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Gold dominates Blue 39-14 in high school all-star football game

Eric Sumlin, left, and Kyle McCoy bracket their all-star buddy Connor Watson before the game. BY DAVE FREDERICK
Dave Frederick
June 20, 2011
Strike up the band as Dante Shells from Caesar Rodney beats the Blue secondary like a drum solo on a 74-yard touchdown reception. BY DAVE FREDERICK
Quadir Bryant of Lake Forest set a record in the game, rushing for 240 yards. BY DAVE FREDERICK
Justin Benson-Reid and Kyle McCoy of Cape got after it on defense containing an end run. BY DAVE FREDERICK
Devon Showell of Indian River scored the first Gold touchdown of the game on a 1-yard run BY DAVE FREDERICK
Kyle McCoy started the game as one of the twin safeties and rarely came off the field. BY DAVE FREDERICK
Dante Shells in Gold battles Teddy Patton for an underthrown ball in the first quarter. BY DAVE FREDERICK
Desmond Sivels showed his stuff, going over and through the Blue defense for his second touchdown of the second quarter. BY DAVE FREDERICK
Eric Jenkins of Sussex Tech was in the all-star band. His grandfather Millard Jenkins was a former band director at Cape. BY DAVE FREDERICK
Eric Sumlin, left, former Dover player, and Kyle McCoy bracket thier all-star buddy Connor Watson before the game. BY DAVE FREDERICK
Cape cheerleader Danielle Christensen joins her buddy Ginger Shaud. BY DAVE FREDERICK

A slew of Henlopen Conference players made a big splash at "The Tub" Saturday night, June 18. Tubby Raymond Field is the name of the turf at Delaware Stadium where the Gold squad throttled the Blue 39-14 in the 56th annual Blue-Gold All-Star game. The event raises monies for the Delaware Foundation Reaching Citizens with Intellectual Disabilities.

Briean Boddy, Blue quarterback out of Delcastle, broke out in the first quarter, getting into the second line of Gold defenders, and no one laid a hand on him as he scampered 30 yards for a touchdown. The T.J. Dematteis kick made the score 7-0.

The Gold team, coached by Fred Johnson of Lake Forest, responded with 26 unanswered points in the second quarter, employing an array of weapons featuring a 1-yard touchdown run by Devon Showell of Indian River, a 74-yard strike to Dante Shells from his Caesar Rodney quarterback teammate Seth McFail, a pair of short touchdown runs by Desmond Sivels of Sussex Tech, and Quadir Bryant from Lake Forest running all over the field.

Bryant finished with a game-record 240 yards rushing on 26 carries, breaking the mark set by Wilmington High's Charlie Cox in the inaugural all-star game in 1956.

The Gold amassed 457 total yards in the game compared to 238 for the Blue. The Blue had won the last five all-star games.

Notes: Kyle McCoy of Cape started at strong safety and played great on run support and pass defense. Justin Benson-Reid of Cape played an array of positions including offensive tackle and outside linebacker. Malcolm Bowden of Sussex Central made some great plays from his linebacker position.

Bill Collick 1970, Dan Paskins 1985 and Tony Taylor 2006 were all voted outstanding lineman for the Gold when they played in the games.

John Marvel of Sussex Central 1961, Henry White of Cape 1974, Dutch Hoffman of Newark 1977, and Clinton Bunting 1986 were all voted outstanding player the year they played in the game.

The game was played in front of a crowd of 6,700; the record for the game is 14,000.

 

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