60 - CAPE GAZETTE, Friday, April 26 - May 2, 1996
People
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stand my ground, you know I
won't back down." "Splat!" It was
road kill city. Steele looked like a
blue and gold amoebae on the
ground. The William Penn side-
lines did the big dog pack bark.
Then David Steele stood up and
reformed like the bad cop in Ter-
minator and raised his stick into
the air. Cape laxmen proved they
can take a lickin' and keep on
stickin'.
HEX AND VIOLENCE AND
ROCK AND ROLL-The
Philadelphia Flyers hockey club is
the only professional sports team
to which I emotionally bond. The
Stanley Cup playoffs are the best
show going because the athletes
on the ice are completely nuts and
just relentlessly give up their bod-
ies to the cause of victory. If their
mothers were at the game they'd
make all their sons come inside
the house until they learned to be-
have. I wonder how Michael Jor-
dan would react if the other team
just tried to beat him up the entire
game the way Tampa Bay has
been mugging Eric Lindros. But if
goalie Ron Hextail doesn't slash a
Lightning player in the back of the
head, pretty soon I'm going to ma-
jor league baseball.
Briefly
JOURNALISTIC INTEGRI-
TY-I am always in possession of
privileged information concerning
athletes and scholarships, SATs,
GPAs, class ranks and college ad-
missions, etc. and would never
write a story to scoop a competitor
or divulge scholarship amounts
even if the athlete requested it. For
example, a student athlete may re-
ceive a $5,000 athletic grant to
wrestle so I publish that the athlete
is attending school with the help
of a wrestling scholarship. If the
school costs $18,000 per year I
just write it as a scholarship. I stay
clear of Proposition 48 non-quali-
fier stories. Without teaching a
course on the subject, if an athlete
has a 2.0 (C average) in the 13
core academic courses, then he
needs 1010 in the SATS to partici-
pate as a freshman in a Division
One program. A non-qualifier
(sometimes called a prop) may
have no practice or competition
during the freshman year and is
limited to three seasons of compe-
tition and may not recieve money
from an athletic source. That's
why those stories are tough to
cover, because they mislead.
Cape Henlopen Athletes Of The Week
SNIPPETS- This is the season
for backyard games beginning
with horseshoes, which as a sport
falls into the same category as
bowling. Reminder: don't buy
lawn darts at a garage sale or play
badminton on the beach. Two on
two beach volleyball remains a
boring spectator sport but fun to
play while bocce ball is fun to
watch after drinking five shots of
perma frost 101 peppermint
schnapps. Go on now, git!
Regan Derrickson (r) and John Henriksen remained unde-
feated winning in straight sets as the Cape Henlopen boys
tennis team defeated Lake Forest 3-2.The first doubles team of
Robbie Brandt and Jeff Nathan won 6-3, 6-2 over David Mur-
phy and John Thomas to secure the victory.
the Vikings.
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three.
Baseball rally falls short
in 8-5 loss to Lake Forest
Cape fell behind Lake Forest 8-
0 in the first three innings, then
rallied to 8-5 behind a two-run
homer by Nelson Hatter and solid
pitching from Jason Bucldey. But
it was not enough as Lake hung
on for an 11-6 victory as the
Vikings dropped to 3-6,1-5 on the
season. The Vikings committed
five errors in the ball game. Joe
Deloy collected a pair of hits for
Cape golfers split in
matches with CR, Lake
Cape Henlopen lost to Caesar
Rodney 161-188 but beat Lake
Forest 188-192 in Henlopen Con-
ference tri-match action last Tues-
day at Wild Quail Country Club.
Ossie Warrington led the way
for Cape, shooting a 43. Brant
Forbes of Caesar Rodney was
medalist for the match shooting an
impressive 36. Cape falls to 3-2 on
the season.
