Red Devils, Patriots earn gridiron wins

Sep. 29—In last week's high school football outings:

Oak Hill 54

Ripley 14

Ethan Vargo-Thomas had three touchdown catches as home-standing Oak Hill throttled Ripley 54-14 last Friday.

Vargo-Thomas hauled in TD aerials of 15 and 21 yards from Alex Colaiseno, who was 5-of-6 for 74 yards. His other receiving six-pointer was 20 yards from Alex Baxter.

On the night, Vargo-Thomas had four catches for 70 yards.

Baxter (six carries for 30 yards), JD Mauritz (11-67), Omar Lewis (7-34) and Zychaeus Lewis (9-60) all had rushing touchdowns for the Red Devils, who ran for 350 yards and passed for 130. Malachi Lewis carried six times for 66 yards, and James Green gained 34 yards on four tries.

Levi Kiszka completed a 36-yard pass to Armonyi Hicks.

Vargo-Thomas registered an interception for Oak Hill's defense.

Oak Hill (3-2) will travel to Cabell Midland on Friday, Sept. 30.

Greenbrier West 54

Meadow Bridge 0

Greenbrier West's Ty Nickell posted a 158-yard, three-touchdown performance in a 54-0 victory Friday night.

The Greenbrier West defense set a school record with a fifth straight shutout to start the season.

Ethan Holliday also had a big night, scoring the first touchdown on a 10-yard run and then scoring on a 74-yard interception in the second quarter that gave the Cavaliers a 34-0 lead early in the second quarter.

The Cavs also sandwiched a Cole Vandall 34-yard touchdown with a fumble recovery around a pair of Nickell runs. The second, after getting the ball back with 25 seconds left in the half, Nickell broke off a 60-yard touchdown run that put him over 1,000 at the midway point of the season.

For Reney Cordial V, the senior was able to get his first career touchdown, his first-quarter score giving the Cavaliers a 28-0 lead at the end of the first quarter.

A young Meadow Bridge squad ran into a buzzsaw defense, rushing for just 24 yards on 29 carries. The Wildcats were 0-of-1 passing and had four turnovers. The Wildcats didn't get a first down until the second half, which was played in two three-minute quarters.

"They are very deep on the defensive line," Meadow Bridge coach Dwayne Reichard told The Register-Herald. "Coach (Toby) Harris and I have talked. He has a lot of kids he can roll in there and keep those fresh legs. We're still young up front and we're still trying to learn. It's a tough situation we're in right now. We're hoping it pays dividends down the road but on a night like this you would hope you could block together and string together a few first downs, but their defense came to play, and they took advantage of a young offensive line and did what they came to do."

The Cavaliers also got a 57-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Tucker Lilly to Kadin Parker. Lilly was 3-for-3 for 65 yards.

"We never really had that many opportunities (on offense), scoring on interceptions and fumble recoveries," Harris said. "We are just really happy for the kids, and we are happy to be where we are right now."

Greenbrier West is 5-0 and faces Shady Spring, coming off a win Friday night against PikeView.

Meadow Bridge (1-4) is idle this week before playing at Webster County on Oct. 7.

MB 0 0 0 0 — 0

GW 28 26 0 0 — 54

First quarter

GW: Ethan Holliday 10 run (Hayden Ridgeway kick), 10:31

GW: Kadin Parker 57 pass from Tucker Lilly (Ridgeway kick), 8:02

GW: Ty Nickell 1 run (Ridgeway kick), 4:13

GW: Reney Cordial 5 run (Ridgeway kick), 2:15

Second quarter

GW: Holliday 74 interception return (kick blocked), 10:16

GW: Nickell 20 run (Ridgeway kick), 5:56

GW: Cole Vandall 34 fumble recovery return (kick failed), 3:45

GW: Nickell 60 run (Ridgeway kick), 0:12

INDIVIDUAL STATS

Rushing — MB: Kaiden Sims 9-25, Connor Mullins 6-10, Seaton Mullins 14-(minus-11), GW: Nickell 8-158-3, Holliday 1-10-1, Vandall 3-4, Cordial 1-5-1

Passing — MB: S. Mullins 0-1-2-0-0. GW: Tucker Lilly 3-3-0-65-1

Receiving — MB: None. GW: Parker 1-57-1, Nickell 2-8.

Takeaways — MB: Mullins FR, GW: Holliday 2 INT, Daron Vaughan FR, Vandall FR.

Midland Trail 13

Summers County 12

The Patriots rallied at home Friday to pull off their fourth straight win, a 13-12 verdict over Summers County.

Midland Trail plays at Nicholas County at 7 p.m. this Friday.

Spring Valley 24

Riverside 0

The Warriors suffered a 24-0 setback to Spring Valley at home last Friday.

Riverside was outgained 381-116.

For RHS, Jake Walker rushed 13 times for 61 yards, and he was 7 of 21 through the air for 29 yards.

Reed Marsico had 22 rushing yards, and Brock Jeffries caught three passes for 16 stripes.

Justin Rucker collected seven tackles and two assists for the Warrior prevent unit. Adam Wilkinson had six solo stops.

Riverside (1-3) visits MSAC foe Huntington for a 7:30 p.m. tilt on Friday, Sept. 30.