Buddies celebrated in front of record crowd as Blue defeats Gold

It was a day that wont soon be forgotten. Not for the buddies, the players, or the coaches. Saturday’s 60th annual DFRC Blue-Gold All-Star game was a success in more ways than one. In the end, the Blue team came away with an 8-6 win, with both teams waiting until the final 1:18 to get into the endzone.

“Hats off to the DFRC, the 36 kids we got were not only the good players, they were better young men,” said Gold assistant and Laurel head coach Glenn Phillips.

What the record crowd of 7, 124 saw was a defensive battle throughout, with both teams causing and creating a number of turnovers, nine in total, including one crowd-dazzling one-handed interception by Gold corner and former Woodbridge QB Logan Wescott.

The Blue team, responsible for seven of those giveaways, would break thru with 1:18 remaining in the fourth quarter with a hook and ladder play, with Hodgson’s Ray Jones finding St. Mark’s Dalton Ziemba at the 31 yard line, and Ziemba lateraling back to A.I. DuPont speedster Quadree Henderson who would take the pitch in for the final 30 yards. Jones would then add a keeper up the middle for the two-point conversion.

Gold would respond with less than 30 seconds remaining on the clock when QB Ben Campbell (Newark) found Keyjuan Selby (St. George’s) with :22 seconds on the clock. Kani Kane (Sussex Tech) would be denied on the 2 point attempt that followed, securing the Blue win.

Lightning and rain came in just as the game came to an end, with Henderson winning the game’s MVP, and Lake Forest’s DJ Cornish winning the top lineman award.