45. NSBHS chooses king & queen; Cudas romp over Deltona 56-0 in homecoming
Headline Surfer videos by Multimeda Editor Serafina Frederick /
NEW SMYRNA BREACH -- The New Smyrna Beach High School 'Cudas had lots of reasons to be happy during the 2011-'12 school year homecoming game. The football team won big time and Dallas Macdermant and Shanleigh O'dell were named king and queen, respectively.
The King and Queen court of the New Smyrna Beach Homecoming game on Oct. 26. Left to Right 1st Row: Shar'Quan Baker, Sara Cronk, Jennifer Pugh, Sofia Trotta, Sierra Selman, Isabel Trotta, Jessica Armitage, Shar'Quayla Baker Left to Right 2nd Row: James Clark, Jonah Power, Dallas Macdermant, Dillion Macdermant, Brandon Amendolare, Desmond Mitchell, Tayler Selby, Edwin Navarro, Corbin Lyles, Dexter Dixon Not pictured: Shanleigh O'dell and Brianna Sanders.
The homecoming comes in at No. 45 in Headline Surfer's countdown of the top 100 local stories of 2012.45. NSBHS chooses king & queen; Cudas romp over Deltona 56-0 in homecoming
Headline Surfer videos produced by Multimedia Editor Serafina Frederick / Cudas head coach Lance Jenkins talks about the pounding 56-0 victory over winless 9-6A district foe Deltona at Homecoming in the video after praising the team as shown in the photo below.
The Cudas ran all over Deltona for a 56-0 wiin during Homecoming, thanks to four touchdowns by D'Cota Dixon with three touchdown runs and an interception returned for a touchdown.
And that doesn't even account for a third TD run by Dwayne Wood and two scoring TDs by QB Marcus Johnson, all before halftime.
The score was 49-0 before the Homecoming pageantry halftime show.
Johnson kept the scoring going with a 10-yard touchdown run of his own in the opening drive of the third quarter.
Johnson got things going for the Cudas with a 52-yard TD pass to Clark in New Smyrna Beach's initial drive. The second TD pass from Johnson was hauled in by Diamonte Mitchell for 27 yards. Dwayne Wood added to the offensive fie power with a 5-yard touchdown run in the first quarter to make it 49-0.
Thanks to the Cudas' strong offensive line, Dixon found easy holes, bursting for touchdown runs of 1, 10, and 20 yards. The junior was equally explosive on the defensive side of the ball, picking off a pass and taking it 31 yards into the end zone less less than 2 minutes in the first half.
Headline Surfer photos by Serafina Frederick / The Deltona Wolves could not generate any offense against the Cudas en route to a 56-0 loss in a winless season.
In the second half, winless Deltona could do nothing on offense against the Cudas' bruising defense, holding the Wolves' offense to a measly 27 yards, and with the Cudas' strong ground game on offense, it was simply a matter of running down the clock.
The Cudas, went to 8-0 with the win.
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45. NSBHS chooses king & queen; Cudas romp over Deltona 56-0 in homecoming
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