64 - CAPE GAZETTE, Friday, September 13 - September 19,1996
SPORTS & OUTDOORS
Cape hockey begins title defense
by blanking Wilmington Christian
ago I played forward, and I played
it again in summer league. I think
Coach
Skoglund saw
me play a few
times there
this summer
and decided to
give me a
try."
With just
2:24 gone in
the first half, PALEKAR
the junior
took a centering pass from left
wing Jacki Warrington and shot
the ball past Christian goalie Erin
By Susan Frederick
The Lady Viking hockey squad
lost no time in firing up its offense
for the 1996 season as Cape
blanked Wilmington Christian 3-0
in its home opener on Tuesday
afternoon.
The day's 90-90 heat and
humidity hung on the field but did
nothing to stall the Viking front
line as junior Kelly Palekar led her
teammates with two goals on the
day and Viola Kuhk added a sin-
gle.
"I love it," said Palekar, a for-
mer Cape midfielder, of her new
forward position. "A long time
Angle Moon photo
Stephanie Warrington (l), backed up by Jennifer Reihm,
control the ball during Tuesday's match.
Goodsell. Her second score came
at 16:05 in the same period when a
packed Viking midfield pushed the
ball deep into Wilmington's terri-
tory and Palekar took it to the cage.
"Last year, our game against
Wilmington Christian ended in a
scoreless tie. We knew they'd be
strong, but we knew that if our girls
played as well as they have been
playing early and as well as they
can play, we'd get our opportuni-
ties. The girls did a good job," said
head coach Ruth Skoglund.
Second half action saw the
Christians battle early for ball con-
trol, but the Viking midfield of
Sarah Marshall, Jen Reihm,
Samantha Catts, and Angel Cahill
effectively stopped the effort.
"We have a strong defensive
nucleus in Sherry (Swartzel) as
goalie, Stephanie and Jacki War-
rington, Jennifer (Reihm) and
Angel (Cahill)," she continued.
"They all played defensive posi-
tions last year and they know how
to cover and recover for each other.
Sarah Marshall has played forward
until this year. If a ball comes
across, she knows how to move it
up the field. Amy Reardon and
Alison Gaffney can also play any-
where you put them."
German exchange student Viola
Kuhk took a pass from a streaking
Carrie Lingo to find the goal mid-
way through the second period for
the final score of the game.
Cape's 24-7 advantage in shots
on goal and 14-3 short corner
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Angle Moon photo
Cape's Micah Sklut (c) battles for control of the ball between
two McKean players during last Saturday's game.
Vikings upset McKean
Cape soccer opens
season with 3-0 win
over upstate power
By Scott Friedenreich
If first impressions are anything
to go by, then 1996 looks to be a
very bright season for the Cape
Henlopen soccer team. In its first
game of the season the team took
on McKean High School, an estab-
lished powerhouse for years. The
Vikings shocked the soccer world
in Delaware with a surprising 3-0
victory.
Cape entered the game with con-
fidence, good fielding, and a veter-
an team of seven returning starters.
But McKean had perhaps more
reason to be confident.
In the third straight year of serv-
ing as the Vikings' home opener
they looked back to consecutive
victories-- 5-1 in '94 and 3-1 in
'95. The Highlanders came down
thinking they would get another
win to open their season. But the
cliche "nothing lasts forever"
played itself out on the soccer field
last Saturday night, Sept. 7.
Things looked bad for Cape
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An inside line on the Delaware-Villanova match
TOM SENT ME- The highly
touted Delaware Blue Hen Wing-
T offense of coach Tubby Ray-
mond clashes with the explosive
offense of the ViUanova Wildcats
on the Philadelphia mainline Sat-
urday afternoon as Villanova
quarterback Clint Park carries a
ton of tradition with him to the line
of scrimmage. Clint's father, Tom
Park, is an analytical, intellectual
former marine officer and college
football coach and a sort of come-
dian without a club. Tom was my
college roommate at West Chester
in the late sixties and we spoke on
the phone last Wednesday night
about this weekend's game. "I was
defensive coordinator at the
Citadel in 1978 when Delaware
came to play us," Park said. "They
were 8-0 and Jeff Komlo, who lat-
er played six years with the Lions,
was Delaware's quarterback. I
had recruited Komlo four years
earlier when I was coaching at
Maryland but at the last minute the
football staff decided not to go
after him. Before our game four
PEOPLE IN SPORTS
years later he walked by me and
said, 'Hello Tom', and kept going.
Everything at the Citadel is based
on respect and I felt 'Hello Tom'
was a deliberate slap in the face,"
said Park. "I called the defensive
linemen together and really
embossed the Komlo story. I told
them whoever got to Komlo and
tackled him during the game
should say 'Hi, Jeff. Tom sent
me.'"
MOM'S WIRED- More on
Clint Park the Villanova quarter-
back: His mother Susan was a
high wire performer for the Flori-
da State University circus back in
her collegiate days. "Clint often
tells people that I was really a
clown but that's not true," Susan
said.
ALL HAMS ON DECK- Clint
Park was the high school scholar-
athlete of the year in the state of
Florida when he graduated from
North Florida Christian in 1993.
He had followed Casey Weldon to
the small Florida school and had a
pretty decent receiver to throw to
named Tamarik Vanover, the wide
receiver and return specialist for
the Kansas City Chiefs who is the
only NFL player ever to score on a
punt return, kick-off return and
pass reception in the same game.
Park accepted an appointment to
the Naval Academy but after quar-
terbaeking the JV team his fresh-
man year, he left school. "Clint is
a very disciplined person", his
mother Susan said. "But he felt
that the Academy was better suit-
ed for people who weren't disci-
plined." You mean no interest in
LSD, lifting tests, burglary or run-
ning a stolen car ring?
PICK UP THE PACE- I'm
back into this walking thing
because I like it and I get to feel
sore and stiff at night which for an
old athlete is as close to glory as
we get. Last Monday afternoon in
sub-tropical Rehoboth and Dewey
I set a personal record by bounc-
ing eight miles, the last three in a
steady rain. When a double x shirt
gets wet and size triple E sneakers
get soaked you slowly succumb to
that lonely land-walrns feeling. I
meet people along the way who
always seem to say, "C'mon Fred-
man[ Pick up the pace. You can
walk faster than that." But I don't
walk to work,I walk to curtail
aggression. So get off my back
because the shirt is heavy enough.
SCARED SMILE- Ron Selden
smiled before last Saturday's fight
with Mike Tyson like he knew
something. He knew something,
all right. He knew that the first
time his hair follicles got wind of a
passing right hand he was going to
the canvas. He knew the next time
by the hair of his chinny chin chin
that he was down for keeps (as in,
I keep five million dollars)
because walking Parkinson's
would be the least of his worries if
an Iron Mike right ever solidly
connected with his cranium. Holy-
field and Tyson? Please get seri-
ous. Holyfield lost to Preacher
George, for crying out loud in
church. Fans yelled fix after Satur-
day's fight but the only thing fixed
was the cable box on which I was
watching the pay-per-view fight.
Selden went down without so
much as a noogie but that was his
plan. Give the man credit because
now he has the collateral.
SERVING DINNER- Cape's
Maggie Widdoes had her serve
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