CAPE GAZETTE, Friday, September 26 - October 2, 1997 -
SPORTS & OUTDOORS
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Cape hockey smothers Seaford, ties Lake
By Susan Frederick
The tough thing about being top
dog is that someone's always yap-
ping at your heels.
A young Lake Forest squad
fought the 1996 Henlopen champi-
on Vikings to a 0-0 overtime draw
on Tuesday afternoon in Felton.
The tie followed Cape's 5-0 roll
over the Seaford Blue Jays last
Thursday afternoon.
The Lake defense, which
toughed it out through 14 Cape
corner opportunities, dodged a
bullet three minutes into the over-
time seven-on-seven play when
Kelly Palekar broke into the open
field and sent one that shot just
right of the Spartan goal. It would
be the only shot the Lake girls
would allow in the period.
"I'm disappointed," said Viking
head coach Mike Eisenhour. "I
don't think that we did mentally
what we were capable of doing
today. Lake did a good job defend-
ing our corners. We didn't make
the mental adjustments necessary
to get past it."
Cape got off nine shots on goal
in the first period, but the Lake
defense, anchored by Melissa Dill
(12 saves) and halfback Corey
Dennis, stymied the Cape attack.
Cape rushed the goal early in the
second half, but a pass from Kim
Smith to Amanda Hopkins disap-
peared among a crowd of Lake
defenders. Midfielders Alison
Gaffney and Jacki Warrington and
Samantha Catts held Lake's front
line in a midfield battle as the
Spartans got off their first shot of
the second half halfway through
the period.
The Lake offense erupted close
to the twenty-minute mark, how-
ever, when Cora Gerardi and
Wendy Smith brought the ball
upfield and the Spartans got off
three shots on goal in less than two
minutes. Erica Waples, who
recorded her fifth shutout of the
season, got help from Kim Smith
and Amy Reardon in closing the
door.
"Coach (Eisenhour) has been
pushing us goalies to play more
aggressively," said Waples, who
often runs ten yards or more to
clear a ball or stop a shot. "Espe-
cially with the no-offsides rule this
year, goalies have to be aggressive
in their play."
"The shut-outs are not all mine,"
continued Waples. "We've been
playing great defense, and the
offense does its job - they're both
part of the shutouts."
If Eisenhour was disappointed,
Lake Coach Pat Borowski saw the
tie in a different light. "It was
evenly played - both goalies had a
beck of a game. We have a young
team - we lost 13 seniors last year.
This kind of game was very good
experience for us. I think that both
teams respect each other. We have
a friendly rivalry going, and both
squads tend to rise to the occa-
sion." Tuesday's tie came on the
heels of a lopsided 5-0 score over
Seaford last Thursday. In that
game, senior Kim Smith scored
the first of her two goals from a
Sarah Marshall pass early in the
first period to put Cape up 1-0 at
the half.
Angie Moon photo
Cape's Christina Hopkins (right) works to control the ball against a Lake Forest defender as
help comes in from Amanda Hopkins (left) and Jackie Warrington.
An Amanda Hopkins goal off a
corner just 45 seconds into the
second period was the first of four
goals that the Vikings scored in
the fn'stl0 minutes of play. Smith
scored at 4:20 (Kelly Palekar
assist), followed by a second goal
by Amanda Hopkins (Palekar
assist) at 7:25 and Jacki Warring-
ton (Palekar assist) at 9:25.
"We took this game too lightly,"
said Warrington of Tuesday's tie.
"Hopefully, we'll be more focused
from here on out."
Cape amassed 27 shots against
Seaford, who managed only five.
Seaford goalie Anne Toulson had
20 saves. The Vikings outshot
Lake 16-11 on Tuesday.
In JV action, the Vikings tallied
two ties in the last week, playing
Seaford 0-0 and Lake 1-1. Lucy
Short scored for the Vikings,
while Tessa Weiss put Lake in the
scoring column. The Vikings host-
ed Caesar Rodney at home Thurs-
day in post-deadline action.
