Hawks Win District in beating Boerne, 20-12    www.mjrphotog.com

Another year another District Championship for the Mountain Valley 8th A team as they swept through their middle school years with two top of the heap years on the gridiron in stopping Boerne, 20-12.

Roberto Vargas sees a huge hole going for one of his two touchdowns

“Our kids fought hard to pull out a win that sealed the district championship,” Head Coach Brandon Pawelek. “We had to overcome some costly penalties but we were able to score and come up with stops when we needed to.”

Mountain Valley found themselves down in the third quarter after a Boerne opening score to start the second half.

Then a methodical 11 play drive covering 64 yards would allow MV to take the lead and eventually the game in grand fashion.

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Damien Nichols leads the victorious MV Hawks 8th B team through a victory line. Pictures by Mark Robinson (www.mjrphotog.com)

Mountain Valley’s 8th Grade B football team came from a one win team last year to winning a District Champion after shutting out Boerne, 16-0.

“Our B-team played great on both sides of the ball,” Head Coach Raymond Amaro said. “It is difficult to beat a good team twice, but our boys worked hard all week in practice and were ready.”

It was all about the defense on Thursday as MVMS 8B team started this day giving up 4 yards on the Greyhounds first drive then would block their punt.

That would allow the Hawks with a 30 yard drive as this drive was highlighted after a Colton Eilers 21 yard run giving MV a first down on Boerne’s 5 yard line.

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Caimen McDonough and Joseph Ruiz ready for next year

Canyon Lake Junior Varsity lost their last game of the season but still claimed the District 14-4A Championship.

“I am proud of these young man,” Head JV Coach John Barthels stated. “This year overall was memorable and this was a great group of boys and I look forward to seeing them in the future.”

Boerne came back in the fourth quarter to steal the game from the Hawks as CLJV could not convert a fourth down play deep in Boerne territory, giving the Greyhounds one more chance to score.

The Dogs took advantage and drove 85 yards with the last play covering 53 yards on a catch and run and a lead that would stand, 27-26.

CLJV finished with 356 yards for this night and more than doubled the time of possession over Boerne but it would become a heart breaking loss to a very good passing club.

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                 Canyon Lake has their game face in Win over Taylor

The Ducks could not land on Canyon Lake as the Hawks swept Taylor, 25-19, 25-11, and 25-11 on Monday night at Lehman High School.

The Sixth Ranked CL Hawks won their first playoff game over the Ducks as they will now wait for tomorrow’s game between Sealy and Brazosport.

Canyon Lake is now District and Bi-District Champions as these games start having much more riding on them.

In that first set, Taylor did make a wake-up call as CL had a 5 serve rally for Addison Farley which put the Hawks up, 16-8.

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CL Lake Hawks come down with ‘Fumbleitis’ in loss to Taylor on Saturday afternoon, 31-28.

Senior Matt Adams is not finished yet.

“Defensively we did real well,” Head Coach Charley Drum started. “We have had problems this year (with fumbles) and I hated this for our seniors.”

Coach Drum continued, “They took care of the ball and we gave a talented team field position all game with our fumbles.”

The Hawks could not stand prosperity as they went bankrupt in giveaways by coughing up 5 lost fumbles in this winnable contest.

Taylor jumped out to a quick 9 point lead before Canyon Lake responded with 4 consecutive touchdown drives and what many thought was a comfortable halftime lead, 28-9.

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Head Coach Hosea Stredic adresses Warriors 3 months ago as BCS enters last regular season game this week.

Bracken Christian wins big over rival Kerrville OLH, 54-0 on the road last Friday night.

“We came out and took care of business,” Head Coach Hosea Stredic commented. “We played a full game and played the way we should have played.”

“In a game like this, it was important to get all the players on the field,” Coach Stredic stressed.

The Warriors were on their game after scoring 40 points in that first quarter which had not been done since Eli Achilles was calling plays for Bracken.

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Hawks having one more talk before this night is through in win over Ducks, 41-14

Canyon Lake Freshman remain undefeated after calling the Ducks out for one more hunt, winning 41-14.

“There is not enough balls to go around,” Head Freshman Coach Bill Greene said when responding to the depth of this team’s running backs. “We want to get this group of players to do anything they can to succeed and stay away from losing.”

This group of players have not been on the losing ledger for a while now and Coach Greene certainly has a chance of finishing the year with a team that would not have to remember what a bad taste you can get with a loss.

The Hawks had a good season as they are one more game away from doing a fete not yet accomplished for the Canyon Lake community in finishing this season by continuing their untouchable persona.

CL had their Junior Varsity finish undefeated back during the 2010 season which has been that one campaign where that team took care of their whole slate of games.

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 TAPPS District Standings
 Team                W   L     Pct
 Austin Veritas      4   0   1.000
 Cedar Park          3   1    .750
 Castle Hills        3   1    .750
 Bracken Christian   2   2    .500
 Concordia           2   2    .500
 Kerrville OLH       1   3    .250
 NB Christian        0   5    .000

                 This Week’s Games
    Bracken Warriors    @    Kerrville OLH
    Cedar Park Summit   @    Concordia
    SA Castle Hills     @    Austin Veritas
    New Braunfels Christian  Bye
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Bracken Christian will need a win this week over Kerrville OLH as the season comes down to two games.

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From Left to Right: Luis Juarez, Duncan Coleman, Calvin Graves, Wyatt Wiggins, Head Coach Mary Beth Gallagher, Ty Sexton, Reid Crownover, (not shown)-Adam Wiewel

Canyon Lake’s Boy’s Cross Country team will be off to the races this week at they will embark on their second year of running the Regional race after finishing in 3rd place last week in Sequin.

“As a whole, everyone is running better but so is the district,” Head Cross Country Coach Mary Beth Gallagher started. “We knew we had to step up our game this year.”

Graduate Nash Opperman led the crew last year for the first opportunity to cash in on qualifying in last year’s district meet. Opperman is now running in Schreiber at Kerrville after the successful season.

“We had boy’s finish ahead of Nash’s (Opperman) time last year and they did not even place in this meet,” Coach Gallagher said in amazement. “So we have accomplished more as a team this year.”

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                 CL Hawk Band Adding to the Football Drama each Friday Night

Canyon Lake won their second game in a row in district play keeping the Hawks in second place after win over Fredericksburg, 17-6.

“We talked and knew this game would be a struggle,” Head Coach Charley Drum stated. “We got the lead and they (the Billies) just could not get any consistency offensively.”

“We just kept chopping wood,” Coach Drum said. “We made the plays and we just stepped up on that drive.”

This game was a defensive affair as each team had 5 possessions in that first half and that last drive for CL would be huge.

The Hawks took advantage with their final time on offense in the half, when second string QB Jackson Neel, found Austin Brennan on a 37 yard pass pitting the ball on the Billies 3 yard line.

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