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50 years ago, Mt. Pleasant won state's first basketball crown
We dreamed big that season. Fifty years ago this month, we wanted – expected – to win the First State’s first state high school basketball championship. The 1967 Mt. Pleasant High School state...
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School district upholds decision; A.I.'s season over
Red Clay upholds A.I. principal’s decision to end season Red Clay School District has upheld a decision by A.I. du Pont High School Principal to remove the boys basketball team from consideration for...
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Mount Pleasant, Ursuline top seeds in DIAA basketball
KVonn Cramer (33) will lead top-seeded Mount Pleasant into the DIAA Boys Basketball Tournament. Mount Pleasant earned the No. 1 seed among boys, and Ursuline took the top seed among girls when the...
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Wm. Penn's Dooley closes wrestling coaching career - Physical toll too much,...
William Penn head coach Marvin Dooley (right) watches one of his wrestlers with assistant Jason Land during the quarterfinal round of the individual state DIAA tournament at Dover High School Friday....
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HIGH SCHOOL SCOREBOARD
WRESTLING DIAA individual championships At Dover High FIRST ROUND 106 – Spence (Sal) pinned Rolph (ST) :43; Cannon (Wb) pinned Smith (DMA) :52; Smith (CSW) tech. fall (McK) 15-0; Saffold (SC) tech....
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Big first quarter helps Riders to Henlopen girls title
LEWES – The last time the Caesar Rodney girls basketball team came to Cape Henlopen, things didn’t go very well. The Riders were determined to erase that bad memory, and they did it easily with a 75-38...
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Smyrna uses size to defeat Woodbridge for Henlopen Championship
LEWES – Size isn’t everything in basketball, but it certainly helps most of the time. The Smyrna boys took full advantage of their size advantage on Friday night, grabbing almost twice as many rebounds...
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Mount Pleasant rallies past Glasgow for Blue Hen boys title
Mount Pleasant’s Ny’Jere Hodges (5), shown here against Newark on Feb. 2, scored 19 points to lead the Green Knights in Saturday’s Blue Hen Conference championship game MILLTOWN – A quirk in the...
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Sharif, Snow lead Concord girls to Blue Hen title
Concord’s Zhan’e Snow, seen here against Caravel, scored 15 as the Raiders defeated Hodgson 53-32 to win the Blue Hen Conference championship on Saturday. PIKE CREEK – Amayla Sharif, though just a...
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DIAA basketball tournament schedules
DIAA BOYS BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT First round Wednesday, all games start at 7 No. 17 Cape Henlopen (14-6) at No. 16 Caesar Rodney (14-6) No. 24 Wilmington Friends (12-8) at No. 9 St. Georges (16-4) No....
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Delaware high school sports rankings
Smyrna’s Zubi Nwankwo goes up for a shot against Cape Henlopen on Feb. 15. The Eagles finished No. 1 in The News Journal’s Top 10 going into the DIAA Boys Basketball Tournament. THE NEWS...
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Athlete of the Week: Zach Spence
Athlete of the Week: Zach Spence Salesianum sophomore earns 106-pound title at DIAA Individual Wrestling Championships Athlete of the Week: Dawson Grinnage Versatile senior brings hard work,...
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Prep notes: Two sessions for boys hoops quarterfinals
The Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association hopes it has solved the seating issues that have plagued the DIAA Boys Basketball Tournament quarterfinals. DIAA is splitting Sunday’s four games into...
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Archmere girls get defensive in first-round playoff win
Archmere’s Emma McCann (22), seen here against Conrad, led her team with nine points as the Auks defeated Wilmington Friends 34-26 in the first round of the DIAA girls basketball tournament on...
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E'Nama comes up big as Cape edges Mount Pleasant
LEWES – Abby E’Nama is Cape Henlopen’s only senior, the only one whose high school basketball career could have ended Tuesday night. E’Nama made sure that didn’t happen, blocking Mount Pleasant’s final...
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Wildcats' pressure, balance keys big first-round win
Howard’s Yahti’ona Perkins (10) comes away from a crowd with the ball in Howard’s win against Dover in the opening round of the state high school tournament. WILMINGTON – When Howard girls basketball...
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Ward-Mayo's 33 points leads Tigers past Cougars
A.I.’s Ber’Nyah Ward-Mayo, seen here against William Penn, scored 33 in the Tigers’ playoff win over Delcastle on Tuesday. WILMINGTON – A.I. DuPont freshman Ber’Nyah Ward-Mayo picked the perfect time...
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HIGH SCHOOL SCOREBOARD
GIRLS BASKETBALL A.I. du Pont 66, Delcastle 34 Delcastle 13 3 9 9 — 34 A.I. du Pont 22 22 18 4 — 66 DELCASTLE: Green 1 0-0 2, Lancaster-Navarro 4 1-5 9, Pittman 3 0-2 7, Ortiz 3 1-2 7, Matos 3 3-4 9,...
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Parker, Lange lift Caravel over Hodgson
BEAR – With just one senior on the roster, 19th-seeded Caravel was playing with house money heading into Wednesday night’s DIAA boys basketball tournament first round battle with Hodgson. The Hodgson...
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Rickards helps Cape boys dismantle CR
CAMDEN – Cape Henlopen put it all together on Wednesday night. The 17th seed in the DIAA Boys Basketball Tournament showed just how scary of an opponent it can be, seizing the lead midway through the...
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