The Hawks had their 7 point lead slip away in the last two minutes as Lampasas closed the game out with a last

Sharp Shooter Andrew Riali

second shot to win, 59-57.

Canyon Lake was still playing short handed as this Saturday game was postponed one day as the Hawk’s football team was playing in a second round game a day earlier.

There are several players that will be bringing reinforcements to the hard wood by next week.

The game against Lampasas was a stark improvement from CL’s first 40 point loss to Cedar Creek.

Improvements in several areas was evident. Shooting percentage and taking care of the ball were both part of those building blocks.

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Austin Acosta and TJ Jones tackle a Leopard in Area play

Canyon Lake ran into a buzz saw as La Grange made mince meat of the Hawks, 50-8 in Area play.

The Hawks could not move the ball offensively and conversely could not stop this Leopard team defensively.

“Credit this La Grange team, they forced our mistakes and were very opportunistic,” Head Coach Charles Drum said. “Our game plan was to control the clock and to limit their plays and we did not accomplish either one.”

Canyon Lake kicked off to start the game thinking the wind would help, but after La Grange’s first

Karl Weidner with the tackle with Ryan Hutcheson ready to clean up

drive against that blustery wind the game was not going to get better. Eight plays and 58 yards in four minutes was the result.

Equate this game to a rodeo, the Leopards would stop the Hawk’s runners like a cowboy would rope a calf and tie the legs. The Hawk runners were tackled and very seldom would be able to gain more yardage.

All the keys for CL in making this game competitive was lost in those first few minutes.

The Hawks needed to have long drives to help the defense and put pressure on La Grange.

Result? The Hawks amassed 36 yards on their first five drives which resulted in one first down.

After those five drives the score was La Grange 35 Canyon Lake 0.

Add a bad snap on a punt giving the Leopards another score before half and all this CL team could do was get warm in their dressing room.

The second half had La Grange calling off the Leopards scoring a safety and touchdown and being content with a well deserved win.

La Grange was all class in this game as this contest was coming to a close finding themselves on the Hawk’s 1 yard line and taking a knee to run out the clock.

Canyon Lake did serve notice for the coming years, when they showed some promise as the ground work was being laid with an offense that will be able to be refined as lower grades and this crop of players continue to hone their skill set to be more consistent.

Josh DeVries finished this game with a 23 yard run for the Hawk’s only score and pride for a season that started with anguish turned into a campaign that went two rounds in the playoffs while improving each week.

Josh DeVries taking flight for extra yardage

On that last Hawk drive, the future was evident as Sophomore Robert Woods with 7 yards, Junior Austin Acosta with 16 yards and Junior Josh DeVries finishing with 36 yards and his touchdown run.

Yes, this game was ZZ Top taking the Hawks to that little shack outside La Grange but let’s make it a point not to go back to that shack.

Good luck to the Leopards as they continue their playoff run.

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Game Quotes:

On what this team accomplished this season.
Coach Drum: “We came out with great effort this year and this club showed perseverance and mental toughness by overcoming adversity after starting 0-6. I told this team that this will help them to apply what they learned to how they will handle life.”

On what the Seniors would like to share with the underclassman.
Offensive Lineman Cory Ruston: “When you get your opportunity then don’t let it go because it hurts when it is gone. Don’t hold back and give 100% and just be reckless.”

Linebacker Dominic Theisz: “Make the playoffs, keep it (the playoffs) going. Take every game like it is your last game.”

Offensive Lineman Justin Monfils: “Never give up and no matter how far you are up or down, always play the same….it went away fast…way too fast.”

Running Back McGuire Johnson: “I am really jealous that Coach Moses did not come earlier and these players will get to play for him longer…Learn from what we did and capitalize and develop during the off season….this goes by quickly and La Grange is a hell of a team.”

The ReSporter would also like to thank Laura Theisz for supplying the photos these past two years. Her willingness to help this publication was valuable and made the articles come alive with those action shots.

Thank-you Laura!!!!

