Cape beats Tower Hill 5-0 for fifth straight shutout
The Cape field hockey team beat visiting Tower Hill Sept. 24 at Champions Stadium 4-0 to raise its season record to 5-0.
All five victories have been by shutout for a cumulative score of 20-0. Last season through five games, Cape was 5-0 with a cumulative score of 48-2.
It doesn't take a numerologist to figure the Cape team of 2022 hasn’t shown the early-season firepower of 2021. Veteran coach Kate Austin commented on her current team’s configuration.
“We’re figuring it out as we go,” Austin said. “There have been moments of greatness in each game, but we need to figure out how to string those along more consistently. Stronger teams will take advantage of some of the mistakes we’re making at times. But it will be good to see where we are and what level we can compete at with Smyrna, Delmar and Lake over the next two weeks. The middle school teams are going to be great this year. Beacon could beat some high school teams. The program is healthy.”
Cape outshot the Hillers 18-1, with an 18-2 advantage in penalty corners. Cape's first-half goals came from Addy Basile off an assist from Lexi Nowakowski and Devon DeGregory from Hannah Maney.
Second-half goals for the Vikings were Nowakowski unassisted and Basile from Macy Steinwedel.
The Vikings will host Indian River at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 27, following a JV game at 4:30.
Cape then plays at Smyrna at 4 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 29, in a rematch of last year's Division I state finalists.
Quips from the blue chair - Delmar has outscored six opponents by a combined score of 58-1. The Wildcats mostly never call off the dogs. Beacon field hockey, under head coach Lynn Richardson, won at Millsboro by a score of 12-0. Beacon will host Sussex Academy at 4 p.m., Wednesday. Woodbridge (3-2) is at Polytech (3-2) at 4 p.m., Tuesday. That looms as an intriguing game, as the resurgent Raiders are a tough out. Unbeaten Lake Forest will play at unbeaten Smyrna at 4 p.m., Tuesday. Smyrna’s Dru Moffett, a junior, has verbally committed to Michigan, where her mom and coach Laveita was an All-American. Coach Moffett played on a William Penn team that won a state title in 1994 and coached at the school for a dozen years before taking the Smyrna job.
