SHINER - Bryan Franklin scored five touchdowns, including two on blocked punt returns, to lead the Shiner Comanches to a 58-7 District 30-1A homecoming victory over the Runge Yellowjackets.
After Franklin's 10-yard touchdown run with 8:20 to go in the first quarter, Shiner (3-2,1-0) found itself behind 7-6 as Runge (0-5,0-1) scored on a 70-yard Chris King run with 7:59 left.
But the Comanches erupted for 31 more first quarter points to put the game away. Quarterback Garet Pustka scored on an 8-yard run and threw a 54-yard TD pass to Eric Murphy, and Franklin scored on runs of 54 and 13 yards and also grabbed a punt block by Shawn Flores in the air in the Runge end zone for another TD in the 31-point spree.
Shiner padded its lead in the second quarter on Devin Carroll's 47-yard TD pass from Pustka and Franklin's 21-yard return of a Runge punt that was blocked by Carroll.
Chris Baer ended the game's scoring in the third quarter on a 2-yard run.
Franklin led all rushers with 136 yards on 10 carries.
Deadra Wright was crowned homecoming queen at halftime.
GAME STATISTICS Runge Shiner First Downs 4 18 Yards Rushing 25-77 31-311 Yards Passing -5 106 Passes 1-5-2 2-2-0 Punts 3-28.3 0-0 Fumbles-lost 1-1 1-1 Penalties-yards 7-31 6-45 Runge 7 0 0 0 - 7 Shiner 38 14 6 0 - 58 SCORING DETAILS First Quarter S - Bryan Franklin 10 run (run failed), 8:20 R - Chris King 70 run (Jeff Reynolds kick), 7:59 S - Garet Pustka 8 run (Garet Pustka run), 5:49 S - Bryan Franklin 54 run (run failed), 4:18 S - Eric Murphy 58 pass from Pustka (run failed), 3:09 S - Franklin recovers blocked punt in end zone (kick failed), 1:30 S - Franklin 13 run (kick failed), 0:21 Second Quarter S - Devin Carroll 47 pass from Pustka (Adam Dawson kick), 8:04 S - Franklin blocked punt return (Dawson kick), 3:57 Third Quarter S - Chris Baer 2 run (kick failed), 2:53