Comfort came so close to winning its first football game of the year last Friday when the Bobcats hosted Nixon-Smiley for homecoming.
The Mustangs held off the Cats, 40-34, and dropped Comfort to 0-5 overall and 0-1 in district, but CHS can’t dwell on the loss too long because they are back in action this Friday with a road trip to Natalia.
Natalia also has the Mustangs as its mascot and the Bobcats are hoping to tame this group of horses.
Just like Comfort, wins have been hard to come by for this year’s Natalia team that enters the game at 1-3. The Mustangs beat Lyle (47-3) but lost to Jourdanton (48-20), Marion (35-17) and Devine (48-3).
Natalia was off last week so this will be its district opener and one of the teams will get its first district win of the season.
Comfort coach Brandon Easterly said the Mustangs are led by quarterback Jaiden Burford who has completed 53 percent of his passes and thrown for 468 yards and four touchdowns. He’s also the team’s second-leading rusher with 156 yards.
“Their quarterback is electric, and they have some big guys up front that play physical,” he said. “They’re a very experienced team and the coach does a great job.”
At the halfway point of the regular season, Easterly said his team has its share of bumps and bruises but is holding up fine mentally despite being 0-5.
“We’re banged up physically like any team this time of year,” he said. “Mentally, the guys have been great.”
After only scoring 21 points through its first three games and being shut out twice, the Bobcats changed up some things and have been productive offensively in its last two games.
They tallied 24 points against Brackett, a season high at that point, and then topped that last week with 34 against Nixon-Smiley.
Last week’s game had five different lead changes, all in the first half, before the Mustangs went up 24-21 right before intermission and never trailed from there.
In that first half, Comfort held leads of 14-8 and again at 21-16.
In the second half, Nixon- Smiley went up by 11 points (32-21) and again at 13 points (40-27), but Comfort always fought back and cut it to six points at 40-34 with 3:31 left, however they couldn’t ever catch the galloping Mustangs.
Easterly said there’s no time to dwell on last week’s game and added that the team must play its best game going forward.
“We have to keep plugging along and create our own good fortune,” he said.
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