Canyon Lake backs are against the wall now as this Hawks team will need to win their next two games to have an outside chance of making the playoffs this season.

The loss to front runner Wimberley now leaves Canyon Lake with a must win over second and third place, Fredericksburg and Boerne respectfully.

CL has shown they can compete and win against Bandera and Navarro. Navarro game was lost in the fifth game of the match in their last outing on the road last week.

Moral victories are just that, but this Hawk team did compete at a much higher degree that wasn’t there last time these two teams met over two weeks ago.
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Series History: Hawks lead 3-1
 2008 Hawks 14 Billies 65
 2009 Hawks 14 Billies 07
 2010 Hawks 35 Billies 20
 2011 Hawks 35 Billies 07

This Season's Results:
 Hawks 26 Blanco    21    Billies 21  Burnet      26
 Hawks 35 Somerset  54    Billies 45  SA Memorial 14
 Hawks 13 La Vernia 14    Billies 44  Brady       00
 Hawks 31 Burnet    37    Billies 22  Lampasas    19
 Hawks 09 La Grange 34    Billies 14  Llano       06

A lot has changed in the past year in the football world. Fredericksburg only needs one more win to match their win total the past three years. Night and Day could be another way of putting the difference between the past and now for the Billies.

Meanwhile, Canyon Lake has, ‘fallen and can’t get up’, so far this season.

Take a few game moments away and this Hawk team could also be 4-1 instead of 1-4. La Grange was the first team that did anything they wanted in their game with CL.

There was a chance that the Hawks could of easily been held scoreless in that game and the defense was abused by La Grange.

Canyon Lake has proven that they don’t like water.

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Coaches and 7th Grade 'A' Team talk after Victory over Boerne

Mountain Valley 7A team whitewashed the Greyhounds from Boerne on Thursday at Hawk Stadium.

The drive was right before halftime when this Hawk team took the ball on their 13 yard line after Caimen McDonough intercepted a Greyhound pass stopping a drive that would of had Boerne drawing first blood.

Mountain Valley set up shop on their 13 yard line and then proceeded to drive 87 yards in 12 plays to take the lead and in so doing taking the air out Boerne’s balloon.

Two passes for 32 yards and eight running plays that covered 55 yards and the touchdown.

The Hawks had 153 total yards and 87 of those yards were on this one drive.

Running back Micah St John had 68 yards rushing and 24 came on this drive, with the final seven ending this set of downs.

“I was able to see the what the defense was doing and then I started doing what the Coaches had taught me,” St John said. “I planted my foot and just went the other way.”

St John was commenting on how he got yardage on one of his runs and made yardage out of a play that could of had a loss on that play.
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Canyon Lake wins first District 27-3A Volleyball game against Bandera last Tuesday night on the road.

The Hawks won this match in five games in a topsy turvy manner. Winning the first two games of the match, then following that with two losses.

Going into their fifth game after losing the last two games had to be nerve racking.

“Last night we had our eye on giving us a chance at playoff and we knew that we had to win last night,” Head Coach Nicole Creek started. “The girls were extremely determined going into that game and did everything it took to win.”
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Canyon Lake's Rush Defense

What is interesting is that Canyon Lake has had many stats that would indicate a record that could be better if you did not know any results of games.

Five Game Stats          Opponents       CL Hawks
 Total Yardage           1554            1560
 First Downs             78              69
 Rushes/Yards            187/876         172/873
 Comp/Att/Int            48/75/1         36/75/0
 Passing Yards           678             687
 Punts/Average           10/38.9         18/40.9
 Fumbles/Lost            7/5             6/3
 Penalties-Yards         16-110          28-224

Only six yards separate CL with teams played. The Hawks have a better per rush average and a better yards per catch.

Canyon Lake is also winning the turnover battle giving up three while forcing six so far this season.

