Third-quarter explosion gets Shiner past Tigers, 55-19
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
by Mark Lube, Gazette Sports Editor
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PLEASANTON - Ahead 18-13 at halftime after a hail-mary score, the Shiner Comanches took advantage of a bizarre special teams play.
Jarvis Williams (right) blocks for Clayton Fric Friday night (November 21, 2025).against Brackett. Fric led all rushers with 149 yards and scored two touchdowns as Shiner rolled to a 55-19 win in the area-round playoff game in Pleasanton. photo by Mark Lube
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The Comanches had the second-half kickoff in the area-round game against Brackett at Eagle Stadium in Pleasanton bounce up and down off the turf and looked to be headed for the end zone.
The ball instead stopped at the Tiger 1 and Shiner special-teams player Boe Boehm recovered the live ball.
Quarterback Jarvis Williams scored on the next play and that started a run of 37 points, 30 in the third quarter, as Shiner locked up the Tigers 55-19 on Friday night.
"That play was a break for us because we did not get any in the first half," Comanches head coach Daniel Boedeker said. "Everything went against us and we got a big break to start the second half and it changed the momentum of the game."
Brackett was able to do something, in the first half, very few teams have done this season: be ahead of Shiner on the scoreboard and were able to do so using their size advantage.
"We struggled up front with the size (of Brackett's lines) in the first half and we knew it would be a challenge," Boedeker said. "The Tigers were going to come out ready to go. On defense, we were not tackling well," Boedeker said. "Their running back, Abel Aguirre, was running physical. We saw him on film and knew it would be that way. Quarterback Troy Sandoval was a shifty runner and was able to cut back on us. We let Brackett extend drives when we had the chance to get them off the field. We had contact in the backfield but they ran through us and had too many yards after contact.
Shiner allowed the Tigers two touchdowns and about 129 yards in the first off but surrendered just one one second-half score, a late fourth-quarter touchdown
Charlie Clifford blocks the point after on the Tigers' first touchdown. Brackett recovered the loose ball and tried to run for two but that failed as well. photo courtesy of Louann Heinsohn
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"In the second half, we were able to move the ball some and made some adjustments on defense with our pad level, and get in our gaps and not over pursue," Boedeker said.
After Brackett took a 13-12 lead on an 8-yard pass from quarterback Jack Lewis to Aquirre with a mere 24 seconds left in the second quarter, Williams moved the Comanches from their 44 to the Brackett 45, having to deal with a holding call, with just a few seconds. With no time on the clock, Williams heaved a pass 45 yards to the end zone where, for not the first time this season, running back Quincy Jones somehow came down with it. The two-point conversion was no good, leaving the Comanches up by five at the break.
After Boehm's head's-up play on special teams that helped put Shiner up 26-13 at the 11:58 mark of the third quarter, the Tiger offense managed a 19-yard drive that ended in a 17-yard punt to the Shiner 47. In one play, Shiner scored on a 53-yard run by Clayton Fric for 32-13 lead after Shiner fumbled on the two-point conversion. Brackett repeated on the next possession, losing 2 yards in three plays. After the punt to the Shiner 35, Jones raced 65 yards for another touchdown and Fric had the two-point play for a 40-13 Comanche advantage with 6:25 left in the third.
Another Tiger punt resulted in another Shiner score - a two-play, 65-yard drive with Fric going 55 yards and Jace Caddell converting a run for two more points and a 48-13 lead.
Shiner was not done scoring as freshman Levi Werner capped a four-play, 64-yard drive with a 49-yard run with 9:38 left to play in the game.
The Tigers managed a consolation score after accomplishing another rare feat: they forced a punt from Shiner after the Comanches had recovered a fumble at their own 12.
Brackett then drove 53 yards in seven plays and over four minutes, scoring the last touchdown on a 9-yard pass from quarterback Jack Lewis to Sandoval with 24 seconds left.
Shiner struggled to make huge gains on the opening possession until a quarterback run by Williams went for a 40-yard touchdown and a 6-0 lead after the point after was missed.
The Tigers matched with a 5-yard run by Aquirre on the first play of the second quarter to end a 14-play, 74-yard drive that used 6:44 off the clock.
The Comanches took a 12-6 lead with a 33-yard run by Jones with 8:58 left until halftime.
Shiner got an interception on Brackett's next possession but fumbled the ball back to the Tigers on the same sequence.
Brackett then went on another long drive, 51 yards in 14 plays and over five minutes off the clock. They tied the game on an 8-yard pass by Lewis to Aquirre and then made the extra point for a 13-12 lead with barely half a minute until intermission.
The Comanches will play Iola in the regional game on Black Friday at 2 p.m. at Giddings ISD's Buffalo Field.
GAME STATISTICSShiner 55, Brackett 19 Friday, November 21, 2025, 7:00 p.m. Eagle Stadium, Pleasanton TX SCORING SUMMARY 1 2 3 4 F Brackett 0 13 0 6 -- 19 Shiner 6 12 30 7 -- 55 SCORING DETAILS: First Quarter S - Jarvis Williams 40 run (kick failed), 6:48 1Q. Second Quarter B - Abel Aquirre 5 run (run failed), 11:55, 2Q. S - Quincy Jones 33 run (pass failed), 8:58 2Q. B - Aquirre 8 pass from Jack Lewis (Malachi Cervantes kick), 0:31 2Q. S - Jones 45 pass from Williams (pass failed), 0:00 2Q. Third Quarter S - Williams 1 run (Jones run), 11:58 3Q. S - Clayton Fric 53 run (run failed), 7:46 3Q. S - Jones 65 run (Fric run), 6:25 3Q. S - Fric 55 run (Jace Caddell run), 4:41 3Q. Fourth Quarter S - Levi Werner 49 run (Anthony Hernandez kick), 9:38 4Q. B - Jordan Balderas 9 pass from Lewis (kick failed), 0:24 4Q. TEAM STATISTICS: Brackett Shiner First downs 19 16 Rushes-yards 49-186 27-384 Passing yards 64 68 Passes 8-15-1 3-5 Total plays-yards 64-250 32-452 Penalties-yards 3-20 5-49.5 Fumbles-lost 2-1 2-2 Punts-aver 4-25.75 1-39.0 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS: Rushing B: Abel Aguirre 28-129, Troy Sandoval 20-55, Demetrius Siler 1-2. S: Clayton Fric 10-149, Quincy Jones 8-114, Jarvis Willliams 6-60, Levi Werner 1-49, Tyler Harvey 2-12. Passing B: Jack Lewis 6-11-0-59, Sandoval 2-4-1-5. S: Williams 3-5-0-68. Receiving B: Jordan Balderas 5-35, Aguirre 2-12, Sandoval 1-17. S: Jones 1-45, Charlie Clifford 1-15, Jake Simper 1-8.
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Mark Lube is the sports editor for the Shiner Gazette.
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