Comfort and Thrall were in a shootout Friday night and the fireworks started right away.
Comfort’s Topper Sterling took the opening kickoff 94 yards and the fireworks were just getting started. But the Tigers just had too much firepower and went on to defeat the Bobcats, 61-47.
Thrall was leading at halftime, 34-17.
Besides the opening kickoff return for a touchdown by Sterling, Omar Rivera booted a 20-yard field goal and late in the second, Gio Lopez scored for the ’Cats with a 30-yard scramble into the end zone and Comfort was only trailing by three points at that point in the second quarter.
But Thrall answered right before the half with two TDs.
With 4:08 left before the break, Jaden Spence took it 54 yards to the house to make it 27-17, and then with only 21 ticks until halftime, the Tigers scored again with a 40-yard scoring strike from Chance Parker to Landon Gregory and Thrall had doubled up the Bobcats by halftime, 34-17.
Once the second half started, the Tigers added to their lead with two more TDs and opened up a 47-17 lead by the middle of the third quarter, but Comfort went down swinging.
Hunter Ledlow scored on a 20-yard run and then Comfort’s Carter Pape capped a short drive with a rushing TD after Gio Lopez returned a Thrall kickoff 71-yards to set up the offense in great shape.
The third quarter ended with Thrall leading 54-33, but neither team was done scoring.
The Tigers added one more touchdown on a short pass, however Comfort tallied the final two TDs of the night.
Pape hit Ledlow on a 70-yard bomb and Ledlow later ran it in from 55 yards to account for their final points of the night.
The game took its toll on the Bobcats after Pape and Sterling both left with injuries.
Comfort slips to 2-5 overall and 0-2 in district. The Bobcats are home Friday to host Lexington and then close out the regular season at Blanco.
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