Brent Hemphill and Jeremiah Soliz taking care of business as an undefeated season

The Canyon Lake Freshman team continued their winning ways through non district play Thursday night against the Lampasas Badgers on their home turf, but in a most unlikely fashion of what seemed like the Texas two step all night long scoring a, 29-8 win.

Having home field advantage when you’re from Lampasas is definitely an advantage over a team, especially as you travel from Canyon Lake and the sand man keeps you drowsy on the bus all the way to kickoff time, or so it would seem.

The Badgers opened up on offense to begin the game and methodically as they drove the Hawks backwards on their heels after starting off with good field position on a failed onside kick from the Hawk’s forty nine yard line.

The Badgers picked up 18 yards on four plays and got help from a Hawk defense with a fifteen yard personal foul and putting the Badgers just outside the twelve yard line after a couple small gains up the middle.

After a false start by the Badgers and a team tackle by Triston Chacon and Greyson Lee, the badgers faced a second and eleven in which their pass ended incomplete.

The Hawk defense came to life after a wall of Hawk jerseys piled up the middle for a one yard gain.

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Fullback Rolando Maronge helped in dispatching the Badgers finding Gold

The Canyon Lake Gold team that is mixed full of sophomores and freshman struck Gold by winning Thursdays game against the Lampasas Badgers, 22-0.

The CL Gold team started the game on offense and probably because of the long bus rides being still asleep as their first offensive series ended up with -3 yards and an interception on the Hawks own 41 yard.

As the Badgers took the field and moved down field for 29 yards, they had a holding call but 19 yards later it appeared it would pay off until Linebacker Charles Madzy for CL stepped up and sacked the Badgers for a 5 yard loss igniting a sleeping giant and turning away the Badgers from a score.

The Hawks got the ball on a turnover of downs and never looked back.

The Hawks first two runs from the line of scrimmage totaled 52 yards and after a holding call Johnny Soliz took the pig skin home from 17 yards out for the first score for Canyon Lake.

After this point the meager Badger offense had six possessions and averaged 18.5 yards per possession with six first downs totaling 111 yards for the night.

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Coach Kim Paisley giving instructions for a serve

The ReSporter: You went primary with the 5-1 offense in Navarro. You mentioned last week that you would do this against teams like Navarro. Why is that?

Coach Paisley: “I ran a 5-1 offense all 3 sets of Navarro match because the 5-1 offense is more fluid and consistent offensively. Our hitters are connecting more.”

The ReSporter: “We also noticed you started the match with a kill from Emma Gray with a set to the outside…it seemed to make a statement. Was that a special play or are you implementing for offensive sets with that play as an option?”

Coach Paisley: “That set is part of our serve receive and it is a “special” play!” (more…)

Coaches giving instructions after tough loss to Lampasas

Canyon Lake’s JV team had a rough time in their game with Lampasas as the Hawks could not get going when the Badgers scored the first 20 points and the win, 20-6.

“We haven’t looked that bad all year,” Head JV Coach John Barthels stated. “We did not create, it was Lampasas doing the creating.”

The game started with CL having the ball and losing a fumble on their second snap. CL did not seem in this game as some coffee might have helped on this evening.

Lampasas would methodically march down the field for 50 yards in 10 plays with one 14 yard burst for some added flavor for that Badger first score.

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Roberto Vargas totaled 163 yards of offense in the Hawk’s loss to Lampasas

Mountain Valley 8th Grade A squad started with a bang but could not hold off the Badgers in a 8 point loss, 28-20.

Running Back Roberto Vargas started the game with a 40 yard touchdown run on the Hawks first offensive play but that excitement was greeted with some reality pills as Lampasas would answer all night until the end of the game with the lead.

That first drive for the Badgers had some good news for the MV when the defense forced a fumble giving the Hawks a chance to start with that one play drive.

Lampasas answered MV’s first score with a 6 play 47 yard drive to tie the game three minutes later in that same quarter.

Mountain Valley would have their longest drive in terms of plays on their next drive, going 13 plays and a 21 yard pass from QB Cody Kline to a wide open Vargas and another lead.

This drive had MV converting two 4th down plays before the pass play for a touchdown.

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Mountain Valley 8th Grade B Team Ran over the Clock in their win over the Badgers, 30-0

Mountain Valley 8th Grade B squad won this game as soon as it started as the Hawks jumped out to a 22 point lead with in the first and coasted for the win over the Badgers, 30-0.

