54. CAPE GAZETYE, Friday, January 10. January 16,1997
SPORTS & I OUTDOORS
How sweet it is!
Cape girls, for first time in 20
years, score victory over
upstate rival Ursuline Raiders
By Susan Frederick
Cape's undefeated (5-0) girls' basketball
team threaded its way between a walkover
and a cliffhanger last week as they dominat-
ed Smyrna 56-25 on Tuesday, Jan. 7 after
holding off a resurgent Ursuline squad 68-
62 last Friday.
Cape jumped to a 23-6 lead in the first
quarter on Tuesday night, leaving no doubt
as to who is the team to beat in the Hen-
Iopen Conference. Coach Ralph Bayko
used his bench early, freely substituting
from midway in the opening period..
The lopsided win on the heels of the
team's victory over perennial power Ursu-
line - the first in 20 years - captured the
Vikings' current dilemma: how to stay
humble enough to ta'e lesser opponents
seriously and confident enough 7o run with
the state's big dogs.
"It's tough," said senior Katie DelCampo,
who scored 25 points against the Red
Raiders in Wilmington last Friday. "Coach
takes us into the locker room before each
game, talks to us, then leaves us.alone to
think about what we need to do to win. We
try not to take any team for granted, to think
of each game as a state championship."
If Cape has hopes of a state championship
season, this is the year to pin them on.
Bayko's team includes eight seniors, among
them starters Carrie Lingo, Stephanie War-
rington, Maggie Widdoes and DelCampo.
All are key players in goals, boards, and
clutch plays.
Widdoes repeated her 17 point perfor-
mance of last Friday in Tuesday's game ver-
sus Smyrna. Warrington, along with Wid-
does, cleans up on the boards and protects
the lane. Playmaker Lingo converted a pair
of one-and-ones in the last minute of play to
halt a late Ursuline run last Friday night.
DelCampo is deadly from anywhere she
wants to be. The fifth starter, junior Kim
Smith, can shoot for two or three or dish off
to the open girl.
"What I saw in the Ursuline game was
improvement in the mental preparation, a
big improvement on the part of the seniors
from early in the season," the coach said.
"What I think we need to work on is keep-
ing that focus. It's an overused term, but we
need to funnel our thoughts so that we are
mentally into each game and make no mis-
takes.
"We did that very well against Ursutine,
which is a team that will turn every mistake
into a score," said Bayko. "We need to do
the same thing against teams like Caesar
Rodney, Caravel and Saint Mark's if we are
going to do anything in the state tourna-
ment. I hear people say that we should walk
through the Henlopen Conference. We
don't want to think like that. It's tough, but
we want to keep the same attitude for every
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Angle Moon photo
Maggie Widdoes grimaces amidst the double pressure of two Smyrna play-
ers during Cape's 56-25 victory over Smyrna on Tuesday of this week.
Is "Touchdown Jesus" vacationing in Florida?
ROCKY FOUR- Notre Dame sonville Jaguars to a shocking 30- Ursuline home early. That's as wind is a lot more fun than waking
All-American and Vietnam war
hero Rocky Bleir pawned his four
Super Bowl rings won as a Pitts-
burgh Steeler and may declare
bankruptcy according to Sunday's
Baltimore Sun. Bleir's quarter-
back, Terry Bradshaw, could be
seen on Fox television Sunday
afternoon letting air out of a Miller
Lite blow-up chair while pretend-
ing he was passing gas. Maybe
Bradshaw should use the proceeds
from" his bathroom humor to buy
Rocky his rings back. That's what
strikes me about the phenomenon
of the rich and famous taking the
financial horse collar. None of
their rich buddies "step up" to help
them out. Two years ago Bleir
spoke at the Lower Delaware
Gridiron Club banquet and I must
admit to being impressed seeing
such a sports legend in person, but
the boy's speech was downright
strange, filled with pop psycholo-
gy and obtuse formulas for suc-
cess. Several years ago in Philly,
Hall of Fame point guard Hal
PEOPLE IN SPORTS
Greer (76ers and Syracuse Nation-
als) declared bankruptcy and
watched as his house and entire
contents, including the number 15
jersey, were sold to the public.
Where were Wilt and the rest of
the millionaires?
THE LORD'S IN THE HUD-
DLE- Scott Brunetl talked of the
Lord after his incredible individ-
ual performance led the Jack-
27 upset of the Denver Broncos.
Left tackleTony Besaus also cred-
ited the Lord and talked about how
everybody on the team loved each
other. And it doesn't hurt matters
that the Nigerian Nightmare,
Natron Means, has gotten in the
best shape of his life and has
moved more piles in the last two
weeks than the custodian at the
Westminster Dog Show. Now that
"Touchdown Jesus" is on vacation
from South Bend, Indiana, could it
be that he's vacationing in Flori-
da?
THE BIG HURDLE- Four
straight-20 win seasons don't mea-
sure up to last Friday's 68-62 vic-
tory by the Cape girls basketball
team on the road over the Red
Raiders of Ursuline Academy.
Ursuline has been the mountain
Cape could never climb and the
hurdle they could never jump.
Two years ago Katie Rickards
rimmed a three pointer in a tourna-
ment game that would have sent
close as Cape's ever gotten until
last Friday, Jan. 3. Cape travels to
Saint Mark's for another show-
down and road test on Saturday,
Feb. 8. The girls deserve a big fol-
lowing from down home. This
may be the best Viking team since
the 1974 state championship
squad coached by Bob Cassady.
Note: Cassady is rumored to be
the next principal of Poly Tech
high school.
ATHLETES MY FOOT-
There are young men running
around all over the local area who
have great athletic talent. But most
of them are doing nothing with it
electing instead to drink and
smoke too much while trolling the
local sandbars for the gifts of their
dreams. (fill in here.) And hey,
that sounds like a pretty good
lifestyle but it's not consistent
with being an athlete or maximiz-
ing one's talents to full potential.
To fly through the air with the
greatest of ease and to run like the
up wheezing with an Excedrine
headache.
POEM ON THE ROAM- You
get older. You get fatter. And you
think, "So what's the matter?"
There is more of you to think of
and there is more of you to love.
And it takes gallons less of
water to fill up your hot tub.
You sunbathe in a Speedo and
then marvel at the sight.
Looking like a bronzed biscuit
with horizontal racing stripe.
You walk the boardwalk in the
sunshine and the gulls commence
to laugh,
Arthritic exercisers duck in
behind you, taking advantage of
your draft.
A drop in humidity is sympto-
matic of fall weather,
But after five miles on the move
your thighs friction together.
Walking through the freezing
cold or headlong into a driving
rain,
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