Sports

Upper Sussex junior all-stars fall to Western Sussex

Dan Cook
1 year ago
The Upper Sussex Junior League All-Stars finished the 2024 season July 1 with a 9-5 loss to Western...

Pickleball event to benefit Sussex Academy...

1 year ago
Sports at the Beach, in partnership with the Sussex Academy high school boys’ basketball program,...

Rehoboth to host USLA regionals at Tower Beach July 10

1 year ago
The Rehoboth Beach Patrol will host the United States Lifesaving Association’s Mid-Atlantic...

Bagel Bombers host grand opening for baseball facility

Megan Smith
1 year ago
The Bagel Bombers Baseball Association recently hosted a grand opening to unveil its first private...

A string of four-letter words tying together stories...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Four-letter words - The words are Cape, Emma, Anna and Maci. Three young athletes, all of whom...

Register July 3 for weekend sea bass tourney at...

1 year ago
Indian River South Shore Marina will hold its inaugural Black Sea Bass Tournament from Friday to...

Upper Sussex junior all-stars’ comeback kicks off...

Aaron R. Mushrush
1 year ago
With their backs up against the 10-run mercy rule, the Upper Sussex Junior League Softball All-...

Cape major all-stars fall to Millsboro to open...

Dan Cook
1 year ago
The Cape major all-stars softball squad dropped its opening District 3 tournament game with a 15-1...

Cape senior all-stars fall to Mid-Sussex in District...

Aaron R. Mushrush
1 year ago
When Golden Knights get together with Vikings, a battle is sure to ensue. The boys from Mid-Sussex...

Cape junior all-stars fall in District 3 tourney

Dan Cook
1 year ago
The Cape junior league All-Stars went 1-2 in District 3 play, ending the season with losses to...

Golftini selling menswear for a good cause

Fritz Schranck
1 year ago
The Golftini company featured a startling new look at its busy booth during the 2024 PGA Show. A...

A quick fishing trip in Virginia Beach

Eric Burnley
1 year ago
On June 16, I drove down to Virginia Beach to spend a couple of days with my son Ric and do a...

Thundercrack overall winner of Lewes Cup

Ron MacArthur
1 year ago
With summer comes the Lewes Cup, which is the official start of the Lewes Yacht Club sailing season...

Brutal night for the Phillies

Sumner Spence
1 year ago
Last night, the Phillies lost to the worst team in the National League, the Florida Marlins! But...

Athletes of the Week June 28

1 year ago
Garrett Ferguson This 19-year-old Marshall University distance runner from Keyser, W.Va., won the...

Legendary field hockey coach Carolyn Ivins turns 85,...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Get off my lawn - Cape field hockey coach Carolyn Ivins (1969-79) won the school's first state...

From the starting gun to the lazy river at Jungle Jim’s

Tim Bamforth
1 year ago
One of the area’s favorite summer events, the Jungle Jim’s 5K, attracted 340 runners to the...

Cape senior all-stars battle for district title

Aaron R. Mushrush
1 year ago
Trailing 7-0 to start the bottom of the fourth, the Cape Senior League All-Stars scored eight...

Cape junior all-stars team cuts down Woodbridge 13-1

Dan Cook
1 year ago
The Cape Junior League All-Stars used hot bats to down Woodbridge 13-1 in opening action of the...

Cape boys lax holds awards banquet

Dan Cook
1 year ago
The Cape boys’ lacrosse team held its 2024 end-of-season celebration June 18 at The Clubhouse at...

Swimmers splash into summer

Aaron R. Mushrush
1 year ago
For the second year in a row, the former rivals swimming for Lewes Yacht Club and Sussex Family...

Lewes Base Ball Club to play home game June 29

1 year ago
Lewes will continue its 2024 campaign against the Deacons, a prison ministry baseball team for...

Beach Blast Lax Tournament on target at Cape

Dan Cook
1 year ago
The 2024 Beach Blast lacrosse tournament made its annual stop at the Cape Henlopen High School...

2013 Delmarva Rush boys complete remarkable season

1 year ago
The 2013 Delmarva Rush boys’ team concluded EDP league play with a 16-0-4 record over the spring...

Sun’s out! Guns out! Jeff Jablon dazzles friends...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Choo Choo Jablon - Jeff Jablon, 48, is the quintessential player to be named later. He is the guy...

Garrett Ferguson wins Dewey Beach 5K second straight...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Garrett Ferguson, 19, a distance runner for Marshall University, won the 22nd Dewey Beach Patrol 5K...

Tower Beach FC summer camps kick off at Cape

Aaron R. Mushrush
1 year ago
Plenty of young soccer players got their kicks June 17-21 at Cape High during Tower Beach FC’s...

Sandsharks Volleyball Club shines in Ocean City

1 year ago
The sun-soaked sands of Ocean City, Md., provided the perfect backdrop for a thrilling display of...

All-Delaware Bowl heats up Legends Stadium turf

Dan Cook
1 year ago
The sixth annual One Journey All-Delaware Beach Bowl made its appearance on the Legends Stadium...