MV scored on their very first play when Paul Martinez soared across the goal line from 35 yards out.

That one play drive would happen again when Colton Eilers touched the ball for his only time during the game and made it count when he darted for his TD run from 33 yards out.

In between those two one play drives, Martinez would strike during that second drive from 27 yards this time as the referees were giving the clock keeper the ole, ‘run the clock’ and let’s go home signal.

“I was just doing my job,” Martinez said with great resolve. “I really depended on the line to open up the hole and I felt pretty strong.” (more…)

The ReSporter: Hey Coach, congratulations on the win last week. Could you tell us how the practices have gone this week after that win over Wimberley?

Coach Drum: “There has been a lot more enthusiasm and you can tell the difference the way they start each day. It was like being paid for all the hard work you have done and they finally got the fruits from all that hard labor.”

The ReSporter: That had to be one of the largest crowds in Hawk history.

Coach Drum: “Yeah, our stadium holds 6000 and the last time I saw the stands like that was 5 years ago when we were playing Wimberley and we were both undefeated.”

The ReSporter: That game had to be a confidence builder for the team, especially Ben Fulton after the first half had all the negative things happening.

Coach Drum: “We talked at halftime to just settle down and he (Fulton) shoulders a lot of blame but our offense has so many other parts that are not based on the quarterback and so we just decided to have a safe pass to start the second half.” (more…)

Hawk Nation celebrating after a Hawk Sweep over Navarro

Canyon Lake’s Volleyball team is on a roll after their Tuesday win over Navarro, but if you have not noticed the Hawks also have the Freshman and Junior Varsity clubs that have also gone undefeated in District 26-4A.

Junior Felicity Niestemski was one of many JV Hawks helping with 3-0 start in District 26-4A play

Both teams beat Navarro as the Freshman swept with a 2-0 match and the JV had a 2-1 victory.

For that JV game on Tuesday, the Hawks were night and day difference between their first and second sets.

“The difference comes down to warm-ups,” Head JV Coach Megan Helmey said calmly. “It takes this team time to get focused.”

Canyon Lake JV was off and on in that first set as both teams never could get a commanding lead as the Hawks just were not able to take advantage in the sluggish first set.

If you were late to the party and you had walked in during that second set, then you would ask how bad did the Hawks win the first game.

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Hawk’s Block Panthers from staying undefeated in Dist 26-4A play.

Canyon Lake Volleyball swept Navarro on Tuesday night to help in giving this team a lot of firsts.

First, first is that this team is now all alone in first place.

Second, first is now having the longest winning streak in school history with 11.

Third, first is having Freshman, JV, and Varsity with all perfect, 3-0 district records.

“This was a huge win,” Head Coach Kim Paisley said excitedly. “They stayed focused as you could barely hear on the court and we had a good finish and we worked hard.”

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 District 14-4A-I Football Leaders
 Team Offense        Ga      Rushing      Passing      Total       Average
 Taylor              4         669         1127         1796        449.0
 Boerne              3         550          677         1227        409.0
 Fredericksburg      3         408          734         1142        380.7
 Liberty Hill        4        1263          104         1367        341.0
 Canyon Lake         4        1086          176         1262        315.5
 Bandera             4         993          141         1134        283.5

 Team Defense        Ga      Rushing      Passing      Total       Average
 Liberty Hill        4         663          353         1016        254.0
 CL Hawks            4         559          724         1283        320.8
 Boerne              3         555          410          965        321.7
 Bandera             4         984          580         1564        391.0
 Fredericksburg      3         658          582         1240        413.3
 Taylor              4        1239          517         1756        439.0

 Rushing         Team           Att        Yards       Ave.    TD     Lg
 Jon Shannon     Liberty Hill   90          553        6.1     10     66
 Calvin Starnes  Bandera        66          444        6.8      5     55
 Micah St. John  CL Hawks       70          414        5.9      4     36
 Tanner Faris    CL Hawks       36          304        7.6      3     55
 Nick Novak      Boerne         52          299        5.8      7     21

 Receiving       Team           No         Yards       Ave     TD     Lg
 Caleb Cooper    Taylor         21          156       7.43      3      0
 X Washington    Taylor         20          233       11.7      3      0
 Malik Jackson   Taylor         19          490       25.8      6     41
 Cole Bourgeois  Billies        13          223       17.2      4     50
 Eli Davis       Borene         13          123        9.5      2     62