The ReSporter: You are facing a team this week that lost a player that was a do everything type of player, how do you prepare in a situation like that?

Coach Drum: “They (Bandera) has had an extra week to prepare, they might be unpredictable but they still need the win to still have a chance in the district race.”

The ReSporter: Tell us what you thought about getting back on the winning side of a game this past week?

Coach Drum: “We did some personel changes and asked some Seniors to step it up. We were like a dog backed into the corner and we just needed to get that confidence back.”

The ReSporter: Based on all those learning experiences this team had to start this season, did you see any of those learned lessons in the game last week?
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CL student body doing their part of trying to scare a Greyhound

Canyon Lake Volleyball got beat by a Greyhound last Tuesday night at the Hawk gym in three games-24-26, 19-25, and 16-25.

There has to be something done about how the UIL comes up with their district scheduling. It does not seem right that a team should have to endure a five game road schedule after playing their first two games at home.

This does not say the records would of been different, but having a team go five games before they get back home is wrong. The cards that were dealt this Hawk team was a stacked deck and should not have been done this way.

The Hawks did play a very competitive game to start this match, when they took Boerne to the brink, losing 24-26.

Once again a bounce here or there might have swayed that elusive momentum if Canyon Lake could of finished that game.

Canyon Lake was also enjoying a 7-3 lead in their second game, only to see Boerne rally and finish off the Hawks after another tough game.
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T. J. Gregory

Time to have some love for this year’s defense for Canyon Lake.

Right off the bat you will see Linebacker McGuire Johnson that is now having having a Bobby Flint (holds tackle record for CL) type of year with 73 tackles for this season.

That averages out to over 12 a game while Flint averaged 13.7 tackles in the 2010 season.

Another Linebacker, Conner Drum, is averaging nine tackles a game.

Here are the top ten tacklers this season.

                                   Tackles for Loss

 1. McGuire Johnson   73           1. T. J. Gregory 4
 2. Conner Drum       54           2. McGuire Johnson 3
 3. T.J. Gregory      43           2. Conner Drum 3
 4. Trevor Duty       36           2. Jon Cervantes 3
 5. Daniel Camarillo  34
 6. Isaac Pruna       32           Pass Break Ups
 7. Doug Hubnik       31           1. Javier Mendez 5
 7. Isaac Mendez      31           2. Daniel Camarillo 3
 7. Jon Cervantes     31           2. Doug Hubnik 3
10. Chandler Faulkner 26           4. Jon Cervantes 2

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History: Canyon Lake lead series with Bandera, 2-0.
 2010 Hawks 35 Bandera 06
 2011 Hawks 55 Bandera 33

This Season's Scores:
 Hawks 26 Blanco     21   Bandera 13  George West  27
 Hawks 35 Somerset   54   Bandera 25  Devine       60
 Hawks 13 La Vernia  14   Bandera 26  Llano        39
 Hawks 31 Burnet     37   Bandera 39  Comfort      21
 Hawks 09 La Grange  34   Bandera 34  La Vernia    14
 Hawks 27 Billies    17   Bandera 06  Wimberley    40

Bandera comes into this week’s game without one of their best offensive players.

Quarterback Michael Miller was lost for the year in their win over La Vernia two weeks ago.

Miller was a do everything type of player for this Bulldog team. He might remind Hawk fans of that quarterback (name withheld by Doctors orders) for Boerne last year that became a nightmare for all those sleepless nights as fans waited for this season to start.

Miller still leads District 27-3A in rushing after missing his first game last week against Wimberley. His 735 yards rushing will be hard to replace to say the least.

In fact, Miller accounted for 53% of the Bulldogs offense until his injury.

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 Season           W   L   Pct      District         W   L    Pct
 Navarro          5   1  .833      Canyon Lake      1   0  1.000
 Fredericksburg   4   2  .667      Navarro          1   0  1.000
 Wimberley        3   3  .500      Wimberley        1   0  1.000
 Boerne           3   3  .500      Boerne           0   1   .000
 Canyon Lake      2   4  .333      Fredericksburg   0   1   .000
 Bandera          2   4  .333      Bandera          0   1   .000

This Week's Games:
 Bandera          @    Canyon Lake    7:30
 Wimberley        @    Navarro
 Fredericksburg   @    Boerne

Last Week's Results:
 Canyon Lake   27   Fredericksburg  17
 Navarro       28   Boerne          14
 Wimberley     40   Bandera         06

