SAN ANTONIO — Boerne High’s depth was on display Monday night when the Greyhounds opened the 4A boys basketball playoffs against Cuero.
A total of 10 Greyhounds scored to help the Boerne boys defeat the Gobblers, 71-34.
Boerne reaches the 30-win plateau for the third straight season and is 30-5. The Greyhounds play Stafford Friday in Cuero in second-round action.
A goal of every team at this time of year is to be playing their best basketball of the season and BHS coach Kimble McHone said he feels like his squad is at that point.
“I think we’re there; I think we finally have about as healthy of a team as we’re going to have the rest of the way,” he said. “We’re playing about as good as this team can play right now.”
Nic Hernandez had the hot hand early and netted 8 in the opening quarter as Boerne jumped out to a 22-14 lead by the end of the period.
Sam Holland and Casen Hoegemeyer both added 5 points in the first stanza.
McHone said one of their strengths is that anybody on the team can be high scorer on any given night.
“That’s what’s so special about this team, you can’t concentrate on one or even two guys,” he said. “We have four or five guys that can score. Nic got hot early and Casen (Hoegemeyer) was able to get some good drives to the basket.”
Boerne started to pull away in the second after they won the quarter, 17-6.
The Hounds delivered a big blow right before the half and scored four points in 0.5 seconds. Noa Sanchez was fouled with 0.5 left before the break on a 3-pointer and went to the line for three free throws.
Sanchez made the first two and missed the third and Luke Fox grabbed the loose ball and tossed it in as the Cuero players just watched, making it a 4-point play from two different players in half a second.
After that, the Hounds won the third quarter, 21-8, and then McHone removed all his starters. BHS still won the fourth quarter, 11-6, without any starters on the court. “We had some guys come in off the bench and score,” the coach said. “That developed when we had so many guys out over the course of the year. The next guy stepped up and played, that’s kind of how that happened.”
Hernandez led BHS with 15 points, Hoegemeyer added 14 and Fox scored 13 for three in double figures.
Holland netted 7, Noah Patton had 6, Hutson Hendrix tallied 5, Noa Sanchez recorded 4, Jaxon Baize had 3, while Cash McPeak and Julien Hartman dropped in 2 apiece.
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