SAN ANTONIO — Boerne High’s 13-game win streak and their 2025 football season came to an end last Friday at the hands of Richmond Randle in the Alamodome, the same team that knocked the Greyhounds out of the playoffs last year.
Lions running back Landon Williams-Callis, a five-star recruit with more than 60 scholarship offers, ran wild in Friday’s game and tallied 215 ground yards on 25 carries and scored five touchdowns to propel Randle past the Greyhounds, 40-16.
Randle improves to 15-0 and has won 31 straight games. The defending state champs advance to the 5A-DII title contest Saturday morning in Arlington against Dallas South Oak Cliff, while Boerne High ends another successful season at 13-2.
The Greyhounds dropped their first and their last games of the year but in between won 13 straight and have now won three regional titles in four seasons.
BHS head coach Brett Sawyer said the players that come through the program deserve all the credit.
“This is a testament to them and the program that they built in their four years here,” Sawyer said of his 23 seniors. “It’ll have a lasting impact on the underclassmen.”
The Greyhounds kept it close early in Friday’s game, and it was tied 9-9 in the second quarter. A Lions field goal and then a 30-yard TD run by Williams-Callis helped Randle jump out to a 9-0 lead after they missed the extra point.
Boerne answered thanks to a short field after Ben Bays sacked Lions QB Tyler Skrabanek and caused a fumble that was recovered by Cash Gatlin to set up the Greyhounds at the Randle 19-yard line.
On Boerne’s second play after the turnover, BHS quarterback Grant Sweeney hit Zach Freasier, who made a great one-handed TD catch in the end zone, and it was 9-7 after the Diego Jimenez extra point.
The Greyhounds tied it a few minutes later when Hadden Silva blocked a Randle punt that resulted in a safety. Bays tried to recover the blocked punt for a TD, but the ball rolled out the back of the end zone before he could secure it, and it was 9-9.
“When you play a team that’s only punted, I think 10 times all year, they don’t have to work punt very often,” Sawyer said. “We felt like we had an advantage and it was a bad snap, and Silva was able to get it.”
The Greyhounds needed a few more breaks like that but didn’t get many the rest of the way, while Williams- Callis took over from there. The talented running back tallied touchdowns on runs of 1 and 9 yards in the final 4:25 of the second quarter to give the Lions a 23-9 halftime lead.
The Williams-Callis show continued in the second half with two more touchdowns. After a Greyhound fumble on their first play of the third quarter, the Randle running back took it to the house from 17 yards and it was 30-9.
Later in the third quarter, Williams-Callis capped a 97-yard drive with a 43-yard run where he avoided defenders and zig-zagged his way into the end zone to give the Lions a 37-9 lead with 4:48 left in the third quarter.
“He’s an incredible talent; he’s going to do great things on Friday next year and on Saturday for years to come,” Sweeney said about Williams- Callis, who didn’t play past the third quarter.
Twice in that third quarter, the Greyhounds had the ball deep inside the Randle territory and couldn’t punch it in. They had a 1st and goal at the 3-yard line and didn’t gain a yard, and on another drive, the Hounds had a 1st and goal at the 2-yard-line and couldn’t score.
Also, in the first half, the Greyhounds had a 1st and goal at the Lions’ 3-yard line on their opening drive and missed a field goal, so they ended up not scoring on any of those three drives.
Sawyer said those are learning opportunities for the players returning next season.
“We had the ball three times inside the five-yard line and got no points. We put ourselves in good positions but just didn’t execute,” he said. “It’s unfortunate but at the same time, that’s the stuff you build an offseason on. Those are the things next year’s group is going to remember and be great at next year.”
Raul Vegas tacked on a 32-yard field goal for the Lions and built the lead to 40-9 by the middle of the fourth quarter, but the Greyhounds went down swinging.
Sweeney found Eli Nikolas in the back of the end zone on a short pass with 1:53 left to make the score 40-16 after the Jimenez PAT.
The Lions ended up killing the clock from there to seal up the victory as they move on to the title tilt and look to wrap up their second straight championship.
Greyhounds’ receiver Will Traylor (2) hauls in a pass against the Lions last Friday. Traylor snagged nine passes for 138 yards in the game.
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