Cape’s great women players to be honored

The first women’s game at Cape’s new Little Big House will be Friday night, Dec. 11, versus Milford. I am putting together a special recognition pre-varsity game short program for women, and I would like to invite and subsequently recognize all 1,000-point scorers including those who scored 1,000 prior to Cape’s creation through consolidation.

And, also on my hot ticket list are members of the 1973 Cape state championship girls team coached by Bob Cassady. Members of that team by 1973 maiden names include: Virginia Savage, Delores Walker, Nancy Steen. Adele Adams, Chris Burton, Georgia Edwards, Amy Reed, Ann Reed, Diane Berens, Cindi Keller, Mary Hitchens, Sandy Hudson, Debbie Hopkins, Karen Schrock, Patti Maloney and Lesli Eschenback.

These illustrious former Cape athletes can just show up at 6:45 and find Fredman, or athletic director Bob Cilento, or email me at davefredman@comcast.net, or call the high school and ask for the athletic director’s office.

BIG RED - Andy Reid is a good guy and a player’s coach. I’ve seen a new playfulness in Andy this season and it’s reflected in how his team performs. I wrote that Reid would have some special moment for Mike Vick’s return to Atlanta, and it started with Vick being one of the team captains then letting him run for a touchdown on a third down play and later having him in there to throw another touchdown.

For some unexplained perverse reason, I was happy for Vick just as I was happy to see Tim Tebow and Tom Brady both lose on the same weekend. And I always thought Tiger Woods was just boring, but I must admit in the last two weeks he has become a lot more interesting.

KOBASA NOT KEILBASA – Some years back Cape English teacher Nancy Rhue came to my classroom door – she was slumming – with a copy of the Cape Gazette under her arm. “Good morning Dave. I know Jerry Kobasa or the coach you call Kielbasa.”

I claimed it was intentional, a grilled sandwich type joke, but Nancy knew I was clever and careless and would have been a solid C-plus student in her general class.

Coach Jerry Kobasa, formerly head basketball coach at Smyrna, Sussex Tech and now Wesley, has stocked his roster with former Henlopen Conference players. Ron Allen, Jeff Berry, Gavin Coco, Todd Shockro and Charles Coursey serve as assistants.

Coming off an 18-10 2008 season, the Wolverines won their 13th straight home game Sunday, Dec. 6, with a 70-65 win over Marymount University, Virginia. Local players of note on the Wesley team include Alphonso Wright, Rudy Thomas, Kevin Johnson, Carl Hinton, Jacques Bowe and Paul Reynolds.

The attendance at the last game was 386, but if you go for a hotdog and come back they count you twice.

SNIPPETS - The Cape Henlopen High School wrestling team finished in fourth place at the second annual Polytech Invitational on Saturday, Dec. 5.  The Vikings competed in 11 of 14 weight classes. Three starters were not able to compete because of the SAT.

Overall the team wrestled well having one champion, four runners-up, a third, one fourth and one fifth-place finisher.  

First-year wrestler Forrest Jackson competed at 103 pounds.  Chris Young wrestling in the 119-pound weight class was the lone champion for the Vikings.  Sophomore Garrett Smith finished in second place along with senior Andrew Westgate (135), junior Ian Eckrote (160) and junior Dan Smith (215).  Sophomore Tadeo Gonzalez (152) had a great tournament finishing in third place.  

Sammy Mohr (140), another sophomore, finished in fourth place, while senior first-year starter Arthur Wright (130) finished fifth.  

The young Viking wrestling squad was aggressive and showed lots of promise for a successful season.  

They will be in action this Friday and Saturday at Milford.  Destiny is preordained and by definition beyond one’s control, but in the sports world the poorly educated athletes and coaches cannot stop misusing the word.

If the Eagles win out they win the division, but they do not control their own destiny; it controls them.

The final result is fate, now go back to class! The late basketball coach Al McGuire had the best one: “No sense beating a dead horse to death.”