                1   2   3   4   Final
 La Grange     14  27   9   0   50
 Canyon Lake    0   0   0   8    8
 Scoring Summary:
 LG-Dillon Davis 24 yard run (Cerda kick), 8:01, 1st
 LG-Hutcheson 85 yard pass from Davis (Cerda kick), 5:29, 1st
 LG-Hutcheson 9 yard run (Cerda kick), 11:52, 2nd
 LG-Filmore 1 yard run (Cerda kick), 7:19, 2nd
 LG-Mueller fumble recovery in end zone (pat failed), 1:40, 2nd
 LG-Fumble out of end zone safety for La Grange, 4:39, 3rd
 LG-Filmore 29 yard run (Cerda kick), 4:09, 3rd
 CL-Josh DeVries 23 yard run (DeVries run), 10:06, 4th

 Game Stats        Leopards     Hawks
 Total Yards       371          141
 First Downs       20           6
 Rushes/Yards      40/230       40/127
 Comp/Att/Int      4/7/0        1/2/0
 Passing Yardage   141          13
 Punts/Average     1/53.0       4/37.0
 Fumbles/Lost      2/1          3/2
 Penalties-Yards   9-75         8-64
 TOP               25:04        22:56

Passing            Comp   Att   Pct   Yards  TD   Int
 Skyler Tschoepe   1      2    .500   13     0    0

Rushing            Att    Yards   Ave   Lg   TD
 Josh DeVries      13     62      4.8   23   1
 McGuire Johnson   11     36      3.3    9   0
 Austin Acosta      4     18      4.5   10   0
 Hayden DuBois      3      8      2.7    6   0
 Robert Woods       3      7      2.3    4   0
 Skyler Tschoepe    3      1      0.3    9   0
 Hayden Lee         1     -4      ---   --   0

Receiving          No    Yards    Ave   Lg   TD
 Evan Schuller     1     13      13.0   13   0

The Lady Hawks won their fourth game in a row beating the Eagles from Cedar Creek on Tuesday night at

Senior Emily Muniz is all smiles after her best game this season

Mountain Valley Middle School.

This game went 4:39 seconds before the first point was scored by the Hawks as Jenna Lann made her free throw and it would be a lead that was never relinquished.

Scoring points was as difficult as visiting your dentist in having several teeth to be pulled.

Free throws was certainly not a good term to use, in this game, a made free throw would be viewed as gold.

CL was a cool 2 for 10 from the charity stripe while Sarah Schneider scoring the first bucket with 2:36 left in the first quarter and a 3-0 lead.

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Miscues Result in Loss for BCS in game with Logos Prep last Saturday night in Giddings, Texas, 30-21.

A returned kick-off and fumbles gave the Lions enough ammo to win on this night.

Logo’s Preps Toby Pavlik was responsible for 18 points of the Lions game while winning the fumble derby.

Bracken was first to capitalize on that fumble derby as Preston Koch took the handoff and fumbled in the air where Noah Boriack was waiting for the ball to fall into his hands and scored from 1 yard out.

That fumble just popped into the air for Boriack while Logos would score on fumbles that would resemble hand offs and also the conventional returned fumble by picking a ball off the ground.

The Warriors would win the yardage battle but Logos did not need an offense when having their defense and special teams responsible for 23 of the 30 Lion’s points.

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Canyon Lake Hawks changed their basketball date to Saturday based on football playoffs and took care of business with

Canyon Lake Hawks getting in Basketball shape

a 6 point win over Lockhart at Mountain Valley Middle School’s main gym.

The Hawks started slow with a five point first quarter, but scoring in double digits in their next three quarters was more than the Lockhart Lions could handle.

The win gives CL a 3-0 record to start the season as this team has some young players and teammates getting used to their chemistry sets. Some good momentum before the schedule starts to have larger road blocks will be a hopeful by product.

In this Lockhart win, the word ‘Team’, was apropos with no player scoring more than six points.

That honor of high point went to (Fr) Mia Riali, (Jr) Kyndall Drum, and (So) Sarah Schneider.

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Running Back Hayden DuBois on his way to another 100 yard game.

Hawk Rumblings

The ReSporter will have a Student Corner after their win over Pleasanton.

