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Royals softball readies for 2024 season
Dan Cook
1 month ago
The Delmarva Christian softball squad continues its quest for a DIAA state championship this spring...
The Phillies better get off to a good start
Sumner Spence
1 month ago
The Phillies continue to keep on spending a bunch of money to make this year a success. They signed...
Athletes of the Week March 8
1 month ago
Anthony Andrews A sophomore 120-pound wrestler for coach Scott Layfield’s Sussex Tech Ravens, this...
Vision Quest: seeing and assessing the sports world...
Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Vision Quest - Cape wrestling grappled at Sussex Tech Feb. 7, when the Ravens put a scare into the...
Locals finish strong at Tim Kennard 10-Miler
Tim Bamforth
1 month ago
A large field of 444 runners and walkers took part in the 19th annual Tim Kennard 10-Miler, 5K and...
Cape baseball is looking tough for 2024
Dan Cook
1 month ago
The Cape baseball squad is moving into the 2024 season with a mission to get back to Frawley...
Sussex Academy girls hope to replicate boys’ fall...
Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
Last season, the Sussex Academy girls’ soccer team’s season ended in the second round of the state...
Cape girls’ soccer squad is optimistic heading into...
Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
Cape soccer fans were treated to a run to the state title game by the boys' team last fall, and now...
Schaeffer honors state wrestling champ Austin Guerrieri
1 month ago
Sussex County Councilman Mark Schaeffer recently honored Cape Henlopen High School freshman Austin...
Cape volleyball reloads for 2024 season
Dan Cook
1 month ago
The 2023 DIAA boys’ volleyball state champions are working hard to return to the state tournament...
Blanket coverage of championship wrestling from the...
Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Blanket coverage - I was Pop Pop in the paddock last weekend, contagiously sick sitting under a...
Cape freshman Austin Guerrieri state champ at 106...
Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
A thrilling DIAA Individual State Wrestling Tournament at Cape Henlopen High School was headlined...
Dover defeats Delmarva Christian in DIAA tournament
Dan Cook
1 month ago
No. 10 Dover jumped out to a 13-2 lead on the way to a 49-37 win over No. 7 Delmarva Christian...
AJGA coming to Cape Region
Fritz Schranck
1 month ago
The Cape Region continues to expand its reputation as a great place for junior golfers. Rehoboth...
Flounder regulations differ from NOAA proposal
Eric Burnley
1 month ago
The 2024 summer flounder regulations have been settled, and they are entirely different from those...
Sanford knocks off Cape in second round of boys’...
Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
After falling 60-35 to Sanford School in the second round of the DIAA Boys’ Basketball Tournament,...
Goals for the Phillies
Sumner Spence
1 month ago
I know they’re only a week-and-a-half into spring training, but there are some important things the...
Hundreds of athletes show up for first week of...
Dave Frederick
1 month ago
We talkin’ practice - More than 100 boys and girls showed up on the first day of spring track...
Blue Ribbon Run-A-Thon highlights busy March race...
Tim Bamforth
1 month ago
The second annual Blue Ribbon Run-A-Thon will be held Saturday, March 23, in Cape Henlopen State...
Athletes of the Week March 1
1 month ago
Connor Kugelmann A Cape senior wrestler heading to the University of Charleston in the fall, Connor...
Cape girls’ basketball falls to the Spartans in DIAA...
Dan Cook
1 month ago
The Cape girls’ basketball team’s season came to an end Feb. 28, with a 53-49 loss to Saint Mark’s...
Cape boys knock out Central 61-50 in DIAA first round
Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
It’s not easy beating a team thrice in one season. But that’s just what No. 21 Cape managed to do...
Wrestling fans cheer for underdogs and upsets
Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Upset specials -
The Henlopen Conference wrestling finals Feb. 24 at Sussex Central’s...
Sussex Academy, Cape girls place well at DIAA Swim...
Dan Cook
1 month ago
Editor’s note: The boys’ competition is covered in a separate story.
The Sussex Academy...
Sussex Central wins Henlopen Conference wrestling...
Dave Frederick
1 month ago
A two-day conference wrestling tournament is like jet lag without time zones and solitary...
Cape’s JV achieves perfection with 17-0 season
Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
A Cape girls’ basketball program has clinched an undefeated season for the second time in less than...
Cape boys swim to podium at UD
Dan Cook
1 month ago
Editor’s note: The girls’ swim championships will be covered in a separate story.
The...
Discs abandoned at Cape Henlopen State Park donated...
Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
One person’s trash is another person’s treasure. It might not be treasure buried in Cape Henlopen...
Spreading the love – and the dirt – where it needs...
Fritz Schranck
1 month ago
A new construction project at The Rookery Golf Club near Milton aims to fix one of the problems...
Delaware trout season opens March 2, so be prepared
Eric Burnley
1 month ago
Delaware freshwater trout season will open in Sussex and Kent counties Saturday, March 2. Two ponds...