Big tournaments need all the help they can find

Fritz Schranck
1 year ago
Television viewers of big-time golf tournaments may not appreciate how many volunteers help run the...

Common mistakes when fishing

Eric Burnley
1 year ago
It seems every time I go fishing, I see people make basic fishing mistakes. They have the wrong...

Schaeffer honors Cape girls’ lax team

1 year ago
Sussex County Councilman Mark Schaeffer recently honored the Cape Henlopen High School girls’...

Dave Marshall tennis pros find worldwide success

1 year ago
French Open mixed doubles champions Edoardo Roger-Vasselin and Laura Siegemund completed a magical...

DeChambeau wins second U.S. Open

Sumner Spence
1 year ago
On Father's Day, Bryson DeChambeau held on to win his second U.S. Open by one shot over Rory...

Strokin’ aint no jokin’ – stop and drop if it gets...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Lean on me - Good hydrations bop bop. It’s no secret I have seen more runners finish races than...

18 runners complete Triple Crown Series

Tim Bamforth
1 year ago
Three races in three days in three towns made up last weekend’s Seashore Striders Triple Crown...

Athletes of the Week June 21

1 year ago
Ava Calciano A rising senior at Cape, Calciano hit leadoff for the Carpenter Cup runner-up...

Four races in three days with 764 finishers

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
The 21st Georgetown Library 5K, contested June 14, was sinking-sun hot and began a sizzling weekend...

SoDel Cares 5K runners and walkers raise money for...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Nearly 300 runners and a couple hundred walkers cranked for charity June 15, at the sixth annual...

Cape softball trio contributes in big way at...

Aaron R. Mushrush
1 year ago
Delaware South came within two runs of clinching its sixth Carpenter Cup title on Juneteenth,...

DFRC Gold squad holds last practice before all-star...

Dan Cook
1 year ago
The DFRC Gold football team held its final scrimmage at Milford’s Briggs Stadium June 19. The squad...

DE Turf summer lax league in full swing

Dan Cook
1 year ago
The DE Turf summer lacrosse league is hot on Monday nights at the DE Turf in Frederica. The four-...

Fast times front deep field at Chicken Chase 5K

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
The University of Delaware’s third annual Chicken Chase 5K and 1-Mile Walk runners left The...

Local golfer Sarah Lester-Stranick advocating for...

Aaron R. Mushrush
1 year ago
Sarah Lester-Stranick was born to play golf. While golf may have traditionally been a game most...

Sinking storylines like outriggers in a marlin...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Goody two-shoemakers - Two women looked the part standing at the starting line of the SoDel Cares...

Alley Oop All-Girls Skim Camp glides into Dewey

Dan Cook
1 year ago
Sydney Pizza and Alley Oop Skim presented the second annual Girls Only Skim Camp June 12-13 on St...

50-year-old gets ripped, drops A1C to healthy levels

Chris Antonio
1 year ago
Joanne Willits joined our 12-week body transformation as a way to get in better shape. She had...

Delaware Football Club branches into Cape Henlopen

Gabrielle Ziegler
1 year ago
Delaware Football Club-South held its first club night June 10 at Cape Henlopen High School. The...

Public invited to help develop data-collecting system

Eric Burnley
1 year ago
NOAA Fisheries Office of Science and Technology Director Evan Howell reflects on the importance of...

Setting the course for mixed tournaments

Fritz Schranck
1 year ago
Two single-sex high schools in Delaware have golf teams in their spring sports programs – Padua...

Dagsboro angler wins Youth Fishing Tournament

1 year ago
More than 300 youth anglers turned out on a perfect early summer day June 1 to cast their lines in...

U.S. Open week

Sumner Spence
1 year ago
The first round of the U.S. Open golf tournament is in the books in North Carolina, at Pinehurst No...

Athletes of the Week June 14

1 year ago
Gavin Hudson This Sussex Tech junior headed up to Frawley Stadium May 30 and pitched...

Relaxed laxer now a rising eighth-grader and a player

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Relaxed laxer - Summer sports camps proliferate here at Sesame Street by the Sea, and quite frankly...

Eddie Houck, Kennedy Johnson awarded Bill Degnan...

Tim Bamforth
1 year ago
The 27th annual Bill Degnan 5K brought 130 runners and walkers to Cape Henlopen High School, where...

Blue team defeats White in girls’ senior lax all...

Dan Cook
1 year ago
With the Blue-White Senior Girls’ Lacrosse All-Star Game tied 13-13 with eight seconds on the clock...

Blue team wins annual boys’ lax all-star game

Dan Cook
1 year ago
The high-octane offense of the Blue team was too much for the downstate White squad, as Blue won 16...

DFRC Blue-Gold All-Star Football Game set June 21 at UD

1 year ago
Delaware Foundation Reaching Citizens with intellectual disABILITIES has announced the players...

Royals pledge allegiance to their future playing homes

Aaron R. Mushrush
1 year ago
Prior to the year-end athletic banquet May 20, Delmarva Christian hosted a signing ceremony for...

Local ballplayers showcase skills at Carpenter Cup

Aaron R. Mushrush
1 year ago
A collection of some of the Henlopen Conference’s finest baseball players represented Delaware...