Canyon Lake Hawk’s Volleyball finished their season splitting their last two games with Bandera and Navarro. Both games were played at Hawk Gym with the finale last Tuesday night.

The Hawks had five Seniors on the court for their last game.

Cassidy Riccio, Logan Nease, Marisa Ellis, Reanna Wagliardo, and Katie Williams played with a lot of heart but still could not get that last win against Navarro.

At first, CL did not come out of their doldrums until the second game of this match.

After a 25-13 loss to the Panthers in the first game, Canyon Lake responded by winning their next game by that same score.

In that game, CL was dominant. The Hawks were everywhere on the court and controlled this game from their service to their kills and everything in-between.

Junior Amber Ramsey had seven kills in this game while Katie Williams (4) and Logan Nease (3) were just as lethal.
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Bracken Christian stormed Winston with their fifth win and also their fifth mercy game against this Eagle school. BCS ran away with a 53-8 final.

Head Coach Lloyd Fields reached the 50 win hurdle with his stay at Bracken Christian on this night.

It was a complete game for the Warriors as they had their most rushing yards (352) in one half of play.

“We felt this was our second time this year we played very well on both sides of the ball,” Head Coach Lloyd Fields commented. “Our defense took a sabbatical in last week’s game.”

Based on how this school has rushed the ball in the past five, then you will know that this is quite an accomplishment. BCS has won 34 mercy games now with 26 games in a row without being on the losing end.

After a Winston punt on their first series, Bracken was deep in their territory on their two yard line.

A 78 yard run by Eli Achilles and Bracken would not be threatened for the rest of this night.

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Hayden Dubois Makes his presence known in win over Bandera

Canyon Lake had their most complete game to date as they pounded the Bandera Bulldogs last Friday night at Hawk stadium, 42-7.

The Hawks finished this game with 35 unanswered points and a suffocating defense. It was the best defensive game in not giving up yards in CL’s history.

Top 5 Defensive efforts:

    Game        Yards     Year
 1. Bandera     133       2012
 2. Billies     173       2011
 3. Billies     215       2009
 4. Wimberley   219       2009
 5. Ingram      219       2009

“They bought into our non-district schedule,” Head Coach Charley Drum beat. “We still have some things we need to clean up…Penalties and getting our running game into the game earlier.”

This win sets up a battle of unbeaten District 27-3A squads next week in Wimberley.

A slow start was still unavoidable as CL had a 34 yard drive stall on Bandera’s 42 yard line.

Then another stop by the defense and another three play and punt series resulting in another short series of downs. That however would be Canyon Lake’s last punt of the evening.

Bandera had a bad snap on their punt attempt and their player was able to get his kick off for one yard. That play set up CL on the Bulldog’s 39 yard line.

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Mountain Valley Seventh 'B' Squad Talk about Win over Bandera

Mountain Valley 7th ‘B’ squad could of beaten Bandera’s ‘A’ team but instead had a chance to play the ‘B’ squad.

After spotting their opponent 12 points, then MV started dominating the rest of this contest.

The Hawk defense allowed 60 yards for Bandera’s first two scores and then clamped down for negative 21 yards for the rest of the game.

With an interception return, when MV was on the Bulldogs eight yard line the return covered 100 yards and what seemed at the time an avalanche against this Hawk team.

Then it happened: QB Triston McPhee went back for a pass and another interception was going to bury them, until Matthew Rhodes had other plans.

While the Bullpup was returning the int. Rhodes not only stopped the run but stole the ball from his arms and promptly ran 65 yards for the Hawks first score.
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The Canyon Lake Hawks flew all over the Bandera Bulldogs last Thursday night at

Timothy Romero and Zach Gregory weren't in the Dark during the Game!!

Two impressive drives to start this game and a heads up play gave all the momentum needed for a convincing win.

The first drive went for 60 yards on 5 carries with damage being done by Running Back Timothy Romero and a pass and run for Robert Woods.

Romero progressed with a longer run on each of his first three carries. Romero went for six yards, 10 yards, and then a final run of pure speed of 27 yards that capped off an impressive start.

Romero started this year as fullback and was moved to tailback after some injuries. “No one stepped up when they we were asked who wanted to do it (move up), so I just raised my hand and said I will do it. They asked who was the faster guy and when I see daylight I just go for it. But much of my yardage came from the line and everyone was doing their job and I just followed them.”

Canyon Lake was not finished, after holding the Bulldogs to a three and out, the Hawks started their next drive on the 27 yard line.

Six plays later, this Hawk team was in control, driving 73 yards in a way that any Bulldog would of been proud.

