Why is this not a touchdown?

[Joel_5]

This happened to me last night and i was unsure about a call made by the refs and I was wondering if you could clear a few thing up for me. This is 9th grade football in Missouri.

I will tell the story in first person. My team punted the ball, and the ball bounced off the returner and into the endzone and my team recovered it. Explain to me why that is not a touchdown.

Thank you