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Glenhayes, W.V. — After falling behind 22-0 Tolsia ( 1-1 ) couldn’t complete the comeback and fell 29-20 against Sissonville ( 2-0 ) Friday at Wilts Salmons Athletic Complex.
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#77 Colton Davis and a couple teammates stop the Sissonville ball carrier short of the first down.
After a scoreless first quarter the Indians got on the board after a bad snap on a punt attempt set up Sissonville at the Tolsia 36 yard line. On the second play of the drive QB Maddox Balog connected with Deacon Moore for a 36 yard touchdown and it was 6-0 Sissonville with 11:14 left in the first half.
Bentley Ward scampered for a 28 yard touchdown and then added the two point conversion for a 14-0 Sissonville lead with 3:37 left before halftime.
Sissonville made it 22-0 on a 35 yard touchdown pass from Balog to Jackson Cook and Mali Holtzman added the two point conversion with 9:46 left in the third quarter.
Tolsia finally cracked the scoreboard on a 2 yard touchdown from Elijah Ekers and Robert Evans added the two point conversion to make it 22-8 with 11:08 left in the ballgame.
After recovering the onside kick Evans scrambled and found Bradyn Weaver for a 13 yard touchdown to make the score 22-14 with 10:00 left in the game.
#1 Jameson Evans and #14 Caleb Thompson celebrate with #5 Robert Evans after his fourth quarter interception.
After Evans intercepted a Sissonville pass setting up the Rebels with a chance to tie the game the Indians stood tall and forced a turnover on downs.
Tolsia forced a punt but threw and interception with about a minute left and on fourth down Balog tossed and 11 yard touchdown pass to Landon Scott and Freddie Pascoe added the PAT with :56 seconds left in the game to make it 29-14.
The Rebels weren’t done just yet as Evans added a 3 yard touchdown to make it 29-20 but the two point conversion was no good and Sissonville recovered the onside kick and ran the final :18 seconds off to close out the victory.
Evans finished with 85 yards on 12 carries, went 12 of 26 passing for 155 yards, Peyton Rice rushed 10 times for 30 yards, Elijah Ekers carried 6 times for 13 yards.
Rice was the leading receiver for the Rebels with 6 catches for 84 yards, Greyson Golden had 2 catches for 20 yards, Ekers 1 catch for 21 yards, Weaver 2 catches for 15 yards, Braylon Conn had 1 catch for 15 yards.
Evans was the leading tackler with 9, Weaver tallied 8 tackles, Caleb and Chase Thompson with 6 each, Ryan Montcastle 5 tackles including 2 sacks, Ekers 5 tackles and Jameson Evans added 4 tackles.
Tolsia ( 1-1 ) is scheduled to play at Van ( 0-2 ) next Friday night pending the Bulldogs having enough available players. They started the season with just 12 players in uniform.
Sissonville ( 2-0 ) will head to Scott ( 1-1 ) to face the Skyhawks.
Tolsia Head Coach Matt Stanley
COACH’S COMMENTS
“… Give Sissonville a ton of credit that is a good football team over there. We were behind the chains a lot tonight and that isn’t a good recipe for winning football. We don’t have a play call for 3rd and 30, had two touchdowns called back as well. Didn’t play very disciplined football tonight.”
“… So proud of our kids though, they fought till the very end when they could have easily folded down 22-0. Been a tough week for our kids because of the heat we really couldn’t get outside much and then had to push the start time back 30 minutes and then the electric went off up here around 3:00 and we were in limbo of when it was going to come back on or not. Want to thank Sissonville for being gracious with everything going on.”
