The 2024 high school football season begins this week, and the four 11-man Kendall County teams will all be in action.
Boerne plays Thursday with a road game, while the others play Friday. Boerne Champion and Geneva School of Boerne are both home Friday and Comfort takes a drive as they begin their 2024 campaigns.
Boerne High
The Greyhounds will have an early start to their season and open their year at Pieper in the KSAT Pigskin Classic. BHS is at Pieper Thursday, 7 p.m.
Greyhounds coach Che Hendrix said they’ve been breaking down film of the Warriors for a few weeks now and is impressed with what he’s seen.
“We started looking at them early,” he said. “They’re a good young program and have come a long way in a short time.”
This is only Pieper’s fifth year in existence and last year they advanced to the state quarterfinals in the 5A DII playoffs before losing to Liberty Hill in the fourth round in a December game. The Warriors moved up to 5A DI this season.
Boerne is familiar with deep playoff runs and is two years removed from playing for the 4A DI state championship in Arlington in 2022.
The Greyhounds still have players from that team on board and Hendrix said they’re ready for a stiff challenge right out of the game.
“I think we’re ahead of schedule, I like where we’re at heading into the regular season,” Hendrix said.
Boerne Champion
Champion is home Friday to host Laredo United South. This will be the fourth year for the Chargers to face the Panthers in non-district. The two are also scheduled to meet next year and Champion coach Blane Ellis said he hopes to keep them on the schedule after that.
“It’s a good game for us, very competitive. They play hard and are well coached and it’s always a respectable game,” he said. “It also creates an opportunity to travel (every other year) before we have to in our district. It helps us get that big road game under our belt.”
The Chargers are 3-0 against the Panthers and hope to make it 4-0 after Friday. Champion has recorded wins of 42-14, 27-22 and 37-27 against them.
Geneva School of Boerne
Friday’s game in Boerne between Geneva and San Antonio Christian Schools almost featured a former and the current Eagles head coaches going at it.
The Lions used to be coached by former Geneva coach Dean Herbort, but Herbort left the program before the start of the year and is back with Fredericksburg, where he spent many years before coaching the Eagles.
Herbort led Geneva to the TAPPS state title game two years in a row and they won it all in 2019.
Geneva and SACS are coming off similar seasons and both went two rounds deep in the playoffs last year.
SACS was 8-4 in 2023, and Geneva finished with a record of 7-5, so the teams seem to mirror each other.
Comfort High
Comfort will make the long drive to Brackettville to take on a Brackett team that has a new coach leading the program.
Kody Yeager comes from China Spring where he was the wide receivers coach and is Brackett’s new head coach.
Comfort coach Jay Rieken said it doesn’t matter who is leading the Tigers because they always play the Bobcats tough.
“Their kids play hard so it’s always a good test for us,” he said. “We like playing them.”
The Bobcats and Lions have met the last four seasons with Comfort winning three of those games, while Brackett took their only win in the series in 2022.
Rieken said Yeager will change up a few things but will still focus on their running game where they return Kongtagious Cook, who ran for 1,833 yards last year.
Comfort can match them with their own standout back in Topper Sterling, who rushed for 1,884 yards last season as well.
Cook tallied 22 touchdowns and Sterling recorded 20 TDs.
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