The Gulls are already seven points from safety with only four games left, but Tottenham loanee Coulthirst, 20, scored the first and set up the winner for skipper Lee Mansell.
England Under-19 striker Coulthirst signed up for the basement battle at the end of March after a chat with Tottenham manager, Tim Sherwood. He revealed:
"I have another year on my contract there and that's where I see my future, but I was definitely up for the challenge with Torquay when the boss called me on deadline day.
"Surprisingly, when I arrived the spirit was quite high. Everyone believed we could stay up and it's had an effect on me too. If we can win next week it'll make it interesting. We have no pressure on us, but the other teams do."
Torquay manager. Chris Hargreaves is refusing to throw in the towel and said:
"When I took the job I was told it was to keep us up or bring us back up, but I have to believe we can stay up and I genuinely do. We still have Wycombe to play and if we can win our next game, who knows?
"It is still a massive uphill battle. But it is my job to produce a team for the future whatever league we find ourselves in and I have to take encouragement from what I saw."
Rovers central defender Danny Woodards scored an injury time consolation, but boss Darrell Clarke saw his team fall to within one point of the drop zone and heard them jeered off at the final whistle.
Clarke said:
“We deserved the stick we got. I am here to stand up and be counted, and I need the players to do exactly the same thing.
Rovers came close to opening the scoring in the first six minutes when striker Chris Beardsley nodded full back Lee Brown's cross inches over from six yards and then central defender Krystian Pearce nearly turned the ball into his own net before Rice saved on the line.
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