Boerne High continues district football action this week by playing Veterans Memorial on Thursday night at Rutlege Stadium in Converse.
Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. Greyhounds head coach Brett Sawyer said he doesn’t mind a Thursday game.
“I like Thursday games,” he said. “It takes a practice away but as the season goes on, the expectation is already set for practice. It’s about knowing the game plan and executing it.”
The Greyhounds sit at 6-1 overall and 3-0 in district, while the Patriots are struggling and stand at 2-5 overall. They are winless in the district at 0-3, but Sawyer said that doesn’t matter because they have the same approach regardless of who they play.
“We say the same thing every week, ‘we have to focus on us and how Boerne can get better,’” he said. “Who we play is irrelevant.”
Boerne is coming off an impressive victory last week against a high-powered Victoria West squad they held to a season-low 14 points.
BHS came up with two second-half interceptions and then the defense turned the Warriors away on four straight run plays on a 1st and goal from the 1-yard line.
The Hounds opened the game with a field goal from Diego Jimenez, but Victoria West scored on its next drive and went up 7-3. However, Boerne scored the next two touchdowns for the 17-7 lead at halftime.
Neither team scored in the third quarter in the defensive struggle, and then the Greyhounds added to their lead early in the fourth quarter at 24-7.
The Warriors tallied a rushing touchdown early in the fourth to make it 24-14 but that’s as close as they came to catching the Hounds in the second half as the BHS offense played keep-away and burned nine of the 12 minutes off the clock in the fourth quarter.
While the victory was sweet, Sawyer said he doesn’t feel like they’ve played their best game yet.
“We need to get back in sync,” he said. “I felt like we weren’t in step last week. We just need to put it together and keep improving.”
It’s good that Sawyer likes Thursday games because they host McCollum next Thursday when they welcome McCollum.
Former Greyhound assistant David Wilkinson is now the Cowboys’ head coach, and he’ll get to coach against his son, Bobby Jett Wilkinson, who plays for the Greyhounds.
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