A perfect district season and an outright title in 13-5A DII is on the line for the Boerne High football team when they visit Kerrville Tivy.
BHS faces the Antlers Friday in Kerrville, 7 p.m.
The Greyhounds (5-0) have clinched a share of the district title and will be the No. 1 seed regardless since they are the only team to beat Alamo Heights (5-1), but they can win it outright with a win in Kerrville.
Greyhounds coach Brett Sawyer said the bigger issue beyond an outright district title is playing well in their regular-season finale.
“It’s more important just to play well; getting on track and playing our best game going into the playoffs is more important,” he said.
The Hounds have won their last two district games over Veterans Memorial (45-27) and McCollum (42-0) but have not had the starts Sawyer would like to see. Boerne was only up 7-0 at the end of the first quarter in both games and at one point McCollum had a chance to tie it last week but missed a throw to a wide-open receiver near the goal line thanks to defensive pressure.
The Greyhounds finished those two games strong and have put together an eight-game winning streak after dropping their season opener to stand at 8-1 overall, but Sawyer said they need to come out of the gate quicker.
“The defense has played well, but starting better offensively is an emphasis for us,” Sawyer said. “We’ve been playing well but are a little sluggish in the first quarter. That’s one of the things we need to work out, executing early. There are always things to get better and work on.”
Curtis Neill took over for David Jones in Kerrville as their new head coach and Sawyer said Neill has the Antlers playing good football. Tivy is 3-2 in district and will make the playoffs this year.
“They’re playing well and they’re better than they were last year,” he said. “They’ve had a change, and he’s come in and rejuvenated them.” Sawyer said one thing this year’s Antlers team does is speed up the tempo of the game.
“They execute their offense well and they have a lot of weapons,” he said. “They go fast and are snapping the ball as fast as they can. They get 90 offensive plays in a game when we’re used to defending 70 plays. They basically get an extra quarter of plays in.”
Kerrville may play fast, but they couldn’t slow down Alamo Heights last week. The Mules rolled to a 77-35 victory over the Antlers.
Mules running back D.K. Garza ran wild against the Antlers and rushed for 449 yards and six touchdowns. Garza has done that to most teams this year and has more than 2,000 rushing yards already.
“Garza went off; he’s hard to tackle,” Sawyer said. “They struggled tackling him, like everybody else does. He breaks a lot of tackles, and he broke a lot (last Friday).”
Boerne “held” Garza to 153 rushing yards in their meeting, but the talented back scored four touchdowns, however the Greyhounds won the game, 37-35.
Sawyer said Kerrville uses players on both sides of the ball and hopes that Boerne’s depth will be a factor in Friday’s game.
“They don’t really sub a whole lot offensively, so you have to make sure you line up defensively quickly and keep it as simple as you can,” he said. “It helps to have depth as the game goes on. We have more bodies to put in there.”
Boerne (5-0), Alamo Heights (5-1), Victoria West (3-2) and Kerrville Tivy (3-2) will represent the district in the playoffs this year.
The top two teams in each district host a game at the 5A level, so the Greyhounds will host a first-round playoff game like they did last year.
Sawyer said they won’t know who they will play until after Friday, but the plan is to host a game on Nov. 14 at BISD Stadium to open the first round.
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