Pick'em Contest    Texas RV  NShoreRx  Custon Y4  Granny D's GordonPlumber
                   120-57    117-60    114-63     104-73     103-74
CLHS/LaVega        CLHawks   CLHawks   CLHawks    CLHalks    CLHawks
LibHill/ChinaSpg   LibHill   LibHill   LibHill    LibHill    LibHill
Boerne/Robinson    Boerne    Robinson  Robinson   Robinson   Boerne
Taylor/Burnet      Burnet    Burnet    Burnet     Taylor     Burnet
Bracken/Conroe     Bracken   Bracken   Bracken    Bracken    Bracken
OLH/DalTyler St    OLH       TylerSt   OLH        TylerSt    OLH
Castle/LkehllPrep  CastleHll CastleHll CastleHill CastleHill CastleHill
Texas/Okie St      Texas     Okie St   Texas      OkieSt     Okie St
Okie/Tech          Tech      Okie      Okie       Tech       Okie
MissSt/Bama        Bama      Bama      Bama       MissSt.    Bama
Auburn/Georgia     Georgia   Auburn    Georgia    Auburn     Auburn
Missou/A&M         Missou    A&M       A&M        A&M        A&M
LSU/Arkie          LSU       LSU       Arkie      LSU        LSU
Nebraska/Wiscon    Wisconsin Nebraska  Wisconsin  Wisconsin  Wisconsin
VirginiaTech/Duke  Duke      Duke      VirgTech   VirgTech   Duke
Texans/Cleveland   Browns    Browns    Browns     Browns     Browns

Coaches Corner with CL’s Charley Drum:

Canyon Lake’s Head Coach Charley Drum

The ReSporter: Tell us where the team is mentally and physically for this week’s game?

Coach Drum: “We are pretty healthy, we have some nicks, but this is probably the best we have been health wise for this season.”

The ReSporter: I know Ian May was hurt last week, what is his status?

Coach Drum: “Ian had a season ending surgery and so he will be our only starter out for this game.”

The ReSporter: Who do you have to take May’s spot in the line?

Coach Drum: “We will probably have Freshman Jacob Foster.”

The ReSporter: Tell us about Waco LaVega.

Coach Drum: “They run a spread offense and they are young and fast….they are faster than Taylor and they have more kids that can move.” (more…)

The ‘Blow Hard Team’ from the Optimist Club has that fun job of blowing up the Hawk Tunnel

 

Pre/Game:   Waco LaVega        vs.    Canyon Lake          7:30pm   @  Liberty Hill
             Pirates (5-5 and 4-1)     Hawks (4-6 and 2-3)

 Series Record: This will be the first game against Waco LaVega

 This Year's Record:
 Hawks   7   Blanco          35           Pirates   41   Alvarado       19
 Hawks  43   Smithville      14           Pirates   14   Hutto          38
 Hawks  38   Marion           6           Pirates   28   Lorena         35
 Hawks  27   Wimberley       28           Pirates   21   Mexia          40
 Hawks  14   Lampasas        21           Pirates   27   Connally       35
 Hawks  14   Liberty Hill    19           Pirates   42   Gatesville     21
 Hawks  37   Bandera         28           Pirates   28   China Spring   31
 Hawks  49   Fredericksburg  31           Pirates   43   Lampasas       42
 Hawks  31   Taylor          33           Pirates   33   Burnet         28
 Hawks  35   Boerne          42           Pirates   41   Robinson       35

(more…)

The Girl’s Hawk Basketball team started their year off with a tough home loss to Lehman on Tuesday night at the Hawk Gym, 84-40.

Young would be a good way of describing how this season will go and for their first game it was not good playing a Senior loaded team in the Lobos.

Freshman Reagan Heun was the leading scorer with 13 points for the Hawks and Sophomore Mia Riali finished with 9 in a game that was over after the first quarter.

There were some glimpses of good play when Senior Kelsey Ahrens finished with 4 assists on some beautiful passes inside the paint.

The Hawks did finish with 17 points in the fourth quarter which was two more points scored in their first half.

