Sports

Wardian wins World Marathon Challenge for third time

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

Slower Lower Lax goes undefeated

5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months ago
Virginia has a new state-record bluefin tuna. Capt. David Wright and mate Andrew W. Flory with...

Super Bowl 60

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

Athletes of the Week Feb. 6

5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months ago
When the Delmarva Christian swim teams welcomed Nandua Jan. 31, the Royals also bid farewell to...

Small spaces, big challenges

Fritz Schranck
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months ago
Blue Ice - Truck Cab Triathlon - There are three venues where I like to park and reflect while...

Sussex Academy wins girls’ track conference title

Tim Bamforth
5 months ago
The Sussex Academy girls’ track & field team won the Henlopen Conference Championship Jan. 22,...

Sussex Academy outmaneuvers Milford in aquatic battle

Aaron R. Mushrush
5 months ago
With victories over Milford Jan. 23, the Sussex Academy swim teams concluded their away schedule...

Sussex Academy wrestling battling through Henlopen...

Aaron R. Mushrush
5 months ago
Being in a young program, Sussex Academy wrestlers understand they measure success by individual...

Athletes of the Week Jan. 30

5 months ago
Will DiPaolo Will is steady in the most unpredictable and high-risk of track events. At the...

Umpire is in a league of her own

Aaron R. Mushrush
5 months ago
Baseball has been said to mark the passage of time, and retiree Veronica “Ronnie” Geyer, who calls...

Track generates numbers, but not much funny happens

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Henlopen track championships - Dover won the boys’ title and Sussex Academy claimed the girls’...

Sussex Academy bounces back big, cages Blue Jays 47-25

Aaron R. Mushrush
5 months ago
A Jan. 22 celebration of Sussex Academy senior athletes was marred by a 37-10 loss to Indian River...

Riders outscore Cape 18-0 in final four bouts to win...

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
The Cape wrestling team led visiting Caesar Rodney 31-17 after 10 matches with four bouts remaining...

Royals girls’ basketball gets big win over Red Lion

Dan Cook
5 months ago
After three straight losses, the Delmarva Christian girls’ basketball team got back in the winning...

Royals boys’ basketball gets six-point win over the...

Dan Cook
5 months ago
Delmarva Christian freshman guard Aarian Tucker scored 24 points, including 10 from the charity...

Cape girls’ basketball fires it up against the Panthers

Dan Cook
5 months ago
Cape’s Amalia Fruchtman continues to play lights out, as she scored 23 points in the 56-21 running-...

Winter weather is perfect time to inspect fishing gear

Eric Burnley
5 months ago
We seem to be in a bit of a cold spell. Temperatures have been below freezing for several days and...

A whole lotta gypsum for greens, and other fun water...

Fritz Schranck
5 months ago
The Atlantic Ocean and Delaware’s brackish Inland Bays are among the best things to experience...

Cape unified basketball defeats Poly 54-48

Dan Cook
5 months ago
The Cape unified basketball squad picked up its first win of the season with a 54-48 victory over...

NFL is down to the final four

Sumner Spence
5 months ago
Only one of the four teams still competing for the Super Bowl was predicted to have a shot to win...

Athletes of the Week Jan. 23

5 months ago
Ozmeer Batson A vocal leader on the Cape basketball team, this junior forward can mix it up...

Halfway House of Hope: A sports showcase of promise...

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Halfway house - The Fred Thomas gym is artistically cool, cozy and comfortable, but it doesn’t...

Running 10 miles behind a snowplow

Tim Bamforth
5 months ago
It was winter 1988 at Delaware State and our Sunday morning 10-miler normally happened at 6 a.m...

Shot clock coming to Delaware high school basketball

5 months ago
The Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association has announced that a shot clock will be...

Royals return to ESIAC schedule in dominant form

Aaron R. Mushrush
5 months ago
The Delmarva Christian boys’ basketball team is fending off all challengers to their ESIAC title...

Royals fizzle following strong start against...

Aaron R. Mushrush
5 months ago
If Delmarva Christian girls basketball combined their second half against IR with their first half...