Cape beat Dover 29-14 in first of three consecutive homecoming games
Talk to coach Bill Collick two minutes or two days after his last football game and he’s right at some Friday night turning point - it’s up to the interviewer to join that game already played in progress.
“Jo Jo [Kirby] got hurt early. We put Jordan [Reed] into the game. We’ve been on his case lately. He comes up with a big interception,” Collick said, picking up the phone Sunday night. Anyone with a close friendship to a football coach knows that’s how they roll in season, like a continuous loop of projector film.
Cape’s last defensive play of the first half was Jerry Harden jumping the route and returning a pass in the flat for a 67-yard touchdown. The Vikings led 22-14 during the elongated homecoming half, which produced a pregame traffic jam without Cape fans who stayed home in droves from the game.
Kolbi Wright got his plow horse game going in the second half, churning for yardage and scoring the only touchdown of the half, as Cape won 29-14 to improve to 5-1 on the season.
“The physical intensity we had during the Central game just wasn’t there,” Collick said. “You look out onto the field and see those Dover athletes and their quick-strike capabilities and you just can’t be messing around.”
Cape was a MASH unit of running backs in the second half - several players were helped off the field, but rules prohibit them from being helped back on, you have to manage that on your own. Two-way players Rasheed Woods, Kolbi Wright and Ben Ashby were all escorted off by trainer Sheryl, but returned later under their own power, continuing to crack and collide with people.
“Ben Ashby has played great the last two games on both sides of the ball,” Collick said. “He had some big-time runs and was ‘running the alley’ on defense.”
Rasheed Woods scored on a 2-yard run to open the scoring. Then the Vikings got a second quarter safety followed by the Harden pick six.
Kolbi Wright bounced a fourth run to the outside, “going airplane mode” to break the plane for the game-icing touchdown.
Cape plays at Caesar Rodney (0-6) Friday, Oct. 21. Get there early or be part of the Homecoming/Halloween combination parade - “don’t let the goblins get your goat.”
Notes: Sophomore lineman Demarcus Perry (5-foot-11, 234 pounds), Jonah Robertson (6-foot, 239 pounds) and Tanner Virden (6-foot, 280 pounds) have joined seniors Jaso Lopez (6-foot-4, 338 pounds) and Robert Mitchell (6-foot-1, 295 pounds) to give Cape a pretty good offensive line. “The sophomore trio is always getting after people,” Collick said.
