Friday’s homecoming game between Comfort and visiting Nixon-Smiley to open district play turned into an offensive shootout. But in the end, the Mustangs just had too much firepower.
Nixon-Smiley won the game, 40-34, and drops Comfort to 0-5 and 0-1 in district. The Cats hit the road Friday to visit Natalia.
The Mustangs had the first score on the first play of the game on a 47-yard run and then converted the two-point try for the quick 8-0 lead just nine seconds into the game.
Comfort responded, and Topper Sterling found the end zone on an 18-yard sprint. The Cats had cut the lead to 8-7.
CHS took a lead early in the second when Micah Nye ran it in from the 8-yard line, and the Cats were on top 14-8. The lead didn’t hold long, and the Mustangs pulled back on top 16-14 after a short run and another successful twopoint try. The lead see-sawed a few more times before the half after Nye tallied his second touchdown of the night on a short run to make it 21-16, but that would be Comfort’s final lead of the game.
Nixon-Smiley scored right before the half and took a 24-21 edge into halftime after the Mustangs converted their third straight 2-point try.
The visitors went up 32-21 early in the third on another TD run but Comfort kept it close after Santos Hernandez put the Cats on the board with a 17-yard touchdown pass from Nye to make it 32-27 late in the third quarter.
Both teams recorded one more touchdown apiece in the final stanza. The Mustangs added to their lead to build a 40-27 advantage, but Hernandez and Nye hooked up one more time on a 58-yard TD pass to slice into the lead at 40-34 with 3:31 left. That’s as close as the Cats would come, and the Mustangs held on for the win.
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