![Walking through the tunnel created by the cheerleaders and Celebrities, senior Frances Tran smiles as the soccer team is sent off during DEN for their playoff game against Rouse tonight. Tran said the wins against Smithson Valley and Alamo Heights gave the team a morale boost to take on the Raiders tonight. “I know we were not 100% confident in those games,” Tran said. “But, Rouse is a big opponent for sure. We’re definitely going into tonight with a lot of morale [because of the previous wins].”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/frances-tran.jpg)
![Holding a bucket of materials in one hand and a roll of tape in another, anatomy and biology teacher Tyler Terry prepares for a lab. Terry said his proudest moments are when his students are happy to see him. “When I take my wife to a football game or something and a bunch of students want to say hi to me or they like to smile and wave and it just makes me feel good that the students are really kind and supportive of me,” Terry said. “[I’m also] proud when I see students perform really well in their extracurriculars because I can see how hard they’re working in my classes, [so] when I see that they’re also working so hard in other things. Like they’re winning band competitions or they’re getting awards for their theater productions, or I see them put on their choir shows, that’s like, wow, you guys are incredible.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rags-6.png)
![Catching a ball, junior Alivia Robinson plays at the Cedar Park vs Glenn game. Having played since she was 5 years old, she is dedicated to softball and has committed to UTPB for softball. “When I got my offer it took me a very long time to decide where,” Robinson said. “Softball has always been my dream for college, and UTPB is my fit. When [I committed] I knew I was going to be loved and supported.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lilly-Adams-3.13aliviaedit-901.jpg)
CPFB Moving into Round 2 of Playoffs
Overtime Field Goal by Sophomore Kicker Gives CP the Win
Breaking tackles, junior running back Jonathan Stockwell runs with the ball down field to help out his team. “I felt the energy was good as a unit even though we have areas to get better at,” Stockwell said. ” Also, we were playing for the seniors so we can play another week one week at a time. You know it’s win or go home so we have to win to keep our state run alive.” CPHS plays Shadow Creek this Friday at 7:00.
November 19, 2018
Friday, the football team won their first round playoff game against the LBJ Jaguars 10-7. CPHS had a lot of momentum coming into the game, with only one district loss to Hutto.
LBJ finished their regular season with an 8-2 record, while CPHS finished with a 7-3 regular season record. Junior safety Tammer Alzer said he was ready to play in this game for his team.
“We knew the season depended on how bad we wanted it,” Alzer said. “Looking into everyone’s eyes, you could tell that nobody was worried. We knew the season depended on us and we were ready for the challenge.”
The whole game was a nail biter, with the score at the end of regulation at 7-7. Going into overtime, there was a coin toss to determine who plays on offense first and who plays on defense first. LBJ played on offense first in overtime, and the defense showed that they weren’t going to give up the game. On fourth down, the LBJ quarterback threw up a pass with hopes that one of his receivers would come down with it, but senior cornerback Cole Hollen had other ideas. He went up and caught the ball in the endzone to give the offense a chance to win the game with any type of score.
“It felt great after I came down with the pick,” Hollen said. “I just wanted to make a play for my team to keep the family alive for one more week.”
Junior cornerback Caden Combs had an interception as well. This was Comb’s first year playing on varsity, and with nine tackles in two games, according to Max Preps, he proved that he has what it takes to compete at a high level.
“I was thinking about my senior teammates and how we needed to win this game to keep the family alive,” Combs said. “During Cole’s pick, it was just unreal. We had such a great defensive game as a unit. Before the game, we were all focused and locked in on what we were supposed to do.”
To seal the game on fourth down, sophomore kicker Justin Bohrer converted a 34-yard field goal to win the game and send the team to round two.
“I had no clue that it would come down to me,” Bohrer said. “At the beginning of halftime, I went and got in some practice kicks in because my feet were frozen. Once I got on the field, I was really relaxed and confident that I would make it because I knew my holder and snapper would do their job, and I would do the same.”
Cedar Park is set to face Shadow Creek this Friday at 7 p.m. at Bryan High School.
![Holding her dog, Nova, senior Ariana Balakrishnan poses for her senior pictures while Nova wears a bandana with her college decision. Balakrishnan applied to 18 colleges in total, but she decided on Columbia in the end. “Right before I clicked the button to open Columbia’s letter, I literally looked at the camera and go ‘This is just gonna really suck because I wanted it so bad,’ and I clicked it and all of a sudden you hear trumpets,” Balakrishnan said. “There’s a video that plays when you open it and I actually didn’t watch the video, I just watched the screen go black, because every day of December before ED [Early Decision] I would go on YouTube and watch the acceptance video to manifest it, so immediately when the screen went black, I started screaming and jumping up and down. And my parents in the video are like ‘What are you doing, where’s the letter,’ and I was just screaming ‘I got in, I got in.” I just started crying, and it just felt like everything in the world came together.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ariana-2-300x217.jpg)
![Catching a ball, junior Alivia Robinson plays at the Cedar Park vs Glenn game. Having played since she was 5 years old, she is dedicated to softball and has committed to UTPB for softball. “When I got my offer it took me a very long time to decide where,” Robinson said. “Softball has always been my dream for college, and UTPB is my fit. When [I committed] I knew I was going to be loved and supported.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lilly-Adams-3.13aliviaedit-901-600x400.jpg)
