Week 1: Field hockey, soccer, volleyball rankings

Nick HallidayHeadlines, Sports

Division 2 Field Hockey Ranking School Record  Last Week’s Ranking 1) Delmar 0-0 1 2) Newark Charter 0-0 2 3)  Archmere 0-0 3 4)  Sussex Academy 0-0 4 5) Tatnall 0-0 5 6) Friend’s 0-0 6 7) Tower Hill 0-0 7 8) Caravel 0-0 8 9) Concord  0-0 9 10) Lake Forest  0-0 10   Division 1 Field Hockey Rankings …

Sussex Central running warmup plays before their game against William Penn photo by Nick Halliday

Sussex Central impresses in win at William Penn

Patrick GaryantesHeadlines, Sports

It was a packed weekend for the Delaware Live Sports team as we had 5 games on the schedule for week 0!  The final game of the schedule came on Saturday afternoon in New Castle as John Wells led his Sussex Central Golden Knights up to William Penn to take on the Colonials. The fireworks came early in this one, …

Middletown Football team running out on the field photo by Donnell Henriquez 1

Middletown takes No. 1 in 3A football

Glenn FrazerHeadlines, Sports

  Last year the DIAA re-classified football into three groups of schools with Class 3A containing the 11 largest programs from the previous Division I. All 11 qualified for the state tournament as Middletown captured its first title since 2012 with a 28-22 win over Smyrna.  Many feel those two will meet again in this season’s championship game, but there …

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Laurel sits atop 1A football preseason rankings

Jason WinchellHeadlines, Sports

  The high school football season kicks off Thursday and this year the Delaware Live Sports crew has a different football rankings that we are calling the Super 7’s.  We have seven7 members of our crew voting for the top seven teams in the three classes. Each vote is worth a point total and our Delaware Live Super 7s will …

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3 Delaware standouts seek playing time at South Carolina

Nick HallidayHeadlines

  Three former Delaware high school football standouts are looking for playing time when the South Carolina Gamecocks football team opens the season Sept. 3.   MarShawn Llyod, Deebo Williams, and Braden Davis will all be looking for snaps when the team plays Georgia State in Columbia, South Carolina..   MarShawn Llyod is a Delaware native who played at DeMatha …

Seaford football

Quillin realignment has Seaford football back on track

Benny MitchellHeadlines, Sports

Seaford – At the end of Seaford football’s two-week summer camp, head football coach Mark Quillin looked across the field as 50-plus athletes gathered for a team photo. “It has been great to see the program grow over the past two years,” Quillin said. “Actually has caught me off guard this season.  Luckily, having coached at Tech for 10 years …

Maddie Schepers Saint Marks photo courtesy of Saint Marks copy

Saint Mark’s Scheppers Girls Soccer Player of the Year

Nick HallidayHeadlines, Sports

(Wilmington, DE) Saint Mark’s High School is pleased to announce that Maddie Schepers ’22 was recently named the Gatorade Delaware Girls Soccer Player of the Year.  The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated both on and off the field, distinguishes Schepers as Delaware’s best high school girls …