A lot more games to go and see how the maturation of this team jells as the year gets older and some of those injured players come back and give CL some depth.

name            fgm-fga fgm-fga ftm-fta  or-dr tot a  s  b  to pts
Kelsey Ahrens     2-4     0-0     0-0     1-1   2  4  1  0  2   4
Bailey Marley     0-0     0-0     0-0     0-0   0  0  0  0  2   0
Alexis Fullen     1-2     0-0     0-0     1-3   4  0  0  0  0   2
Destini Riccio    0-3     0-2     0-0     2-2   4  0  0  0  1   2
Reagan Heun       4-16    0-6     5-5     2-5   7  0  2  0 10  13
Lexy Jackson      2-4     0-0     2-4     0-2   2  1  2  0  7   6
Kirsten Jones     0-4     0-0     1-2     1-2   3  2  0  0  5   1
Mia Riali         3-6     1-3     2-6     1-1   2  0  0  0  1   9
Gabby Sanchez     1-1     0-0     3-5     1-2   3  0  0  0  8   5
Sarah Schneider   0-2     0-0     0-0     1-0   1  0  1  2  0   0
Team Totals      13-43    1-11   13-22    8-16 24  7  6  2 35  40

Mariah Ellis is goes all out in game with Sealy

Canyon Lake’s Volleyball season came to a close last Thursday in Smithville when the upstart Sealy Tigers took a bite out of these Hawks, 25-22, 25-22, 27-25.

“This was a tough battle from the very beginning,” Head Coach Kimberley Paisley said. “We did not do a good job of executing and did not go downside well.

The Hawk’s ‘Bucket List’ year has come to a close as this three set match seemed like a five set affair with Sealy looking just better than this Hawk club.

Senior Kacee Vrana plays punch a ball in making a save in game with Sealy

Sealy opened play with a 7-2 lead, when CL had a tying six point serve and tied game at eight all.

Addison Farley was called on on that rally as she responded with four kills to help in bring the Hawks back into the game.

After another mini run by the Tigers, CL could not get closer than two points, when they fought back to a 21-23 score.

This sequence would be the same story same verse for the remainder of the next two sets as CL did find themselves with their biggest lead in the second set, when they raced to an 8-3 lead and matched that lead again when they had an 11-5 lead moments later.

(more…)

Robert Woods in run against Bandera earlier this year.

Like four of the five losses this year by seven or fewer points, the River Boat Gambler Hawks, needed just one touchdown for a win, losing to Boerne, 42-35.

“They (Canyon Lake) played their butts off tonight,” Head Coach Charley Drum started. “We have to learn to finish ball games…we were playing to win and we needed to make plays and that is something that we need to fix.”

The Hawks were either tied or led throughout this contest except when it mattered most, when the game clock hit 0:00.

 Losses this year with seven or fewer points:
 Wimberley      27-28
 Lampasas       14-21
 Liberty Hill   14-19
 Taylor         31-33
 Boerne         35-42

(more…)

Braden Ford showing the way to High School for next year to Running Back Ross Snowden

Mountain Valley 7th and 8th Grade Football teams completed their seasons with District Championships as the Greyhounds could only place in a ‘Dog Run’.

The MVMS 8th Grade started where they left off in their previous match-up with Boerne by applying that suffocating defense while the offense just ran up and down the field like they were Greyhounds.

The ReSporter had too many games on it’s plate on Thursday as the CL Volleyball Playoff game against Sealy took precedence on coverage.

However the following two articles were penned by Coaches Juan Lopez and Brandon Pawelek. Thanks Coaches for helping The ReSporter with these write-ups.

(more…)

Coaches Corner with Canyon Lake’s Charley Drum.

The ReSporter caught up with Head Coach Charley Drum at CL’s first round Volleyball playoff game with Taylor last Tuesday.

Canyon Lake’s Head Coach Charley Drum

The ReSporter: Hey Coach how has this week’s practices been going in preparation for the Boerne game this week?

Coach Drum: “Going good.”

The ReSporter: What are some things your team will have to focus on going into this game?

Coach Drum: “We have to tackle them…If we allow Dormady (Boerne’s QB) to sit back like a game of 7 on 7, then he is pretty good.”

The ReSporter: Boerne not only had a good quarterback but his number one target is also a great weapon for them.

Coach Drum: “We will try to bracket him, but they have other receivers that will hurt you…they all can catch the ball, we will just need to limit those big plays.”

(more…)

Robert Woods and the Hawk running game will need to be on for Friday’s game with Boerne

 Pre/Game:   Boerne               at      Canyon Lake     Friday 7:30 pm November 7th
             Greyhounds (6-2 & 4-1)       Hawks (4-5 & 2-3)
 Series Record with Boerne is tied 2-2.
 Series Scores:
 2010 Hawks 21 Boerne 07
 2011 Hawks 14 Boerne 35
 2012 Hawks 16 Boerne 43
 2013 Hawks 37 Boerne 28

 Scores from this year:
 Hawks   07   Blanco        35        Boerne   38   Hondo         22
 Hawks   43   Smithville    14        Boerne   41   Medina Valley 15
 Hawks   38   Marion        06        Boerne   07   Marble Falls  40
 Hawks   27   Wimberley     28        Boerne   34   SA Antonian   00
 Hawks   14   Lampasas      21        Boerne   21   Sonora        13
 Hawks   14   Liberty Hill  19        Boerne   35   Taylor        21
 Hawks   37   Bandera       28        Boerne   38   Billies       20
 Hawks   49   Billies       31        Boerne   28   Liberty Hill  37
 Hawks   31   Taylor        33        Boerne   24   Bandera       15

The records of the two schools for this week’s game would certainly point to Boerne being a favorite to win this game on Friday.