The ReSporter: Hey Christian (Dittman) you had a great game of penetrating and putting pressure on their quarterback Arevalo, what was happening out on the field?

DE Christian Dittman: “That was something we worked on and studied film all week and we saw a weak link.”

The ReSporter: You caused the first fumble and helped in keeping Arevalo running up the middle…

Christian Dittman: “We just kept containing him an they could not get anything outside on us.”

The ReSporter: Matt Riffe great win, what are your first thoughts of what just happened?

LB Matt Riffe: “I have never been so shocked in my life. I would not trade this team for anything in this world.”

The ReSporter: We have talked to Dittman about how he was forcing their plays up the middle and into your area, give us your thoughts on that part of this game.

Matt Riffe: “We were watching the draw play and reading their lead and that led them right up the middle where we controlled their run game.”

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Pleasanton is nice enough to lend a hand in pushing McGuire Johnson over the goal line.

Canyon Lake just made every fan who has ever said, “That is why you play the game,” a truism as the Hawks jumped out to a 14 point lead and held on for a 24-21 win on a Mike Thorpe, 19 yard field goal in the fourth quarter.

“We did not get breaks during the first of the year,” Head Coach Charles Drum said. “This team just kept fighting back and now this game is important because of all the confidence we lost in the Navarro game has come back.”

Pleasanton came into this game as a one loss team, but found out Canyon Lake was no slouch and were succumbed at the hands of this 3-7 team.

The Eagles (9-1) did have a good record, but their non-district opponents were over 20 games below .500 ball

A Pleasant Sandwich

while CL had played a non-district schedule with teams sporting a 20-42 record.

Pleasanton won the toss and had moved into Canyon Lake’s territory when Christian Dittman put a hit on an Eagle causing a fumble that Dominick Theisz pounced on.

That play allowed the Hawks to drive 63 yards on 9 plays and a quick 7-0 score when McGuire Johnson ran it in from the 8 yard line.

On that drive, Josh DeVries had first dibs with a 20 yard run and Hayden DuBois then helped the Hawks overcome a penalty and gained 14 yards when 15 yards was needed for a first.

Two plays later the Johnson score gave Pleasanton a sad start.

The Hawk Defense then contributed on the Eagles next set of plays with a Dittman sack and a punt.

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Canyon Lake had a rude awakening to their season last Tuesday as they absorbed a 50 point loss to Cedar Creek.

One item to take note would be playing a higher classification school will not result in good things when many players are still in pads and helmets.

The Hawks are still without a compliment of players and this is not to imply a loss would not have still been the outcome. But, that outcome would have not been of this magnitude.

“Obviously it is disappointing any time you lose,” Head Coach Lucas Chapman stated. “I was very proud of our effort. We were outmanned and the guys we did have suit out, played as hard as they could.”

Playing a game when many of your players have not practiced and will not be implemented until the football season ends does give a coach a chance to see other tendencies with a team besides a score.

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Canyon Lake improved to 2-0 on the season after winning their second away game against Bastrop

Lady Hawks Basketball after win in Johnson City

last Friday.

The Hawks were in a battle the whole game but were able to lead by 6 at halftime.

Amber Ramsey was able to control the boards while getting her second double figure total finishing with 11 karooms.

Freshman Sarah Russell was the only Hawk to finish in double figures scoring as she finished with 11 points.

This game could of been a blow out if the Hawks could of shot 30% or more percent from the field.

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Bracken beat The Winston, 46-0, running 15 plays on offense.

In fact, Coach Lloyd Fields was using his bonus point play as a scrimmage play near the end of the game.

The Warriors, in the past have beaten teams before they got off the bus coming to the games based on reputation. The Winston was beaten many days ago based on their effort in this contest.

BCS had four one play drives for touchdowns that covered a total of 166 yards. That number could have been five drives if receiver Jeff Camp had not stumbled after catching a pass from QB Sam Hilgendorf. The play finished six yards from paydirt.

Every statistic offensively for Bracken had a player with over a 10 yard average each time the ball was touched.

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