District 27-3A Stat Leaders
 Team       Passing           Comp  Att  Pct    Yds  TD  Int
 Boerne     Quinten Dormaday  123   206  59.7  1654  15  5
 HAWKS      Branson Belcher    47    99  47.5   871   9  2
 Billies    Kyle Grona         52   111  46.9   779   5  4
 Wimberley  Reed Jones         34    66  51.5   525   5  4
 Wimberley  Colton Cerday      33    62  53.2   476   3  4

 Team     Rushing              Att  Yards   Ave   TD
 Bandera  Michael Miller       84   735     8.8   8
 Boerne   Bryce Collins        95   676     7.1   9
 Navarro  Zane Conlin          73   650     8.9   9
 Navarro  LJ Anderson          66   579     8.8   6
 Navarro  Evan DeLeon          81   531     6.6   8
 HAWKS    Eduardo Covarrubias  87   462     5.5   4   (7th place)

 Team        Receiving         No   Yards   Ave   TD
 Boerne      Bradley Veselka   27   493    18.3   7
 HAWKS       Daniel Camarillo  23   462    20.1   5
 Boerne      Paul Burns        22   397    18.0   4
 Boerne      Mark Woodie       32   369    11.5   0
 Wimberley   Bryce Rainwater   23   330    14.3   1
 HAWKS       Doug Hubnik       10   244    24.2   3  (8th place)

Eduardo Covarrubias jumping over a Pancake

Canyon Lake’s bend but don’t break defense was up to the task as Fredericksburg could not throw enough at this Hawk team to win.

CL might have learned some valuable lessons from pre/district as they held on for a, 27-17 victory last Friday night at Fredericksburg.

“I’m proud of the kids and they bought into what we wanted done,” Head Coach Charlie Drum said. “One round at a time and we closed out a team after they (Fredericksburg) had tied it.”

“We changed how we practice and our scout team really prepared our starters in the last two weeks…he (Branson Belcher) made big plays and managed the ball well,” Coach Drum responded on questions about the team and how QB Belcher performed on this night.

On the Hawks third possession and third play of their drive, it would become the Doug Hubnik show.

Quarterback Belcher heaved the ball down the sideline to a streaking Hubnik in stride for a 56 yard pass play. Hubnik might have left some burn marks on the grass as he put on his afterburners, leaving the Billies defensive back grabbing air.
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Mountain Valley Eighth Grade ‘B’ squad did not get the better draw when thinking about start time for this game.

Rain was the winner when a downpour was going on through much to this contest.

Both teams could not muster 50 yards of offense as just holding onto the ball should of been worth extra points.

Mountain Valley started things off well when they took their first possession to the Billies four yard line. But this young club could not capitalize and gave the ball up on downs.

On this drive Andrew Neel to Mason Blackburn 32 yard pass play would be the biggest play and over half of the total offense for the game.

The play set the Hawks up deep in Fredericksburg territory, but the rains became the focus point as they continued negating a grand opportunity to score.
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Fredericksburgs Junior Varsity had a perfect play call right off the bat, when on the kick-off, Canyon Lake thought they had the returner with a short return….then a pass laterally to Sammy Studebaker was set up with a wall of blockers.

Result? Seventeen seconds into the game and the Billies had a 7-0 lead and looking at a stunned Hawk team across the field.

All was not lost, however, as this Hawk team proceeded to march 75 yards in 11 plays tying the game with a touchdown.

Seven minutes was worked off the clock and so for comparison sakes:
Fredericksburg had the ball for 17 seconds and a score.
Canyon Lake had the ball for 6:14 seconds and a score.

The Junior Varsity had 30 yards through the air and 40 yards on the ground for their first drive.

Canyon Lake had another chance for a quick score, but an interception stopped a scoring opportunity.

On their first drive, Fredericksburg had three of four plays that gained 36 yards in the opposite direction. Errant snaps were the culprit on two of those plays and one was on a punt.
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Canyon Lake’s Freshman Volleyball team is better than their record.

Freshman Cameron Berger and Sydney Riebschlaeger

Most 3A schools will have three teams in many of their sports.

The Junior Varsity, Varsity, and Freshman teams will be formed as each team prepares for their season. When this happens you will have most varsity teams acquiring all of the best players for that particular team.

So a Varsity team will have predominately Seniors and then a good number of Juniors. The football team will many times have two to three Sophomores that make a varsity team.

This year CL’s Volleyball Varsity team has added a Freshman (Halley McKnight) to their roster which is a rare feat.

Junior Varsity will many times have Juniors, Sophomores, and a Freshman will have their best chance to move into this role.

You will always have a Freshman team being just freshman. They will never have the luxury of adding any other grades to that team.
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