Delaware
State champ Seaford snags 9 spots on All-Class 1A football first team
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Seaford defeated Newark Charter in overtime, 21-20, at Delaware State University’s Alumni Stadium.
Seaford won its first state football championship since 1983 on Nov. 29, edging Newark Charter 21-20 in overtime for the Class 1A title at Delaware State University’s Alumni Stadium.
The Blue Jays were No. 1 again on Dec. 1 when the Delaware Interscholastic Football Coaches Association released the All-Class 1A team.
Seaford earned nine first-team spots and two Player of the Year awards on the team, which was determined by the combined voting of the state’s 17 Class 1A head coaches before the playoffs began.
Brandywine was next with five first-team spots earned. The coaches’ voting was scattered, as 10 teams placed at least one player among the 30 first-team spots.
Seaford quarterback Vince Evans III was voted the Class 1A Offensive Player of the Year, while Blue Jays linebacker Ty’Aire Buffalo was voted Defensive Player of the Year.
Newark Charter guard Josh Horning was named the 1A Lineman of the Year.
Four players made the Class 1A first team on both sides of the ball – Newark’s Deigo Diaz Vallejo (fullback and linebacker), McKean’s Vaughn Brooks (running back and linebacker), Seaford’s Brendan West (running back and defensive tackle) and Conrad’s Charles Shute (tight end and linebacker).
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DIFCA All-Class 1A football
First team
Offense
QB – Vince Evans III, sr., Seaford
FB – Diego Diaz Vallejo, sr., Newark
RB – Vaughn Brooks, sr., McKean
RB – Brendan West, sr., Seaford
WR – Keyon Black, sr., Newark
WR – Jahsir Greene, sr., Brandywine
WR – Jahfarri Payne, sr., Dickinson
WR – Terrence Williams, sr., St. Elizabeth
TE – Charles Shute, sr., Conrad
C – De-Andre Smith, jr., Seaford
G – Nicholas Florencio, sr., St. Elizabeth
G – Josh Horning, sr., Newark Charter
OT – RaKwan Coates, jr., Brandywine
OT – Doubensley Saint Jean, sr., Seaford
Defense
DE – Aizyon Matthews, sr., Seaford
DE – Nicholas Webb, sr., Brandywine
DT – Kaleb Ross, sr., St. Elizabeth
DT – Brendan West, sr. Seaford
DT – Stephan West, sr., Brandywine
LB – Charles Shute, sr., Conrad
LB – Vaughn Brooks, sr., McKean
LB – Ty’Aire Buffalo, jr., Seaford
LB – Diego Diaz Vallejo, sr., Newark
DB – Damier Bryant, sr., First State Military Academy
DB – Ny’gee Horsey, sr., Seaford
DB – Maxwell Laznik, jr., Newark Charter
DB – William Teel, jr., Newark
Special teams
K – Ian Cleghorn, sr., Brandywine
P – Bradley Dunk, sr., Christiana
RET – Taishawn Frisby, jr., Seaford
Second team
Offense
QB – Thomas McGrory, jr., Conr. FB – Je’Viohn Hurst, jr., Sea. RB – Noah Johnson, sr., Chr; Jamar Smith, sr., Gla. WR – Cayden Anderson, jr., NC; Damier Bryant, sr., FSMA. TE – Kaleb Ross, sr., SE. C – Sean Roderiguez, so., Bran. G – Charles Fahnbulleh, jr., Chr; Jason Henn, sr., New. OT – Troy Jones, sr., SE; Kyhir Wheelings, jr., Gla.
Defense
DE – Sully Burkhardt, sr., NC; Johnta Cuffee, sr., New. DT – Charles Fahnbulleh, jr., Chr; Joshua Jalloh, sr., FSMA; Samai Kargbo, sr., Gla. LB – Ajay Bonis, sr., NC; Levi Levin, jr., Bran; Kameryn Swinney, jr., Gla; Terrance Williams, sr., SE. DB – Noah Johnson, sr., Chr; Thomas McGrory, jr., Conr; Zaa’Hir McNair, sr., Bran; Jahfarri Payne, sr., Dic.
Special teams
K – Luke Metzner, sr., Sea. P – Sean Dougherty, sr., Conc. RET – Noah Johnson, sr., Chr.
Offensive Player of the Year – Vince Evans III, sr., Seaford.
Defensive Player of the Year – Ty’Aire Buffalo, jr., Seaford.
Lineman of the Year – Josh Horning, sr., Newark Charter.
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100 years ago, The Evening Journal, June 21, 1926
Jealous man kills woman, wounds boy
Oliver K. Higgins, aged 33 years, of Washington Street, in a fit of jealousy late Saturday night, is alleged to have pumped seven bullets from an automatic revolver into Mrs. Edna M. Martin, 40 years old, of Spruce Street, killing her.