Bleeding the blue and gold of Cape Henlopen
FUN-FUN FUNnl had fun,
fun, fun 'til my daddy took the T-
Bird away. Let him get his own
cheap wine. Cape's 14-12 JV foot-
ball victory over Sussex Central
was fun to watch, fun to coach,
and fun to play. "This is really
fun," said offensive coordinator
Dave Frederick (Do I know him?
Maybe he's related to Bob?) after
Johnny Howard threw a touch-
down pass to Tommy Sheehan.
Freshman Shane Massey recorded
three sacks blitzing from his mid-
dle linebacker position and
Vaughn Ayers delighted the Pine-
town Boosters Club by reversing
his field on a sweep and almost
breaking loose for an unorthodox
Gale Sayers-like touchdown run.
Fernando Velligas has emerged as
a force on the defensive line and
should see varsity action against
Sussex Central. Cape's JV looked
well-coached and showed great
enthusiasm. Check them out next
Monday afternoon at Sussex Tech.
PUMPED AND PARTISAN-
!
PEOPLE IN SPORTS
Dave Frederick
Let me answer a question thrown
my .way several times this football
season. I am not on the staff, I am
not a coach and I am not an objec-
tive neutral sportswriter. The
coach Dave Frederick listed in the
program is my son Dave who is a
lot smarter than me but half as
smart as his mother. When it
comes to high school football, I
bleed the blue and gold of Cape
Henlopen. I suffered through years
of neutral looks and objective
sports reporting even when my
sons were playing. But I'm tired of
that mess. I am on the sidelines to
add moral and spiritual support to
the players who I see everyday in
school. If Coach Donahue didn't
want me there I'd be gone quicker
than Mary Albert on Three's
Company.
MORE GREAT NAMES-
Watching a college football game
last weekend I was struck by the
name of Nemesis Bates. Great
name but not in the category of my
all-time favorite, a basketball
player from Tennessee named
Baskerville Holmes. Remember
I.M. Hipp from Nebraska7 And a
running back from West Chester I
knew personally (not in a bad
way) named Tony Aspite, pro-
nounced...you make the call.
BOOSTER SMOOSTER- The
all-inclusive unified booster club
concept is a bad idea. If my son
plays football I could care less
about the girls track team and
whether they can afford to eat at "
McDonalds after a meet. The trend
in education is toward smaller
units, not conglomerates. That is
what site-based education and
shared decision-making is all
about. There are some great boost-
ers clubs at Cape with parents
who work their tails off because
their children are involved with
the team.
Just leave them alone. The
adults in pover don't actively sup-
port all the sports by attendance at
games so why put the trip of a uni-
fied boosters club on active par-
ents. Equality cannot be legislated.
Some great banquets - namely
football, lacrosse and the All
Sports Banquet - have bitten (food
reference) the roast beef because
lazier and less-involved boosters
clubs can't keep pace. Great sports
parents usually leave the sports
scene when their kids graduate.
That's the natural cycle and it's a
good thing. The enthusiasm of the
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parents evolves with the develop-
ment and involvement of their
child. That's the focus. Can't redi-
rect it. Back off!
MISSION POSSIBLE- The
Cape soccer team posted great
numbers last season 15-2-1 but no
Henlopen Conference or State tro-
phies. Over the years the confer-
ence title has been lost by a game
or sometimes a tie-breaker. Cape's
3-0 domination of nemesis Sussex
Central last Thursday night is evi-
dence of how many good players
bring athleticism and experience
to the program. The athletes are in
place to beat anyone on the sched-
ule. At the state level, St. Marks is
reported to be in a class by them-
selves. But on any given night,
anybody is beatable. Cape needs a
"bad attitude," but in a good way.
BEAR DOWN- There is a rea-
son sports seasons don't last all
year round. Athletes can't concen-
trate that long. That's also the rea-
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