Holy Cow, Holy Cross defeated Eagles for district championship

First place was on the line Thursday night in TAPPS District 3 – III when the Geneva School of Boerne football team visited San Antonio for a game with Holy Cross.

The game was moved up a day because of weather concerns as the two teams entered the contest tied for first place with 2-0 records.

It was the Knights that stayed unbeaten in league play after they grounded the Eagles, 28-0.

Geneva slips to 5-5 overall and 2-1 in district, while Holy Cross improves to 8-1 overall and 3-0 in district. The Knights are this year’s district champ, while the Eagles will be the No. 2 seed when the playoffs start next week. For more on playoff info, be sure to look in the Boerne Star.

The Knights have been blowing out opponents this year, but Thursday was their first shutout of the season. Thursday’s 28-0 loss marks only the second time in 2022 that the Eagles were kept off the board. The only other time it happened came on Sept. 9, when they fell to Austin Regents 47-0.

In Thursday’s game, Holy Cross took a 7-0 lead in the first quarter when Essiah Flores caught a 2-yard touchdown pass from Gilbert Alvarado.

The Knights added to their lead in the second when Joe-Angel Perez III caught a short 1-yard TD pass from Alvarado. Xander Carmona booted his second extra point with 4:39 left in the half and Holy Cross took a 14-0 lead into the break.

Neither team scored in the third, but Holy Cross tacked on two fourth-quarter touchdowns to pull away.

Perez III scored scored again, this time on the ground with a 62-yard gallop into the end zone to make it 21-0 after the Carmona kick with 7:02 left in the game.

With less than three minutes on the clock, the Knights added an insurance TD when Daniel Perez scrambled in from the 4-yard line to make it 28-0 with 2:56 remaining after the Carmona PAT.

It just turned into one of those games where Geneva couldn’t get anything going offensively. The Eagles didn’t even tally 100 total yards in the game after they finished with 96 yards from scrimmage.

Geneva recorded 97 rushing yards and went -1 in the passing department. They only registered four first downs compared to 22 for the Knights.

Landon Grimes led the ground game for Geneva after he rushed 13 times for 67 yards, Jackson Grimes added 14 yards on 3 totes, while Caeden Sandifer, George Viña and KP Fitz-Gerald all ran with the ball.

Jackson Grimes completed the team’s only pass that went to Viña.

Viña finished with 5 tackles and assisted on 8 others, Landon Grimes made 5 tackles and assisted on 3 others, Luke Kaiser had 3 stops and 6 assists, Logan Fritcher recorded a tackle and assisted on 6 others, while FitzGerald had 2 stops, 5 assists and came up with a fumble recovery and Henry Jons also recovered a fumble.