TONKA TECH - If you like heavy construction equipment, then the Cape Henlopen campus is the place to bring your little boys. I know my boys liked dozers, steamrollers, graders, scrapers, backhoes, cranes, tampers and augers, but as adults showed no interest because of the whole “manual labor is a Mexican gringo” joke.
How many philosophy majors now wished they had a heavy equipment operator’s license without their wife’s picture on it? I’m kidding, but really kids in school spend so much time learning to do nothing practical. At least for the next three years they can gaze out a skinny window and see real men sweating and pulling down good money without a clue of who fought in the Peloponnesian Wars.
SURF AND TURF - A Cape idea was envisioned “we need a turf field,” then someone mentioned “what about more English teachers,” and spontaneous laughter rocked the Legends Field bleachers.
The money comes from a different pool - no pun intended - in fact, rumor has it a pool may be built anyway with “leftover monies.” But what about teachers in classrooms is just a silly question to raise in a sports column.
Cape football has 10 games next year and the first two are away at Indian River on Sept. 7 and at Delmar on Sept. 14. By the way, River coach Jimmy Bunting retired as a teacher, but there is a good chance he will return as coach if he can pass the “I’m now the outside guy” interview process of an emergency coach.
Cape’s first scheduled home game is Sept. 21 versus Milford. That game will most certainly be played on turf probably at Wesley College.
Then it’s over to Sussex Tech on Sept. 28 before a home game Oct. 5 versus Caesar Rodney. That game also will most likely be played at Wesley College. The Vikings return to the road for games at St. Mark’s on Oct. 13 and Polytech on Oct. 19. That leaves home games against Sussex Central on Oct. 26 and Dover on Nov. 2. The hopeful plan is that the field will be ready for play by then.
But what about soccer? Well, what about it? And will the field hockey field go to turf because there are strong rumors certain “playas” are pushing that toward reality.
GOTTA LOVE IT - Coach Kathleen “K.K.” Fluharty, former Northwestern field hockey and lacrosse All-American, will be running her youth lacrosse camp July 9-13, 9-11 a.m. for girls in grades 2-5, and 9 a.m. to noon for grades 5-8.
The camp is at Rehoboth Elementary School.
A field hockey camp at Rehoboth Elementary School from July 23-27 (9-11:30 a.m. each day) is open for girls in grades 1-5. And another field hockey camp is offered at Beacon Middle School Aug. 6-10 for grades 5-10. Call Coach K.K. at 745-5676 or email her at coachkk@aol.com for more information on camps and small-group lessons.
AUGMENTED AND SUPPLEMENTED - Comedian Sinbad joked about hair weaves. “You can’t be bald-headed on Monday and have hair down to your butt on Wednesday,” he said. “At least try to fool somebody.”
There is a danger out there for normal people to get suckered into the feeble attempt to attain physical perfection and everyone knows that perfect people exist in a state of high anxiety because they live in an imperfect world. I think people who are chemically engineered for caloric burning and muscle building should be called on it - at least try to fool somebody - because they are way more dangerous than doper burnouts because who wants to be one of them? Just a suggestion: get real!
FIRST STATE GAMES - This Saturday and Sunday, June 16 and 17, there are both a flag football tournament and lacrosse tournament at Cape Henlopen State Park as part of the Delaware First State Games. There is also a 40-team field hockey tournament at Caravel. Complete information can be found at the website delawaresports.com.
What is up with guys playing flag football all the year round?
“Honey, I won’t be around this weekend I have a flag tournament.”
“Oh, is that what you call it?”
SNIPPETS - Preregistration and socialization for the Saturday Blue-Gold All-Star 5K race will be from 6-8 p.m. Friday, June 15, in the parking lot of Irish Eyes in Lewes. The race is Saturday at 8 a.m. Kicking back against a pressure-treated and driven piling, well it just doesn’t get more nautical than that.
Jimmy McDowell and Cody Smith are Cape’s players in this year’s game. In 1982 Cape’s James Johnson, Hank Stack, Darren Purcell and Danny Harmon set a school record in the 4x800 meters of 7:59. They remain the only Cape 4x800 relay team to have broken the magical eight- minute barrier.
Cape’s Isaiah Brisco is at the Junior Nike National Meet this Friday and Saturday where he will run the 110 high hurdles and 400-meter hurdles against the best runners in the nation.
This is a meet where major scholarships can be earned by performance. Isaiah may have to forgo football his senior year to protect his body.
Somebody pick coaches Dave McDowell and Tommy Ott up off the floor. I’m kidding, and no I can’t pick them up or bench my own weight without shearing off my rotator cuffs.
There is an inside story about a mangled bike and Seashore Strider Peter Tracy and as Peter stepped forward last Sunday at Grove Park to receive an age group award for a race just completed, Tim Bamforth began, “I always love to tell a little Peter story.”
I yelled, “But please don’t!”
