Bassinet baby rocks a monkey suit at Seawitch 5K
Monkey time - Marion and Fred Price, grandparents of Riley Price Washeck, were left in charge of the bassinet baby in a monkey costume coming up on one year old while mother Cindy, 38, a former Delaware Division II cross country champ at Cape, ran the Seawitch 5K in 21:10 to win the 35-39 age group. Her husband Dan, no dummy, ran 12 seconds slower in 21:22.
“Riley came all the way from Seattle, so she should get in the paper for that, don't you think?" Marion said, and knowing her, I got the message: “Get my granddaughter in the paper, or the next time I see you in Food Lion, I'm calling your trifling butt out!”
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Wily wisdom - Cape has four highly successful older coaches who continue to put up impressive numbers in their respective sports: Bill Collick in football, Gary Montalto in soccer, P.J. Kesmodel in girls' lacrosse and George Pepper in girls' track.
High school athletes do not discriminate by age; they just don't want to be saddled with a chump or some leader who extracts all the fun out of playing. Most people who coach at any level think they are good at it, but many are not.
George Glenn, former Cape football coach, said to me, "There are a lot of ways to skin a cat, but the bottom line is, can you get the job done?” I can't even clean a flounder, let alone skin a cat. I wouldn't know where to start; in fact I wouldn't start. Sounds macabre.
Turbo Tebow - “The best” collegiate player ever is a terrible professional quarterback, but God bless Tim Tebow. Timmy has proven that you can preach a noble message and still be incredibly annoying to lots of people. I admire Tebow because he is a fit and ripped athlete and not afraid to lay it up in there, even going out there when he knows he can't make the throws. He'll be totally gone from the league in two years and if he ever turns bad you'll know, to quote REM, “It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.”
Free agent fans - Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins may be heading out to another team, and so-called real baseball fans of the city talked more about his decreased productivity and much less - if at all - of his smiling personality and leadership in the locker room. I think Jimmy was never really forgiven for calling the fans frontrunners, which by the way, Eagles and Phillies fans have always been, conditioned by experience to expect the disastrous most of the time. Every team in every series I rooted for in the 2011 baseball playoffs eventually lost.
Snippets - Argentinian Alberto Castillo, 79, spry and alert, nicer and smarter than most humans on the planet, ran 52 races since last April, including 50 5Ks and a pair of five- milers. And after each race, he took pictures, then posted them on the Seashore Striders website. Alberto is a retired international economist who speaks multiple languages fluently - otherwise, what's the point?
The Maryland women's soccer team, 10-5-4, lost to Virginia, 14-3-2, in the quarterfinals of the ACC tournament Oct. 30 by a 2-0 margin and will have to wait until Monday, Nov. 7, to see if the team earned an at-large bid into the NCAA tournament.
Caesar Rodney football beat Sussex Tech 21-7 and beat Smyrna 20-14, so don't let that 3-5 record fool you if you're a Cape fan. The Vikings could finish with a record of 8-2 and make the six-team postseason tournament, especially if St. Mark's and Concord finish with four losses. St. Mark's still has St. Elizabeth and Salesianum, while Concord must play Salesianum and a good Appoquinimink squad.
