The Warriors started in familiar territory, when on his first carry at the tailback position, Davis Scott darted 60 yards in a scrimmage against Lometa last Friday at Bracken Field.

Lometa plays for UIL division and was also joined with Round Rock Christian for the scrimmage.

“Lometa finished in the quarterfinals last season,” Head Coach Lloyd Fields started. “They are predicted to finish second or third this season in their district.”

Bracken Christian scored a 3-1 victory as Eli Achilles teamed up with Arnold Adame for two passes that went for 50 and 45 yards.

“No pass hit the ground from the first team,” Coach Lloyd Fields said.
(more…)

The Hawks started slow but finished with a rush by winning their final three games to salvage a Bronze Bracket Championship last weekend in Wimberley.

Tex-Fest Volleyball Tournament has been on Canyon Lake’s schedule every year and the Hawks were able to get some much needed game experience and end the tournament with a three game winning streak.

“After a tough first day we battled back to sweep all three teams we played on Saturday,” Head Coach Nicole Creek said.

Canyon Lake beat Salado, 25-23 and 25-22 on Saturday. With so many teams in tournaments, teams advance in a best of three series instead of the best of five normally during the rest of the season.

In the Salado game, Marisa Ellis lead the team with 12 kills and finished second scoring 14 assists. Ellis has taken on a more dominant role in the attacking part of her game as this season starts in it’s infancy.

Freshman Halley McKnight has shown enough so far this season to suggest there will be improvement as she also had 15 assists, leading the Hawks.

Two other newcomers, Junior transfer Trena Lorett and Sophomore Hayley Malone finished one and two with seven and six digs in the game.
(more…)

The Hawks started their new year with a split in a three team round robin last Tuesday night at the Canyon Lake gymnasium.

Both games were five game sets that left the exhaustive fans feeling good about this team.

Canyon Lake beat Liberty Hill in the first match: 23-25, 17-25, 25-15, 27-25, 15-5.

The first two games would be games that Coach Nicole Creek could use for instructing future team how not to play.

“First game jitters,” Head Coach Creek said. “We had great serving and clutch hitting to end this game.”

The second game of the set, had only three points scored that was not a result of Liberty Hill losing the serve. The hole dug by the Hawks was too deep to see any light to climb out of.

Canyon Lake had their first lead starting the third game going ahead 1-0. Marisa Ellis was the server when CL actually had a rally of five points that gave the Hawks a six point lead of 14-8.
(more…)

What is the definition for winning?

The Hawks have been on a tear since the middle of the ’10 season as they have compiled a record that can be a great building block.

Canyon Lake will be entering their fifth season and now only lack one win to even their overall record to an even .500 with 22 wins and losses.

Considering the first season where Canyon Lake could only muster one win over a hapless Ingram team where scoring 21 points was a high water mark for the young Hawks.

Three years later, CL has put their brand on many other mascots with some high scoring and with losses to only three teams during this recent stretch. Wimberley, Boerne, and Somerset are the only losses and now the Hawks ready themselves for another exciting year.
(more…)

Top Ten

 Total Yardage:   Offense                  Defense
 Ingram           579   ‘09             1. Fredericksburg    173 '11
 Bandera          528   '11             2. Fredericksburg    215 '09
 Fredericksburg   494   ‘11             3. Wimberley         219 '09
 Llano            479   ‘09             3. Ingram            219 '09
 Fredericksburg   474   ‘10             5. Blanco            226 '09
 Austin Travis    471   ‘11             6. Boerne            231 '10
 Luling           446   ‘11             7. Gonzales          240 '09
 La Vernia        441   ‘11             8. Blanco            252 '11
 China Spring     425   ‘09 (Playoffs)  9. Liberty Hill      260 '09
 Wimberley        419   ‘10            10. Fredericksburg    279 '10

Rushing Yardage: Offense 

 Sealy            370   ‘11             1. Somerset           36  '10 (Playoffs)
 Austin Travis    325   ‘11             2. Ingram             48  '09
 Fredericksburg   307   ‘11             3. Wimberley          56  '09
 Navarro          303   ‘11             4. Boerne             60  '10
 Burnet           293   ‘10 (Playoffs)  5. Luling            112  '11
 Somerset         278   ‘10 (Playoffs)  6. Bandera           116  '10
 Bandera          273   '11             7. Gonzales          122  '09
 Ingram           236   ‘09             8. Burnet            132  '09
 La Vernia        235   ‘11             9. La Vernia         139  '11
 La Vernia        233   ‘10            10. Fredericksburg    141  '11

