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Cape baseball holds championship banquet
Dan Cook
3 weeks ago
The 2025 DIAA state champion Cape baseball team held its end-of-season banquet at Mitchell’s Farm...
UD Chicken Chase 5K: A run from The Starboard to...
Dave Frederick
3 weeks ago
A chicken chase race with no chicken, is that ironic or just plain odd? The University of Delaware’...
Slippery when wet: A sports life connected by song...
Dave Frederick
3 weeks ago
Vanilla Fudge - A slippery-when-wet Rehoboth Boardwalk with Sunday morning drizzle welcomed 353...
Cape Region golfer profile: Diane Herndon
Fritz Schranck
1 month ago
Thousands of golf fans are filling the grounds of Oakmont Country Club near Pittsburgh, Pa., to...
Plenty of places to fish from the beach in Delaware
Eric Burnley
1 month ago
We have covered most of the areas that are fished from a boat. Now, we will look at the places...
Andy & Opie Fishing Tournament takes over Milton
Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
The 11th annual Andy & Opie Fishing Tournament, presented in part by TechnoGoober and Dan’s...
Cape’s Cardin Benjamin opens Blue-Gold soccer game...
Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
Who says you can’t have fun in the June heat on a turf field? Lacing up their cleats and sliding on...
U.S. Open week
Sumner Spence
1 month ago
This Sunday is Father’s Day, the traditional weekend for the men's U.S. Open golf tournament. This...
Athletes of the Week June 13
1 month ago
Cardin Benjamin
This recent Cape grad played his final high school soccer game June 11,...
Athletes in action powered by play, not slowed by...
Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Mostly cloudy - I cover the sports of field hockey and girls’ lacrosse, both competitions governed...
Bodie Frederick, Stephen Hart win Bill Degnan...
Tim Bamforth
1 month ago
The 28th annual Bill Degnan 5K brought 138 runners and walkers to Cape Henlopen High School, the...
Cape trio smashes four home runs in all-star game
Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
A slew of senior players from the ultra-competitive Henlopen Conference joined forces, some on the...
Boys’ lax all-stars battle at DE Turf
Dan Cook
1 month ago
The Blue squad earned bragging rights for 2025, as they defeated the White team 18-12 June 10 in...
Shorebreak Lacrosse defeats Riptide in DE Turf...
Dan Cook
1 month ago
DE Turf’s Men’s Summer Lacrosse League kicked off its fourth season June 9. The seven-week league...
Local girls fare well at lacrosse all-star game
Dan Cook
1 month ago
The Cape connection lacrosse all-stars helped to lead the White team past the Blue squad 14-13 in...
Special Olympics Delaware Summer Games set June 13-14
1 month ago
The 54th annual Special Olympics Delaware Summer Games will take place Friday, June 13, and...
Delaware FC 2014 Boys’ South Black wins Columbia...
1 month ago
The Delaware Football Club 2014 Boys’ South Black team delivered a stellar performance at the...
Zeke Clark inspires runners at SoDel Cares 5K
Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Who cares? SoDel Cares - “SoDel Cares is the philanthropic arm of the SoDel family, which is made...
Cape Region golfers earn recognition
1 month ago
Several Cape Region high school golfers earned recognition for their 2025 season performances. All-...
Summer fishing has arrived
Eric Burnley
1 month ago
We have suffered through a very cold and windy spring with small-craft advisories more days than...
Athletes of the Week June 6
1 month ago
Jaxon Clampitt
Jaxon has had a year for the record books on the mound for Cape baseball...
It’s championship week
Sumner Spence
1 month ago
There are a bunch of championship events being played this week, including the NBA Finals between...
Character is the essence of the athlete revealed in...
1 month ago
Championship connections - I took a photo of the Clampitts after graduation and didn’t drop one...
Run for the Ribbon 5K raises funds for Reese Cathcart
Tim Bamforth
1 month ago
One of the most emotional events the Seashore Striders produces, the Race for the Ribbon 5K, was...
Local 5-year-old amputee set to run 5K June 7
Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
Perseverance often paints a beautiful story of inspiration. A race can be like a blank canvas...
Ravens’ remarkable run comes up just short in...
Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
Midnight’s bells rang out for Sussex Tech softball just before the girls nearly pulled off the...
Contagious celebrations in a neurodiverse universe
1 month ago
Team Reese - Reese Cathcart is a Mariner sixth-grader who plays field hockey and lacrosse. The 18th...
Cape baseball wins the state championship
Dan Cook
1 month ago
The Cape baseball team defeated Conrad 6-4 at Frawley Stadium in Wilmington to bring home the DIAA...
Cape baseball wins state championship
1 month ago
The Cape baseball team won the state championship with a 6-4 win over Conrad in the DIAA tournament...
Cape boys’ lax falls to Sallies in DIAA championship
Dan Cook
1 month ago
The Cape boys’ lacrosse team’s 2025 campaign came to an end with a 12-9 loss to Salesianum May 31,...
