Fort Gay, W. Va. Tolsia Baseball ( 6-6 ) honored eight seniors on a beautiful Saturday afternoon and then went out and beat Rose Hill 9-7 to win their third game in less than 24 hours.
2021 Tolsia Baseball Seniors
Bottom L to R Tanner Copley, Levi Watts, Nik Blackburn, Joey Doss
Top L to R Josh Wilson, Devin Stull, John Wilson, Dusty Bailey
The Rebels improved to 6-6 going into the last week of the regular season.
Tolsia 9 Rose Hill ( KY ) ( Saturday)
The Rebels gave up six runs in the top of the first but rallied for the come from behind victory on Saturday over the Royals.
Dusty Bailey and John Wilson collected three hits each, Wilson drove in two runs and Bailey scored three times, Josh Wilson and Tanner Copley had two doubles each, Devin Stull singled and drove in two runs, Levi Watts, Nic Blackburn and Braxton Marcum had one hit each.
Josh Wilson gave up one run in five and one third innings of work to get the win, Julian Vance picked up the save going one and one third of an inning to close it out.
Tolsia 12 Van 2 ( Saturday )
The Rebels only had one hit but parleyed twenty walks into a mercy shortened Region 4 Section 2 victory over the Bulldogs.
Braxton Marcum had the lone single along with two walks and two runs scored, Dusty Bailey walked four times, one RBI and scored twice, Nic Blackburn walked three times, Tanner Copley walked twice, scored three times and had one RBI, John Wilson walked twice and scored two runs, Julian Vance walked twice, one RBI and scored a run, Josh Wilson walked once and had one RBI, Devin Stull and Jacob Perry walked once each, Brady Kirk scored a run.
Nic Blackburn started and went three and a third innings allowed one hit and one run to get the win. Dusty Bailey closed it out going one and two thirds of inning and only allowed one hit.
Tolsia 13 Hannan 1 ( Friday )
John Wilson went 3-3 including a home run and drove in three runs to lead the Rebels, Dusty Bailey went 4-4 with four RBIs and scored three times, Josh Wilson had three hits and two RBIs, Levi Watts and Nic Blackburn two hits each, Joey Doss and Brady Kirk one hit each, Braxton Marcum, JoJo Vanhoose and Julian Vance scored a run each.
Dusty Bailey, Nic Blackburn and Braxton Marcum gave up 2 hits and one run in the mercy shortened victory.
#4 Braxton Marcum makes the tag on the Wildcat base runner to end the game Friday night.
Tolsia Head Coach Jeff Wallace
COACH’S COMMENTS
“… We have been up and down because of the lack of practice and games, We started the season losing three straight and giving up 45 runs while scoring only two runs. We had to shut down for about 10 days and then we got the basketball players back after the longest season in history about seven months all together.”
“… We won our first game of the year and then 15 more days come back and win two more before going on a three game losing streak. We beat sectional opponent Hannan on Friday to kickoff the weekend. We got decent pitching and good hitting we pitched multiple people to insure we had everyone available for the Saturday doubleheader.
“… Seniors Josh and John Wilson stayed hot at the plate on Saturday when we played another sectional opponent in Van. We were one hit and managed to manufacture 12 runs. We got good pitching and solid defense to win the mercy shortened game. Braxton Marcum got the lone hit. As others walked multiple times. Nik Blackburn got the win and Dustin Bailey pitched in Relief.”
“… In the night cap we played Rose Hill Christian, who we had only beaten once since 2018. They jump up 6-0 in the top half of the first inning we answered back with 5 in the bottom of the first and It was back and forth until the 5th when we went up 9-6. Josh Wilson came in with one out in the first and down 5 runs to pitch a gem giving up 1 run in 5 2/3’s, Jullian Vance got the save John Wilson continued his hot hitting with 2 doubles andSenior Tanner Copley had his first 2 hit game of the season.”
