Local high school football: Comanches welcome Bobcats; St. Paul travels to Temple CTC

Shiner hosts powerhouse Refugio while St. Paul plays at Central Texas Christian.
Refugio at Shiner
The Comanches play their final home regular-season game against the always-stout Refugio Bobcats.
“The Bobcats this year are similar to what they have been in the past— a lot of speed and a lot of size,” Shiner head coach Daniel Boedeker said.
Shiner had a tough start to the season losing all four non-district games and their district opener to Ganado but the Comanches have now won three in a row.
The ‘Cats lost their season opener to Class 3A powerhouse Hitchcock 43-36 but have won six straight and also picked up a forfeit win against Bishop.
Refugio is scoring 45.2 points a game and opponents score an average of 16.4 points against the defense.
The Bobcat offense is led by running back Jordan King, plenty of speed with the receiver group and a big offensive line.
“We have to make sure we prevent big plays,” Boedeker said.
King plays defensive end to lead Refugio’s defense with help from linebackers Zander Wills and Kaleb Brown.
“Refugio has got lots of speed on the defensive side,” Boedeker said. “Our offense will need to make positive-yard plays and control the clock.”
St. Paul at Temple CTC
The Cardinals make their second trip to Temple, this time to play at Central Texas Christian.
The Cardinals fell to 4-4 after coming up short in their district opener 31-14 to Hallettsville Sacred Heart.
This will be the Lions’ district opener; they went 3-4 in non district, scoring 29.7 points and yielding 27.1 points a game.
St. Paul head coach Mike Jackson said the most important thing was to heal the injuries that came out of the Sacred Heart game.
“We have to get Zeke (Rodriguez), Nate (Boedeker) and every one else who got banged up healthy again,” he said. “This week’s game will be a gut check and we have to find a way to scrape out a win.”
CTC lean heavily on the run with 71 percent of their offensive plays running plays. The Lions average 280.6 yards a game and Tabor Tyson has gotten the ball over 80 percent of those running plays.
He has 205 carries for 1,764 yards, 252 yards a game, 8.6 yards a carry, long rush of 86 and had scored 23 touchdowns.
“Tabor Tyson leads the district in rushing and we have to stop him,” Jackson said.
Cooper Smith has completed 38-of-69 passes for 410 yards, three touchdowns, five interceptions, 10.78 yards a completion and 5.94 yards per attempt.
Tristan Eanes is the top receiver with 21 catches for 204 yards with Rhett Humphrey and Princeton Schneider each with two touchdown receptions a piece.
Another thing St. Paul needs to do on defense is continue to work on preventing big plays.
Jackson said the Cardinals give up about four big plays a game.
“Those factor into the result of the game. We have to lock in our defense and play more consistent.”
Prior to the injuries near the end of the first half against Sacred Heart, the Cards were controlling both the line of scrimmage and the tempo.
“We will need to have no turnovers, we had a couple last week and be able to consistently run the football,” Jackson said.