The Alamo Heights Mules will square off against the Boerne Greyhounds at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Alamo Heights will be looking to keep their nine-game home win streak dating back to last season alive.
Last Thursday, Alamo Heights strolled past Clemens with points to spare, taking the game 38-19. Given the Mules' advantage in MaxPreps' Texas football rankings (they are ranked 106th, while the Buffaloes are ranked 443rd), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, Boerne entered their game against East Central on Friday without any home losses, but there's a first time for everything. Boerne fell just short of East Central by a score of 52-49. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game two weeks ago (31), the Greyhounds still had to take the loss.
Boerne might have lost, but man, Hank Hendrix was a machine: he threw for 270 yards and five touchdowns, and also rushed for 36 yards and a touchdown. The dominant performance gave Hendrix a new career-high in rushing yards.
Boerne wouldn't let East Central keep a hold of the ball as they managed to force five fumbles. Jaxon Baize led the group effort, picking up two of those forced fumbles all by himself. Blake Burkholder is also on a roll when it comes to total tackles, as he's now made six or more in the last four games he's played dating back to last season.
Alamo Heights' win bumped their record up to 4-0. As for Boerne, their loss ended a six-game streak of wins at home dating back to last season and dropped them to 2-2.
Alamo Heights didn't have too much breathing room in their contest against Boerne in their previous matchup back in August of 2021, but they still walked away with a 34-30 victory. One of the biggest obstacles trying to stand in the way of that victory was Boerne's Rashawn Galloway, who threw for 294 yards and three touchdowns while completing 75% of his passes, and also punched in a touchdown on the ground. Now that he won't be playing on Friday, will it be easier for Alamo Heights to walk away with another win? There's only one way to find out.
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