Cape girls, boys, Christian boys head to tourney

The Cape girls basketball team will host the Padua Pandas Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. in the first round of the 24-team, DIAA state basketball tournament. The winner of the Cape versus Padua game will play at Dover Thursday, March 5. The Cape boys host Salesianum Wednesday, March 4. The winner of that game moves on to play at Smyrna Friday, March 6. The Delmarva Christian Boys will host the winner of the Milford at Polytech game Friday, March 6.

K’YAN ANDREWS - I ran into this Woodbridge star before the Saturday Henlopen Conference showdown. Andrews played this season for Hagerstown Community College where he averaged 15 points and 10 rebounds per game. The six-foot-five-inch Andrews plans to return to Hagerstown for his second season before moving out into a four-year program.

As a senior at Woodbridge High School, K’yan averaged 20 points, 11 rebounds, three blocks and four assists, racking up 1,473 career points. His play was acknowledged by being a member of the First Team All-Conference, First Team All-State and runner-up Player of the Year honors in Delaware.

GIRLS SWIMMING - The Cape girls swim team of Coach Bill Geppert placed seventh at last week’s Delaware State Swimming and Diving Championships, the highest finish in the history of the program. The top eight were 1. Charter of Wilmington 307.5; 2. Tatnall 252; 3. Padua 226; 4. Brandywine 175; 5. St. Mark’s 145.5; 6. A.I. duPont 140.5; 7. Cape Henlopen 116.5. Nicole Haag, Cape’s exchange student from Germany, placed second in the 50 free, 24.8, andfourth in the 100 backstroke, 101.6. Colleen Cannatelli placed eighth in the 200 freestyle, 202.1, and 12th in the 100 freestyle, 56.7. Sarah May was ninth in the 500 freestyle in 5:37. The 400-yard freestyle relay team of Sarah May, Kerri Bailey, Colleen Cannatelli and Nicole Haag placed third in 3:46.2.

BOYS SWIMMING - The Cape boys placed 20th at last weekend’s Delaware State Swimming and Diving Championships. The results were 1. Salesianum 358; 2. A.I. duPont 278; 3. Charter of Wilmington, 264; 4. Archmere 193; 5. St. Andrew’s, 160; 6. Newark, 135; 7. Delaware Military 132; 8. Brandywine, 123; 9. Tatnall 118; 10. Mount Pleasant, 116; 11. St. Mark’s, 84; 12. Middletown, 63; 13. Sanford, 62; 14. Seaford, 45; 15. Caesar Rodney, 40; 16. Dover, 29; 17. Milford, 22; 18. Wilmington Friends, 20; 19. William Penn, 19; 20. Cape Henlopen, 16. The Cape medley relay team of J.T. DiGuglielmo, Mark Saltiel, Nick Priano and Garrett Acklin placed 14th in 1:48.82. Garret Acklin was 14th in the 100-yard freestyle 50.8. The 200-yard freestyle relay team of Garrett Acklin, J.T. DiGuglielmo, Roger Wooleyhan and Nick Priano placed 14th in 1:38.09.

WRESTLING STATE CHAMPIONS - Here are the results from the championship finals held last Saturday at Delaware State. 103 - Tyler Pendergast, SM, dec. Kaleb Lemaire, CR, 10-0. 112 - Sean Boylan, SM, dec. Chris Donaldson, Sal, 7-3. 119 - Sean Dolan, SM, dec. Danny Graham, Sal, 4-0. 125 - Wendell Cannon, ST, dec. Alex Paladino, CR, 10-3. 130 - Cody Broomall, Smy, dec. Nick Schenk, SM, 3-1. 135 - Stephen Swiggett, Smy, maj. dec. Matt Buckworth, SM, 15-5. 140 - Codey Combs, SC, dec. Josh Snook, SM, 7-0. 145 - Eric Harper, MP, dec. Cody Carbine, Smy, 6-3. 152 - Issah Meade, CR, tech. fall Timmy Bokinski, IR, 20-5 (4:49). 160 - Casey Sergent, CR, pinned Kenny Boyles, Smy, 1:01. 171 - Ty Snook, SM, pinned David Melnick, CR, 5:05. 189 - Alex Thomas, ST, pinned Jason Flannery, CH, 1:42. 215 - Corey Olsen, SM, dec. Donnie Messick, Smy, 6-3. 285 - Bobby Telford, SM, maj. dec. Larry Cassidy, Sal, 9-0. Jason Flannery of Cape Henlopen took down Sussex Central’s James Showell with four seconds left to win the 189-pound semis 12-11. Flannery’s second-place finish was the highlight of the tournament for Cape. Cape’s Chris Young placed sixth at 112.

SPRING SPORTS - How valuable is a building like the Little Big House when the 11 spring sports teams begin the first day of practice with a winter storm? I have digested all the arguments why a building that is needed and not proven to be decrepit must come down and then last Saturday I’m taking pictures of the Henlopen Conference Championship boys game and I look around and know that under the worst conditions the Cape gym with its unique rubberized floor has a ghetto half life of 200 years. Asbestos abatement? DNREC and parking spaces? This is our house! We need a big hitter to step to the plate!

SNIPPETS - Cape Athletic Director Bob Cilento was in Myrtle Beach last weekend to watch a college baseball tournament. Bob’s son is the assistant coach of Brown University. Bob called me because Brown was playing a doubleheader against Florida International to ask if I knew a kid named Tyler Townsend from Lewes. Then Tyler jacked a triple off the scoreboard and also hit a double as the Golden Panthers split the twin bill with the Brown Bears.

Bob’s other son, Pat, 31, was just named head football coach at Sherwood High School in Maryland, a team just crowned state champion replacing legendary Al Thomas who coached high school football for 46 years while winning eight state championships.

If you are impulsive enough to hoard food when a storm is approaching, you are undisciplined enough to eat it all before landfall.