CAPE GAZETTE, Friday, February 23 - February 29, 1996 - 41
Sports & Outdoors
Cape whips Milford after
stumbling against Ravens
Team looking forward
to next Tuesday's
now
Henlopen title match
By Dave Frederick
A Tuesday night, Feb. 20 North-
ern Division showdown at Cape's
Little Big House was "no contest"
from "Jump SWeet" as Cape Hen-
lopen kicked Milford out of the
road like a three-legged lap dog at
a Rotweilers' comvention, win-
ning 63-37.
The Vikings led 32-12 at the
half sparked by the jump shooting
and floor direction of junior point
guard and Milford transfer Terry
Hazzard.
"We jumped on them so fast
early and they just never respond-
ed," Terry Hazzard said. "I know
most of the players on the Milford
team. It's a friendly rivalry but
competitive."
The Vikings were coming off a
Sunday afternoon conference loss
to the Sussex Tech Ravens 53-51.
"I don't really understand what
happened against Sussex Tech,"
Terry Hazzard said. "We all know
that we're entering the most
important part of the season.
We're looking forward to the Hen-
lopen Conference Champi-
onships."
Bobby Leggins, 12, and Darnell
Strand, 14, were the defensive and
offensive sparks for Cape as Mil-.,
ford trailed 47-21 entering the
final period of play.
"I hope we play Indian River for
the Conference title," said Lamont
Hazzard. "They beat us last year
and we'd like another shot at
them."
Cape has rolled over most teams
in the Henlopen Conference
except for stumbling against Sus-
sex Tech.
"We lost to Saint Mark's by two
and beat A.I. Dupont in a pre-sea-
son scrimmage," Terry Hazzard
said. "Going into the tournament
we feel we're as good as anybody
but we have some big games to
play before we get there."
NOTES - Cape's five seniors
and their parents were honored
before the game. Each of the five
players, which included Darnell
Strand, Lamont Hazzard, Mack
Buckley, Dale Dunning and Greg
Mansfield, scored in the gam e .
Prior to the game the National
Anthem was played by the Cape
pep band and sung by Tyone
Christopher, Allison Funds and
Erin McClure.
LATE ACTION - Cape dusted
off Sussex Central in a make-up
game Wednesday night 82-59
behind Cory Clouser's 19 and
Lamont Hazzard's 18 points.
Cape's record improved to (20-2,
18-1) while Sussex drops to (6-12,
6-15) The Vikings close out the
regular season at Caesar Rodney
this Friday night, Feb. 23 and will
play for the conference champi-
onship February 28 at Sussex
Tech against the winner of the
Thursday night Delmar versus
Indian River showdown.
JV UPDATE - The junior varsi-
ty team of coaches Bob Fulton and
Bud Hitchens have run to the edge
of the table with a 19-0 record
after victories over Delmar 48-27,
Caesar Rodney 45-38, Sussex
Tech 39-27, Milford 33-18 and
Sussex Central 38-25. Cape is at
Caesar Rodney Feb. 23 for their
final game and a shot at an unde-
feated season. Highlights and high
scorers during the JV's recent run
were Bo Hitchens, 12, and Kai
Maull, 9, versus Delmar; Kai
Maull, 14, Carl Floyd, 10, and Bo
Hitchens, 10, versus Caesar Rod-
ney; Carl Floyd, 14, Bo Hitchens,
8, and Kai Maull, 8, versus Sussex
Tech; Kai Maull, 10, and Bo
Hitchens, 10, versus Milford ; and
Kai Maull, 9, Bo Hitchens, 8, and
Scott Vickers, 8, versus Sussex
Central. Cape led Sussex Central
26-23 at the half but outscored the
Golden Knights 21-7 in the second
half. Coaches praised the play of
Scott Vickers who came off the
bench to score eight points and
pick off five steals.
Angle Moon photo
Cape's Robert Leggins goes airbound against Milford's
David Briggs during his 12 point performance in the win.
A message to schleppers with ordinary jobs
FREDMAN'S TOP TEN - I
heard a line used in a 1930s Boga-
rt movie in which the bad guy
said: "There's two things I don't
like about you, mister, and they're
both your face." I'd like to com-
pile my own top ten list of why I
no longer can stand the sight of
David Letterman on TV or in the
print media. Numbers ten through
one are all Letterman's face. Ever
since he pulled his egocentric dis-
respecting of-the Lewes Punkin'
Chunkers on
national tele-
vision refer-
ring to the
"Under Pres-
sure"' team
from Lewes
as "Some
guys out in
the street", I
haven't been THE FACE
able to get
with the Ball State grad and his
endless series of inside jokes and
faces that are supposed to be fun-
ny. Letterman gave out an award
at the ESPY award ceremonies on
ESPN. It was a staged event com-
bining "celebrities" with athletic
heroes that was a message to us
shleppers with ordinary jobs and
lives that we should bow down
and worship the privileged class of
pampered prima donnas of this
country. Now Letterman is part
owner of a race car and may show
up in the NASCAR pits. The
"Morning Flakes" of WZBH, Jok-
er and Ace, brought along a pump-
kin to New York which has a great
likeness of Letterman smoking a
cigar. They were told by a stage
hand: "Just keep that out of sight.
Dave hates things like that." At
least we agree on that point.
Dave Frederick
DEION AND STEVE- Speak-
ing of faces we are all tired of see-
ing, how about Deion Sanders and
Steve Young doing Wheaties
commercials? Junior Seau of the
San Diego Chargers looks like a
farmer's bull as he grunts and
blows air out his nose and the
jumps off, sides hoodwinked by
PEOPLE IN SPORTS
that clever Mormon quarterback
Steve Young. And Sanders drink-
ing Diet Pepsi in a Road Runner
cartoon. The advertising agencies
on Madison Avenue must all think
we're a bunch of morons. The
chunkers need to hurl a few
gourds in their direction.
MISSING LINKS- If athletes
and entertainers are fighting for
the top rung along the evolution-
ary ladder of power and influence,
then just under the influence are
the politicians. Now that the Pri-
mary season is underway. ("I
don't understand all this voting
every week, ! thought your elec-
tions were in November," Spanish
exchange student Vincenti
Vasquez asked me.) The entertain-
ers are on the political Stumpf
(Nancy get them off, they're
smothering me.) endorsing their
favorite candidates. Again ordi-
nary people are left out in the cold.
I'm for running a naturalized Pak-
istani cab driver. Give us some-
thing different America. We're
tired of seeing the same old-but-
rich faces.
DIRTY WHITE BEARS- For-
get the National Geographic pic-
tures of glistening white polar
bears barring their teeth as icy
droplets of pure water puddles
atop their bony but angular heads.
Most polar bears look as funky as
a Lewes snow drift three days
after a blizzard. And they enjoy
rummaging through land fills like
we used to do in the Sussex Coun-
ty good old days. The funky and
spunky Polar Plunge for Special
Olympics will take place Sunday,
March 3 at the Cape Henlopen
State Park in'Lewes. There will be
a post plunge party at the BayCen-
ter in beautiful downtown Dewey
"OK, I sent my $50 for an overdue
ticket so don't tow me" Beach.
The Special Olympians depend on
our support for this fundraiser so
please raise some money and
come jump.
FRANKIE FREDERICKS
SETS WORLD RECORD- My
grandfather's name was Frankie
Fredericks and he looked African -
at least his eyebrows could have
hidden several Bushmen of the
Kalihari. Namibian sprinter
Frankie Fredericks (there are two
cities in Namibia named Rehoboth
- go figure) set a world indoor
record last week in the 100 meter
dash by running 19.92 at the
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