A Boerne win guarantees a home playoff game
It’s pretty simple for the Boerne High football team – beat Kerrville Tivy on Friday night and the Greyhounds will finish second in the district and host a first-round playoff game.
Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. at Boerne ISD Stadium.
A Boerne victory would allow the Greyhounds to host a first-round playoff game for the first time in school history, but a Tivy win Friday could throw second through fourth place into a tailspin.
If Victoria West beats Veterans Memorial this Friday and if Tivy beats BHS, that would create a three-way tie for second at 4-2. (Alamo Heights has the district title wrapped up.) If that were the case, Tivy would have defeated Boerne, Boerne has beaten Victoria West and West defeated Tivy, so seeding would be based on point differential, or how much each team beat the other by.
BHS can avoid all that with a win.
Greyhound coach Che Hendrix said they’ve talked about it all week, especially to the seniors. The 5A rules allow the first and second place teams in each district to host games in the first round.
“We want the seniors to know that this is an unbelievable opportunity to get one more home game,” he said. “We want to take advantage of it and play a playoff game at home.”
Boerne is 4-1 in district (6-3), while Kerrville Tivy and Victoria West are both 3-2, with West beating Tivy (45-28) on Oct. 4, and Boerne beating West (50-33) on Oct. 18.
Hendrix said he looks at scores against mutual opponents but added that scores don’t tell the whole story.
“Scores matter, but film is more important than the score,” he said.
While Boerne hasn’t played Kerrville Tivy in the regular season since 2007, they’ve scrimmaged the Antlers pretty much every year since then, except for this season when they were placed in the same district and they avoided each other.
Hendrix said having scrimmaged the Antlers over the years has helped with preparation but added that it’s not quite the same thing.
“I think it helps but it helps both of us,” he said. “We’ve seen their personnel, even the freshman and JV groups, but a scrimmage is so vanilla. It helps with familiarity, but a scrimmage is way different.”
After a rugged non-district schedule and a loss to Alamo Heights to open league action, the Greyhounds have gotten on a roll and won four straight in impressive fashion.
BHS has scored 49, 50, 49 and 50 in those four wins and Hendrix said he likes how they’re playing right now. They are coming off a 50-0 beatdown of McCollum.
“We’ve gotten better each week, I feel like we’re firing on all cylinders,” he said. “We’ve gained a lot of confidence. We’re in a good rhythm and routine and we’ve done a good job of improving and wanting to improve.”
Boerne’s rivalry with Alamo Heights and Kerrville Tivy goes way back especially since they were in the same district for many years.
When Champion opened, it changed things and Boerne didn’t play those two schools for many years as a district opponent.
Now in 2024, the Greyhounds face both in a league game for the first time since 2007. It’s been 17 years since they’ve played in the same district but the intensity between the schools doesn’t seem to have waned much.
“I think what helps with that is that the rivals are good teams,” Hendrix said. “Playing Tivy and Alamo Heights for a district championship and things like that makes it more meaningful and easier to renew the rivalry.”
Regardless of what happens Friday, Boerne will face a Corpus Christi school in the first round of the playoffs since 13-5A DII opens the postseason against teams from 14-5A DII. In this case, they’re all Corpus Christi area schools.
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