You will have two teams that are offensively on two ends of the spectrum in their philosophy.

Boerne will pass on first, second, and third down and CL Hawks will run on those same three downs.

Both defenses will also be on opposite ends of the spectrum in that the Hawk’s defense only sees a running offense for the year while the Greyhounds are always playing against a passing offense.

The question would be what defense will have the most success on Friday night in order to get a win.

Canyon Lake will need a win to get the second seed in District 14-4A-I and if a loss ensues, then Canyon Lake will have to go to a scoreboard to see if they are a third or fourth seed based on the other district games.

And, there is another scenario where CL would be out of the playoffs. (see Playoff Implications article for clarification)

Canyon Lake faced a passing offense with Bandera earlier this year and seemed to be in good shape in that game.

Gordon the Plumber Supports CL Hawks Football

The difference in Bandera and Boerne passing game would be, passes that Bandera threw were primarily shorter passes to the flats.

Boerne will go more vertical in their passing and that will stretch the defense with bigger chunks of yards as the result.

QB Quinten Dormady will be the rifle arm for Greyhounds as he has thrown 342 passes or an average of 38 a game. Boerne has averaged 22 completions a game with a 14 yard per catch average.

Boerne’s rushing game is an after thought and will mostly be in the hands of Dormady as the main cog in that part of their game.

David Snelling will be Dormady’s main go to guy as he has been the recipient of 70 catches for over 1000 yards and 15 touchdowns.

The Greyhounds have six receivers with double digit catches and those six players start with 182 yards via the pass on up to Snelling’s impressive yardage total.

Eli Davis will be second on the totem pole with 46 receptions and a cool 638 yards.

This offense is much like the running game for Canyon Lake where you pick your poison on who you want to stop and hope you are right more often than not.

Main points for giving Canyon Lake a chance in this contest?

No Turnovers. Whoever has the ball the most will win.

Long….Long….Long drives with touchdowns being a result will put pressure on a passing team.

Taking that time off the clock does not give a passing offense like Boerne enough times to run up a score and get into a rhythm.

In that Liberty Hill game with Boerne, the Panthers had over 450 yards rushing and that took the air out of the ball for Boerne’s passing game.

Canyon Lake will not stop Boerne but getting stops is still important and the more times the defense can pull that off, the better the chance of a win for the Hawks.

So this game really comes down to how well the defense plays and what happens in that turnover tally.

As those two pieces of the puzzle go, so goes who will win this game.

Go Hawks Beat the Greyhounds!!

Football Picks     Texas RV  NShoreRx  Custom Y4  Granny D's  Gordon Plumber
                   110-52    108-54    101-61     96-66       95-67
Boerne/CL Hawks    CL Hawks  CL Hawks  CL Hawks   Boerne      CL Hawks
Taylor/Freddie     Taylor    Freddie   Freddie    Freddie     Freddie
Lib Hill/Bandera   Lib Hill  Lib Hill  Lib Hill   Lib Hill    Lib Hill
Bracken/CedarPark  Bracken   Bracken   Bracken    Bracken     Bracken
HolyTrinity/OLH    OLH       OLH       OLH        OLH         OLH
Baylor/Okie        Baylor    Baylor    Baylor     Baylor      Okie
Iowa St/Kansas     Iowa St   Iowa St   Iowa St    Kansas      Iowa St
K-State/TCU        TCU       TCU       TCU        TCU         TCU
NDame/ASU          ASU       ASU       ASU        ASU         ASU
A&M/Auburn         Auburn    Auburn    Auburn     Auburn      Auburn
WVU/Texas          WVU       WVU       Texas      WVU         WVU
Ohio St/Mich St    Mich St   Mich St   Mich St    Mich St     Ohio St
Bama/LSU           Bama      Bama      Bama       Bama        LSU
Oregon/Utah        Utah      Oregon    Oregon     Utah        Oregon
Jackson/Dallas     Dallas    Dallas    Jackson    Jackson     Dallas