Sacred Heart Indians
Sacred Heart

Tribe to be tested by Schulenburg

  • Brody Etzler records a sack in Thursday’s scrimmage with Louise. Chuck Grafe/Tribune-Herald
    Brody Etzler records a sack in Thursday’s scrimmage with Louise. Chuck Grafe/Tribune-Herald
  • Halfback Cameron Cull carries the mail in Thursday’s scrimmage with Louise. Chuck Grafe/Tribune-Herald
    Halfback Cameron Cull carries the mail in Thursday’s scrimmage with Louise. Chuck Grafe/Tribune-Herald

    Sacred Heart will be tested by the Schulenburg Shorthorns in its season opener in Schulenburg Friday evening. Kickoff time is 7:30 a Shorthorn Stadium.

    Schulenburg will be dedicating its field to coaching legend David Husmann, who was the father-in-law of Indian coach Alex Seydler.

    The Shorthorns have 11 starters returning from a 5-6 team and feature QB Aaron Janecek. Janecek rushed for 1,339 yards and 22 touchdowns and threw for 1,100 yards and 12 scores.

    Top hands returning are WR/DB Byron Johnson, OL Calvin Thompson, OL Ricky Watson,TE/DE Tavondrick Ellison, LB Owen Brenek, OL/DL Jayvan Luhrs.

    “ Schulenburg is an excellent football team,” Seydler said. “Offensively, they do a great job of using formation and motion to gain an advantage.

    “Janecek is a really good football player. He is smart and well rounded, their tailback is and the receivers do a great job of catching the ball,” Seydler added.

    The Shorthorns run a 4-2-5 base defense.

    Realignment put the Shorthorns in 15-2D Division I with Ganado, Weimar, Schulenburg, Kenedy, Danbury and Bloomington. “I am looking forward to seeing how our kids react,” Seydler said. “We are going to find out a lot about ourselves which is a good thing to be able to do this early in the season.”

    This is the first evermeeting between the two schools.

    Thursday’s scrimmage

    The Indians posted another shutout in their scrimmage with Louise here Thursday at Brave Field.

    “Overall I was pleased and I think we improved over last week,” Seydler said. “The defense played well again and kept them out of the end zone. We had three and out which I didn’t like. All in all, I believe we are headed in the right direction.”

    Trent Sevcik returned an interception for the touchdown in the scrimmage of the second teams.

    Quarterback Andrew Steffek threw a touchdown pass to Hudson Kutac and halfbacks Cameron Cull and Clayton Haas scored rushing touchdowns.