Canyon Lake wins Nail Biter over Blanco, 26-21 in the opening game of the

Running Back Eduardo Covarrubias getting some valuable real estate

Canyon Lake played a close game against Blanco again. What else is new?

The last four games have all been by seven points or fewer.

“Typical Blanco game,” Head Coach Charley Drum sighed a breath of relief. “This team is tough, tough, tough and they proved that they have a solid football team that can execute.”

“This was an ugly win, but it is better than a loss. A lot of kids haven’t played much and have not been in these situations.”

Blanco was Canyon Lake’s first loss five years ago and now Blanco was the game where the Hawks reached the .500 winning percentage.

Coach Drum has now won his inaugural game.
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Canyon Lake Junior Varsity lapped the Blanco Panthers Thursday night at Hawk Stadium, winning

Running Back Hayden Dubois

their opener 38-14.

Running Back Hayden Dubois took the reins on the wagon and darted for 212 yards. The Blanco team was grabbing air as Dubois averaged over nine yards per carry with several impressive runs.

“It takes a good line to make a great back,” Dubois started. “All I see is the first down marker and then go for it.”

Go for it he did as Dubois did one better by also looking for the flags in the end zone too.

“When I’m running, I look for the hole and then just cut back, but without the upfield blocking I would not of had that.”

“My head is not on the yards I get, it is the team effort,” Dubois said eloquently in response to looking surprised when he heard how many yards gained in the game.

Dubois had his first scoring run come about in that manner when he reversed his field and cut threw the grain for 39 yards.
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The Canyon Lake Freshman football team was all business as they sent the Lago Vista Vikings home without their boat in an 18-0 win last Thursday night at Hawk Stadium.

This Lago Vista club beat the Hawks last year and it seemed like this group of boys had not forgotten that game.

“We wanted to come out with a victory,” Running Back Cody Davis said. “They got us last year.”

Davis finished the contest with 134 yards on 21 carries as the Hawk offense methodically took control of this game and grounded the Vikings.

“I was just trying to follow my blocks,” Davis commented about the amount of yards he had accumulated for the evening.

The half-time statistics would give you an idea of the dominance of CL’s defense.

Lago Vista only had one first down and 22 total yards and for the game finished with 49 yards and yes, they got just one first down in that half also.

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Canyon Lake will have Coaches with new job descriptions this year, but you

Defensive Coordinator Cody Means

When Coach Matt Monzingo left for the Comal Athletic Director job, the brass was pretty careful on how they replaced the dominoes that fell based on that empty position.

Head Coach Charley Drum slid into his new office seamlessly and then the Hawks had to replace their Offensive and Defensive Coordinators.

Job completed and this Friday you will have a chance to see how no bumps in the road make for a smooth ride.

Defensive Coordinator Cody Means started with responding to the number of points scored on the Defense last season, “Just looking at the points scored is misleading, when we get ahead in a game, then we will let people in, kids getting to play is more important to me.”
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Canyon Lake Volleyball (10-7) finishes a three team round robin, 1-1 in La Vernia on Tuesday night.

Head Volleyball Coach Nicole Creek

Their first match was a win over San Antonio McCollum in four games. A second game disappearance was the only flaw.

The Hawks did win the next two games convincingly, 25-16 and 25-19.

Senior Marisa Ellis once again had a triple double leading the team with 14 kills and contributing 14 assists and 11 digs in this battle.

Freshman Halley McKnight lead the assist count with 19 and Sophomore Hayley Melone finished with 24 digs.

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Coaches Corner will now be known as Drum Beat in honor of Head Coach Charley Drum.

Head Coach Charley Drum

ReSporter: How are you feeling about your first game as Head Coach?

Coach Drum: “It is a nervous energy. it has taken forever for Friday to get here.”

ReSporter: Where is the team right now as the season looms?

Coach Drum: “I think we are further along than where we had been this time last year. Scrimmages can be a good indicator, but sometimes they’re not.

ReSporter: Tell us about this week’s game with Blanco.

Coach Drum: “They always play us tough…Tim Goodman and Colton Childress will be hard to handle in the backfield. Blanco is basically a run base offense. We are looking for football fundamentals in our game this week.”

ReSporter: How do you try to handle the beginning of this season starting with Blanco?

Coach Drum: “They will always throw a few wrinkles into the game. They do a good job of trying to keep our offense off the field with their offense, conversely we want to do the opposite.
Last year we played well for the the first two downs but we would make a mistake to help the team we were playing to keep a drive alive.”

ReSporter: Good luck Coach and we look forward to more insights this season.

The Hawks had a slow start to the season last year and the Blanco game looked like Canyon Lake would be put in that situation again. The main item the past few months in the football write-ups has been the inability of the team to finish.

“Last year we didn’t finish,” Head Coach Matt Monzingo stated. “Tonight we finished, we controlled the game with ball control in the second half.”

Finishing did not happen until the end of the season and now the Hawks have acquired the taste of accomplishment in the second half as CLHS finished the Panthers off.

Here is the tale of the tape between the first and second half. Canyon Lake totaled 108 yards in the first half. Second half? 196

Junior Linebacker Travis Walker holds on for dear life.

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Canyon Lake did it again by coming through on the opposite bracket in Devine last Thursday and Saturday.

This was a little different from the Wimberley Tournament in that Canyon Lake at least won one game on the first day of action.

The win was also against a District 27 foe from Bandera. The first day did have a much more competitive atmosphere coming from Canyon Lake as all the games were hard fought and there was no contest that was a roll over.

Once again the Hawks ruled the second day with another three game sweep.

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History: Blanco series is tied 2-2
 2008 Hawks 00 Panthers 63
 2009 Hawks 21 Panthers 14
 2010 Hawks 07 Panthers 12
 2011 Hawks 14 Panthers 07
 This Year: First Game

This has been a home field advantage series thus far in games played.

The last three games have all been decided by seven points or less and this year could be in that same vein.

Canyon Lake comes off a very disappointing season in that their record (8-2) was the best ever, but there was nothing to show for all the accolades. Two losses in district play kept the Hawks out of the playoffs by five points in the tie breaker rule.

What type of team will come through the Hawk inflatable this year remains to be seen.

There will be several new players not seen running to the sidelines and the loss of Zach Henshaw a player that eclipsed the 2000 rushing total last season. Matt Magness will also be missing as a go to receiver, not to mention key losses on the offensive line.
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