The Hawks looked good with all three teams last Friday at Hawk Stadium. The Freshman, Junior Varsity, and Varsity were all in action and came out of the game ready for their five year old birthday party.

In the two 12 minute quarters after the set scrimmage, CL scored twice while holding Lehman scoreless.

“No injuries and we got better this week,” Head Coach Charley Drum said. “This week we played a better team and we seemed to be faster on defense.”

Defense is what will have the final say on how this team will finish and holding Lehman scoreless overshadowed all the scoring the Hawks had on this night.
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Eduardo Covarubbias has been a mouthful through the last two years as Canyon Lake goes on the road and that team’s announcer has the chance to practice a lot of syllables.

The saving grace has been that Covarubbias has not had the amount of carries his counterpart had (Zach Henshaw) during his 4,329 rushing yards the past three years.

Now, Covarubbias will have the chance to show off his skills during his Senior year and quite frankly, there might not be that much difference from what we had seen when Henshaw was running over defenses for the Hawks.

Covarubbias was the feature back the first part of the 2010 season when Henshaw was nursing an injury suffered during the Summer. Covarrubias did quite well during that time slot when he rushed for 417 yards on 71 carries for a 5.9 per carry average during that four game stint.

For his career Covarubbias has totaled, 943 yards on 159 carries for a 5.9 per carry average.
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Canyon Lake controlled Johnson City from the opening serve and were never behind their Eagle counterpart.

The Hawks won their last three games in Wimberley last week-end and continued on that hot streak as they continued to apply the pressure in this match up.

“We are serving more aggressively and we seem to be getting better each game,” Head Coach Nicole Creek said. “We can’t give them any thing easy.”

Last Tuesday during the opening games of this season, Canyon Lake was having a hard time getting their serves over the net, which would result in easy points for the opposition. Coach Creek seemed to be happy with how this part of the game is improving.

Twelve Aces served by the Hawks is case and point to that improvement.
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During district play last season, Canyon Lake finished second in points scored only behind State Champion Wimberley.

That translated into a season with eight wins and no chance for more since the team missed on the tie breaker rule with Boerne and Navarro.

However; District 26 standings would of been predicted right on the button if you would of known how many points each team would give up.

Wimberley allowed only 51 points total in their five games, a whopping 100 points less than the Hawks.

Canyon Lake had a break out year offensively, but were left at the altar defensively when they gave up 30.2 points per game in that five game stretch.
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Canyon Lake has started another season and for the first time with a new man in charge.

Head Coach Charley Drum is no stranger to the Hawk’s sideline and now the curtain has been raised on his team from this time forward.

Canyon Lake started their season with a scrimmage in Georgetown against East View a new school about two years younger than the Hawks.

Running Back Eduardo Covarrubias scored from 65 yards out on the first play from scrimmage on a lead to the right side. He broke a tackle at the line of scrimmage, and then out ran everyone else to the goal line.
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The Hawks started slow but finished with a rush by winning their final three games to salvage a Bronze Bracket Championship last weekend in Wimberley.

Tex-Fest Volleyball Tournament has been on Canyon Lake’s schedule every year and the Hawks were able to get some much needed game experience and end the tournament with a three game winning streak.

“After a tough first day we battled back to sweep all three teams we played on Saturday,” Head Coach Nicole Creek said.

Canyon Lake beat Salado, 25-23 and 25-22 on Saturday. With so many teams in tournaments, teams advance in a best of three series instead of the best of five normally during the rest of the season.

In the Salado game, Marisa Ellis lead the team with 12 kills and finished second scoring 14 assists. Ellis has taken on a more dominant role in the attacking part of her game as this season starts in it’s infancy.

Freshman Halley McKnight has shown enough so far this season to suggest there will be improvement as she also had 15 assists, leading the Hawks.

Two other newcomers, Junior transfer Trena Lorett and Sophomore Hayley Malone finished one and two with seven and six digs in the game.
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The Hawks started their new year with a split in a three team round robin last Tuesday night at the Canyon Lake gymnasium.

