The Shiner Comanches will welcome the Falls City Beavers at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Both teams are coming into the contest red-hot, with Shiner sitting on three straight wins and Falls City on four.
Shiner's defense heads into the game hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Friday. They narrowly escaped with a victory as the squad sidled past Charlotte 2-0. Given the Comanches' advantage in MaxPreps' Texas football rankings (they are ranked 528th, while the Trojans are ranked 1206th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Falls City). They breezed by Louise at home to the tune of 48-7 on Friday. With the Beavers ahead 35-7 at the half, the matchup was all but over already.
Falls City's win was a true team effort, with many players turning in solid performances. Perhaps the best among them was Tyler Pawelek, who rushed for 109 yards and four touchdowns. The dominant performance gave Pawelek a new career-high in rushing yards. Another player making a difference was Braylon Johnson, who rushed for 103 yards and a touchdown on only 12 carries.
He was just one part of a punishing run game: Falls City was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 297 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 249 rushing yards in four consecutive matches.
The victory got Shiner back to even at 3-3. As for Falls City, they pushed their record up to 4-2 with the win, which was their third straight at home.
Everything went Shiner's way against Falls City in their previous meeting back in September of 2017, as Shiner made off with a 35-12 victory. Will Shiner repeat their success, or does Falls City have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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