![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)
T-Wolves Rain on Raiders’ Hoco Parade
Senior CB Caden Combs celebrates with the defense after picking off a pass on Sept. 27 against Rouse at Bible Stadium. The defense got numerous turnovers against Rouse, thus leading to short fields and points for the offense. “It always feels great when your team is clicking,” Combs said. “There’s no better feeling.
September 30, 2019
Another Friday night game, another Cedar Park stomping. This time, it comes on the road against Rouse at their homecoming game, 55-9.
The defense put on yet another show, as they busted out their “Turnover Belt” numerous times. The Rouse offense was shut out on the game; the nine Rouse points came on a kickoff returned for a TD and a safety. The most notable defensive play came in the first quarter, as senior CB Caden Combs made a diving INT on a ball that was deflected in the secondary.
“We constantly train on getting the ball [back to the offense],” Combs said. “I was at the right place at the right time. I was very proud of [our] defense as a whole.”
The Timberwolves have now allowed under 20 points in the four out of five games they’ve played, which is an accomplishment in and of itself, given that most offenses are pass-heavy nowadays and there is typically an abundance of points.
“It always feels great when your team is clicking,” Combs said. “There’s no better feeling.”
It always feels great when your team is clicking. There’s no better feeling,
— Caden Combs
There is also no shortage of big-time plays for the Cedar Park offense. The team has seemingly corrected everything that went wrong week one, and it shows on the field.
“We’ve been executing and going hard in practice, not wanting to have that week one feeling again,” junior QB Ryder Hernandez said. “[We’re] using that as fuel to get us going in district.”
One of the best plays of the night came in the red zone; Rouse brought a blitz and got to Hernandez, but as he was going down, he flipped the ball to junior WR Gunnar Abseck who was running a drag route. Hernandez said he felt the pressure coming and just wanted to shovel it away.
“[Abseck] made a great play coming and getting the ball,” Hernandez said.
Abseck did the rest on the play and trotted into the end zone to make it 13-0 T-Wolves.
“Ryder dumped it off too me and great blocks on the edge allowed me to walk into the end zone,” Abseck said. “I thought we did well – we started slow but finished fast. Our mission next week is to start fast and finish fast.”
This Friday, Cedar Park will face another team with zero wins, Pflugerville Connally, at Gupton, as the team looks to keep the momentum rolling.
![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)
