It has been a rough couple of games for the Comfort High football team after the Bobcats were shut out for the second week in a row.
The Bobcats lost to archrival Blanco last Friday, 50-0, and the week before that, Comfort was also kept off the board at Ingram, 20-0.
CHS slips to 0-3 and has one more non-district game left this Friday when the Bobcats make the long drive to Brackettville to take on Brackett before opening district play next week at home against Nixon-Smiley.
Game time is set for 7:30 p.m. in Brackettville.
While the Comfort offense has struggled and has only scored in its opener, the defense has also had some problems stopping teams from scoring and given up 70 points in the last two games.
Comfort coach Brandon Easterly said everybody – coaches and players – need to do a better job.
“We need to prepare our guys and go play fast,” he said. “We need to move the ball on offense and not put ourselves in bad situations and we have to tackle better on defense.”
Brackett is having a good year and is 2-1. They lost to Chrystal City 27-7 in the opener but bounced back in a big way with wins over Kenedy (42-0) and then won a shootout over Hondo last week, 51-49.
Brackett tallied 607 yards from scrimmage against the Owls and were very balanced with only one yard separating their rushing and passing totals. The Tigers gained 303 yards on the ground and 304 through the air.
Easterly said they are balanced and will be tough.
“They are very big and well coached,” Easterly said. “They run their scheme very well.”
Comfort has only scored 21 points this year and that came in its opener against Johnson City.
Last Friday’s game at Blanco got out of hand early for the Bobcats after the Panthers scored four touchdowns in the first quarter. The Panthers used three rushing TDs and a defensive score after a fumble recovery to take a 27-0 lead.
In the second, Blanco added three more scores, all rushing touchdowns to open up a 47-0 lead by halftime.
In the second half, the Panthers pulled back and only kicked a field goal to account for the only scoring in the second half by either team.
For the Cats, Micah Nye competed 3 of 8 passes for 34 yards, while Mason West tallied 17 receiving yards on one catch and Jaydin Steward also had 17 yards on two receptions.
Steward led the Comfort ground game with 51 rushing yards on 51 carries, Isaac Duran ran for 43 yards on 16 totes, Topper Sterling carried the ball 8 times for 22 yards and Nye ran for 14 yards on 5 attempts.
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