Girls' soccer gaining
confidence, skills, wins
Cape's soccer girls have been
gaining confidence, sills and wins
NELSON HARTER
Shortstop Nelson Harter
has been starring on the lo-
cal baseball diamonds since
he was nine years old. Har-
ter drilled a two run homer
last Tuesday as the Vikings
dropped an 11 to 6 decision
to Lake Forest. Harter also
handled several tough
choices from his shortstop
position. Harter's batting
.340 and has two dingers
for the year.
DANA SMITH
Sophomore Dana Smith
leaped from exhibition to the
real deal in a dramatic "first
singles" bound on Wednes-
day afternoon when she up-
ended Kim VanSant of Lake
4-6, 6-3, 6-1 to complete
Cape's 5-0 sweep of the Spar-
tants that day. She was sub-
stituting for an absent Kay
Cofrancesco. "I think my
serve got her," said a smiling
Smith. "Before the match I
didn't think I had a chance."
over the first half of their season.
.Following a string of three touch
losses, the Vikings regrouped to
defeat Caravel on April 19 by a
score of 5-1.
Karinne Lemmon, Emily Weer,
Sasha Woertz, Lauren Fuqua and
Tracey Duffy each contributed a
goa ! in the win, Cape's second on
the season.
The Vikings traveled to Indian
River April 22 to try and improve
on their earlier meeting with the
Indians, which had ended in a 1-1
tie. Forward Lemmon came up
big for the Vikings with three
goals, while sophomore Christina
Hopkins scored her first of the
season to help Cape come out on
top 4-2.
"Today we're playing to win,"
said Coach John Myers before the
game, and the girls remembered
his words as they fought back
from a 1-0 deficit at half-time.
The Vikings have now improved
their record to 3-4-1 and with five
games left in the season, they still
have a chance to make the state
tournament.
It's been a great season for the
girls' soccer program so far, and
the team hopes to continue its suc-
cess as they face Wilmington
Christian on May 6, Dover on
May 8 and Padua on May 11.
(Contributed by Erin Ewart. )
The Week Ahead In Sports
SATURDAY, APRIL 27
• Varsity Baseball at Delmar; Lacrosse at Worcester, 11 a.m.
TUESDAY, APRIL 30
• Varsity Baseball hosts Poly Tech, 4:15 p.m.; Boys and
Girls Track at Seaford, 3:30 p.m.; Varsity Softball hosts Poly
Tech, 4:15 p.m.; Golf, Cape and Seaford at Indian River, 4
p.m.; Girls Tennis, Indian River at Cape, 4 p.m,; JV Base-
ball and Softball at Poly Tech, 4:15 p.m.; Varsity Lacrosse,
Cape at Easton, 4 p.m.; Boys Tennis, Cape at Indian River, 4
p.m.
THURSDAY, MAY 2
• Varsity Baseball, Cape at Dover, 4:15 p.m.; Boys and Girls
Track, Sussex Tech and Milford at Cape, 3:30 p.m.; Varsity
Softball, Cape at Dover, 4:15 p.m.; Golf, Cape at Smyrna, 4
p.m.; Girls Tennis, Cape at Dover, 4 p.m.; Boys Tennis,
Dover at Cape, 4 p.m.; JV Baseball and Softball, Dover at
Cape, 4:15 p.m.
ALLEN MOUZAKITIS
"Mouse" has worn the label
"gifted athlete" ever since he
arrived at Cape last year as a
freshman. This spring has
been a "stand and deliver"
story for the first year
lacrosse middie as Mouzaki-
tis has gone from non-starter
to "prime time player". Allen
scored three goals and
dished off two assists in the
Vikings' 12-2 victory over
William Penn.
JACKIE WARRINGTON
Whether playing third
base or batting, Jackie has
been playing a strong role
for Coach Bill Cordrey's
Cape softball team. "Jackie
is our number 3 batter and-
has an on-base percentage
of .514. She's also a stable
factor in our defense with
31 assists and eight put-
outs. n Jackie's sister
Stephanie catches and the
two want to keep their
team on the winning track.
