Dave Frederick
80 - CAPE GAZETrE, Friday, May 23. May 29, 1997
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Cape blanks Riders
5-0 in first round
of softball tourney
Manship outduels
former Viking Savage
for shutout victory
By David M Frederick
The Cape softball team came up
with a big sixth inning to better
Caesar Rodney 5-0 in the first
round of the state tournament
Wednesday in Lewes.
Angela Griffith started the
inning by reaching first on an
error. Carrie Lingo followed with
a textbook bunt for a base hit.
With runners on first and second,
Caesar Rodney decided to pitch
around Katie Del Campo and
loaded the bases for Crystal
Alexander.
Alexander drilled the ball to
shortstop and an errant throw to
first base
allowed Grif-
fith and Lingo
to score.
Michelle
Manship fol-
lowed and
laid down a
squeeze bunt
which scored
DelCampo. MANSHIP
der and Manship. A five mn cush-
ion would prove to be more than
enough as Cape's defense contin-
ued the solid play that they had
shown throughout the game.
The contest started out as a
pitchers' duel between Cape
junior Michelle Manship and Cae-
sar Rodney freshman Janis Sav-
age. Both hurlers sustained a no-
hitter through four innings behind
solid defenses. The entire game
took just over an hour.
Caesar Rodney threatened in the
fifth. Janis Savage started the
inning with a single and Sarah
Jackson was put in to pinch mn.
The Cape defense came up with a
big double play which would
prove to be crucial. Caesar Rod-
ney followed the double play with
singles from Jadha Batton and
Erin Cooper. These efforts would
prove to be futile as there were no
"ducks on the pond."
Coach Bill Cordrey was pleased
with the effort of his team and
commended the effort of the
young Caesar Rodney team.
"Janis threw well. Both teams
played good defense. The double
play in the fifth was a key. The
next girl got a base hit."
Janis Savage, who is the daugh-
Viking
soccer
finishes
with win
By Scott Friedenreieh
In its final game of 1997, the
Cape Henlopen girls varsity soccer
team capped off an exciting season
with a resounding 8-0 victory over
winless Wilmington High School.
Sophomore Diane Friend got the
Lady Vikings off to an early lead
when she beat Wilmington goal-
keeper Laura Weaver just 26 sec-
onds into the match from a Kelly
Palekar assist. Palekar followed
suit at 9:17 from an Alison
Gaffney pass, and within 10 min-
utes Palekar had scored again, this
time assisted by Emily Bishoff.
By halftime the score was 5-0 in
favor of Cape through goals by
freshman Jodi Moore from .a
Shaye Dentino assist, and Emily
Walls scoring unassisted.
Cape's dominance over their
upstate opponent continued into
the second half as senior Wendy
Herbert notched her first goal of
the season, by heading a Friend
comer kick into the lower left cor-
ner of the Wilmington goal.
Dentino then scored at 70:00
from a Walls assist, and seven
minutes later Dentino hammered
IC Angle Moon photo
Stephanie ter of former Cape baseball coach ape's Emily Walls gains control of the ball for the Vikings the final nail into Wilmington's
Warrington followed with a single Jeff Savage, had some reflections ia their season-ending victory, coffin from a Herbert assist. Cape
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Flyers react poorly tO lac00: of loose-fitting dockers
RELAX AND DO IT!- I'm rat-
ed Double XX and proud in the
knowledge that I absorbed my
own twin before swimming "Free
Willie" into the world 50 years
ago. And I'm not a role model
either in the stomach or back of
the neck. So why are medium yup-
py tourons picking through the
outlet malls in stores like Big
Dogs and Dockers? I do reverse
curls five times a week just to
build up my hands and forearms
so I can get that one pants button
to line up with my natural button
which once actually rooted a grape
seed nurtured by dryer lint - but I
digress. I turned off the Flyers
game Sunday with my boys win-
ning 1-0 and went into Dockers in
search of pants. I was cross-
checked into several display tables
by focused women who were lead-
ing their "DA" husbands around
asking questions like, "Do you
have this color Bert? These would
go good with that lavender shirt I
bought for you at the garage sale
in Ellendale. Do you like the flat
PEOPLE IN SPORTS
front style?" Meanwhile I'm I
homicidal. I'm studying the (
graphic that shows the progression
from Classic Fit, through Relaxed (
Fit and ending comfortably with t
Loose Fit. "That's me, I think. I
Ever since high school football x
where I was cajoled into driving a s
seven man sled two city blocks for 1
my own good, the very concept of
a man with quadriceps so overde-
veloped he could bounce a 300
ound woman into an above-
round p0oiwith a double leg
tension ("No more Aunt Rose[
m cramping!") has eluded light-
l-the-loafers fashion designers.
inally I hip-checked several
,omen into the sidewalks and I'm
ddng position in the crease look-
tg at pleated, loose-fitting Dock-
rs. And then I check the waist
izes. "Thirty-Two! That's it,
'hirty-Two! Since when did guys
dth 32 inch waists require a
,oose Fit in the seat and legs?"
Skateboarder dudes and Yo-boy
tannabe's wear them," I was told
y my high school friends. And so
walked to the car like Flyers on
ry land because of my bad back
nd switch on the game. The Fly-
rs are now losing 3-1 and it's all
ecause there are no loose-fitting
)ockers for bruising grandfathers
ho wear shorts with elastic
tretch bands on the sides. I'm in
ike lint.
BURROWING THE
! LATCHET- When's the last time
you stared
down an old
tree stump
that was nes-
tled neatly in
a cross buck
like a pig in a
hammock?
Last Sunday
as part of the
wedding HATCHET TOSS
reception fes-
tivities for Captain Speed Lack-
hove and his new bride, Denise, a
friendly game of end-over-end
deadly weapon throwing broke
out. "I wouldn't stand there if I
was you," was the advice given to
every spectator. I'm not sure as a
victim which would be worse:
being hit by the blunt end of a
rusty axe or picking one out of the
side of your skull. "Now I'm mad
Jethro. You shouldn't oughta done
that." Most throws (long dell
knives were also being tossed)
missed the stump completely. Sus-
sex County is sure a long "way of
life" from the DuPont Country
Club. Thank God for squaw
favors. (Tomahawk joke book) A
camping competition this week-
end will consist of a muzzleloader
marksmanship, archery, toma-
hawk toss and knife throw. The
winner will receive a brand new
muzzleloader. Last year's compe-
tition was hosted by Bill Thomp-
son and won by Bill Thompson
the same way he hustled rednecks
in the early days of Punkin'
Chunkin'.
TOY OF THE WEEK- This
week's toy is not actually for sale
but is available for lessons and
college credit. Her name is Fat
Continued on page 81
FAT ALICE