 Passing: Offense 
 Ingram           343   ‘09             1. Navarro             3  '10
 Llano            330   ‘09             2. Liberty Hill       18  '09
 Luling           323   ‘11             3. Fredericksburg     32  '11
 China Spring     307   ‘09 (Playoffs)  4. Fredericksburg     38  '09
 Wimberley        293   ‘10             4. Blanco             38  '08
 Blanco           292   ‘09             6. Llano              39  '08
 Wimberley        273   ‘09             7. La Vernia          41  '09
 Fredericksburg   258   ‘10             8. Sealy              51  '11
 Bandera          255   '11             9. Liberty Hill       57  '08
 Boerne           249   ‘10            10. Blanco             65  '09

It was the fifth game of the season when Doug Hubnik made history with a four year

program with lots of new ground to explore.

Hubnik scored on a 60 yard interception return and 80 yard kickoff return in the Luling game which was a first time for those type of scores for Canyon Lake.

Hubnik had the most catches from a non-senior last season with six. Those catches went for 95 yards and now the log jam in the receiver corp might allow this senior a chance to make a difference.

“We have a lot of skill players,” Hubnik started. “We will need to play to our skill levels this season.”

When asked how the play of Quarterback Branson Belcher was this first week, “He is playing real good…Branson is throwing real good.”

“We have grown up since our junior varsity year and a lot of us have moved to different positions and that has been our biggest change,” Hubnik said while commenting on how this Senior class might perform this season.
(more…)

Many times what you hope will happen can get changed and coaches need to reach into

their bag of tricks to see if something new might work.

Bracken Christian had that scenario come about when practice started last week. Six-man football is the game of choice for the Warriors simply because the number of boys available to play the sport.

Hence, it does not take many changes in a summer to start the dominoes falling and causing angst among the coaches and team.

The best way to stop the domino effect is by having players that can step into different roles at the drop of a helmet.

Junior Davis Scott will be that player this year as he will change from his Center position to running back. Scott had six carries last season from the Center position and he gained 36 yards.

Scott made his mark on the defensive side gaining All State honors last season as a defensive end.

“I’m a little shocked,” Scott said shockingly. “I am also very excited and I will do whatever the team needs me to do.”
(more…)

Quarterback Branson Belcher has won more games than any other quarterback in the history of Canyon Lake Football.

His eight wins last year put him ahead of Ross Wagliardo and Jeff Nabors who won seven and six games respectively in the previous three years.

Now the Hawks prepare for a break out year that hopefully will include that hidden word called, ‘Playoffs’.

The 8-2 season last year was great, but not having a game after the tenth game, left an emptiness for the team and fans.

Senior Quarterback Belcher will now take ownership of a team that has the possibility of eclipsing the eight wins from last year.
(more…)

While watching the Alumni/Canyon Lake volleyball game, you would

of been amazed the Alumni won a game.

A simple fact about this event, Canyon Lake Varsity won for the first time against their former teammates. Was this a bad day for the former students or was CL Varsity just playing a better game?

A lot of players return with a sprinkling of newbies might have a team that will rival the playoff teams in recent years.

Katie Williams is one of those Seniors that will want a better result than what happened to last year’s club.
(more…)

Bracken Christian will have a five game district schedule this year and a game of musical chairs has bumped Marble Falls Faith out and Geneva School of Boerne taking their place.

The Flames from Marble Falls made the playoffs the last two seasons, but got no further than the second round, while Boerne Geneva lost in the first round to Brownwood Victory Life 70-44, last season during their 8-3 season.

“The top two teams in district will meet in week one,” Head Coach Lloyd Fields commented. “Boerne Geneva has everyone coming back.”

That will be a common theme this season for some of the schools, or they might have lost a player that had that do everything persona.

Geneva faced two teams that had the opportunity in playing BCS. They finished 1-1 with a loss coming from Kerrville OLH 54-50 and a win against New Braunfels Christian 52-7.
(more…)