Both games were five game sets that left the exhaustive fans feeling good about this team.

Canyon Lake beat Liberty Hill in the first match: 23-25, 17-25, 25-15, 27-25, 15-5.

The first two games would be games that Coach Nicole Creek could use for instructing future team how not to play.

“First game jitters,” Head Coach Creek said. “We had great serving and clutch hitting to end this game.”

The second game of the set, had only three points scored that was not a result of Liberty Hill losing the serve. The hole dug by the Hawks was too deep to see any light to climb out of.

Canyon Lake had their first lead starting the third game going ahead 1-0. Marisa Ellis was the server when CL actually had a rally of five points that gave the Hawks a six point lead of 14-8.
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What is the definition for winning?

The Hawks have been on a tear since the middle of the ’10 season as they have compiled a record that can be a great building block.

Canyon Lake will be entering their fifth season and now only lack one win to even their overall record to an even .500 with 22 wins and losses.

Considering the first season where Canyon Lake could only muster one win over a hapless Ingram team where scoring 21 points was a high water mark for the young Hawks.

Three years later, CL has put their brand on many other mascots with some high scoring and with losses to only three teams during this recent stretch. Wimberley, Boerne, and Somerset are the only losses and now the Hawks ready themselves for another exciting year.
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Top Ten

 Total Yardage:   Offense                  Defense
 Ingram           579   ‘09             1. Fredericksburg    173 '11
 Bandera          528   '11             2. Fredericksburg    215 '09
 Fredericksburg   494   ‘11             3. Wimberley         219 '09
 Llano            479   ‘09             3. Ingram            219 '09
 Fredericksburg   474   ‘10             5. Blanco            226 '09
 Austin Travis    471   ‘11             6. Boerne            231 '10
 Luling           446   ‘11             7. Gonzales          240 '09
 La Vernia        441   ‘11             8. Blanco            252 '11
 China Spring     425   ‘09 (Playoffs)  9. Liberty Hill      260 '09
 Wimberley        419   ‘10            10. Fredericksburg    279 '10

Rushing Yardage: Offense 

 Sealy            370   ‘11             1. Somerset           36  '10 (Playoffs)
 Austin Travis    325   ‘11             2. Ingram             48  '09
 Fredericksburg   307   ‘11             3. Wimberley          56  '09
 Navarro          303   ‘11             4. Boerne             60  '10
 Burnet           293   ‘10 (Playoffs)  5. Luling            112  '11
 Somerset         278   ‘10 (Playoffs)  6. Bandera           116  '10
 Bandera          273   '11             7. Gonzales          122  '09
 Ingram           236   ‘09             8. Burnet            132  '09
 La Vernia        235   ‘11             9. La Vernia         139  '11
 La Vernia        233   ‘10            10. Fredericksburg    141  '11

 Passing: Offense 
 Ingram           343   ‘09             1. Navarro             3  '10
 Llano            330   ‘09             2. Liberty Hill       18  '09
 Luling           323   ‘11             3. Fredericksburg     32  '11
 China Spring     307   ‘09 (Playoffs)  4. Fredericksburg     38  '09
 Wimberley        293   ‘10             4. Blanco             38  '08
 Blanco           292   ‘09             6. Llano              39  '08
 Wimberley        273   ‘09             7. La Vernia          41  '09
 Fredericksburg   258   ‘10             8. Sealy              51  '11
 Bandera          255   '11             9. Liberty Hill       57  '08
 Boerne           249   ‘10            10. Blanco             65  '09

Quarterback Branson Belcher has won more games than any other quarterback in the history of Canyon Lake Football.

His eight wins last year put him ahead of Ross Wagliardo and Jeff Nabors who won seven and six games respectively in the previous three years.

Now the Hawks prepare for a break out year that hopefully will include that hidden word called, ‘Playoffs’.

The 8-2 season last year was great, but not having a game after the tenth game, left an emptiness for the team and fans.

Senior Quarterback Belcher will now take ownership of a team that has the possibility of eclipsing the eight wins from last year.
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