Sports

Lover’s Lane 5K lures runners to Rehoboth

Tim Bamforth
1 month ago
The fourth annual Lover's Lane Valentine Boardwalk 5K was held in the Nation’s Summer Capital Feb...

Royals book spot in ESIAC Championship game with 59...

Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
For the second year in a row, the boys’ basketball team at Delmarva Christian will host the ESIAC...

Sussex Academy boys’ basketball seniors get the...

Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
Basketball for the boys at Sussex Academy has come to an end, but the lads kept fighting until the...

Cape girls’ basketball surges past Senators

Dan Cook
1 month ago
The Cape girls’ basketball team ended its regular season with a 74-20 victory over Dover Feb. 18...

Cape boys’ basketball concludes season 17-3

Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
Back-to-back 30-point wins against Henlopen North foes gave the Cape boys’ basketball team an...

Cape JV girls’ basketball finishes undefeated

Dan Cook
1 month ago
The Cape girls’ basketball junior varsity team went into the 2025-26 season with the pressure of...

Cape unified falls to Dover in barn burner

Dan Cook
1 month ago
In one of the most exciting and highest-scoring games of the season, the Cape unified basketball...

Cape girls’ wrestlers reach the podium

Frank Payton and Hollyann Wettstein
1 month ago
Cape Henlopen High School set the standard for its girls’ wrestling program, as it wrapped up its...

‘Stay there’ and ‘short time’ are wrestling commands...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Stay there! Stay there! The coach exhorts, “Stay there! Short time!” The wrestler is on top, the...

Fred Thomas boys win program’s first trophy

Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
Sussex Academy hosted the Capital Classic championship games on Valentine’s Day, concluding the...

Cape girls fend off rivals in back-to-back division...

Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
The Cape girls’ basketball team showed no love to its adversaries in the two days leading up to...

Cape unified basketball celebrates seniors

Dan Cook
1 month ago
The Cape unified basketball squad celebrated the Class of 2026 players during its 45-38 loss to...

Cape beats Central, falls to Dover

Dan Cook
1 month ago
The Cape boys’ basketball team split a pair of games last week, cruising past Sussex Central before...

Cape wrestling hangs tough, but falls to Sallies in...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Cape wrestling went hard at top-ranked Salesianum in the Division I semifinals of the state dual-...

SFY Tsunami gets first water polo win

1 month ago
The Sussex Family YMCA’s Tsunami 12U mixed youth water polo team earned its first tournament win in...

First Tee Delaware seeks signups and sponsorships

Fritz Schranck
1 month ago
Each spring, the First Tee Delaware offers a variety of on-course programming for junior golfers...

Sad loss for the Cape Region’s outdoor community

Eric Burnley
1 month ago
The fishing and hunting community has lost a very good person. Kelly Racz of Kelly’s Outdoors in...

Cape football holds awards banquet

Dan Cook
1 month ago
The Cape Henlopen football team held its 2025 end-of-season awards banquet Feb. 9 at the Rehoboth...

Disappointing Super Bowl

Sumner Spence
1 month ago
The Seattle Seahawks dominated Super Bowl LX winning by the score of 29-13. It wasn’t even that...

Athletes of the Week Feb. 13

1 month ago
Geordan Downing This 6-foot-2 junior sharpshooter met the moment for the Cape boys’...

Bad Bunny and Snoop Dogg are funny names surrounding...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Bad Bunny and Snoop Dogg - Where do little melons go in the summertime? John Cougar’s Mellencamp. I...

Wardian wins World Marathon Challenge for third time

Tim Bamforth
1 month ago
Nine years ago, local ultra-marathoner Mike Wardian of Arlington, Va., and Rehoboth Beach entered...

Slower Lower Lax goes undefeated

1 month ago
Slower Lower Lax, a middle school team representing Delaware and Maryland’s Eastern Shore, made a...

Four local teams reach finals of Capital Classic

Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
Cape basketball’s future remains shimmering, with both Beacon teams and the Fred Thomas boys’ squad...

Cape completes season sweep of Milford with 53-38 win

Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
It might be easy to borrow sugar from a neighbor, but sharing wins in a zero-sum game is a bit...

Cape wrestlers flip the script on St. Georges

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Four Cape wrestlers flipped the script at St. Georges Tech Feb. 11, as the Vikings stunned the...

Cape girls’ basketball celebrates seniors with win...

Dan Cook
1 month ago
The Cape girls’ basketball team celebrated the Class of 2026 Feb. 10, with a 59-25 running-clock...

Cape swimming falls to Sallies, Ursuline

Dan Cook
1 month ago
The Cape swim teams ended their regular season with tough but spirited losses to Salesianum and...

Young athletes bring magic moments to sports...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Sportsmanship and graciousness - I spoke to Lake Forest’s Jerusalem Howard two years ago and just...

Delmarva Christian wins 10th game on Senior Night

Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
Cupid isn’t the only one playing matchmaker in February, as the shortest month of the year is also...

