The Fort Chiswell Pioneers traveled to Twin Valley to take on Castlewood and J I Burton on a hot and humid day. The first contest saw the Pioneers pass for 156 yards and rush for 110 more enroute to a 4 to 0 touchdown win. Sean Morgan carried the pigskin eight times for 107 yards , and sophomore Tyler Jakubiak had 41 yards on three rushes. Quarterback Warren Moore threw for 80 yards and one touchdown.Tanner Bailey threw for a touchdown and intercepted a pass for another Fort Chiswell score.

The second scrimmage saw the Pioneers defeat a big and physical J I Burton squad 2-1. Andrew Stoots scored on a five yard run and Colby Rider caught a 19 yard pass from Moore.

Burton’s only score came on a 18 yard pass on their 10th play of a 10 play sequence,this first time they got the ball on offense.

Fort Chiswell had 186 passing yards and 106 rush yards. Three quarterbacks for them completed 13 of 18 passes. Stoots had three carries for 49 yards and caught three passes for 27 more yards.Pioneer head coach Todd Tiller remarked, “I thought we looked good today. I feel much better than this time last year. I’m pleased with what I saw and there’s more positives than negatives.” He then said,” We are further along than last year and I thought our conditioning was huge today. The most welcome thing is we came out of this healthy and we willl correct some things and get back to practice Monday .”

Fort Chiswell will travel to Bristol this Friday to take on the Trojans of John Battle at 7 pm in a benefit game.