December 13, 2017
Fort Gay, W. Va. — Head Coach Todd Maynard and his Tolsia Rebels ( 1-2 ) are in the win column after a 80-68 victory Tuesday night over Ambassador Christian at Rebel Arena.
Tolsia raced out to a 28-18 lead after one period behind 8 points apiece from Freshman Austin Salmons and Rob Cantrell.
The Rebels led 39-31 at halftime over the Eagles.
Tolsia extended the lead in the third quarter behind Salmons’ 8 points and Jacob Mollette’s 7 to hold a 60-45 lead going to the 4th.
In the final stanza the Rebels pushed the lead out to 19 points before ACA cut it to 8 a couple different times before the Rebels closeed it out at the foul line.
Salmons led the Rebels with 23 points, Rob Cantrell tallied 17 points, Jacob Mollette finished with 16, and Jonathon Johnson hit double digits with 10 points. Jared Switzer had 9 and Wayne Williamson chipped in 8 points.
THS hit 7 three pointers and went 17 for 28 from the line.
ACA was led by Rachken Grey who poured in 31 points.
ACA 18 13 14 18 – 68
THS 28 11 21 20 – 80
On Monday night in the first game of a Boy/Girl Junior Varsity doubleheader it was Tolsia getting the 65-43 victory over Grace Christian out of Huntington.
The Rebels only dressed six players but all six put points on the scoreboard.
Tolsia was led by Rob Cantrell who poured in 25 points, Zach Ball tallied 16 points, Austin Salmons had 10 points, Blake Sturgell hit 2 three pointers and finished with 7 points, Trey Brumfield chipped in with 5 points including a three pointer, William Spaulding hit 2 free throws for his only points. THS hit 4 three pointers and went 11-23 from the line.
Grace 6 8 16 13 – 43
Tolsia 12 16 17 20 – 65
Tolsia will be back in action on Saturday afternoon in a showcase at West Virginia State University vs Sherman game time 3:00.
Tolsia Head Coach Todd Maynard
COACH’S COMMENTS
“… Good win for us after playing two really good teams last week in Nitro and Lawrence Co. we knew coming in with our personnel we were going to be a young team and these kids are still learning how to put four quarters together. Our motto is quarter by quarter and we are trying to string those together.”
“… We got off to a good start got out in transition and played pretty good defense in the first period. In the second we didn’t and they cut our lead down at half. We are so young and even our seniors don’t have a ton of experience so it takes time.”
“… Our defense was better tonight but not where it needs to be. ACA has some nice players and they play so hard.”
“… This weekend we play Sherman at West Virginia State so that will be pretty cool for the kids to experience that.”
