Newcomer Andrew Kullberg loves playing on Defense

The season opener for the 2015 Freshman football season kicked off Friday at Lago Vista’s brand new beautiful High School as the Canyon Lake Hawk freshman took on the Lago Vista JV Gold Vikings.

The Vikings won the coin toss and at the time no one knew, but it would be the Vikings last time in which they won anything.

On the opening possession for Lago Vista, on a 3rd and nine, Trenton Lorett swooped down and picked off a pass on the Canyon Lake 42 yard line and sent the Vikings packing.

On the Hawk’s first possession after a false start from an eager offensive line, the O-line plowed head first into the Vikings defense on three consecutive plays and drove the defense back 55 yards when Lorett scored from 5 yards out and added his own 2 point conversion. 8-0 Hawks.

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          CLJV take instructions after loss to Blanco last Thursday night, 24-14

Canyon Lake Junior Varsity went through the motions for their opener with Blanco as turnovers spelled dome for any chance of a comeback in their 10 point loss, 24-14.

The Hawks had the ball first and after three running plays with the longest being 2 yards a punt was needed.

“Turnovers and we did not do a good job of executing,” Head JV Coach John Barthels started. “We practiced against the Varsity this week and we just did not come out with that same intensity and did not respond well.”

Blanco then marched down to the Hawk 2 yard line when they fumbled away a chance for their first score of the season and CL staved off that early damage.

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Game           GranyD's GrdonPlmber Y4 Homes ContryCmfort Texas RV NShoreRx NSUMC
               8-4      8-4         9-3      8-4          7-5      7-5      7-5
Temple/Bracken Bracken  Bracken     Bracken  Bracken      Bracken  Bracken  Bracken
Sunnybrook/OLH Sunny    OLH         OLH      OLH          OLH      OLH      OLH
CastHil/Crosby C Hill   C Hill      C Hill   C Hills      C Hill   C Hill   C Hill
Blanco/CLHawks CLHawks  CLHawks     CLHawks  CLHawks      CLHawks  CLHawks  CLHawks
CLFr/LagoVista CL Fresh CL Fresh    CLFresh  CL Fresh     CLFresh  CLFresh  CLFresh
CLJV/BlancoJV  CLJV     CLJV        CLJV     CLJV         CLJV     CLJV     CLJV
Bandera/SamHou SamHou   SamHou      SamHou   SamHou       SamHou   Bandera  SamHou
LibHill/Grange LaGrange LaGrange    LaGrange LibertyHill  Lib Hill Lib Hill Lib Hill
Hondo/Boerne   Boerne   Boerne      Boerne   Boerne       Boerne   Boerne   Boerne
Lampas/Billies Billies  Billies     Billies  Lampasas     Billies  Billies  Billies
Robison/Taylor Robinson Robinson    Robinson Taylor       Robinson Robinson Robinson
SV/MidlandLee  Rangers  Mid Lee     Rangers  Rangers      Mid Lee  Rangers  Mid Lee

The ReSporter: Canyon Lake beat Fredericksburg 3-1 on Tuesday and Head Coach Kim Paisley was kind enough to offer some answers for the game and season.

Head Volleyball Coach Kimberley Paisley

The ReSporter: Did not see Addison Farley on any of the leader lines, did she play or are you having a reduced roll for her?

Coach Paisley: “She did play and played the whole match. I guess the way the game played out, she wasn’t able to execute with the bigger girls she had across the net. His lineup couldn’t sustain both Bailey and Addison so one of them were not going to get the same look on offense. He had to pick one to try and stop. Also the rotation we had when we were serving and keeping them out of system, fell on Bailey front row and Addison back row. Addison had some great digs last night.”

The ReSporter: Could the players see a difference in facing Fred vs. those teams faced last week in San Antonio? (more…)

CL Hawks and Panthers will always have full stands as this picture shows in last year’s game in Blanco

             Blanco Panthers    @   Canyon Lake Hawks     7:30pm
                     0-0                0-0

 History: Panthers lead series over Hawks, 4-3.
 2008  CL Hawks   00   Blanco   55
 2009  CL Hawks   21   Blanco   14
 2010  CL Hawks   07   Blanco   12
 2011  CL Hawks   14   Blanco   07
 2012  CL Hawks   26   Blanco   21
 2013  CL Hawks   06   Blanco   13
 2014  CL Hawks   07   Blanco   35

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Coaches Corner with Canyon Lake’s Charley Drum

Canyon Lake’s Head Coach Charley Drum

The ReSporter will be having a weekly Coaches Corner with Coach Drum this season and hopes that this will be an informative time in understanding that week’s game and other information.

