The Canyon Lake Junior Varsity improved to 2-0 for the season after staving off a comeback rally from

Somerset last Thursday night Bulldogs stadium.

The Hawks started the game with an impressive 70 yard 13 play drive that took a little over six minutes off the clock.

Canyon Lake served a good dose of Running Back Hayden Dubois on this drive as he accounted for 84 yards of real estate by air and run. The two pass plays were back breakers for Somerset with both passes coming from a screen pass.

Dubois was the recipient on both passes of 40 and 12 yards, the final one ending in the endzone.

If you were trying to do the math, then you will notice that Dubois had more yardage than the distance needed to travel for the touchdown. Penalties and one sack for Skyler Tschoepe was the cause for that anomaly.

Canyon Lake struck again when Dayton Dingman blocked a Somerset punt and then had teammate Gavin Rutherford return the punt 20 yards to the Somerset nine yard line.

From there it only took the Hawks two plays to score, when Nick Cahill caught a slant pass over the goal line for what would be a 12 point lead.

Somerset also had some decent returns on kick-offs and helped their cause when they returned the next kick to the Canyon Lake 49 yard line.

The Bulldogs took three running plays with the last one going for 33 yards by Avila. This young man ended the game with 175 yards and was hard to get a hold of for the remainder of this game.

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Canyon Lake Volleyball team sent Lytle off the plank with a resounding three game sweep in the Varsity game as well as two, two game sweeps in the Freshman and Junior Varsity game.

The Freshman girls spotted the Pirates a 6-1 lead to start the first game and then only gave up three more points for the game as only five girls were called on to serve.

Caitlin Mabry was the player that sent the Pirates in a tailspin with 11 serving points and six of those points being scored on aces.

In the second game Mabry kept up that pace with nine more points serving and another five aces.

“Really working hard in practice,” Mabry stated.

On whether she was tired after serving so much, “Tired? Not really.”
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Bracken Christian Warriors came out of the blocks while blocking their opponent in a Mercy

Game, beating Austin Hill Country Knights, 56-6 last Friday night in Austin, Texas.

The Knights lost all of their starting offense and all but one defensive starters from last year’s team.

Bracken made them pay for their youth with enough fire power to run away from AHC. This win was the 22nd in a row on the road.

BCS has a lot of new players with different responsibilities and Running Back Davis Scott made his presence known with his first carry going for 13 yards and a score.

Of course, Bracken’s defense did not allow the Knights much in the way of yardage as AHC’s first set of downs netted minus 19 yards.

Next set of downs had an Eli Achilles interception and 40 yard return for another score.

“They had a botched snap and that made the quarterback a pass only situation,” Achilles surmised. “I knew he was going to throw and he only had two options and Preston (Koch) had his guy covered.”

One offensive play and a 12-0 lead would tell you how much Austin Hill Country would want to go get players from last season to come and help out again. TAPPS would have something to say about that and so the route was on.

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Canyon Lake wins Nail Biter over Blanco, 26-21 in the opening game of the

season at Panther Stadium.

Canyon Lake played a close game against Blanco again. What else is new?

The last four games have all been by seven points or fewer.

“Typical Blanco game,” Head Coach Charley Drum sighed a breath of relief. “This team is tough, tough, tough and they proved that they have a solid football team that can execute.”

“This was an ugly win, but it is better than a loss. A lot of kids haven’t played much and have not been in these situations.”

Blanco was Canyon Lake’s first loss five years ago and now Blanco was the game where the Hawks reached the .500 winning percentage.

Coach Drum has now won his inaugural game.
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Canyon Lake Junior Varsity lapped the Blanco Panthers Thursday night at Hawk Stadium, winning

their opener 38-14.

Running Back Hayden Dubois took the reins on the wagon and darted for 212 yards. The Blanco team was grabbing air as Dubois averaged over nine yards per carry with several impressive runs.

“It takes a good line to make a great back,” Dubois started. “All I see is the first down marker and then go for it.”

Go for it he did as Dubois did one better by also looking for the flags in the end zone too.

“When I’m running, I look for the hole and then just cut back, but without the upfield blocking I would not of had that.”

“My head is not on the yards I get, it is the team effort,” Dubois said eloquently in response to looking surprised when he heard how many yards gained in the game.

Dubois had his first scoring run come about in that manner when he reversed his field and cut threw the grain for 39 yards.
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The Canyon Lake Freshman football team was all business as they sent the Lago Vista Vikings home without their boat in an 18-0 win last Thursday night at Hawk Stadium.

This Lago Vista club beat the Hawks last year and it seemed like this group of boys had not forgotten that game.

“We wanted to come out with a victory,” Running Back Cody Davis said. “They got us last year.”

Davis finished the contest with 134 yards on 21 carries as the Hawk offense methodically took control of this game and grounded the Vikings.

“I was just trying to follow my blocks,” Davis commented about the amount of yards he had accumulated for the evening.

The half-time statistics would give you an idea of the dominance of CL’s defense.

Lago Vista only had one first down and 22 total yards and for the game finished with 49 yards and yes, they got just one first down in that half also.

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Canyon Lake Volleyball (10-7) finishes a three team round robin, 1-1 in La Vernia on Tuesday night.

Their first match was a win over San Antonio McCollum in four games. A second game disappearance was the only flaw.

The Hawks did win the next two games convincingly, 25-16 and 25-19.

Senior Marisa Ellis once again had a triple double leading the team with 14 kills and contributing 14 assists and 11 digs in this battle.

Freshman Halley McKnight lead the assist count with 19 and Sophomore Hayley Melone finished with 24 digs.

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The Hawks had a slow start to the season last year and the Blanco game looked like Canyon Lake would be put in that situation again. The main item the past few months in the football write-ups has been the inability of the team to finish.

“Last year we didn’t finish,” Head Coach Matt Monzingo stated. “Tonight we finished, we controlled the game with ball control in the second half.”

Finishing did not happen until the end of the season and now the Hawks have acquired the taste of accomplishment in the second half as CLHS finished the Panthers off.

Here is the tale of the tape between the first and second half. Canyon Lake totaled 108 yards in the first half. Second half? 196

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Canyon Lake did it again by coming through on the opposite bracket in Devine last Thursday and Saturday.

This was a little different from the Wimberley Tournament in that Canyon Lake at least won one game on the first day of action.

The win was also against a District 27 foe from Bandera. The first day did have a much more competitive atmosphere coming from Canyon Lake as all the games were hard fought and there was no contest that was a roll over.

Once again the Hawks ruled the second day with another three game sweep.

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The Bracken Warriors continued their final warm up before next Friday’s opening game on the road in Austin.

BCS will start under the lights at Austin Hill Country as they look to finish in the final four and hopefully one game better this season.

This scrimmage was staged at Seguin Lifegate with San Marcos Home School and the Panthers from Seguin.

Bracken secured wins in both scrimmages leaving the field ready to start the season.
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