By David A. Willauer-Contributing Editor
Dover High School-Dover, DE-Friday, September 6, 2014-The Dover High School Senators for their first time have moved to their new stadium along with a lot of Senators alumni that looked on at the new facility which is on Route 8 near Hartly outside of the state capital and witness the first football game at the new Dover High School football stadium and they got a real treat under head coach Dante Jones as they came back from a 21-19 deficit came back on Tristan Harris'(12 completions out of 24 attempts for 275 yards)threw a 13 yard pass to Jordan Allen along with Joshua Sudler’s 11 yard run along with 2 two point Tristan Harris’s 2 point PAT’s paced the Dover Senators to a 35-28 win over the Hawks of Urbana High School from Frederick, MD by a score of 35-28.
Dante Jones Dover Head Football Coach: “Our team played clean up football here at the new stadium Urbana is a good team the plays are important and you have brand new shoes and played well last year we won up there from the players to the community this was a lot of people playing here in the new field Dover showed a lot of character and found a way to get back which is good I teach the kids to hustle to the ball and recover the fumble I tell our kids if we put our team together we knew about Gray from Urbana he is a good ballplayer every game is important for our and will take it one game at a time.”
Other Dover contributors Devlin Locklin 16 carries for 111 yards and contributed for a touchdown run of 22 yards, John Castro 11 carries for 66 yards.
New Dover High School Stadium Football Firsts:
Toss of the Coin: Urbana defers to Dover
Kickoff: Dover receiver runs and down the ball in the end zone Dover starts 1st and 10 at their own 20 yard line.
First Play Kevin Loughlin 32 yard run
First Touchdown play in New Dover Stadium-Donovan Parnell 43 yard pass to Elijah Atkins-Colby Atkins kick first pat of game
First Penalty Goes to Urbana
First Dover Touchdown Tristan Harris 18 yard pass to Aaron Jenkins-Dover’s first PAT Caroline Cashner kick
For the Hawks of Urbana Romaine Purnell 10 completions out of 24 attempts for 139 yards 2 td passes and 1 touchdown run of 13. Rashawn Gray led with 21 carries for 203 yards 1 touchdown run of 64 yards.