Hondo Anvil Herald

Struggles continue for Hondo boys

 

 

By Jeff Berger

Anvil Herald Publisher

 

     The first victory of the season is still out there for the Hondo boys’ basketball team, who struggled in their five Hondo Tournament games this past weekend.

     The Owls also fell to Castle Hills in a Tuesday. Dec. 9, game in San Antonio, 74-41. 

     Thursday through Saturday, Dec. 11-13, the Owls (0-10) will be one of 16 teams in the Comfort Tournament. Hondo opens play at 5 p.m. against San Antonio Memorial, with two more games on Friday, followed by one on Saturday.

     On Tuesday, Dec. 16, the team will go to Bandera for a 6:30 p.m. game.

     In the Hondo tourney, the Owls lost all five of their games by double digits, starting with a Thursday morning, 57-46 loss to San Antonio Brackenridge. Kolten Alvarez had 16 for the Owls, with eight from Mason Barr.

     Brack won Pool A, but finished as tourney runner-up to Kerrville Tivy, which took home its second consecutive championship.

     Hondo led Great Hearts-Forest Heights by an 18-15 count at halftime Thursday night, but the Falcons came out of the locker room with a 31-point third quarter  in a 64-46 win. Alvarez and Barr again led Hondo’s scoring with 14 and nine points, with another each from Jeremiah Lopez and Lason Estes.

     Friday morning, Dec. 5, the Owls lost big to YMLA for the second time in three days, this time by 80-57. Lopez finished with 20 for Hondo, with nine from Barr.

     Hondo dropped a 67-31 contest to New Braunfels Long Creek, in its second year of existence, on Friday night. Jagger Bocanegra’s six points led the Owls.

     Saturday morning, Dec. 6, the Owls dropped a 50-39 final game to Carrizo Springs. Alvarez and Barr both scored 13 points.