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Amanda Warrington and Nikki Rhoades, a pair of former Cape hockey players at the University of Delaware, were both named to the Colonial Athletic Association Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll for the fall semester, which required a scholastic average of 3.2.

Joe Flacco, the Blue Hens star quarterback and likely NFL high draft pick, also made the list. Women’s cross country had the most honor rollers with 18, which proves you have to be smart to train long distance because you need something else to think about.

Goldey-Beacom College pulled out men’s and women’s hoops victories over Chestnut Hill Academy last Tuesday night. Derek Savage, a senior captain and 1,000-point scorer, led an 80-60 men’s win with 18 points and nine rebounds - at Cape we’d throw in another rebound when no one was looking - while Toni Jones paced a 75-57 win collecting 21 points and nine rebounds. What is with the nine rebounds?

Lindsay Danz, the fast-flying midfielder of Sussex Tech and team MVP, signed a letter of intent Wednesday, Feb. 6, to play for Bloomsburg University. Bloomsburg is the two-time NCAA Division II national champion. Amanda Deloy, a Cape grad with 42 career goals, was a freshman midfielder for the 2007 Husky national championship team. The Huskies have won 13 national championships going back to 1981.

Diane Travis, who played at Cape for Carolyn Ivins and was a member of the 1979 state championship team, is the all-time scorer for Cape field hockey, sending home 74 goals in her three varsity seasons. The 1979 state champion Vikings were 16-0-0 with 15 shutouts, outscoring opponents 63-2. Delia Clark was the goalie.

Indian River guidance counselor, former athletic director and Bucknell quarterback Paul Kmetz is a longtime friend of mine. Paul sent me information by friendly email after reading in my column about Lake Forest bumping up academic standards and having 350 students in the high school declared ineligible.

“IR had no athlete declared ineligible this winter and it has been three years since we lost a football player. Thirteen of our football players are National Honor Society members. Staffing at the school by teachers and administrators who are involved in all student areas is the tonic.” I know over the last several years that Indian River has done a great job hiring strong teachers who can coach because then you get a teacher and a half for the price of one.

My Georgetown buddy, Lance Keeler, answered the all call for perfect teams by reporting that the 1989 Sussex Central baseball team “ran the table to a state championship” finishing 21-0 under the direction of co-coaches Woody Long and Jim Hudson.

The Cape lacrosse team of 1998 was a perfect 19-0 in winning the state championship. Cape boys track in 1978 was a perfect 10-0 and won the Division II state title. The 1981 Seaford football team went 12-0 beating William Penn for the state championship.

Marybeth Betts, former Cape cross country and softball player, has earned All-Academic status in the Pennsylvania Athletic Conference. Marybeth is a junior majoring in elementary education for the Misericordia University Cougars with a 3.2 average.

Vicki Hazzard was selected first team All-State basketball in 1976. Vicki is the mother of Lamont Hazzard, Cape’s head girls basketball coach. The question is, are they the only Cape mother and son first team All-State combination? Adele Mears was second team All-State basketball in 1980 while Ellen Mendenhall made fourth team. I have been unable to find an All-State girls team prior to 1976 but I’ll continue to look.

The latest updated schedule for the Seven Sisters Summer running series can be found at races2run.com. Remember, runners train half as much as they say they do and run twice as slow as the wish they could.

Who saves DNA? Who reading this column can write the words behind the letters DNA? Who can adequately explain DNA without consulting a scientist and whatever happened to RNA?

Trainer Brian McNamee claims to have saved needles and gauze pads from Roger Clemens’ steroid injections “just in case,” and has presented this evidence to Congress as the proof that he is telling the truth and Clemens is lying.

Lanny Breuer, a lawyer for Clemens, said the “evidence” is not credible because “Who in their right mind does such a thing?’

I think it’s called “syringe saver syndrome.”

This is first and last all-snippets column - just thought I’d rock a little old school.