Borrow the gas money and vote yes

So I introduced nine St. Mark’s Spartans from a 15-5 tournament-bound team and then the Cape kids, whom I respect beyond imagination for enduring a rough season. And so everything was hunky and/or dory, but when I read a single line from Allen Vickers – “and I’d like to thank my doctors and nurses at A.I. Dupont Hospital” - I just lost it like coach Dick Vermeil at his retirement press conference.

Vickers is a big old country hoss, a hard-throwing right-hander and great teammate who doesn’t say anything that doesn’t need to be said. We all know he battled and beat Hodgkin’s from his junior to senior year and in an instant I could see what that meant to everybody - so sue me. Real tough guys always talk to themselves after such a breakdown.

The Rehoboth Beach Summer Lacrosse League will return to Rehoboth this year coming back from Hudson Fields. There will only be two divisions including players in grades seven through 10 and an adult division. Jeff “Moose” Mohr, who has run the league the last 20 years, is stepping aside, and Christine and Burli Hopkins and Atlantic Lacrosse will run the league. Yes Burli is the Cow Guy. Information and online registration can be accomplished by going to rehobothtoday.com.

Here is Cape football player Zach Millman with “Chopper Dog,” a chow/lab mix who enjoyed his first day on campus chasing the bell collared cat that lives under the ag trailer. Chopper is from Seaford and was found by the Guide and cost $15. I offered Zach $30 but he wouldn’t take it. Wait until that chow guy comes out and bites the mailman.

Ted Haas, standing along the fence at last Wednesday night’s lacrosse game, yelled after a shot by Allison Young. “She’s got a hard shot like a boy!” Somewhere in there is a T-shirt that needs to be printed.

Wesley football coach Mike Drass is a member of the Lineman for Life just like my 18-inch-calf self. Last Wednesday he and football staff members were selling raw meat products too early off the grill from the concession stand. Later, when coach was walking across the field in his shorts and T-shirt, someone remarked who he was and that he was a big boy. Carol Lingo - God bless her, married to John – said, “He makes Fredman look like Twiggy,” which everyone found uproariously funny. OK, just John, but Carol said she meant it as a compliment. But coach Drass knows that Fredman is big enough to start for the 1963 Eagles. Get me out of this!

Kristen Burtch of Brandywine High School, who summered on Lewes Beach, and Liz Carpenter, graduate of Cape Henlopen, both played college lacrosse last season at Virginia Tech. Kristen just graduated while Liz completed her freshman year.

The Blue/Gold 5K to benefit the Blue-Gold All-Star football game will step off Saturday, June 14 - Flag Day - beginning at 7:30 a.m. at Irish Eyes in Lewes.

The Highway One Group and Races2run will host the second annual Dewey Beach Liquors 5K at the Cork run/walk on Monday, May 26. Please watch me walk before asking me why I’m not running. See you out there, and remember what Memorial Day is all about which is honoring those Americans who gave it up for the rest of us.