Wherever you find four Lantz surfboard flag football championship trophies you’re sure to find a fifth (a long way to run for an old joke). Lantz quarterback Joey Cahill threw TD passes to Tykee Perry and Sussex County’s largest Mexican, Amado Mandujano, while Alan White ran for another as Lantz Surfboards defended its fall flag crown with a 24-12 victory over previously unbeaten Outkast.
This was the second straight championship game between these rivals. Cahill is the all-time, all-world flag football quarterback - he is the cool cat and the entire defense are mice which he tortures on every play.
BEAM UP SCOTTY - When basketball and baseball dual sport, left-handed athlete Scott Shockley was a senior in my class I gave him the Sandy Koufax biography and told him to read it and look at the picture on the cover every day. I saw that live arm and figured once the control was harnessed and the nagging injuries disappeared that Scott had incredible talent.
Last week the University of Delaware announced that Scott, now a senior, was named a captain of the baseball team. The university provided this information:
“Scott Shockley, a native of Milton, Delaware (Cape Henlopen H.S.), led all Blue Hen outfielders with 48 appearances and 42 starts last year. He led the team with 30 walks and finished fourth on the squad with a .416 on-base percentage. During the season, Shockley posted 11 multi-hit efforts, including four, three-hit performances. From March 12-21, he recorded a career-best, nine-game hitting streak, capped nicely with a five-hit performance including a home run and two doubles in a doubleheader against Lafayette. Over his career, Shockley has appeared in 140 games with 101 starts. In 421 at bats, he has hit .280 with seven home runs and 64 RBIs.”
Ryan Reed is the starting catcher on the team giving the Blue Hens two Milton boys in the starting lineup
MORE BASEBALL - Milford High will be the site of a baseball camp for young kids run by pro scouts. The phone number to enroll is 302-249-1521. The camp dates are Jan. 3 and 4 for advanced hitting, advanced pitching for ages 13-18 and all skills camps for ages 8-12. Some of the camps will run for three weeks. Call the number above for details. Camp clinicians are Will George, Major League scout for Colorado Rockies with 32 years’ experience; Dave Shuler, pitching coach for the Rockies; Rowland George, area scout for the Detroit Tigers; Dan Kimmel, Wesley college star; Tripp Keister, coach at Wesley for the last 10 years; John Nichols, head coach at Milford High School; and Theo Bowe, recently drafted by Cincinnati Reds in 2008 draft.
ROCK THE HOUSE - The Hodgson Silver Eagles cheerleading squad was 26 strong and except for pre game ran all their cheers sitting down. They caught my attention because of their talent and how much they played off the game and how tight they were.
I walked over from my perch leaning against a stage to snap a photo and they instantly pushed together then back in formation. Their coach sat on the bottom row and said little because well-coached teams know what to do.
LAYING AN EGG - Any coach who has ever looked into the souls of football players prior to a big game and seen fisheyes starring back like bass in a clear pond knows about the Neptune Factor where players dispassionately dissociate and lose focus before big games like alien extraterrestrials who have never seen a football.
How else can you explain the Cowboys and Eagles blowing a hole in the hearts of loyal fans bigger than the stupid and annoying rooftop of Texas Stadium? If you were a Westbrook jersey-wearing Eagles fan and Cowboy hater you just loved Saturday night, but the god of the Beltway came calling on you Sunday afternoon and now you can’t get the “Hail to the Redskins” fight song out of your head.
The Eagles make the playoffs if they beat the Cowboys and Tampa Bay loses at home to Oakland. In the words of Shrek, “Like that’s gonna happen?” Dallas can win in by beating Philly at the Link on Sunday which would be a sharpened cheese steak into the hearts of inebriated meat eaters in throw-back jerseys who take public transportation to the game then can’t decide where to tailgate.
SNIPPETS - Tony DeFazio is a Philly guy like me and on the sports scene he is everywhere. Tony umpires softball, does the public address for Cape football, works the clock for girls basketball and referees in the flag football league and was out there last Sunday in a driving rainstorm running through puddles while keeping 22 angry, muddy and drenched young men focused on football.
Do you think when the refuse haulers have a convention they talk trash or do they talk sports? But seriously, to all those amateurs like Tony and me out there playing in leisure world every day, have a great holiday season and keep it going when everyone else returns to work. Like Santa said to his rooftop reindeer after his last delivery,
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