It is a small world in sports when two girls from the same street in the same Lewes development are named to the Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area field hockey team.
The team is voted on by 28 sports information directors from the Philadelphia metropolitan area. Samantha Coveleski, a senior at Villanova majoring in communications, had a 3.72 average, while Bethany Pavik, a Delaware Valley junior, also had an average 3.72. Twelve athletes made the team and all were pushing the 4.0 of perfection but none landed there because there is always one professor who takes great delight in laying an A- on the well-rounded, too-good-to-be-true student athlete.
ALL SCHOLASTIC - Back in 1963, I made the All-Scholastic Eastern Pennsylvania football team which all my friends found hysterical seeing my academically nonperforming butt in the same sentence with the word scholastic, which they believed meant academics.
But I assured them it simply meant I went to a school. In my case it was a Catholic high school where Franciscan priests had a license to punch, smack, knuckle and snap faces into tables, lockers and blackboards.
COACH PHIL MARTELLI - The Saint Joseph’s Hawks lost to Villanova last Thursday night 59-56 in a game broadcast on ESPN. The next night, head coach Phil Martelli was at Cape’s Little Big House to scout 6-foot-3, high-flying left-handed jump shooting and dunking guard Anthony Miles.
“I saw him come in the gym to see a kid on the other team and that just fired me up more,” said Cape coach Dwight Tingle. Miles did have two breakaway dunks in the first half, but also was credited with five turnovers in the first quarter alone and was a nonfactor in the fourth quarter which began tied at 40 entering the final period where Cape outscored and outhustled the Panthers 19-10 for a 59-50 victory. Miles finished with 10 points.
The question: Is he a Division I prospect? Absolutely! He is playing in a system which is no system at all for an underachieving team with talent and size at every position which basically doesn’t have a clue. If the kid were at Cape he’s be an All-Galaxy performer. Words of advice to Polytech: better get your freak on!
BEACON BALL - Late afternoon middle school sports are just the best for families and local fans and especially grandparents with cameras not unlike my sitting on the stage self. I watched Beacon take out visiting Sussex Academy in both games, but it was apparent that I was watching developing talent with good prospects on both squads.
I waxed nostalgic when my granddaughter Anna scored the first basket of her game using her left hand. I began telling a story of the Saint Joe’s Field House in 1962 when I was just a sophomore coming in and using the left in the Eastern finals of the PCIAA championship game against Allentown Catholic. Forty-six years later I am a fat guy on a stage with a bad hip and Lego blocks for lumbar vertebrae and here comes a Fred spin-off genetically destined to use the left. I call it the double recessive - the same power that pulls me toward the Wawa doughnut case. I can’t help myself sugar pie honey bunch!
SNIPPETS - The sixth annual Delaware Marathon Running Festival will be held Sunday, May 17.
Registration is now open for the Christiana Care Health System Delaware Marathon Running Festival presented by New Balance Delaware on Sunday, May 17.
More than 2,000 runners from all fifty states are expected to compete in Delaware’s largest (and oldest) marathon running festival, which consists of a 26.2-mile marathon; a 13.1-mile half-marathon and a four person (6.55 mile) team marathon relay. All events will be run on brand-new USATF-certified courses that start and finish at Tubman Garrett Riverfront Park in Wilmington.
Applications are available at active.com or the Delaware Marathon website at delawaremarathon.org.
For more information, call race director Wayne S. Kursh at 302-654-6400.
The Delmarva Christian Royals defeated Wilmington Christian 58-36 last Friday to go 4-0 on the season. Mike LaPointe, a 6-foot-9 junior transfer from his own home-schooled home in Massachusetts, had 25 points - an early career personal record. The boys play Worcester Prep at home Tuesday, Dec. 16, beginning at 5:30 p.m.
The Eagles are a long shot and may have to take out the cowgirls in the final home game of the season to make the playoffs. Terrell is jealous of Romo’s relationship with his tight end roommate Jason? I can’t wait to see the signs in the stadium for that game.
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