Trio of seniors honored before Royals vanquish Dragons

Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
The Delmarva Christian girls’ basketball team played its final home game of the regular season Feb...

Community leaders treated to premium sportsmanship

Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
For those aware of the warmth and joy of witnessing a unified basketball game, they understand what...

Vikings, Seahawks swimmers crowned conference champs

Dan Cook
1 month ago
The 2026 Henlopen Conference Championship swim meet was a repeat of 2025, as the Cape boys and the...

Cape girls’ basketball gets signature win over Pandas

Dan Cook
1 month ago
It was a tale of two halves Feb. 5, as the Cape girls’ basketball team overcame a 16-12 first-half...

Seahawks wrestlers wrap up regular season against...

Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
A lot can happen in 15 days, especially in wrestling, and the grapplers at Sussex Academy will have...

Cape wrestling dominates Lake on Senior Night 

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Four years of high school wrestling go by in a blink of an eye ... or a bloody cotton plug up your...

PGA Show a growing success story

Fritz Schranck
1 month ago
Thousands of attendees swarmed over the Orange County Convention Center’s huge West Concourse at...

Monster bluefin caught for new Virginia state record

Eric Burnley
1 month ago
Virginia has a new state-record bluefin tuna. Capt. David Wright and mate Andrew W. Flory with...

Super Bowl 60

Sumner Spence
1 month ago
I feel very old! The first Super Bowl I remember watching was Super Bowl XXVI between the...

Athletes of the Week Feb. 6

1 month ago
Ally Diehl A junior on the Cape basketball team, this honors student isn't skipping a beat after...

Brokaw twins ran and swam for Cape; now they’re...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Hey, Ricky - Ricky Brokaw was a swimmer and cross country runner at Cape, graduating in 2016. His...

Tracy Sipprelle ran 3,256 miles in 2025

Tim Bamforth
1 month ago
Congratulations to the Seashore Striders challengers who participated in the 2025 100-mile-per-...

Seahawks swimmers wrap up sixth straight undefeated...

Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
Another swimming regular season in the books, another undefeated year for the Sussex Academy girls...

Vikings run away from Ravens for fourth straight win

Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
Winning is full of blessings and curses, some going hand in hand. The Cape boys’ basketball team...

Cape girls’ basketball grounds the Ravens by 30

Dan Cook
1 month ago
The Cape girls’ basketball team moved to 12-2 with a 60-30 victory over Sussex Tech Feb. 3 at Cape...

Three Cape athletes select college and sport

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Three athletes committed to play their respective sports in college at a Feb. 4 ceremony at Cape...

Royals outduel Sabres 50-46

Dan Cook
1 month ago
The Delmarva Christian boys’ basketball team moved to 9-6 on the season Feb. 2, as they defeated...

Cape unified basketball falls to Jays

Dan Cook
1 month ago
The Cape unified basketball team moved to 1-4 with a 46-38 loss to Seaford Feb. 3 at Cape’s Little...

Cape wrestling housed by Hawks 43-29

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
“Hard times ain’t gonna rule my mind.” – Gillian Welch, 2011. Cape’s varsity wrestling team is...

I’m a sportswriter, not a sociologist, but I do have...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Talk too much - “You talk too much, you worry me to death. You talk too much, you even worry my pet...

Royals take their lumps from strong northern squads

Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
Four straight home games against northern teams resulted in a .500 record for a Delmarva Christian...

Fast start, strong finish powers Royals to 46-36 win...

Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
There’s something to be said for keeping even-keeled in the crux of a high school basketball season...

Cape girls’ basketball collars the Jags by 24

Dan Cook
1 month ago
The Cape girls’ basketball team scored the first 18 points of the game and cruised to a 57-33 win...

Cape, Sussex Academy split swim meet

Dan Cook
1 month ago
The Cape boys’ swim team overpowered Sussex Academy 118-52, but the Seahawks’ girls’ squad squeaked...

Smyrna decks Cape wrestling 45-22

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Chris Mattioni, with 300 wins over 31 years as Cape’s head wrestling coach, has survived combining...

Cole Parker, Libby Dawson given the Royal treatment...

Aaron R. Mushrush
1 month ago
When the Delmarva Christian swim teams welcomed Nandua Jan. 31, the Royals also bid farewell to...

Small spaces, big challenges

Fritz Schranck
1 month ago
The greens are a small part of a golf course’s acreage. Compared to fairways and rough, however,...

States that had enough with overregulation

Eric Burnley
1 month ago
In the latest issue of Salt Water Sportsman, there is an article by Nick Carter on the trouble...

A variety of sports stories

Sumner Spence
1 month ago
There’s just a few small stories to talk about this week. The Super Bowl matchup has been decided...

Truckin’ Triathlon: Wawa to the bay to the Cape campus

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Blue Ice - Truck Cab Triathlon - There are three venues where I like to park and reflect while...