Two Moose dart teams battle at the Moose Lodge
Captain Safety - You get older, you become more cautious. If you see Fred Pop attacking a seven-foot wave with a Super Fresh boogie board, you can just assume dementia is at play. Last week at a track meet I saw a crew of high school shot putters from three teams, boys and girls, carelessly warming up and I thought, "Fix-a-Dent is not going to save any person who gets clunked in the head with a 12-pound lead ball." Then I saw mud run photos and I’m like, “Running through a non-reinforced wet trench is pushing the laws of physics because if a trench collapses you will be suffocated by suction before any panicked rescuer can extract you." Summer bike riders towing children in those covered carts on wheels really freaks me out.
I chose baseball - Last Saturday I was the only sportswriter/ photographer available and so I bit my hand and elected not to travel to St. Andrew's for that all-important game and to see my granddaughter Anna score her 100th career goal and instead chose baseball, winners of five in a row, after opening the season with five straight losses. Cape May defeated Cape Henlopen 6-1, a strange game in which the Vikings booted the ball about and made a few base running blunders. Baseball fans are very superstitious and one said to me, “We were playing well, winning five in a row and then you had to show up.”
Two Moose - Mountain Top Moose defeated Loose Moose in the Sussex County Dart League championship March 27 at Moose Lodge No. 646 - where else? Mountain Top Moose was regular season B League champions just ahead of the second place Smokin’ Goats. Pictured here are the champions, my friends (l-r) Bruce Hudson, Brian Mifflin, Todd Austin, Mark Wing and “down in front,” Rick Wolf. Mifflin, nicknamed "Moose," remains the only Lewes Little League Major League player to “jack one” out of the park when he was nine years old.
Initial reaction - I met former student and lifetime fisherman Kelvin Miller on the road running by Anglers (Irish Eyes for you newbies) last Sunday morning while I was covering a 5K race. “You haven’t seen a pair of dogs running loose?” Kevin asked. “You know they ain’t mine, belong to J.B and H.D. The cops said I better get them because they can’t run free - as free as the wind blows." I argued “Waiver for those labs,” rocking Lewes old school values. Better not mess with a J.B or H.D. dog, just no future in that. Years ago I received a morning call: "Are your dogs lost?” “No, they know where they are. Let them go.”
Team Target - Cape girls' lacrosse is the focused target for every team on its schedule. Any coach knows the longer you run from the front, the harder it is to stay there. Top dogs who play each game like junkyard dogs is the secret to survival.
Snippets - As good a track meet as you’ll see downstate will be on the track at Milford Tuesday, May 1, featuring Cape Henlopen versus Milford and Sussex Tech, boys and girls, each against the other, really not a tri-meet, more correctly a double dual meet. It's a record keeping and scoring nightmare, but somehow it gets done.
Cape softball, winners of four in a row, are at undefeated 12-0 Polytech Tuesday, May 1. On April 20, Polytech defeated Laurel (yep, those Senior League World Champions) 3-1 behind seven strikeouts by freshman pitcher Shaina Reed. Regan Green, star from the summer World Series, had 10 strikeouts for the Bulldogs. Sussex Tech softball defeated defending state champion Caravel April 28, 4-1. Kim Smith and Torrie Huk were the hitting stars for the Ravens.
Wednesday, May 2, is the Brian Tappan fundraiser at Legends Stadium, beginning at 5:30 p.m. with the boys junior varsity lacrosse game followed by the varsity game. There will be a silent auction, so don’t tell anyone.
Jeremy Eglit is shown here finishing Sussex Consortium 5K. “Big Dog” Jeremy is a hero to a lot of people. Go on now, git!
