Cape Henlopen vs Smyrna field hockey. Photo courtesy of Ben Fulton

Cape, Newark Charter secure top seeds for DIAA Field Hockey tourney

Shannon TimmonsHeadlines, Sports

Twenty schools — eight in Division 1 and 12 in Division 2 — have been selected to vie for the DIAA Field Hockey championship, including Division 1 top seed Cape Henlopen, and Division 2 top seed Newark Charter. No. 1 Cape Henlopen is a perennial Division 1 powerhouse, losing only to Delmar this season. They are young but fierce and …

Saint Marks field hockey Claire Krause takes a shot during a game. Photo by Mike Lang

The Corner Scoop: Week 7 Field Hockey Top 10 rankings

Shannon TimmonsHeadlines, Sports

It’s hard to believe we are in Week 7 of the field hockey season. The next two weeks will be interesting as teams finish up the regular season and look to make the tournament. The Division 1 tournament seeds eight teams, and Division 2 seeds 12, so these last few games can make the difference between making the tournament and …

Smyrna vs Archmere field hockey. Photo by Ben Fulton

The Corner Scoop – Week 6 Field Hockey top 10 rankings

Shannon TimmonsHeadlines, Sports

  It’s always refreshing to see coaches and teams play for causes that are bigger than themselves. Field Hockey does a great job of sponsoring fundraisers at their games for causes that are near and dear to our hearts. We have seen Morgan’s Message for Mental Health and now in October there will be PINK OUT games for Breast Cancer …

Delmar vs Cape Henlopen field hockey. Photo by Ben Fulton

The Corner Scoop: 2024 field hockey pre-season rankings

Shannon TimmonsHeadlines, Sports

Welcome back to “The Corner Scoop”, a weekly edition covering high school field hockey in Delaware. The high school season opens up on Tuesday September 3, 2024 so we will rank the top 10 teams in Division 1 and Division 2, along with their matchups for the week. There is plenty of talent across the state but some teams will …

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Xenidis and Arrowsmith combine to keep Caravel on top

Shannon TimmonsHeadlines, Sports

In the second matchup this season of non-conference teams Caravel and Cape Henlopen Caravel stayed red hot at the plate In the first matchup between these two teams the game went 6 scoreless innings before Caravel plated 5 runs to win 5-0.  The Caravel bats came alive in the 2nd inning but they left the bases loaded when a ground …

Cape Henlopen field hockey team celebrates being handed the championship trophy photo couresy of Nick Halliday

Cape Henlopen avenges Smyrna for state championship

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This matchup had been much anticipated as these two teams are no strangers to each other or the DIAA tournament. The regular season matchup went to Smyrna 2-1 at Cape’s Champions Stadium, appropriately named as they have ten State Championships going into today.  Smyrna and Cape have met in the finals the past two seasons, splitting titles (Cape in 2021, …

Delmar field hockey team celebrates being handed the championship trophy photo couresy of Nick Halliday

Delmar beats Newark Charter for 8th straight championship

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Fans were treated to a great day of championship field hockey from Rullo Stadium on the campus of the University of Delaware. The weather was fantastic and fans packed the stadium as the Division 2 finals, No.1 Newark Charter vs. No. 2 Delmar faced off at noon and the Division 1 finals No. 1 Smyrna vs. No. 2 Cape Henlopen …

Newark Charter field hockey celebrates after scoring a goal to advance to the DIAA Division II state championship photo courtesy of Newark Charter Instagram

Delmar, Newark Charter advance in state field hockey tourney

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The Division 2 DIAA Tournament Semifinals did not disappoint after a great night of field hockey the night before in the Division 1 Semifinals where Smyrna and Cape Henlopen advanced to Saturday’s Finals. Jodi Hollamon and her Delmar Wildcats will play for what could be their eighth championship and Newark Charter under head coach Stacey Spiker is in the finals …