SEGUIN – Just about everything went Boerne’s way in its rematch with Victoria West in Friday’s third-round playoff contest at Matadors Stadium.
The Greyhounds took their district meeting on Oct. 18, 50-33, but won by a larger margin in their rematch last Friday in Seguin, 59-15.
Boerne improved to 10-3 overall and faces Corpus Christi Miller (11-2) Friday in the Alamodome in the fourth round, 7 p.m.
Last Friday’s victory also gave BHS coach Che Hendrix his 100th career win.
“It’s cool to get number 100 in the 100th year (of Boerne High football),” he said. “It kind of magical how those things work out.”
In their first meeting, Hutson Hendrix ran for three touchdowns, and just like the score, Hutson improved on his performance in their second meeting after he rushed for four touchdowns on Friday.
Hutson gave credit to the offensive line.
“Those guys up front are incredible, I know a hole is going to open up, it’s just a matter of when and where and if I can hit it,” he said. “I’m super thankful for those guys.”
Hutson had Boerne’s first score of the game after BHS marched down field on its opening drive and punched it in with an 18-yard Hendrix run. The Hounds gashed the Warriors defense for 11 yards per play on that opening sequence.
“When you can run the ball like we did tonight, it opens up a lot of things,” Coach Hendrix said.
The Warriors answered with a 12-play drive that resulted in a 34-yard field goal to make it 7-3, but that’s as close as Victoria West would get.
Boerne tallied passing touchdowns on its next two possessions of the first quarter after Hank Hendrix hit Brooks Perez and Ben Bays for passing TDs and the 21-3 lead to end the opening stanza.
The second period turned into a textbook case of ball control by the Greyhound offense. In the 12-minute quarter, Boerne held the ball for 10:57 and took 27 offensive snaps.
Hutson Hendrix ran for two more TDs on scrambles of 7 and 3 yards.
Victoria West did manage a touchdown in the second with a fumble that defensive back Tayvion Peoples scooped up and took to the house, but at that point the Warriors’ offense hadn’t found the end zone.
With nine seconds left before halftime, Hutson Hendrix blocked a punt.
The blocked punt gave BHS the ball at the Warriors’ 15-yard line. At first, the officials said time had expired in the half, but after conferring, they put two seconds on the clock, enough time for the Greyhounds to attempt a 32-yard field goal by Diego Jimenez.
Jimenez drilled the kick through the uprights and it was 38-9 at halftime.
Victoria West never recovered from that blocked punt and field goal.
“What a great way to finish the half, we had all the momentum,” Coach Hendrix said. “I thought that was such a huge sequence in the game, we really almost iced it right there.”
Hutson Hendrix said he shot the gap and was able to get a hand on the punt.
“Our coach said, ‘go after it,’ so I stuck my foot in the ground and went after it and got it, and kicking that field goal was huge,” he said. “I timed the snap perfectly and it worked out really well.”
Once the second half started, Victoria West’s offense finally punched in its first TD of the game on a quarterback keeper by Dominick Martinez to make it 38-15, but Hutson Hendrix answered with his fourth rushing TD of the night later in the quarter to push the lead to 30 points at 45-15.
In the fourth quarter, the Greyhounds went into ball-control mode and Ivan Perez capped two Boerne drives with rushing touchdowns 2 and 4 yards.
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