Glenhayes, W. Va. — The Tolsia Rebel football team improved to 2-3 on the season with a 52-12 homecoming victory over Calhoun Co. on Friday at Wilts Salmons Athletic Field.
2025 Tolsia Homecoming Queen and King
Charlee Ferguson and Devin Honeycutt
The Red Devils opened the scoring on a Brennan Carpenter to Charter Cottrell 55 yard touchdown pass with 5:28 to go in the first quarter.
Robert Evans put the Rebels on the board when he raced in from 20 yards out and Dakota Blackburn tacked on the two point conversion and Tolsia led 8-6 with 3:35 left in the first period.
Calhoun Co. retook the lead on a Chase Schoolcraft to Cottrell 62 yard touchdown and was 12-7 Red Devils with 10:31 left in the first half.
#4 Peyton Rice breaks free for his second kickoff return for a touchdown of the season.
On the ensuing kickoff Peyton Rice put the Rebels ahead for good when he went 65 yards to the house to make it 14-12 Tolsia with 10:22 left in the half.
Evans added his second 20 yard touchdown and the two point conversion to make it 22-12 Rebels with 7:54 left in the first half.
Rice increased the Rebel lead with a 14 yard touchdown and Evans tacked on the two conversion to make it 30-12 with 4:08 left in the half.
In the third quarter Rice scored his third touchdown of the game on a 70 yard scamper and Evans once again added the two point conversion for a 38-12 Tolsia lead.
John Jarrell 2 INT’s
Blackburn increased the Tolsia lead on a 50 yard touchdown and two point conversion with 1:18 left in the third and it was 46-12 Rebels.
Caleb Thompson set the final score of 52-12 on a 4 yard touchdown with 5:44 left in the ballgame.
Tolsia rushed for 375 yards in the victory and was led by Dakota Blackburn with 124 yards on 12 carries and one touchdown, Robert Evans 13 carries for 114 yards and 2 touchdowns, Peyton Rice 3 carries, 84 yards and two TD’s, Caleb Thompson: 7 carries, 36 yards and 1 touchdown, Dylan Stroud 3 carries for 12 yards, Jesse Jarrell 2 carries for 6 yards.
Caleb Thompson was 2 of 2 passing for 28 yards, Greyson Golden caught both passes for 28 yards.
#24 Dylan Stroud and #12 Greyson Golden combine to bring down #1 Chase Schoolcraft.
Dylan Stroud was the leading tackler 12, Jesse Jarrell 7 tackles and 1 INT, Kyndul Kincaid 7 tackles, Greyson Golden 7 tackles, Robert Evans 6 tackles and 1 INT, Landon Spence 6 tackles and 1 pass breakup, John Jarrell 5 tackles and 2 INT’s, Chase Thompson 5 tackles and 2 QB sacks, Caleb Thompson 4 tackles and Devin Honeycutt 2 tackles.
The Rebels will host Class 3A #6 Chapmanville ( 5-0 ) next Friday night.
Calhoun County ( 1-4 ) will host Buffalo ( 1-3 ) next Friday night.
‘Fired up Friday’ really got the day going for the Rebel Faithful.
Tolsia Head Coach Steve Stroud
COACH’S COMMENTS
“…The win is great but we are still making way too many mistakes. And we have to get them cleaned up moving forward. We are still playing a bunch of kids that don’t have much varsity experience.”
“…Big game for Peyton Rice, he got hurt last year and is just now getting back into form and it shows. That was his second kickoff return of the season. Blackburn and Evans are both dandy’s and really ran the football hard.”
“… We had both touchdowns scouted and I take all the blame for the first one because they never threw it to number 20 one time so that’s on me. The second one they just out executed us. So give them all the credit on that one. After that I thought we rallied to the football and never let them get anything going.”
