On a cold and blustery Hill Country night, the Boerne High football team made school history against its archrival, Fredericksburg.
Boerne beat up the Battlin’ Billies on Friday, 42-3, and in the process set two school records.
The 2022 Greyhounds are the first in school history to record a perfect 10-0 regular season. Secondly, this is the first time the BHS football program has won three district titles in a row.
Boerne coach Che Hendrix said both records mean a lot to him, the other coaches and the team.
“When you talk about winning three in a row, you’re talking about longevity. And when you’re talking about 10-0, you’re talking about a special team,” he said. “I’m proud of this team and proud of this program.”
The Hounds took control early in Friday’s game and jumped out to a 28-0 lead in the first quarter. They added another touchdown in the second period and scored the first five times they had the ball.
Fredericksburg had to go into the wind in the first quarter, and the Greyhounds burned all three of its firsthalf timeouts in order to make the Battlin’ Billies punt into the wind while Boerne had the wind at their backs in that decisive opening stanza.
“The wind was a big factor in the punt game. We wanted to get field position, and that gave us a great chance to throw, and we came out throwing and decided to use our timeouts to bury them in the first quarter and it worked,” Hendrix said. “I don’t think I’ve seen the first quarter go better to script. That makes it nice when it goes as planned.”
Boerne’s defense also aided in the plan after Charlie Stahl and McCoy Bruce both intercepted passes in that opening period.
Boerne only needed three plays on its first two drives to find the end zone. Braden Baize caught a 24-yard TD pass from Jaxon Baize and then T.J. Dement ran it in from 38 yards. It was 14-0 four minutes into the contest.
Later in the quarter, Dement caught two touchdown passes from Jaxon Baize, and Boerne opened up a 28-0 lead.
Dement scored three of the team’s first four touchdowns in the opening stanza.
“He’s got to be the player of the game. He was unbelievable tonight,” Hendrix said of Dement.
On Boerne’s first drive of the second quarter, Braden Baize ran the Wildcat Formation and ran the rock into the endzone for a touchdown to make it 35-0 after the Joe Ballenger kick.
Fredericksburg accounted for its only points of the game in the second period when Jovany Alva booted a 44-yard wind-aided field goal to put the Battlin’ Billies on the board and make it 35-3.
It basically stayed that way for the rest of the game as Boerne went into ball control mode to eat clock.
“We were trying to do the right thing and get out of the game healthy and run clock,” Hendrix said. “We felt like we had good control defensively. We were running the ball and then we would punt.”
Boerne had the wind in the fourth quarter and scored one more time to cap the game – thanks to a second Bruce interception.
Three plays after the pick, Carson Coffland caught a 37-yard pass from Jaxon Baize and took it to the house to make it 42-3 after the Ballenger PAT.
The touchdown pass from Jaxon Baize to Coffland was the fourth of the game for Baize and his 37th of the season.
Boerne ends the year at 10-0 and plays the winner of the Burnet-Taylor match up that was held up due to a weather delay at one point on Friday night.
For more on the playoffs, opponent, date and time, be sure to look in the Boerne Star.
Hendrix said it was a great night.
“This is Boerne, Texas, it doesn’t get any better,” he said. This is Friday night in small town Texas, this is what they write books about it and have movies about.”
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