Canyon Lake still had enough energy to kneel after game with Marion

Good news Bad news in game with Marion on Friday night.

Good news? Canyon Lake scored 50 points
Bad news? Canyon Lake lost

Over 100 points scored (105 to be exact) as the Hawks were able to stop the Marion Bulldogs on just two possessions.

“They have a good offensive team and they exposed us,” Head Coach Charley Drum stated. “They took advantage of our young guys and we will have to figure out a way to win this type of games when it counts.”

Coach Drum was talking on how the Hawks seem to lose more close games than they win.

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Braden Hight and Michael Harwell start lifting weights in Lee Stafford

Canyon Lake JV won their 2nd game in a row after a rain delayed affair at the Hawk Nest, winning, 28-8.

The game started slow as both teams could not muster any momentum as the Hawk offense had just 3 offensive plays for 7 yards and a punt.

For Marion Bulldogs, they had first crack with their offense and quickly moved down the field only to stall out at CL’s 5 yard line.

The Marion Quarterback was a master with the hand off as the Hawks defense could not figure who would have the ball.

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Nathan DeLeon is all smiles after finding his afterburners in pursuit of a Cougar

Canyon Lake Freshman moved their record to 3-0 after beating San Antonio Cole, 16-8 on a rainy day at the Hawk Nest.

The game was delayed well over an hour before the teams would enter the field but the good news was the 79 degrees temperature when the kick-off, kicked-off.

CL Hawks would not take long before they would score on their first possession when Chance Martelli recovered a Hawk fumble in the end zone for the score.

Using the word recover is a misnomer as Martelle would just pick the ball off the turf and raise it in the air.

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Senior Outside Hitter Addison Farley getting her point across

Canyon Lake beat #7th Ranked La Grange on the road on Tuesday in 5 sets as the non-district part of the Hawks schedule has been completed.

CL does not have as good of a record as last year at this time of the season, but you certainly can make the case that this Hawk team might be better than last year’s edition.

Canyon Lake now boasts a 20-8 slate and a record that has losses to 5A and 6A schools and one loss to Peaster which came in the Wimberley tournament early in August.

That loss to Peaster was a game that CL lost the services of Addison Farley when she turned her ankle during the warm ups before that game.

Peaster is a 3A school that is presently ranked #1 in that classification and so even the one smaller school that was victorious is ranked in the nose bleed area.

Canyon Lake won the first set by 9 points, 25-16 but La Grange made a statement set immediately when they gave the Hawks one of their most lopsided losses of the year, 25-12.

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Daniel Forgione is looking to pass his Coach (brother) on the all-time rushing list

Bracken Christian Woo Hits Victoria Cobras in , 52-19 win at Warrior Stadium last Friday night to start their season 2-0.

It happened near the end of the game when Sophomore Cristian DeLeon laid a hit on the Cobra kick-off return man right after picking up the ball. A woo hit that excited, new head football coach, Hosea Stredic.

“We finally hit somebody,” and that hit had several people, including Coach Stredic, pumping his fist in the air and exclaiming, Woooo!!!!

“Don’t get me wrong, we teach the kids how to tackle and we have been doing that, but we are tackling without hitting….the team has been swarming to the ball to get a tackle. When you have a hit available then you need to make it a woo hit and then you can hear everyone in the stands say, ‘wooo’.”

It was the Cobra’s that got the first woo when they took their second possession for a score for their first and only lead of the game.

Quarterback Brady Beene was off on his first pass of the game which resulted in an interception, giving the Cobras the ball and eventual score on their next possession.

Beene did not have one of his best games passing as he missed on some wide open receivers but he also responded when needed for this win.

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Defensive End Tyler McCleary making himself known in game with the Tigers

Canyon Lake’s, the Young and the Restless, came alive in the second half beating the Smithville Tigers, 25-14 for their first win of the season.

“This team cannot use the ‘we are young’ any longer and that excuse can’t go on,” Head Coach Charley Drum said. “We did not play with any juice starting the game….but we showed it in the second half.”

The Tigers had a total of 12 offensive plays in that second half with a total of 30 yards as the Hawks controlled the ball for 20 of the 24 minutes in the second stanza. To be exact, CL> 19:50 and Smithville > 4:10.

That first half had the Tigers with a 14-7 lead after scoring on a 34 yard pass play with no time left on the clock.

The Tigers made the most of their opportunities in that first part of the game as their passing offense had 180 yards, capped off by a 62 yard catch run to the Hawk’s 1 yard line in scoring the first touchdown in this game.

Smithville had 217 halftime yardage and finished the game with just 30 more yards in that second half.

Defensive Ends, Robert Woods and Tyler McCleary had so many sacks that HEB said they had a job for life in sacking if they wanted that opportunity.

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17 Year Old Tyler Bishop with Anthony Ozuna after 18-0 whitewash over Smithville

CLJV had a birthday bash for Smithville on Thursday night as they methodically took care of the Tigers in their first home game of the season.

Right out of the gate the surprise Birthday was sniffed out as Defensive Back Tyler Bishop decided to jump on a gift from the Smithville Quarterback and took it home for a 40 yard interception return.

The interception was on the third play from scrimmage and the gift was opened and used for becoming the only gifts needing to be opened for the win.

“I knew they would be throwing a pass and I told Caimen (McDonough) to be looking for it,” Clairvoyant Bishop said.

Bishop celebrated his 17th Birthday on this night and what a present in the size of a oblong object being thrown in your direction.

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Cade Dunavant and Cooper Harris are one-two punch in win over Smithville

Canyon Lake Freshman keep on rolling as they cleaned up the Tigers on Thursday night winning, 34-0.

Smithville started the game with 14 running plays and taking the script from the Hawk’s playbook in taking the air from the clock.

The Tigers were finally stopped after reaching the CL 13 yard line and that would be all the offense this team would accumulate.

This drive ended with Smithville garnering 48 yards and the Tigers finished the game with 43 total yards.

“We did not have the our minds right and we were not focused,” QB Cooper Harris stated. “We started to be a real football team after the second half started…..we got a pep talk at halftime and Coach said we needed to get our head out.”

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Junior setter Regan Mickey finished with 29 assists in win over Marion

Canyon Lake ran away with their score over Marion winning, 3-0 in their Tuesday match up with the Bulldogs.

“Coach (Paisley) said that if they scored over 12 points then their would be consequences,” Junior Setter Regan Mickey said.

When asked what those consequences might be, Mickey was succinct, “We knew Coach would have us running.”

So that will explain the three set scores: 25-17, 25-20, and 25-7. Notice that last set score and you will see a group of players taking their coach seriously.

The two outside hitters had good matches finishing the contest with 17 and 13 kills for Addison Farley and Bailey Drum respectively.

There was good play all around in the game from the net to the back row as each player had a say in the final score.

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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