All four Kendall County 11-man football teams held their first scrimmages of the year last week.
For Geneva School of Boerne, it was their only scrimmage because they begin the regular season this Friday, Aug. 21. TAPPS moved up the start of their regular season by a week so they can finish the playoffs by the end of November.
The other three schools – Boerne Champion, Boerne High and Comfort – all have one more scrimmage scheduled for this week before beginning the regular season next week.
Boerne Champion
Champion hosted New Braunfels last week at BISD Stadium and tangles with Churchill at Blossom this week before opening the regular season at Laredo United South on Aug. 27.
Chargers coach Blane Ellis said he liked how his team performed.
“I was very pleased with where we’re at as a team and I was very pleased with how we played up front,” he said. “The secondary did a good job and we did a good job overall.”
Ellis said the starters will see action Thursday against Churchill even though the team plays a real game the following week in Laredo to start the season.
“We’ll definitely get our guys quality reps, especially where there is competition,” he said. “We have some open spots and we’ll give everyone another opportunity and make sure we don’t leave any stone unturned.”
Boerne High
The Greyhounds hosted La Vernia in a scrimmage last Thursday and will welcome Pieper in another scrimmage this Thursday at BISD Stadium before kicking off the new season at Round Rock Westwood, Aug. 28.
Boerne’s starters only went about five plays because head coach Brett Sawyer said he knows what his players can do.
“Our starters played a little bit but not a lot. We watched them play 15 games last year and I know they’re better this year and I know what they can do,” he said. “This was mostly for the younger kids, and I thought they looked good, they got in a lot of reps. It was good to play somebody other than our own guys, and I liked what I saw.”
Comfort High
The Bobcats were at Marion for a scrimmage last Thursday and will host Luling this Thursday.
Bobcats head coach Jay Rieken said he has to make sure his players are ready for their regular-season opener at home against Brady on Aug. 28, and because of that, his starters will be on the field for most of the Luling scrimmage. “We can’t scale it back, we’re a full go against Luling,” Rieken said. “We’ve got to be ready for Brady.”
Rieken said they threw the ball a lot against Marion as they try to figure out their offensive attack for the year.
“We threw the ball more than we have in the last 10 years combined, and we saw some good things, but saw some things to work on,” Rieken said. “Overall, I was pleased, but it’s like I tell the kids, “It’s never as good as you think it is and it’s never as bad as you think it is.’
“I was proud of their effort; we had great effort,” he said.
Geneva School of Boerne With their regular season set to start next Friday, Aug. 21, the Eagles participated in their only scrimmage of the season last week at Brentwood.
New Eagles head coach Adam Foren said because they only have one scrimmage instead of two, they had to pack everything into last Friday.
“We treated it like a game as far as our pre-game operation and pre-game meals,” he said. “It was a two hour and 20-minute bus ride, but we looked good and showed up with the right look in our eyes, I was impressed.”
The coach said you don’t want to show too much at a scrimmage but added that getting prepared for the season takes precedent.
“You’re trying not to show too much, but you have to get the work in,” he said. “You have to work on stuff because it’s getting us better, so you show it.”
Foren said a highlight was that nobody got hurt.
“We came out of it clean, that’s the biggest thing,” he said. “We’re 100 percent healthy.”
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