Spring training finally starts
Sumner Spence
1 month ago
The Phillies have lots of expectations to live up to this year because of their progress in the...
Unsung is not unappreciated
Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Noah Diamond - “Sweet Caroline” is a song by Neil Diamond that inspired a new generation of fans...
A look at Cape Region’s college track athletes
Tim Bamforth
1 month ago
This week, I am dedicating my column to the local track & field athletes competing in college...
Athletes of the Week Feb. 23
1 month ago
Kha'Nihya Johnson
A seventh-grade member of the undefeated Beacon girls' basketball team,...
Cape boys’ basketball finishes season 10-10
Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
At 10-9, the Cape boys’ basketball team needed a win over a 12-7 Appoquinimink team Feb. 21 on...
Royals girls' basketball tames the Bulldogs 63-29
Dan Cook
1 month ago
The Delmarva Christian girls’ basketball team celebrated the Class of 2024 with a 63-29 victory...
Cape football celebrates 2023 season
Dave Frederick
1 month ago
The Cape Henlopen football team celebrated its DIAA runner-up season Feb. 15 at Rehoboth Beach...
Royals boys’ basketball ends season with win
Dan Cook
1 month ago
The Delmarva Christian boys’ basketball team finished its regular-season schedule at 12-9 with a 69...
Delmarva Christian’s JV defeats Wilmington Christian...
Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
For many players, junior varsity is a learning experience. “Essentially, we had four girls that...
Seasoned sports fans can hang tough all day long
Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Hang tough -
Parents, players, sportswriters and all connected cousins, uncles and aunts...
Mariner girls fall short Capital Classic final
Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
The Mariner’s girls’ basketball team entered the final of the Capital Classic’s Hollywood Diner...
Delmarva Christian girls’ basketball wins ESIAC title
Dan Cook
1 month ago
The Delmarva Christian girls’ basketball team came from seven points behind in the final two...
Beacon girls win Capital Classic to complete perfect...
Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
Make it three in a row for the Beacon girls’ basketball team. Not wins. Perfect seasons. “I can't...
Cape girls pull away from Smyrna for seventh...
Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
In a tale of two halves between two 12-5 teams, the Cape Henlopen girls’ basketball team’s strong...
IR fights off Sussex Academy’s surging girls’...
Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
Coming into the Feb. 15 game at Indian River, the Sussex Academy girls’ basketball team had won...
Sussex Central tops Cape 36-34 for wrestling title
Dave Frederick
1 month ago
The flat and the furious was the storyline for Cape wrestling’s improbable 32-30 come-from-way-back...
The dew sweeper
Fritz Schranck
2 months ago
Seventy-three golfers played the Sunday final round at the 2023 ShopRite LPGA Classic. The field...
Pigs will be pigs, but clean up after yourself
Eric Burnley
2 months ago
People pollution is a serious problem in the waterways and on land, and while one person can’t make...
Youth Futsal League heats up the hardwood at Cape
Dan Cook
2 months ago
Tower Beach Football Club’s Youth Futsal League is providing younger soccer players with an...
The Chiefs are a dynasty
Sumner Spence
2 months ago
The Kansas City Chiefs won their third Super Bowl in five years. It was only the second overtime...
Athletes of the Week Feb. 16
2 months ago
Anna Mumford Just a freshman on the Sussex Academy swim team, Anna has made a big splash in the...
Gaining wisdom while losing perspective seems like a...
Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Gaining wisdom, losing perspective -
I have always been wise beyond my years, but I’ve...
Local runner Joe LoBiondo crosses his final finish line
Tim Bamforth
2 months ago
Local runner, businessman, husband, father and grandfather Joe LoBiondo crossed his final finish...
Mariner boys fall to Woodbridge in Capital Classic
Aaron R. Mushrush
2 months ago
Following back-to-back three-win seasons, the Mariner boys’ basketball team took a major step...
Mariner girls advance to Capital Classic final
Aaron R. Mushrush
2 months ago
Two Vikings vessels will descend upon Sussex Academy Saturday, Feb. 17, in an attempt to lay claim...
Cape wrestling advances to semifinals
Dave Frederick
2 months ago
The Cape wrestling team led Smyrna 28-27 in its dual-meet state tournament match Feb. 14, with only...
Royals boys’ basketball falls in ESIAC semis
Dan Cook
2 months ago
The Gunston boys’ basketball team proved that it’s hard to beat a good team three times in a season...
Delmarva Christian girls down Mallards in ESIAC semis
Dan Cook
2 months ago
The Delmarva Christian girls’ basketball team outplayed Worcester Prep to a 51-17 win in the...
Cape boys’ basketball wins sloppy game over Polytech
Dan Cook
2 months ago
The Cape boys’ basketball team moved to 10-9 on the season with a 57-47 home win over Polytech Feb...
Beacon girls’ basketball advances to Capital Classic...
Aaron R. Mushrush
2 months ago
An unforgettable season continues for the girls hooping it up at Beacon Middle School. The 11-0...
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