The Geneva School of Boerne opened district play Friday at home and blew out Corpus Christi John Paul II on homecoming night, 56-7.
Geneva is 1-0 in league play and improves to 4-4 overall. The Eagles are home again on Friday to host another John Paul II school, this one from Schertz.
Geneva went 3-4 through non-district, but the Eagles played some very good teams which head coach Julius Scott said helped them see the game played at a different speed.
“I said all along that the first seven games were really tough, and those teams were well coached and had a lot of good athletes and it helped us,” he said. “Nobody liked it because we weren’t winning a lot of games but all of a sudden, we start district and have a game like we did tonight. You don’t get to this stage unless you get through the other stage.”
Geneva poured it on early and scored two minutes into the game, never trailing from there. In fact, the Eagles finished with 42 points in the first quarter alone.
Landon Grimes returned a punt 67 yards at the 10:00 mark of the opening quarter, and it was 7-0. The Eagles also picked up touchdowns in the first period from KP FitzGerald on a 10-yard run and then converted the 2-point try for a 15-0 lead.
Landon Grimes caught a 40-yard TD pass from Jackson Grimes, and it was 22-0 after the Walker Cone kick. George Viña caught a 42-yard scoring strike from Jacob Rosenstiel to make it 29-0, FitzGerald hauled in a short pass from Jackson Grimes to bump the score to 35-0 and then with 20 seconds left in the stanza, Caeden Sandifer scrambled in from 58 yards and the Cone PAT made it 42-0.
Geneva recovered an onside kick in that opening quarter, while Viña picked off a Guardians pass, and Caleb Baggs recovered a fumble to give the Eagles several short fields to work with.
Geneva tacked on two more TDs in the second period to make it 56-0 at the halftime break. Fitz-Gerald scored on a 2-yard run and then Viña punched it on from the 1-yard line and Cone kicked both extra points.
According to Scott, if a TAPPS team is winning by more than 40 points at the break, the second half goes to a running clock and that’s what happened to make it a speedy final two quarters.
The Eagles took the opening kickoff of the third period and held the ball for 10:45 of the 12 minutes on a 15-play drive before attempting a field goal that missed.
Geneva only had the ball one more time after that, while the Guardians had two second-half possessions and scored on the final one. JP II found the end zone on a 7-yard run from Jacob Guerrero with 51 ticks on the clock for the final of 56-7.
“We came out ready to play,” Scott said. “I’m proud of our kids, we’re pretty demanding here but they have stepped up and met the challenge.”
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