Sunday, August 10, 2008

DSU football holds first practice

Hornets senior QB Vashon Winton

DOVER — This is the time of year that sometimes seems to take forever to arrive for Delaware State University football coach Al Lavan and his Hornets. Once the football season begins, everything is a blur. It is just getting to this point that seems to take so painfully long.

But at long last, just before 7:30 on Friday night, Delaware State’s players – about 80 strong – clad in bright red shorts and jerseys, made their way onto the artificial turf surface of Alumni Stadium and got their first preseason practice under way.

It is another season of big expectations for the Hornets, who made their first appearance in the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs last season after they won the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference championship, their first since 1991.

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