Hondo Anvil Herald (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 127, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 14, 2013 Page: 22 of 29
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Hondo Anvil Herald • Thursday, November 14, 2013 • 1C
One rock:
pounded
Scoreless most
of the night;
Owls force OT,
beat Devine
By Jeff Berger
Anvil Herald Sports Editor
Devine - From the start of
summer workouts, the Hondo
Owl football team’s credo has
been “Pound the Rock.”
It’s the idea that if one hits a
seemingly unbreakable object
enough times, with enough
force, eventually, it will break.
The Owls kept pounding
through all ten weeks of the
football season, and finally, in
the 477th minute of a 480-min-
ute regular schedule, the rock
began to weaken. In the 480th
minute, it cracked.
Then with a few extra swings
of the sledgehammer, after
time had expired, it shattered,
in the form of a 20-14 overtime
win over Devine.
Hondo’s victory clinches
District 29-AAA’s top seed in
the Class 3A, Division I playoff
bracket, where the Owls will face
Rockport-Fulton this Friday in a
7:30 p.m. game at Beeville’s Vet-
erans Memorial Stadium.
The Owls are now 6-4 on the
season, and wrap up play in
district at 4-1, as they head into
postseason for the 48th time.
“If there’s a game that per-
sonifies our theme for this
year, this would have to be it,”
said Hondo Coach Jeff Rochat.
“Our defense played a great
game, except for two plays. I
thought we did a good job dis-
rupting their run game.
“And our offense played well
- we just didn’t have anything
to show for it on the score-
board until late. We moved the
ball all night, but we made cru-
cial mistakes in the red zone.”
Both teams were called for
penalties at crucial times all
game long.
Devine took possession to
start the ball game, and drove
to midfield, but a chop block
penalty killed any momentum
they had generated.
Likewise, the Owls picked
up two first downs, reaching
Devine territory, but a false
start backed them into longer
yardage, and the Warhorses’
Wyatt Sheff intercepted an AJ
Garcia pass.
When the Owl defense
recorded a three-and-out,
Devine’s Cody Trivino punted
to the Hondo 9. The Owls over-
came a holding penalty with
a 16-yard pass from Garcia to
Jack Rochat, but a quarterback
sack on the next play led to
Hondo’s first punt.
After one more Devine punt
early in the second period, the
Owls seemed destined to reach
the endzone. Hondo began at
PHOTO / CHARLES CARLSON
AJ Garcia picks up yardage during the Owls’ fourth quarter 14-point rally to tie the game.
its 17-yard line and marched
15 plays before the drive ran
out of gas at the Devine 18 over
seven minutes later.
Hondo got a 12-yard run
from Jacob Brown to open the
drive, and a 13-yard pass from
Garcia to Santos Esparza to
See OWLS, Page 4C
PHOTO / CHARLES CARLSON
Jack Rochat dodges Devine defenders during a second quarter reception in the Owls’ victory over Devine.
Hondo opens
playoffs with
Rockport
By Jeff Berger
Anvil Herald Sports Editor
After sitting out of the postsea-
son for the past year, the Hondo
Owl football team returns to the
playoffs this Friday night.
The Owls will travel to Bee-
ville’s Veterans Memorial Sta-
dium, where they’ll face Rock-
port-Fulton, the fourth place
team from District 30-AAA in
the bi-district playoffs. Hondo
will be the home team.
Hondo is runner-up in 29-
AAA, but is the top seed from
the district in the 3A, Division
I playoff bracket.
Hondo’s 48th trip to the
playoffs - that’s third best in
the state, all classifications -
comes on the heels of the Owls’
thrilling 20-14 overtime victory
at Devine last Friday.
The Pirates enter the play-
offs with a bit of a deceiving
appearance.
“On paper, you can see
they’ve only won three games,”
says Hondo coach Jeff Rochat.
“But then you start looking
closer and you can see they’ve
played some tough 4A teams
from the Corpus Christi area,
and they had to go through a
really tough district schedule.
“The only time they got
blown out was in their district
opener against Orange Grove,
but they had a huge number of
injuries during that stretch of
the season. Now they’re start-
ing to get everybody back.”
R-F held its own with Ingle-
side and Sinton, before drop-
ping both of those contests,
while beating Robstown and
West Oso.
The Pirates have a strong
quarterback in junior Antho-
ny Resendez, who guides the
team out of a pistol set.
“That’s their base offense,”
says Coach Rochat, “and they’ll
mn a lot of twin sets.”
Defensively, the Pirates uti-
lize a 3-3 stack defense, with
lots of movement and blitzing.
See PLAYOFFS, Page 4C
PHOTO/MISSY AINSLEY
Jordan Oefinger flies for the kill against Port Isabel, surrounded by Hondo teammates (from
left) Reagan Luce, Ashley Poole, Kaelyn Ralph, Maddy Ainsley and Kyrsten Gibson.
R-F sweeps Owls in region quarters
Gonzales - It’s never an easy
task to run up against a good
playoff opponent.
But when that opponent is
playing at the peak of its game,
the assignment can be over-
whelming.
The Hondo Owl volleyball
team encountered such a foe
Tuesday in the region quarter-
finals, running into a Rockport-
Fulton squad which was click-
ing. The Lady Pirates owned
the first set, before fighting off
strong Hondo challenges in the
second and third, to win the
match, 25-15,25-21,25-22.
R-F now advances to the
Region IV-3A tournament
this Friday at Blossom Ath-
letic Complex in San Antonio.
They’ll play Wimberley in a 1
p.m. semifinal. Devine the 29-
AAA co-champ, which beat
Sinton in five sets on Tuesday
evening, will face Bellville in
the second semifinal, starting
at 3 p.m. Wimberley and Bell-
ville were both four-set win-
ners, putting away Columbus
and La Grange, respectively.
Hondo concludes the sea-
son with a 25-14 record, to go
along with a District 29-AAA
co-championship and an area
championship.
Leads were hard to come by
for the Owls against Rockport.
Hondo led 1-0 in the first set,
and didn’t lead again until the
early portions of the third set.
Otherwise, the Lady Pirates
were in control, playing rock-
See VOLLEYBALL, Page 3C
PHOTO / LISA ROTHE
Dylan Lopez slips through a hole on the way to a second quarter Sabinal touchdown.
Sabinal sews up district title
By Jeff Berger
Anvil Herald Sports Editor
The Sabinal Yellowjackets
shed themselves of six years of
frustration Saturday night at
Butch Woolls Stadium, with a
33-0 district-clinching domina-
tion of the D’Hanis Cowboys.
The Jackets’ first win over
D’Hanis since 2006 also wraps
up the team’s first district
championship since 1998.
Sabinal (9-1 season, 5-0 dis-
trict) did not give up a point
in league play, recording four
shutouts and winning one
game by forfeit.
D’Hanis, the District 15-A-II
mnner-up (5-5, 4-1) will enter
bi-district play against a famil-
iar foe. The Cowboys will take
on Charlotte, a team D’Hanis
defeated on Sept. 13 by a 27-6
score. Their playoff game is set
for 7:30 p.m. Friday in Natalia.
Sabinal earns a first-round
bye with its district champion-
See JACKETS, Page 2C
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