The Tohopekaliga Tigers kept up their winning ways Friday, remaining Osceola County's only undefeated team with a 41-19 win over local rival St. Cloud.
Like this point in the season, THS is 3-0. The Bulldogs fall to 1-2.
Sophomore quarterback Sabby Meassick passed the Tigers to the big District 4S-10 win, tossing six more touchdown passes, giving him 19 in three games against just one interception. Three of them came on Toho's first three possessions, hitting running back Churandy Duval on the first two of his three scores on passes of 21 and 27 yards, and Julian Nasco's first of two scores. The Tigers led 21-0 midway through the second quarter.
While he said it was a solid start, THS Coach Anthony Paradiso also said he wasn't sure if it was a full four-quarter effort.
"We did a lot of poor things out here," he said of the second half. "We've got to get better, and we've got to run the ball better to make the game shorter."
The Bulldogs pulled within two scores on their next drive, when Logan King lofted a 21-yard TD pass to Alex Springs, the first of his two touchdown catches, and they were driving again close to halftime. But the Tigers' Andrew Hines recovered a fumbled snap, leaving Meassick at Toho enough time to get into position and, on the last play of the half, he threw up a ball that Naeem Woullard went up and got for a 40-yard touchdown catch that made it 28-7 heading into halftime.
King hit Springs again and TJ Griffin scored on a two-yard run in the fourth quarter to pull closer.
The Tigers will try to remain undefeated next week when they host Melbourne (0-3). St. Cloud will try to regroup at Winter Springs (1-3).
