Cape’s Kyle White becomes a milestone man at his college

The screaming green surf and turf field at Legends Stadium has been cleared for spring takeoff as scholastic practices began Monday, March 1. On Feb. 28, the Starboard professional lacrosse team had a frigid practice with such great players as Billy Lingo, Josh Wyatt, Spencer Steele, Nick Scroggs, Jack Lingo and many other notables who preferred to remain anonymous and Facebook-less.

Many of the boys had just returned from a bachelor party for former Cape All-American defenseman Matt Hall. The guys got into Philly at 1 a.m. from the party, which was in Las Vegas. The turf field schedule for the first day of spring practice posts girls lax at 3:15 p.m. followed by girls soccer at 5 and boys lax at 6:30. These turf practices will total 120 eligible athletes, most with healthy GPAs - that’s 10 percent of the school’s population.

MILESTONE MAN - Cape’s former point guard Kyle White scored 27 points, including his 1,000th, at home last Saturday as the Goldey Beacom Lightning lost to Dominican 70-65. White scored his 1,000 in just two full seasons of play. White was also on the court Feb. 23 in a loss to Philadelphia College - formerly known as Textile - as coach Herb Magee notched his record-breaking 903rd career coaching victory, putting Bobby Knight in second place. Magee, known still as the shot doctor, played at West Catholic before going to Textile, where he scored 2,235 points, and that was before the three-point shot. Herb also has a coveted honorary doctorate degree earned with no course work and no papers written.

RADIO RUNNING - I was on WGMD’s sports radio last Saturday morning from 11:30 a.m. to noon with Anthony Joseph, who is a good young guy and friend so I help him out if he asks, and anyway, I have no life beyond sports. We were talking about the Henlopen Wrestling Tournament at Cape and I told him it was first class, a great venue and great job by Bobbi Brooks and Harry Hudson in leading the Cape Takedown Club and managing the tournament. And in the context of the DIAA tournament, I mentioned that Dover Athletic Director Eric Torbert was married to the daughter of Kevin Charles, the DIAA director. Anthony added, “And Eric Torbert dates Indian River coach Jim Bunting’s daughter.” Then we went to break and I informed formed Anthony that I would have to run him up the pole to protect myself. He looked confused. I told him one of us was wrong and if not Eric Torbert was now the Tiger Woods of the Henlopen Conference. Anthony called Bunting, who told him that his son dated Eric Torbert’s sister. That is just too whack and too good a story not to retell.

SNIPPETS - Sean Brennan at Milford has been named head softball coach, taking over for Charlie Darling, who rode off on a really big horse after winning the state championship last spring “The entire team returns along with all the assistant coaches,” Brennan said with a smile. “Nothing like a relaxing spring with no pressure.”

Shane Jensen, former Cape athlete and solid young man, has been a long-term substitute at Laurel High School and helped coach the wrestling team. I spoke with Shane at the state meet on Sunday and when he said something about his 215-pounder getting the high crotch ride on Cape’s D.J. Reid and moved in to demonstrate I backed right out the door. I’ve heard of High Plains Drifter but never High Crotch Rider although everyone knows the Low Rider.