2016 State Champs Deal With Losses On The Line

August 17, 2017 Posted by Matt Pencek Featured Sports, Football, Local Sports

The calling card for the 2016 Woodbridge Blue Raiders, defense. Five times in ten regular season games, Woodbridge’s defense shutout their opposition.

The front line has graduated and being a Division II program, those players that were key to a dominant defense were also the same players opening holes for running back Terrique Riddick and providing protection for quarterback Troy Haynes.

The Blue Raiders do return several key players, like Haynes, who were instrumental in winning the first state championship in school history. To make up for a size difference on offense, look for the Blue Raiders to take advantage of their team speed. “We’re smaller than most teams and we have to be up and in one those categories,” Haynes said. “Speed is what we are.”

2017 Woodbridge Schedule
9/8 @ Cambridge South Dorchester
9/15 Dover
9/23 @ Wilmington Friends
9/26 Laurel
10/6 @ Seaford
10/13 @ Milford
10/20 Lake Forest
10/27 St. Marks
11/3 Indian River
11/10 @ Delmar

Tags: Delaware high school football Ed Manlove Henlopen Conference Inside the Huddle Sports Troy Haynes wboc sports woodbridge football Woodbridge High School

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Matt joined WBOC in October 2015 as a Sports Broadcast Journalist. He is a native of Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania. Matt graduated from Penn State where he received a bachelor’s degree in journalism. He started his broadcast career as the news/sports director of WEMR AM 1460 in his hometown of Tunkhannock. Matt held that same position for WALI/WROG radio in Cumberland, MD. His first television position was as the weekend sports anchor at WHAG-TV in Hagerstown, MD where he eventually became the Sports Director. Matt then moved to Florence, SC to become a sports reporter/anchor for WPDE-TV In 2011 along with his brother David, Matt co-authored The Great Book of Penn State Sports Lists. From 2012 – 2015 he was the lead radio play-by-play voice for The Friday Night High School Football Game of the Week for DE FOX Sports 1290 in Wilmington, DE. The last 2 years at the radio station Matt was the studio host during the University of Delaware Football radio broadcasts. He has also called the action for the both the Blue Hens men’s and women’s basketball teams. Outside of work, Matt is married to his wife Shannon and has two sons; Jack and Connor. E-mail Matt Pencek at mpencek@wboc.com and follow him on Twitter @mattpencek_wboc. Check out all stories by Matt.