Cape cheerleaders wow their fellow athletes
Laci Dixon takes iPad videos at wrestling matches. It’s just impossible to keep her from smiling. DAVE FREDERICK PHOTOS
Dave Frederick February 12, 2021
Meeting the moment - Laci Dixon is a Cape junior and wrestling manager who just told coach
Chris Mattioni to include her in Senior Night ceremonies because she is graduating early. The sports moments are fleeting by choice for Laci, who guarded the lax cage two seasons for the Mariner boys’ team before starting her freshman season for the Cape girls, leading them to a perfect 18-0 season and their 11th straight state championship. “It’s time for me to move on to college,” Laci said behind her trademark smile. “I’ll be going to Del Tech, and I’m going to be a dental hygienist.” And that is the great thing about covering high school kids – they stick and jab while circling the ring and sometimes before the round is over, they ring their own bell, climb thr
Championship Saturday in soccer, field hockey and volleyball
Delmar captain and last season’s Player of the Year Josie Hollamon takes it inside the circle between Addison Nelson, left, and Mary Catherine Anson, right. DAVE FREDERICK PHOTOS
Dave Frederick December 11, 2020
Sussex Academy offered its field for the Delmar home game on Delmar’s request so fans from Newark Charter could attend.
Busman’s holiday - The term alludes to a bus driver who spends his day off taking a long bus ride, or a sports photographer taking 1,500 photos at a game he’s not covering. And so there I was at Sussex Academy on a frigid Wednesday afternoon taking photos of Newark Charter versus Delmar in a state tournament high school field hockey game. I almost didn’t make it to the field from my 4Runner after straight-jacketing myself inside a goose-down vest layered over three shirts and a hoodie. Somehow it got twisted under my left arm and I couldn t get it untwisted on or off. A wo