve as Bailey Drum gets ready

Canyon Lake had mixed results on their first day at the NEISD Tournament with two losses and one win.

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What you take from a day like this is focusing on the team the Hawks beat.

Clemens was that foe, and CL took a game against a team that had won earlier against the Hawks at home.

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Hawks with a Block Party in Tex-Fest Tourney

Canyon Lake beat the Lockhart Lions on Tuesday night in a 3 game sweep as they will begin a 3 day NEISD Tournament starting this Thursday.

The Hawks had some good news as the injury to Addison Farley might not be as bad as first thought and an earlier return possible.

CL did take care of business against Lockhart as the Hawks improved their record to 7-2 with the sweep, 25-14, 25-11, and 25-23.

Canyon Lake ended the first game with an 8-2 run with their 11 point win when Hannah Wunderlich finished the Lions off with a kill and serving ace.

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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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