FAYETTEVILLE — Even when Blayne Toll was little, he was big.
Joe Besancon, going into his 21st season on the staff at Hazen High School and 13th season as head coach, began getting scouting reports on Toll when he was in elementary school.
“Some of my coaches are the elementary P.E. teachers, so they’re interacting with those kids every day,” Besancon said. “One of them said, ‘You’ve got a monster coming,’ when Blayne was in the second grade.
“I’m not exactly sure how big Blayne was back then, but at that age he already was just a lot bigger than the other kids.