Cape’s undefeated field hockey team looks blue-light fast

Cape’s undefeated varsity field hockey team looked blue-light fast Wednesday night at Legends Stadium - call it sports relativity. The Vikings are playing in the present, but their eyes are on the future. Cape outshot Seaford 33-1 in an 8-0 win, as Jacki Coveleski (3), Caroline Judge (2), Devon Price (2) and Katie Yeager all found the back of the net. Abbey Hilligoss, Kaci Coveleski and Caroline Judge were credited with assists.

Cape has a starred-on-the-calendar showdown at Milford at 11 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 31. The Buccaneers, coached by former Cape coach Amanda Jacona, have won four games in a row, outscoring opponents 14-1 and are currently 9-3 on the season.

Sussex Tech at 11-1 continues to destroy opponents, the team’s only loss (2-1) to Cape earlier in the season. Tower Hill is 12-1; the Hillers’ only loss (3-2) was to Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia. Mount Pleasant (12-0), Brandywine (10-1) and Archmere (10-1) are the other teams with fat records who will vie for top tournament seeds.

Cape’s junior varsity remained undefeated with one tie, beating Seaford 4-0 on three goals from Emily Baptiste and a single tally from Paige Reed.

GOD IS CATHOLIC- I have always joked that the God of sports is Catholic which makes as much sense to me as the time some born-again New Christy Minstrel woman told me that God led her husband to the restored red 1957 Chevy Impala mint condition cream puff convertible sitting in her driveway and lusted after by me. Yes, we are still talking about the car. Now every sports figure on television wants to point up and thank God for touchdowns and base hits and three-pointers. Did you know that the last six head football coaches at Cape were Catholic? Why is that relevant? Who said that it was? George Glenn, Brian Donahue, Bill Geppert, Sean Brennan, Dave McDowell and Tom Ott are all Notre Dame fans. “That would be a funny argument if everyone had a winning record,” Brian Donahue joked when I hit him with that factoid.

BRINGING THE HATE- The New York Post has gone classless trying to start some urban warfare by running down the Phillies and the city of Philadelphia. I respect all that history Yankees baseball brings to a World Series and can’t bring myself to hate them, although I did enjoy watching Cliff Lee strike out Alex Rodriguez three times. Just enjoy watching your team in the World Series. It’s all about athletes meeting the moment so who knows where it will end up?

A METHHEAD TO HIS MADNESS - Who was shocked when they read that eight-time grand slam champion Andre Agassi used crystal methamphetamines back in 1997, failed a drug test, laid down a lame lie (My assistant, Slim, spiked a soda I accidentally drank? Ah, gross!) When’s the last time you accidentally drank a spiked soda opened by your nicknamed sycophant who carries your water bottles? I’d be shocked if Derrick Jeter chilled with Blue Ice or Ryan Howard, but Andre Agassi? The damage done by top of the tree drug-using athletes is in the message passed down, which is drugs are no deterrent to athletic performance. Look at Ricky Rasta Williams running the wildcat in Miami. Ricky is one of the most ballyhooed bongers of all time, and have we all forgotten and forgiven Bret Favre’s painkiller addiction? Mixed messages all over the place.

SNIPPETS - Wesley College honored the first four-year seniors in the history of the Division III volleyball program before finishing up their season against Mary Washington Wednesday, Oct. 28. Before the match, the Wolverines retired the jerseys of their two pioneering senior captains:  Nettie Choice (Lewes, Cape Henlopen) and Lilia Brekke (Prescott, Ariz; Caesar Rodney).  Between the two of them, they occupy top spots in career kills, blocks, digs, and aces. Nettie is the daughter of Wanda Gibbs, who is the twin sister of Wayne, but don’t let me get started up that family tree because I will never find my way down. A few weeks ago, I mentioned Cape freshman football player Michael Mapp was the nephew of former player Keavney Watson, and I was quickly reminded that Corey Williams, a Cape quarterback circa 1989, was also his uncle, not to mention Shawn (lacrosse) and Shawneil (wrestling) Williams so you see the danger in going kinship is that you are bound to leave people out. Brandon Smith, a die-hard Phillies fan, gave me www.beerleaguer.com and www.700level.com as sites to visit if you like a slanted perspective on your team. Cape at Milford football Friday night is a neighborly battle featuring quarterback Jack McPike on the Cape side and his next-door neighbor, Lonnie Joseph, who starts at middle linebacker for the Bucs. Lonnie is the son of Milford basketball coach B.J. Joseph who was a prime-time guard coming off the bench on the 1976 Cape state championship basketball team. Remember when football coaches used messenger guards to send in plays before they learned how to wig-wag hand signals? Two fat guys running in and out? Talk about tedious. Last Tuesday in my perch in the press box an uninvited adult commenced a stern lecture informing me, “Sir, there is no smoking in the pressbox. It is a state and federal law.” This person, who forgot who I was – otherwise, I’m not sir but Fredman – thought I was smoking my cell phone, mistaking it for a tin of pipe tobacco. Of course, there was no smoke and no pipe and later no apology for rude behavior, but I needed a good story and a way to end this column. By the way, no cheering in the pressbox is a federal law.