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Sports & Outdoors
28 TUESDAY, MAY 20 - THURSDAY, MAY 22, 2014
Cape Gazette
Vikings girls' lax handles CR 20.6 in first round
Cape moves on
to face Ursuline
in semis May 20
By Dave Frederick
fredman@capegazette.com
Cape girls' lacrosse didn't win
five straight state championships
by losing focus or not having a
plan. On May 17 at Champions
Stadium, the Vikings played the
713.m. game, the last of four
on a crazy opening-round day
that earlier saw Archmere sur-
vive a seven-goal comeback by
Tower Hill to win 13-12; Caravel
relinquish a five-goal, second-
half lead, then lose to Ursuline in
overtime 18-17; and Polytech drop
a home game to Charter 13-9.
"Forget the game earlier; this
is the second season and a whole
new game," coach P.J. Kesmodel
told his team as they took the
field
Cape responded by playing
everyone while mostly resting
some key performers including
draw specialist Karalyn Joseph,
who is rehabbing a tender ankle.
Cape won the game 20-6 as
junior Sarah Tappan scored her
100th goal. The Vikings will play
Ursuline at 7 p.m., Tuesday, May
20, at Dover in a semifinal game.
Cape beat the Raiders on the
road just last week 17-4.
"I have always said the semi-
finals is the toughest game,"
Kesmodel said. "We beat Saint
Mark's 9-8 in 2009 and Tower
Hill 9-8 in 2010. Once you reach
the final, you just go out and play
and enjoy the experience."
Cape outshot Caesar Rodney
36-17 as both goalies had good
games. CR's Kaitlyn Longest had
6 saves and Cape's Sam Broad-
hurst had 7.
Cape's goal scorers were AUie
Yeager 4, Sarah Tappan 4, Kat
Judge 3, Jordan Brown 2, Lizzie
Frederick 2, and single goals
from Karissa Lemaire, Korrine
Lemaire, Alison Palmer, Tess
Bernheimer and Lexi Woodruff.
Cape assists were Allie Yeager
2, Lizzie Frederick 2, Kat Judge,
Sarah Tappan, Jordan Brown and
Lexi Woodruff.
Caesar Rodney goals came
from Kourtney Olsen and Del-
aney Steele each with 2 and
Abigail Wearden and Jenna Rig-
by. Olsen had 2 assists and Steele
had 1.
DAN COOK PHOTOS
CAPE ATTACK JORDAN BROWN goes to the goal past Riders defender
Madeleine Card during the Vikings' 20-6 win May 17.
Cape midfielder Lizzie Frederick sets up an offensive play from the sideline.
Kat Judge pulls out the ball to set up
a play. Taylor Gooch plays close defense.
Cat Stevens 'Looking for a Hard
Headed Woman' - not coaches
elatives of the week
- The Salisbury Univer-
sit women's lacrosse
team defeated the Franklin and
Marshall Diplomats 11-6 May 18
at Seagull Stadium to advance
to the national semifinals of the
ivision III tournament. Shan-
non Carta, granddaughter of
Mike and Ellen Carta of Lewes,
had four goals and an assist for
the Gulls while Grace Saliba,
daughter of Carl Saliba and
granddaughter of Dr. Anis Sal-
iba of Lewes,
had a goal and
an assist for
Frankiln and
Marhsall.
Hard-
headed
women - The
Cape girls'
track team Shannon Carta
was seven
events into the
May 17 state track meet and
hadn't scored in an), event.
The Vikings finished with 0nly
20 points, good for 10th place.
Most of the girls who were
freshmen on the state champi-
onship team did not hang with
the program through their se-
nior season. A taste of success
did not leave some athletes hun-
gry for more. Hard-headedness
is usually associated with the
boys' side of track and field, as
management
of person-
alities and
harnessing
their talent in
the springtime
can be a big-
ger challenge
than teaching
an athlete how
to triple jump. Grace Saliba
Every good
coach can talk about athletic
talent they just couldn't capture
and keep focused over a four-
year career.
Cape baseball slides home -
The Cape baseball team slid
into home in a cloud of dust
May 17, losing to Saint Mark's
13-6 and closing out the season
on a seven-game losing streak.
Mystifying beyond analyzing
is the way I see it; perhaps in
was in the cards like jokers in
a sealed deck just waiting to
get loose and pushed aside.
I will say that of all the boys'
scholastic sports, baseball is
the toughest place to make a
living, because everyone can
play a little hardball. The junior
varsity season was 10-4 with a
game remaining, and Beacon
Academy just closed out the
season undefeated, so no one
is throwing in the towel, but
a whisk broom to dust off the
plate is a good idea.
Is the fix in? You know those
people who think profes-
sional sports are fixed to create
fan interest and make more
money for the league? That
is, of course, ridiculous until
a crooked referee or point-
shaving player with a gambling
addiction shows up. I watched
the Indiana Pacers "take the
heat" in game one of the Eastern
Conference finals and thought
two things: Please spare us from
thinking Indiana is relevant to
the national conversation, and
will the Heat win in six games
or seven?
MLB Network- I inquired as to
the cable and cloud cost of hav-
ing everyone's baseball game in
my pocket...sounds wrong...but
that $200 luxury can be better
spent on a new hose bib - and
anyway I like the Orioles' and
Nationals' broadcasting crews
and both teams are in conten-
tion. The Phillies remain a
painful viewing experience in
every way from baseball on the
field to commentaries from the
press box.
Recline of the empire - I'm a
sports reporter, so I don't carry
a chair to work. I figure if the
people I cover and photograph
are in motion, the least I can
do is stand and pay attention.
Many of my age contem-
poraries are perched in the
spring-10aded lounger waiting
for instruction from the tower
of power - usually their wives'
"We"re out of dog food," before
quickly returning for the next
assignment. During last Satur-
day's state track meet I saw turn
and zone judges and high jump
judges all chaired up and not of-
fering me any respite and a few
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