People
Continued from page 64
down-and-in last Tuesday after-
noon as the •visiting girls from
Wicomico
High School
played like
the M. R.
Ducks all-
stars fighting
off an incred-
ible 13
straight ser-
vice winners.
Cape jumps
off to a 2-0 WIDDOES
start on the season after a Satur-
day victory over hapless Wilm-
ington. "I want to play a good
team," said Katie DelCampo.
Cape will be at Dover Tuesday,
Sept. 17 and then travel to always
tough Wilmington Christian on
Thursday, Sept. 19. "I feel good
about this year's team," said
coach Nick DelCampo. "We're
about to find out how improved
we really are."
SNIPPETS- The Salisbury
State Seagulls opened their foot-
ball season with a victory over
Delaware Valley College as
Cape's
George
White, a
freshman,
saw action as
a defensive
back. . .
Dogged Cape
Gazette re-
porter Kerry
Kester is a WHITE
native of
Wisconsin and an avid cheese
head, or is that Packer head, as we
say in, Sussex County. Kerry has
been tough on Eagle fans after
last Monday's fonduing of the
birds and reportedly asked Eagle
loyalist Tommy Engel why the
Eagles sent their cheerleaders to
Green Bay instead of the football
team. And just like Chuck Bed-
narik's pinning of Jim Taylor in
the 1960 championship game, En-
gel threatened to sit on Kester un-
til her biological clock runs out...
Cape Region Athletes Of The Week
Sue Lore, retired from hockey
coaching after twenty years on
Rehoboth and Lewes sidelines,
comes by her community spirit
naturally. "My morn and dad al-
ways donated time to community
service; they were always knock-
ing on doors," Lore said. Sue's
father, Fran, co-founded the
state's Lower Gridiron Club in
the late '70's in order to give
recognition to achievements of
downstate athletes.
The Fran Lore Award, present-
ed each year to an athlete who has
overcome a handicap in order to
participate in sports, carries his
name.
Cape graduate Thad
Nowakowski received the award
in 1988.
CAP GAZE'IWE, "day, September 13 - September 19,1996
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Sue Lore retires, quietly, from hockey
After 20 years of leading
tremendously successful
Cape District teams, coach
decides it's time to move on
By Susan Frederick
There were no testimonial dinners or Hall
of Fame honors. No media coverage of final
goodbyes. No hype. No fuss.
But when Cape Henlopen social studies
teacher Sue Lore resigned from her position
as Lewes Middle School hockey coach earli-
er this year, she closed out twenty years on
what precious few coaches at any level can
say they have done: lead overwhelmingly
successful teams, lead them on her own
terms, and have a heck of a good time doing
it. Her two decades of service stand as the
longest in the district's history.
"I told myself it was time," said Lore of
her decision to leave the coaching ranks. "I
got out when I felt good about it, and Lewes
is definitely in good hands with Patti Jo
(Mock)."
Lore has coached three major sports
hockey, basketball, and softball at the
middle school level in the Cape district since
the mid '70s, but decided early in her career
that hockey was for her.
"My principal, Ed Hurley, came to me in
1976 that was the year the district split in-
to three junior high schools. Ruth
(Skoglund) had been moved to the Lewes
school. Ed said, 'Sue, you play golf; you
should be able to coach hockey.' That's how
I started. I give credit to Georgia Billger
and Terri Walsh Burton for helping me
tremendously during that first year. Their-
support was in-
valuable to me."
As a schoolgirl
in Dover, Lore
had played bas-
ketball and some
softball, but no
hockey. Hock-
ey's attraction
stemmed from
other reasons.
"Few people re-
ally understood
the rules of hock-
ey," she said sim-
ply. "I had no
parents second- SUE LORE
guessing my coaching decisions because
most of them had no idea of the game.
I'd ydl, 'Get your sticks down!' to the
girls during the game, and moments later I'd
hear the parents in back of me echoing the-
same phrase.all along the sidelines. They
didn't know anything else to say!"
For the next nineteen years, Lore com-
piled an impressive record in junior high and
middle school play, including a '78 unde-
feated season at Rehoboth with a group of
girls who went on to play for Carolyn Ivins
on Cape's state championship team a year
later, a 1990 undefeated Rehoboth squad,
and three undefeated seasons in the early
90's in Lewes with girls who now form the
nucleus of Cape's present powerhouse.
If you're looking for a twenty-year win
and loss record however, don't look in
Lore's scrapbook. You'll find pictures of
smiling teenagers and newspaper articles
and spirit ribbons and cards and letters liter-
ally bulging and spilling out of its ragged
pages. But you will find no account of just
how successful she was -- that is, unless
you count success not in wins and losses but
in photos and ribbons and notes from former
players and coaches.
"When Carolyn Ivins won the state cham-
pionship in 1979, she included me and
(Lewes coach) Ruth Skoglund and (Milton
coach) Barbara Heller in the team banquet. I
think that Ruth never forgot that; she includ-
ed Marge Erthal and me in last year's state
championship banquet. That was very, very
special to me."
"I'm not bred for competition," said Lore
of her decision t o stay at the middle school
level over the years instead of pushing for a
high school coaching spot when it opened.
"I like the kids and I like doing developmen-
tal work. I like sports for fun."
And how is the former coach spending her
first hockey "vacation" in twenty years?
Having fun, her way. You'll find her at the
scoring table of Cape home games. "I was
thrilled when Ruth asked me to do it," she
said.
"This way I don't have to let hockey go
completely. I can just keep my pinky in."
J.D. blAULL
Quarterback and safety
J.D. Maull excelled on both
sides of the football last Fri-
day night as Cape lost an
overtime heartbreaker to In.
dian River in overtime 13-12.
UJ.D. is the leader on defense
and did a good job finding
the open receiver on passing
plays," Glenn said. "We have
to design our offense so J.D.
and Kai Maull are on the
field together most of the
time." J.D and cousin Kai
give the Vikings six Maull
QBs over the last 20 years.
ELIZABETH BAKER
Cape cheerleader Eliza-
beth Baker's photo, shown
above, was taken on the
morning of her sixteenth
birthday. EHzabeth is in her
second varsity year on the 12
person squad coached by
Donna Johnson and Amy
Arnold. I like the dancing
routines that we do to the
bands' music," Elizabeth
said. "It's rewarding when
the fans take the time to tell
us we're doing a good job.
EHzabeth is the daughter of
Johnathan and Donna.
MATT KREITZER
Matt Kreitzer has been a
hot goalie since he minded
the nets two years ago for
Vince Rasa's JV squad. Last
Saturday, in perhaps Cape's
biggest ever regular season
win over an upstate oppo-
nent, Kreitzer stopped 15
shots as Cape upset McKean
3-0. "Matt had at least one
great save each half and he
was just steady the entire
game," said head coach John
Myers. Kreitzer and his side-
kickers will slide tackle
Dickinson this Saturday.
JOE DELOY
Joe Deloy was all over the
field defensively in Cape's
upset victory over McKean.
Joe started the game at stop-
per and moved to fullback
after Brett Williams left the
game with a broken tibia. "I
believed early in the game
that we had the better ath-
letes and would win, n Deloy
said. "But I really didn't
think we would win 3 to 0."
Coach John Myers had noth-
ing but praise for Joe Deloy.
"Joe is a game day player,"
Myers said.
