GEORGETOWN – For only the second time this year, the Boerne High girls soccer team was kept off the scoreboard.
BHS tangled with Celina on Wednesday in the 4A state semifinals and the Lady Bobcats were able to defeat the Lady Greyhounds, 3-0.
Boerne ends its year at 20-4-5 overall and will return home with bronze medals after they officially finished tied for third in the state.
Even though Boerne lost, one of its players set a 4A state tournament record after goalkeeper Kinsley Sawyer came up with 11 saves. The previous record was 10 saves in a 4A state tournament match last year by Calallen’s Laramie Miller.
Celina applied tons of pressure and scored midway through the first but Sawyer had already recorded 8 saves by that point.
BHS coach Jeremy Shannon said the play of his freshman goalie made it competitive.
“We were hoping to keep it close and maybe get into a shootout and have an opportunity but it didn’t work out for us,” he said. “I can’t say enough about Kinsley Sawyer, she really helped us keep it close.”
It stayed at 1-0 until early in the second half when the Bobcats added a second goal. They sealed it with a third goal in the final three minutes.
Sawyer said she was just doing her part.
“I was just playing my game and trying to do this for my team,” she said. “Celina is a very good team, they held us off and played a good game, we tried our best and did what we could.”
The only other time Boerne went scoreless this year was on Jan. 14, when the Lady Hounds lost to O’Connor, 4-0 in tournament play.
On Wednesday, Boerne was without its leading scorer after Kylie Combs had to sit it out and the team’s second-leading scorer, Hannah Bowen, was playing with an injury.
BHS only managed one shot on goal all match and 2 shots total, while Celina had 14 shots on goal with 23 total shots.
Shannon said it obviously made a difference not having his top two scorers.
“We just didn’t have that top end speed, Hannah was hurt and she gave us all she had,” he said. “It hurts when your top two goal scorers are not on the field, it really changes your game plan.”
The Lady Hounds only graduate two seniors in Regina Hernandez and Taylor Durham and Sawyer said she hopes to return in 2023.
“I think next year we’re going to come get it and play our hearts out,” she said.
Shannon said their goal is to return.
“We need to take away from this that we are a quality team and quality program and we can play with anybody in the state,” he said. “As long as we stay together and make our goals high again like we did last year after the Calallen game, the sky’s the limit for us.”
This was Boerne’s third appearance in the 4A state tournament (15, 17, 22).
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