People in Sports

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Derek and Derrick: Two Cape guys serving the community

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Derek and Derrick - Derek Savage and Derrick Quillen, two Cape athletes past and a pair of good...

The circle is unbroken as players save the...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
What’s the 411? - Gramps at a game is capable of getting the most basic elements wrong like, “Who...

The upside-down wait until the pole snaps back to...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Wahoo! - Sam Young, former Cape state champion pole vaulter and soccer player, recently transferred...

Wawa to Walmart - highway to the sports history...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Wawa and Walmart - Both stores are clearinghouses where you walk in and out, get what you want, and...

Cape’s Hackney and Batson are college guys and good...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Good guys - Josh Hackney and Trent Batson , a pair of 6-foot-4 friends and former Cape basketball...

Central at Cape crowd tame compared to 1990 Little...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Vociferous not boisterous - The Big House wrestling crowd Jan. 4, with bleachers on both sides...

Forever athletes always lace them up before a...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Cool Hand Billy - Billy Savage came to watch the Slam Dunk and not to spend 25 seconds on the court...

Guitar-strumming goalie Jeff Trench tops 40 in harmony

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Trenchtown Rock - Think reggae, home of Bob Marley and Rastafari elder Mortimer Planno . Dec. 28...

Hair of the Dog 5K and 10K on New Year’s Day

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Miscalculation - Football teams do not practice real-situation football. We all know about clock...

Matrix of resolutions range from get skinny to stay...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Skinny and sober - Gym memberships rely on resolutions and vows of sobriety, as every new year the...

Dean of Delaware Distance Running Doug White dies at...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Running machine - Grand Mom Rose would say of husband Frank ’s shiny Studebaker in the driveway, “...

Cape track a storied program with a rich tradition

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Two-mile relay - Back when tracks were 440 yards and not 400 meters (438 yards), the race was...

Robinson family presented with autographed ball from...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Coach collaboration - Coaches Freeman Williams of Caesar Rodney and Steve Re of Cape Henlopen...

Comcast Triple Play shuts down my offense

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
A blast at Comcast - My entire adult life includes deadlines for sports stories, and I have never...

Coach Dale Steele passes away; won state title at...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Dale Steele - Longtime football coach Dale Steele passed away last week. Dale taught and coached at...

Million dollar babies create sham show sports...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Million Dollar Baby - Alabama football coach Nick Saban makes $7 million a year plus incentives,...

Rocky is an ideal that ain’t real

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Rocky ain’t real - Temple football (9-3) played East Carolina at Lincoln Financial Field Nov. 26...

Connections and disconnections striking the balance

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Connections and disconnections - I suffered a momentary feeling of not belonging. To paraphrase a...

McKenzie Sanford lights and lifts up the spirits of...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Looking for a seat not a story - A down day afternoon, I was cruising the Cape gym watching a...

High school football playoffs begin Nov. 18

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Medulla Oblongata - I was watching a high school state tournament basketball game years ago with a...

Perhaps football officials do too good of a job

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Enhanced by penalties - You have never read, “It may have been a slow game but at least there were...

Connections to the past and each other are the best...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
One for gramps, man - Ben Bamforth won the Henlopen Conference cross country title 32 years to the...

Pick of the manger a player who leads a team to...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Pick of the manger - There is a scene in the movie Deliverance where the off-road adventurers stop...

Coverdale and Bernheimer getting it done at next level

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Validation - Erin Coverdale is a 5-foot-3 field hockey player at Franklin and Marshall by way of...

Who were those masked men in the urban jungle?

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Who were those masked men? Coach Brian Donahue and I were a couple of Sussex Squirrels on Walnut...

Wing T power players past now on hard times

9 years ago
Pretty lethal - The University of Delaware and Caesar Rodney High School ran defenses ragged for...

Friday night football on Monday afternoon

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Friday night on Monday afternoon - I watched Cape’s JV football team at Legends Stadium overcome a...

Beacon Beau Smith barrels around left end for a...

9 years ago
Beacon Beau Smith rumbles to pay dirt - Beacon head football coach Haywood Burton is sixth-grader...

Smyrna striders Ibironke and Bowser also stellar...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Stellar student-athletes - Smyrna cross country had the first-place boy and girl at a cross country...

Sports figures Sam Wylie and Bill Mitchell leave the...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Sam “Plukie” Wylie - A Sussex County teacher and coach, a longtime basketball official and local...

