View from the Baseline: Week 1 rankings

Jason WinchellHeadlines, Sports

It’s hard to make any conclusions based on four days of volleyball, but here’s what we see from the baseline. Let’s start with the 10th-ranked Ursuline Raiders, who are 2-0 after a win at DMA on Sept. 9.  Big hitters up front, a quality setter in Hayley Timmons, and a typical Ursuline defense look pretty good. They needed four sets …

21 years later, Dover returns to football title game

Benny MitchellHeadlines, Sports

Dover – The players on the Dover Senators football team were not even born the last time the Senators played in the state championship game in 2001. Most of their parents are too young to remember the last time Dover won a state title in 1988, but they are all aware now that the Senators are headed to Delaware Stadium …

Smyrna’s Laney to make WNBA All-Star debut July 14

Betsy PriceHeadlines, Sports

Betnijah Laney New York Liberty WNBA All Star from Smyrna Delaware   The 2021 WNBA All-Star game will once again star a Delaware high school hoops legend, and no, it is not Elena Delle Donne.  Betnijah Laney has been a rising star in the WNBA over the past two seasons & will represent Team WNBA in Las Vegas on July …

Dooley named head football coach and athletic director at Woodbridge

Betsy PriceHeadlines, Sports

Marvin Dooley coaching St Elizabeth’s football Marvin Dooley will leave the hustle and bustle of northern New Castle County and head to the land of scrapple and apples in western Sussex County as he was named the new athletic director and head football coach at Woodbridge High School. “I am looking forward to the small town atmosphere and everything it …

Bones Hyland reps Delaware proud at NBA Combine

Betsy PriceHeadlines, Sports

Nah’Shon Bones Hyland NBA Combine photo courtesy of Swish Sports While NBA fans got themselves ready for the Conference Finals this week, most of Delaware & fans of lottery bound teams turned their attention to the NBA Draft Combine.  The six-day event started Monday, June 21 & will run through Sunday June 27th, in Chicago.     The story of the …

Sallies, UD star Hinton back for second stint for Blue Rocks

Betsy PriceHeadlines, Sports

Photo courtesy of MILB Central   The list of Delaware high school stars in Major and Minor League Baseball increased last week when former Salesianum and University of Delaware star Kyle Hinton signed with the Washington Nationals.  Hinton, a former 16th round pick for the Kansas City Royals in the 2018 MLB Draft, returned to his hometown Wilmington Blue Rocks …

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Gold controls game in 21-13 win over Blue in 65th DFRC All-Star game

Betsy PriceSports

It was a beautiful night for football at Delaware Stadium Friday for the return of the DFRC Blue-Gold All-Star game after an absence due to the pandemic in 2020. 80 seniors from across the state would get together for one final game in Delaware and it would live up to the hype. A 4th down 17-yard touchdown pass from Gold …

Eight Delaware Tech softball players earn all-region honors

Betsy PriceHeadlines, Sports

It has been a banner year for Delaware Technical Community College’s softball team. The team finished the 2021 season as champions of Region 19 and the Mid-Atlantic District, competed in the 2021 NJCAA Division II National Softball Tournament, and won just the second national tournament game in program history.    All of those accomplishments wouldn’t have been possible without some …

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Baseball all-state teams announced; Appo’s Carrier is player of the year

Betsy PriceHeadlines, Sports

Lorenzo Carrier Appoquinimink Baseball Player of the Year   Pitchers 1st Zach Hart 12 St. Georges   Chris Colmery 12 St. Marks 2nd Grant Allen 11 Sussex Tech   Luke Gabrysh 12 Concord HM Evan Bouldin 11 Appoquinimink   Kevin Williams 12 DMA   Braedon Scherer 12 Conrad   Jack Burns 11 St. Marks   Marty Coyne 10 Tower Hill …