The Hawks have been penalized over 100 yards more than their counterpart, which is certainly a negative and many games can be traced to this as a reason for a loss or two.
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Team                   W    L    Pct.
 Navarro               4    1   .800
 Fredericksburg        4    1   .800
 Boerne                3    2   .600
 Bandera               2    3   .400
 Wimberley             2    3   .400
 Canyon Lake           1    4   .200

Upcoming Games: Games for October 5th
 Canyon Lake   @    Fredericksburg    7:30pm
 Boerne        @    Navarro
 Bandera       @    Wimberley

Last Week's Games:
 La Grange      34    Canyon Lake     09
 Navarro        30    SA Sam Houston  13
 Liberty Hill   46    Wimberley       24
 Bandera        34    La Vernia       14
 Boerne         42    Lytle           08
 Fredericksburg 14    Llano           06

District Stat Leaders: All Stats up to date.
 Team             Quarterback     Comp    Att    Pct    Yds   TD   Int
 Boerne           Quinten Dormady 104     174   59.8   1348   13   4
 Canyon Lake      Branson Belcher  36      78   46.1    687    7   0
 Fredericksburg   Kyle Grona       38      76   50.0    646    5   3
 Wimberley        Colton Cerday    33      62   53.2    476    3   4
 Bandera          Michael Miller   24      51   47.1    348    1   2

 Team             Running Back            Att    Yds    Ave   TD
 Bandera          Michael Miller          84     735    8.6   8
 Boerne           Bryce Collins           84     612    7.3   9
 Navarro          Zane Conlin             55     577   10.5   9
 Bandera          Fabian Munez            58     453    7.8   5
 Navarro          L. J. Anderson          53     423    7.6   6
 Canyon Lake      Eduardo Covarrubias     66     379    5.7   3 (7th place in Dist.)

 Team             Receiver                No     Yds    Ave   TD
 Canyon Lake      Daniel Camarillo        19     413   21.7   4
 Boerne           Bradley Veselka         22     401   16.0   6
 Boerne           Mark Woodie             29     314   11.0   0
 Boerne           Paul Burns              16     285   18.0   3
 Fredericksburg   Kim Ross Baethge        13     283   22.0   3

The good news is that there was rain at Hawk Stadium, Friday night as La Grange started a deluge and kept raining on the Hawks through three quarters until they called off the Leopards in the fourth quarter and let Canyon Lake score.

“We have got to work on our psyche,” Head Coach Charley Drum started. “We need to do some soul searching. We could not move the ball and we need some players to step it up.

This game was not pretty as Canyon Lake had no answers for the La Grange running game and conversely could not find their own running game.

The Leopards came into this game with two straight shut-outs and continued to keep the clamps on Canyon Lake with two first downs and a team that could not sniff the 50 yard line for the first half.

The Hawks finally passed the 50 on their last drive of the evening where they also accumulated five first downs giving them seven for the evening.
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The Mountain Valley 8th grade football team forged into the lead and never took their foot off the San Antonio Christian Lions in winning, 14-0 last Thursday night at Hawk Stadium.

The best of both worlds happened in the first quarter as MV Hawks forced a turnover on their three yard line and then drove 96 yards for their first and what proved to be the only touchdown they would need on this night.

A 35 yard reception by Heath McDonough was the back breaker on this drive as Quarterback Dylan Compton took control behind center to drive the Hawks for the score.

Mountain Valley would put more distance between these two schools in the second quarter when they finished a 6 play 57 yard drive that added the insurance needed to rest easier for the Hawks.

Running back Hayden Reed would start this drive with a 19 yard run and be responsible for 44 of the 57 yards on three carries.

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Mountain Valley Seventh Grade beat SAC Eagles last Thursday night at Hawk Stadium 30-14 for their second win of the season.

The game did take a wake up call from a 73 yard kick-off return by Cruz Flores that got the Hawks going on the right track. And when that happened this MV team showed they were ready to tame these Lions from San Antonio.

With time running out in the first half, SAC drove 69 yards in five plays that put the Lions up by a touchdown. The major damage was a pinball run from Zach Zinsmyer from 48 yards out and the score.

Mountain Valley proceeded with an answer with a nifty right up the middle kick-off return from Flores and a quick answer of 12 seconds to put this Hawk team on the board.

“I was just trying to find an open hole,” Kick returner Flores started. “I had to make up for the mistake I made earlier in the game.”
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