It’s pretty simple for the Boerne High football team – win this Friday’s home game against Fredericksburg and the Greyhounds are district champions.
Boerne and Fred go at it Friday at BISD Stadium, 7 p.m.
BHS coach Che Hendrix said his team is looking forward to Friday’s contest.
“We talked about it with the team and our main goal is to win a district championship,” he said. “It’ll be a good, competitive game and we expect a big crowd and a lot of excitement, it’ll be a fun atmosphere.”
If Boerne (9-0, 4-0) wins, they claim their third straight district title, which has never happened before in the program’s history.
Hendrix’s last two teams, the 20-21 teams won consecutive titles, along with the 04-05 teams. The only other ones to do it were the 59-60 squads, but no one has ever done three in a row.
Also, if Boerne wins on Friday, they become the only Greyhound team to finish the regular season with a perfect record at 10-0. In the modern era of 10 games, only the 1963 team has gone undefeated.
That ’63 team finished the year at 9-0-1 after a tie, so they were undefeated but not perfect, something this year’s squad can achieve.
Hendrix said all that is nice but added that they’re not worried about any of it right now.
“When you start to put it on paper, those are things for the banquet,” he said. “We try not to worry about records and the past, we’re focused on finishing this year out.”
If the Greyhounds don’t win, that complicates matters, and a few different things can happen.
If Fred and Somerset both win on Friday, then there’s a three-way tie for first because Fred would have beaten Boerne, Boerne would have beaten Somerset and Somerset would have beaten Fred.
If there’s a three-way tie, then it comes down to point differential in the games played against each other to determine seeding, but they would share the district title, something that happened to Boerne in 2018.
Another scenario would be if Fred wins and Somerset loses, then the Battlin’ Billies are district champs since Fred and Boerne would both be 4-1 and Fred would have the tiebreaker. In that case, Boerne would be second and Somerset third.
Again, the Greyhounds can avoid all those scenarios with a win over the Battlin’ Billies but it’s a game where anything can happen – and has in the past – since it’s a rivalry.
“That makes this game unique,” Hendrix said.
Boerne is coming off a 34-14 win over Somerset last week that gave them the inside track to this season’s district title.
Hendrix gave credit to Bulldogs coach and former NFL quarterback Koy Detmer for making things interesting.
“You see them do things that they haven’t done all year,” he said.
Fred is 3-1 in district and 5-4 overall. Hendrix said the Battlin’ Billies try to be balanced but prefer to run it.
“They want to run the ball over throwing it, but they will throw it,” Hendrix said. “Everything they do is set up off the run game.”
Hendrix said the game will come down to the line of scrimmage.
“We’ve got to win the line of scrimmage, we’ve got to make them one dimensional,” he said.
If Boerne wins on Friday, they’ll open the playoffs next week with the winner of the Burnet – Taylor game.
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