Cape girls’ lax wins state title
Dave Frederick
1 month ago
The relentless Cape girls’ lacrosse team propelled themselves to another state championship May 31...
Cape baseball downs Sallies, plays Conrad for DIAA...
Dan Cook
1 month ago
The Cape baseball team got sweet revenge with a 9-2 DIAA semifinal win over Salesianum May 30,...
Cape beats Sussex Academy 19-3, will face Tower Hill...
Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Cape girls’ lacrosse defeated visiting Sussex Academy May 29, by a score of 19-3 in the semifinals...
Sussex Academy takes fourth, Cape finishes fifth in...
Fritz Schranck
1 month ago
Steady, drenching rains forced a cancellation of the May 28 second round of the scheduled 36-hole,...
Local tournaments raise funds for important causes
1 month ago
I am sorry to be so late with these recent tournament results. Normally, I would have covered these...
Anybody's championship?
Sumner Spence
1 month ago
The NBA postseason is coming down to the end. There are only three teams still alive to win it. It...
Athletes of the Week May 30
1 month ago
Regan Best “Simply the Best!” Regan had been the ace card in the Cape toolbox beginning with field...
Masser 5-Miler field gets perfect-weather race day
Tim Bamforth
1 month ago
A field of 292 runners kicked off the 35th Seashore Striders Racing Series the morning of May 25,...
Sussex Tech upsets Sussex Academy in softball...
Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
As No. 9 Sussex Academy’s historic season came to a close in the DIAA softball semifinals May 27,...
Cape boys’ lax swats the Hornets 11-3 in semis
Dan Cook
1 month ago
On a night the weather was more suited for a duck, the Cape boys’ lacrosse team braved the wind and...
Harrington Harrier and Wiley Coyote are fastest...
Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Melissa Wiley, aka the Wiley Coyote from Ocean City, Md., who’s also a nurse practitioner, was the...
Cape baseball advances to semifinals
Dan Cook
1 month ago
The No. 1 Cape baseball team defeated Delaware Military Academy 7-5 in the state tournament...
The Sussex Guide: Tim Holton runs tethered to Joe...
1 month ago
Sussex Guide - Tim Holton is, among other things, a transplant to Sussex County from Brooklyn, N.Y...
Moronic moments: We came to get down so jump around
Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Moronic Moment - "Watch out, moron!” “No, you da Moron!” “Life is a highway. I wanna ride it all...
Cape football seniors honor impactful teachers
1 month ago
Cape senior football players started a new program this year called You Made an Impact, where...
Atlantic Lacrosse U12 girls capture ESYLA Championship
1 month ago
The U12 girls’ team from Atlantic Lacrosse, a program of the Eastern Shore Youth Lacrosse...
Seahawks fall in OT to Newark Charter in soccer...
Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
Despite two improbable bounce-backs late in the second half, No. 3 Sussex Academy was upset 3-2 in...
Sussex Academy softball’s historic season continues...
Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
A hardworking group of girls continues making a lot of noise in the DIAA softball state tournament...
Sussex Academy girls’ lax advances to semis
Dave Frederick
1 month ago
The Sussex Academy girls’ lacrosse team advanced to the semifinals of the state tournament May 22,...
Cape baseball mercy rules Charter 11-1
Dan Cook
1 month ago
The Cape baseball team moved into the quarterfinals of the state tournament with an 11-1 five-...
Cape boys’ lax eliminates Auks
Dan Cook
1 month ago
The Cape boys’ lacrosse team moved into the DIAA semifinals with an 11-3 victory over Archmere...
Record harvests reported for white-tailed deer, wild...
1 month ago
Two of Delaware’s most popular and productive hunting seasons – wild turkey and white-tailed deer...
Mid-Atlantic should follow lead of Gulf states
Eric Burnley
1 month ago
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, the federal system for counting the fish recreational anglers catch...
Local athletes break records in powerlifting debuts
1 month ago
Two local athletes – 9-year-old Pierce Kietzmann and 44-year-old Alex Moor – both smashed Delaware...
Cape softball falls to Smyrna in quarterfinals
Dan Cook
1 month ago
The Cape softball team fell to Smyrna 5-2 in the DIAA quarterfinals May 24, ending the Vikings’...
The Phillies are in first place!
Sumner Spence
1 month ago
The Phillies are currently on a seven-game winning streak. Last weekend, they swept the Pittsburgh...
Cape golf wins Henlopen North title
Fritz Schranck
1 month ago
In an exciting low-scoring playoff against Polytech May 16, the Cape High golf team won its first...
Athletes of the Week May 23
1 month ago
Kasen Adams This Mariner Middle eighth-grader led the baseball team with a .606 average, 21 hits,...
We are the champions, my friends; track athletes...
1 month ago
Two guys - There is no more athletic event on the track than the 110-meter high hurdles. It...
Let Me Run runners tackle DQ Dash
Tim Bamforth
1 month ago
Who doesn’t want to finish a 5K to a full table of mini Blizzards from Dairy Queen? That was once...
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