The ReSporter: Hey Coach, thanks for spending time with me and I have questions for your upcoming game….you have heard how much a team will improve from the first game to the second game in a season. Can you also say that your improvement is measurable from the last scrimmage to the first game?

Coach Drum: “Actually, this is different because a scrimmage has the coaches out on the field and we cannot be on the field during a game. A scrimmage is also a controlled game with so many plays for offense and defense. Even the half we played live has a running clock, so there are too many variables between a scrimmage and game situations.”

The ReSporter: So, that would be hard to compare in those situations… (more…)

The new Hawk Tunnel has landed!

Well Hawk fans the new Hawk run through tunnel has arrived!

Since the end of 2014 football season ended in the playoffs, the idea of stepping up and replacing the old Hawk tunnel was born.

While there was much discussion in the bleachers last fall about replacing our original veteran tunnel, a true veteran took command of the idea and moved it from vision to reality.

Rufus Woods became that leader and started gathering his supporters together for what became an eight month odyssey of designs, re-designs, phone calls, emails and fundraisers.

Mr. Woods soon solicited the help of Cory Martelli to help with fundraising projects and phone calls in which he work behind the scenes and came up with the idea of the 1st Annual CLHS football team car washes.

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Bracken Christian’s Head Coach Hosea Stredic has a teaching moment after scrimmage last Friday

This Week   @   Canyon Lake  &   Bracken Christian

Tue Aug 25   CL Hawks    @  Billies Fresh/JV                      Volleyball
             CL Hawks beat  Billies 17-25, 25-16, 25-16, 25-14    Volleyball

Thu Aug 27   CL Hawks beat Giddings & Akins lost Keller           Volleyball
             CL Hawks lost Blanco JV          14-24               Football
             CL Hawks beat Lago Vista Fresh   48-06               Football

Fri Aug 28   CL Hawks Fresh lost & JV won games with Blanco       Volleyball
             CL Hawks Varsity beat Blanco                         Volleyball
             Blanco      14  CL Hawks Varsity  00                 Football
             Temple HT   24  Bracken Warriors  54                 Football

Sat Aug 29   CL Hawks    @  New Braunfels                         CrossCountry
             CL Hawks beat SA Southwest 22-25, 25-11, 25-13       Volleyball
             CL Hawks beat Bastrop      25-17, 25-16              Volleyball
             CL Hawks   vs. Weatherford (right now)               Volleyball
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Hannah Wunderlich ready to finish off what Sam York digs up

Canyon Lake Hawks finish NEISD with win over SA Lee as they will enter their last phase of non-district games in a couple of weeks.

“We finished the tournament with a 3-5 record and we had some great games even though we lost some,” Head Coach Kim Paisley said. “The type of teams we played, we will not see that type of team for the rest of this season.”

Coach Paisley had a reason for her optimism with the Hawks record as each team played was in the largest private school size or a 6A school.

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Canyon Lake vs Medina Valley Panthers

Canyon Lake Football served up a big glass TD’s to the Panthers.

Defensive Back Jesse Andrade had an Interception in game with Medina Valley

The second and final scrimmage of the 2105 Hawk football season got under way this past Thursday at 5pm in Castroville as the 5-A Medina Valley Panthers took on the 4-A Canyon Lake Hawks on a breezy and cooler than expected night for high school football in August.

When this night was over and was all said and done, the Panthers were glad to see the Hawks leave.

The evening started with a scrimmage format, having the field split into two with each team starting on their 45 yard line in opposite directions with a 30 minute continuous running clock.

The idea with the running clock was to get as many plays as possible during that time frame.

The Junior Varsity started on defense and while the freshman started on offense to begin the evening and it wasn’t long before both Hawk teams had scored.

The JV’s defensive CB Jesse Andrade cut in front of a Panther wide receiver in the flats and picked off the pass at full speed and had more open real-estate in front of him than what Donald Trump owns.

“I just covered my area like coaches had been teaching us all month and closed the distance with the receiver as fast as I could and cut him off and grabbed the ball” said Andrade.

There wasn’t a Panther around for fifteen yards in any direction as the whistle blew to end the play.

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