Delaware Blue Coats Jared Brownridge attempts a shot against Motor City photo courtesy of Ben Fulton

Blue Coats keep it cruising winning 3 straight

Nick HallidayHeadlines, Sports

  The Delaware Blue Coats (15-6) played three games in the last four days and won each contest coming back off the All-Star break. They defeated Grand Rapids Gold twice and the Motor City Cruise Sunday to complete the three game winning streak.    In game one against the Gold, Terquavion Smith led the way for the Blue Coats finishing …

Caravel girls basketball Chasity Wilson attempts a shot against Ursuline photo courtesy of Nick Halliday

Caravel takes top seed in DIAA girls basketball state championship

Nick HallidayHeadlines, Sports

The Caravel Buccaneers girls basketball team is the No. 1 seed in this year’s Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Associations (DIAA) girls basketball state championship. Even after suffering a season ending loss to No. 6 seed Sanford Warriors the Buccaneers still had the most points based on the formula used by the DIAA to determine seedings..    With Caravel on the top …

St Elizabeths Julius Wright attempts a shot in their game against Dover photo courtesy of Ben Fulton

Vikings are top seed in DIAA Boys Basketball Championship

Nick HallidayHeadlines, Sports

  The No. 1 ranked St Elizabeth’s Vikings are the number one seed in this year’s Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Associations (DIAA) boys basketball state championship. The brackets were revealed today as the committee met at the DIAA headquarters in Dover.    St Elizabeths suffered just one loss this season when the No. 5 so have a chance to meet again …

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DIAA to focus on HS athletes selling name, image in March

Nick HallidayHeadlines, Sports

The Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association punted on taking action on name, image and likeness (NIL) regulation at its monthly meeting this week. The board had been scheduled to consider language that could make it permissible for student-athletes to capitalize financially, but the first move among the board members was a motion to table the vote until March 21. That motion …

Sanford girls basketball Adrianna Rogers dribbles the ball up against St Elizabeths photo courtesy of Nick Halliday

Courtside View – Final girls basketball top 10 rankings

Jason WinchellHeadlines, Sports

The girls basketball season ends on  Wednesday and the brackets for the state tournament will come out on Friday morning.   The seedings come out Friday and their is a lot of intrigue this year as there are many teams on the bubble.  I’m looking forward to see where teams will be when they come out on Friday morning.   …

Sanford boys basketball Jayden Taylor take a shot against St Elizabeths photo courtesy of Nick Halliday 2

Courtside View – Final boys basketball top 10 rankings

Jason WinchellHeadlines, Sports

    The Boys basketball season ends  on Wednesday and the brackets for the state tournament will come out on Friday morning.   The seedings come out Friday and their is a lot of intrigue this year as there are many teams on the bubble.  I’m looking forward to see where teams will be when they come out on Friday …

St Elizabeth basketball Aiden Tobiason dribbles against Avion Matthews from Middletown photo courtesy of Nick Halliday

Top ranked St. Elizabeth holds off late Middletown run

Glenn FrazerHeadlines, Sports

(Middletown)  There is a saying when a team starts out a game and can’t miss a shot, “they were in range when they stepped off the bus!” That’s how locked in the St. Elizabeth Vikings basketball team was when they raced out to a 22-12 first quarter lead, and extended the advantage to 45-22 at halftime. The Vikings connected on …

Delaware Military Academy DMA wrestling posing with the division II state championship trophy photo courtesy of DMA Athletics Twitter

Seahawks pin their way to second state wrestling title

Benny MitchellHeadlines, Sports

Smyrna – Delaware Military Academy rode six pins enroute to a 38-32 victory over St. Mark’s to capture the DIAA Division II state championships. The title was the second for the Seahawks in consecutive years. The championship match began at 113 pounds, the Seahawks reeled off three straight wins to begin the match all earning bonus points. Cole Perrin got it …

Everett Meredith Middle School girls basketball poses with the championship trophy after going a perfect 14 0 photo courtesy of Shola Cooke

Everett Meredith girls basketball: Undefeated in 3 seasons

Glenn FrazerHeadlines, Sports

MIDDLETOWN —  As the high school basketball season is winding down, one program in Delaware has gone unbeaten for three years in a row. The Everett Meredith Middle School girls basketball program just completed its season with a record of 14-0. The team has not lost a game since the district approved middle school sports in 2020. Head coach Shola …

Middletown basketball Zion Mifflin attempts a shot in the triple overtime win over Appo photo courtesy of Nick Halliday

Middletown wins thrilling triple overtime game against Appo

Glenn FrazerHeadlines, Sports

MIDDLETOWN:  The third-ranked Middletown Cavaliers pulled away from the seventh ranked Appo Jags in the third overtime for a comfortable 98-87 win in boys basketball. However, the game was anything but comfortable for the Cavaliers. The visitors from the east side of town held a 61-51 lead with :90 to go in regulation. Then the Jags fought back with clutch …