The Hawks have made some changes in moving players around to help maximize their product on the field.

One of those changes involved moving Zach Gregory from receiver to offensive line. When asked about the difference of positions, Gregory commented, “It is not as much of a change than I thought, I just have different blocking schemes.”

Gregory continued by talking about how on fire this Hawk team started the game, “We were real pumped up before the game, and we just kept that intensity down on the field…we have a motto, ‘Tougher Team Wins it’.”

It was all about the running game for this drive. Cody Davis chipped in with a six yard run, then Joseph Arredondo converted a third down with more than enough yardage running down the sideline for 33 yards. Romero book ended this drive starting with a 17 yarder and capped it off with another 15 yards.

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CL student body doing their part of trying to scare a Greyhound

Canyon Lake Volleyball got beat by a Greyhound last Tuesday night at the Hawk gym in three games-24-26, 19-25, and 16-25.

There has to be something done about how the UIL comes up with their district scheduling. It does not seem right that a team should have to endure a five game road schedule after playing their first two games at home.

This does not say the records would of been different, but having a team go five games before they get back home is wrong. The cards that were dealt this Hawk team was a stacked deck and should not have been done this way.

The Hawks did play a very competitive game to start this match, when they took Boerne to the brink, losing 24-26.

Once again a bounce here or there might have swayed that elusive momentum if Canyon Lake could of finished that game.

Canyon Lake was also enjoying a 7-3 lead in their second game, only to see Boerne rally and finish off the Hawks after another tough game.
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Bracken Christian scored an ‘A’ in their game against Gustine last Friday night with an all time record for points in the game.

BCS scored on 15 to their 17 possessions in this game. Their only miscue was two interceptions that halted a Warriors team on this record night.

Records that resulted in this contest:
  15 Touchdowns
  22 Total penalties aggregate
  23 Most First Downs in a game
  98 Most points scored
 146 Most yards penalized
 154 Most points scored aggregate
 221 Most yards aggregate in penalties
 514 Rushing Yards
 675 Most yards gained

Eli Achilles had 262 rushing yards just on his touchdown runs.
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Eduardo Covarrubias jumping over a Pancake

Canyon Lake’s bend but don’t break defense was up to the task as Fredericksburg could not throw enough at this Hawk team to win.

CL might have learned some valuable lessons from pre/district as they held on for a, 27-17 victory last Friday night at Fredericksburg.

“I’m proud of the kids and they bought into what we wanted done,” Head Coach Charlie Drum said. “One round at a time and we closed out a team after they (Fredericksburg) had tied it.”

“We changed how we practice and our scout team really prepared our starters in the last two weeks…he (Branson Belcher) made big plays and managed the ball well,” Coach Drum responded on questions about the team and how QB Belcher performed on this night.

On the Hawks third possession and third play of their drive, it would become the Doug Hubnik show.

Quarterback Belcher heaved the ball down the sideline to a streaking Hubnik in stride for a 56 yard pass play. Hubnik might have left some burn marks on the grass as he put on his afterburners, leaving the Billies defensive back grabbing air.
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Mountain Valley Eighth Grade ‘B’ squad did not get the better draw when thinking about start time for this game.

Rain was the winner when a downpour was going on through much to this contest.

Both teams could not muster 50 yards of offense as just holding onto the ball should of been worth extra points.

Mountain Valley started things off well when they took their first possession to the Billies four yard line. But this young club could not capitalize and gave the ball up on downs.

On this drive Andrew Neel to Mason Blackburn 32 yard pass play would be the biggest play and over half of the total offense for the game.

The play set the Hawks up deep in Fredericksburg territory, but the rains became the focus point as they continued negating a grand opportunity to score.
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Fredericksburgs Junior Varsity had a perfect play call right off the bat, when on the kick-off, Canyon Lake thought they had the returner with a short return….then a pass laterally to Sammy Studebaker was set up with a wall of blockers.

Result? Seventeen seconds into the game and the Billies had a 7-0 lead and looking at a stunned Hawk team across the field.

All was not lost, however, as this Hawk team proceeded to march 75 yards in 11 plays tying the game with a touchdown.

Seven minutes was worked off the clock and so for comparison sakes:
Fredericksburg had the ball for 17 seconds and a score.
Canyon Lake had the ball for 6:14 seconds and a score.

The Junior Varsity had 30 yards through the air and 40 yards on the ground for their first drive.

Canyon Lake had another chance for a quick score, but an interception stopped a scoring opportunity.

On their first drive, Fredericksburg had three of four plays that gained 36 yards in the opposite direction. Errant snaps were the culprit on two of those plays and one was on a punt.
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