Central at Cape, the Battle of Route 9, has produced...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Battle of Route 9 - The football game between Cape and Sussex Central has been played continuously...

Who are your people and where they stay at?

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Kinship Analysis - “Who are your people and where they stay at?” I walked out of a Ph.D. program in...

Runners veer off course, a coach points blame at...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
They went that way - A quadrangular cross country meet at Sussex Tech, run on the land across Route...

Sudden impact sports, a Dirty Harry weekend

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
S udden impact - Last Thursday night the Cape soccer team was locked in a double-overtime scoreless...

Cross country running is a blissful jaunt while...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
They call me the breeze - Cross country and road running are such great sports, it’s...

Fifteen middle school hockey teams play hard all day

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
We don’t play day - I knocked about the field hockey middle school play day Sept. 17 at Cape, and...

An entire wall challenges the refrigerator on sports...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
The big refrigerator - The home refrigerator will always be the primo place for in-house family...

Hall of Fame every day, all day long, enjoy the...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Hornet Hall of Fame - I was a guest at the Tim Bamforth table Sept. 9 at Dover Downs for the...

Flat screens for fat guys - let football begin

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Reflections - I’m overwhelmed and underpaid, undertrained and overfed. My free photos are...

Human stampede coming right at you

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Stampede of Striders - I have taken thousands of photos of hundreds of road runners running...

Real deal Neil sings anthem then runs biathlon in...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Real deal Neil - I first heard Neil Ewachiw sing the national anthem last September before the...

School sports season begins with national anthem

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Rights and reactions - We all have the right to sit and wear a hat and maybe eat a sandwich while...

Hochrein and Hitchcock are the double helix of...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Big green goalies - If a local photographer focuses his too-big-for-primetime lens on the home team...

The truly inspirational do so naturally and without...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Intelligent and congenial - Tracey Duffy is not a Duffie, although the local families are related...

Bolt is a crowd-pleasing champion and role model for...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Running with curvature - Usain Bolt runs the curve hard in the 200 meters, then lines up the field...

The number 50 motivates many toward milestone mileage

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
You better get 50 - A slang expression from the ‘70s meaning, “get out of my face,” preferably at...

Milton Little League off the chain taking on the big...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Cart before the horse - The Milton Majors baseball all-stars 11-12 team are in the hot mix with a...

Can’t stay in the closet without a water fountain

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Weird in a word way - A few years back after a road race, some women I know asked me to take a...

Groucho gait getting after it power walking

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Groucho gait - Not that long ago, I walked 100 miles a month each month for five consecutive years...

A sea of striding diversity on the running scene

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Kaleidoscope of colors and kilometers - Sports photographers, like the athletes they cover, have...

Diminished capacity the end of the rainbow for...

Dave Frederick
10 years ago
Diminished capacity - Most athletes I photograph and write about in the summertime are past peak...

Exotic life stories and the art of listening

Dave Frederick
10 years ago
Button down - Hard to resist a Benjamin Button reference when writing about 84-year-old runner John...

Hydration is cool but when you’re hot, you’re hot

Dave Frederick
10 years ago
Don’t forget to hydrate - You may love to run and work out in the heat, and you may enjoy the...

Mercy rules for mismatches and rules unwritten

Dave Frederick
10 years ago
Mercy, mercy me - Mismatches in youth sports are kept somewhat under control by mercy rules,...

Cape girl power: 13-hour days and 13 state titles

Dave Frederick
10 years ago
Thirteen-hour day - At 7 a.m., July 12, some field hockey girls met on the track for a conditioning...

Lewes is where I stay at

Dave Frederick
10 years ago
Where you stay at? Just a local expression. I will often ask a female athlete I interview who...

One gallon donor blood or money

Dave Frederick
10 years ago
One Gallon Donor - Not to be negative but I am the universal donor- O negative- and if the Blood...

Old enough to act stupid, a responsibility and...

Dave Frederick
10 years ago
Old enough to act stupid - The drinking age is 21, which seems to be no deterrent to drinking...

Volleyball in the Little Big House

Dave Frederick
10 years ago
Let’s talk volleyball - Last fall, first-year varsity volleyball coach Tyler Coupe led the Vikings...

Little League baseball tournaments have launched

Dave Frederick
10 years ago
Welcome to my house - The Cape campus is the greatest venue for just about anything, from the...