Cape boys' lax beats Worcester Prep 18-8 capegazette.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from capegazette.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Laxers play at Gilman School April 1
Gabe Best had 3 goals and 3 assists in the game. DAVE FREDERICK PHOTOS
Dave Frederick April 1, 2021
The steeple bell on the campus chapel at Episcopal Academy rang four times, a harbinger of a spring squall, but the bell also tolled for Cape lacrosse. Minutes into the 4 p.m. game, the Churchmen of the tough Philadelphia Inter-Academic League were leading 4-0.
But the Vikings got up off the slippery deck as mariners must do and trailed 5-4 at the quarter before leading 7-6 at halftime on a pass from Mikey Frederick to Joe Coveleski.
Midway through the third period with the Vikings ahead 8-6, Jaden Davis knocked a Churchman into the middle of his sophomore year of college and went to the box for a two-minute, non-releasable penalty. During that kill-off, more laundry was thrown into the Vikings’ hamper, and by the time the third period ended, the score went sheepshank redemption, knotted at 9.
Cape boys' lax resumes practice after COVID shutdown capegazette.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from capegazette.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Cape demographics have changed significantly
Cape’s 1973 state championship girls’ basketball team. SUBMITTED PHOTO
Dave Frederick January 22, 2021
You there? - The answer to that texted question is always, yes, I am here; otherwise, I would have to be someplace else. Livestreamed transmissions from sporting events that don’t allow spectators isn’t always reliable, but it helps if the system is actually turned on. I was sitting in my blue chair matside at Polytech Jan. 20, taking photos and double-texting wrestling results because I was there, but when the livestream was finally activated after five matches, I was thrown out of the boat like an extra youth-sized lifejacket for a chair-and-a-half-sized adult. And because maybe I’m crazy like Gnarls Barkley, I get home and log into the Caesar Rodney at Milford match, except none of the streaming platforms are working. But the Milford wrestling Facebook page was livestreaming the match, a one-point comeback win