Charles Brown, the 15-year-old of Mrs. Gladys Brown, was shot in the jaw and shoulder by Higgins but will recover. Mrs. Brown, also of the Spruce Street address, is the sister of the slain woman. …
Mrs. Martin, who was employed by the Home Baking Company on Market Street, left the store at a late hour Saturday night, accompanied by Paul A. Crawford of Marshallton and went home. They found Mrs. Brown sitting in the dining room with Julius K. Bowman of Newport.
The women and men sat around the table for a short time. At 11:45 o’clock, hearing someone taking out a window screen in the parlor, Mrs. Brown went to the hall to see what caused the noise.
She saw Higgins step in the window with a gun in his hand. She opened the door and ran off the porch.
Higgins failed to see Mrs. Brown and continued to the dining room where Mrs. Martin and the two men were sitting. He leveled the revolver at their heads and said, “Stick your hands up everybody, and I don’t mean maybe.”
Higgins then asked for Mrs. Brown. Learning she had gone out the front door, he ran after her, passing her as she crouched behind a hedge a few feet from the doorway. He returned to the dining room, but the men had fled. He then turned to Mrs. Martin and fired as she ran. …
Leaving the dead woman at the head of the steps, Higgins rushed in the back room in search of Mrs. Brown. Charles Brown, who had been sleeping, awoke because of the noise. …
Hearing the boy going down the stairs, Higgins stepped to the stair rail and shot him twice. …
Mrs. Brown went to the drug store of Otto H. Miller at 22nd and Pine streets to telephone police. …
Officers surrounded the Brown house … and arrested Higgins. …
Higgins met Mrs. Brown several months ago when he was in the employ of the United Cigar Store, and Mrs. Brown was working nearby. He is said to have become jealous over the attention of other men to Mrs. Brown, who is divorced. She asked him to stop annoying her and appealed to police.
After Higgins threatened Mrs. Brown with a gun, she told her employer who called the United Cigar Company and made a complaint to the manager. Shortly after this, Higgins was discharged.
50 years ago, The Morning News, June 23, 1976
Bill would jail parents of delinquent kids
A tough measure that provides for jailing the parents of delinquent children or requiring them to spend weekends with delinquents at juvenile detention centers has been introduced in the Delaware Senate.
The bill is the brainchild of the community-based services staff of the juvenile corrections bureau.
“This gives a way to coax them (the parents),” said John J. Mulvena, juvenile corrections chief. “If not to coax them, to require them. If not require them, jail them.”
The bill is sponsored by Sen. Herman Holloway Sr., D-Wilmington.
Mulvena said it is “directed at parents who are reluctant to participate in the responsible supervision of their children.”
He said due to “stubbornness, ignorance or neglect,” his staff often ends up acting as “mother, father, aunt, uncle or surrogate” for children “while the parents get off scot-free.”
20 years ago, The News Journal, June 26, 2006
Storms wallop Sussex with 6-8 inches of rain
Jack English knew he was in trouble early Sunday morning.
He kept waking up to the sound of his Seaford basement sump pump trying to keep up with the downpour outside….
At first, he found a few inches of water on his basement floor. Then, all of a sudden, his backyard was completely flooded and the rising water blew out his basement window. …
“I was evacuated by the fire department,” he said. …
In six to eight hours, 7 inches fell in Bridgeville, more than 8 inches in Georgetown and nearly 6 inches in Laurel….
The Seaford Fire Company had its first sign of trouble at 7:30 a.m., when a crew responded to a person trapped in a car by rising water. As the morning went on, rescue crews turned to boats.
An estimated 300 people were evacuated from homes at three mobile home parks southeast of Blades.
Meanwhile, in Seaford, concern grew as water levels rose in the Nanticoke River and Williams Pond. As a precaution, 110 residents of Lifecare at Lofland Park rehabilitation center were evacuated to Nanticoke Memorial Hospital. …
At the Seaford Walmart, a team of swift water rescuers from Salisbury, Maryland helped people trapped in the parking lot, with water up to the top of some cars. …
Bridges at Craigs Mill Road and Woodland Road washed out. …
The American Red Cross opened a shelter at Woodbridge High School in Bridgeville. About 30 people were staying there Sunday night.
Reach reporter Ben Mace at rmace@gannett.com.
DELAWARE COUNTY, Ind. — All lanes closed on I-69 in the southbound direction in Delaware County on Friday morning.
Authorities with the Indiana State Police were dispatched to the 240.5 mile marker on a report of a crash involving a semi at approximately 8:08 a.m.
All lanes are now open.
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