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The Wilmington Youth Rowing Association held its 2023 Head of the Christina Regatta on Sunday in Wilmington. Athletes competed in 2.75-mile head races. The Wilmington Youth Rowing Association draws public, private, parochial and home-schooled kids from Delaware, southeastern Pennsylvania, northeastern Maryland and southern New Jersey. The money raised by the...

The Wilmington University cross country teams participated in the 35th Annual Don Cathcart Invitational at Winter Place Park, Maryland. Salisbury University hosted the event. The men's team matched their best performance of the year, finishing second among 12 teams with 64 points. The women's team also replicated their best performance, finishing fifth with 140 points.

PENNY HILL – Cameron Wright threw four touchdown passes, and the Mount Pleasant defense came up with some big stops they needed, as the Green Knights defeated Newark, 40-38, in one of the more entertaining high school football games of the weekend. The Green Knights overcame another extraordinary performance by Newark quarterback Makeevis Rogers, who ran for four scores and ... Read More

The Wilmington University women's soccer team, the Wildcats, won 5-1 against Bloomfield at the WU Athletics Complex. This victory brings their season record to 3-2-2. Four Wildcats players scored their first goals of the season, including Sharon Freire Omonigho's first collegiate career goal.

The Wilmington University men's soccer team won 6-0 against Bloomfield in the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference on Saturday at the WU Athletics Complex. This win marked the highlight of the 2023 Homecoming events. The Wildcats, who had only scored two goals in their previous four games, managed to score six goals in this match. Four different players scored the goals, with Jeremie Briquet and Leandro Louro da Silva both scoring twice.

Wilmington, Delaware – Owner of The Trash Porters, Christopher Boozer, made a splash at the Emerging Enterprise Center’s 11th Annual Swim with the Sharks Pitch Competition on September 27, 2023, at the Penn Cinema Riverfront 14 + IMAX with his winning pitch that took home the $10,000 Grand Prize provided by New Castle County Office of Economic Development’s NCC Innovates. The Trash Porters offer property management and their residents trash and junk removal services that improve property appeal, reduce legal liabilities due to unsafe and unclean living conditions and responsibly dispose of unwanted trash.

The Wilmington University volleyball team started the 2023 Homecoming Gameday celebrations with a 3-1 win over Post. The match took place at the WU Athletics Complex. Senior libero Elly Collins made a significant achievement in the program's history. She became the first student-athlete to record 2,000 career digs during the NCAA era. Collins needed only four digs to reach this milestone. She ended the game with 25 digs, bringing her total to 2,021. Half a season is still remaining.

DOVER – It just kept getting better for Nahseem Cosme on Friday night. Dover’s senior quarterback was named Homecoming King at halftime. Then he broke the game open with a 40-yard touchdown run early in the fourth quarter as the Senators scored a historic, 27-16 victory over Salesianum.

Smyrna High scored the game's first 32 points before downing Appoquinimink, 48-16, in Class 3A football on Friday night. The victory was the first of the season for the Eagles (1-3) who ...

Congratulations to Rahsaan Matthews Jr. of Howard football, the Delaware Online Athlete of the Week for Week 3 of the fall season. The senior completed 13 of 21 passes for 341 yards and seven touchdowns and rushed for an eighth TD in a 60-22 win over Woodbridge. Matthews won an...

NEWARK, Del. --- College of Charleston volleyball fell in their bid to sweep the weekend series from Delaware on Sunday by a 3-2 (23-25, 20-25, 25-16, 25-21, 15-10) score. Sopheea Mink put down a career-best 16 kills in the loss and finished the weekend with a team-high 29 while hitting .431 across nine sets. She was joined in double figures by Lexi Wierzbicki (11), Sofie Vogel (10) and Anna Smith (10) while Morgan Cobb added a season-high nine.

Odessa's Jalen Lingham scored on defense and special teams as the Ducks defeated Sussex Tech 34-7 for their first-ever victory over a Class 2A opponent. Sussex Tech was stopped near the goal line early in the game, and late in the first quarter Chase Belin forced a fumble and Lingham took it to the end zone for a 7-0 lead.

During the year 1988, MLB legend Cal Ripken Jr. played in his 1000th consecutive game, Microsoft sold its one-millionth mouse, and McDonald’s opened its ten-thousandth restaurant. That year the Dover Senators won the Division-1 state championship in overtime, 20-13 against Salesianum. Last night a large homecoming crowd celebrated Dover’s first win over the Sals since that title game thirty five ... Read More

When it comes to Delaware’s top high school boys soccer coaches identifying the best players early in this 2023 season, there is broad consensus at the top. Most agree on the top six to eight players. Maybe not in the exact order, but the same players are mentioned across the board. ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. – College of Charleston looks to get even on its current road trip with a match at Delaware on Sunday at 1 p.m. Charleston began its three-game stretch away from home with a 1-0 loss at Drexel on Thursday. The defeat dropped the Cougars to 2-3-1 in the CAA, and the seven points have them tied for sixth. The Blue Hens have four draws in their six conference games and are tied for 10th with four points.

Last year, the university incentivized student attendance at home football games with the Cockpit HENergy Challenge, rewarding a randomly selected student who attended every home game with $10,000 in student aid. The campaign seems to have worked, as it is back again for this academic year. And this time, the...

The Wilmington University volleyball team won a nonconference contest against West Chester at the WU Athletics Complex on Wednesday night. This victory broke their two-match losing streak. The Wildcats won with set scores of 25-20, 25-22, and 25-21. Senior libero Elly Collins achieved her 1,988th career dig during this match, breaking the program's record previously held by Shelby Henderson from 2012-15. Collins finished the night with 1,996 career digs.

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Yesterday Conrad had a tough game vs. the Newark Charter Patriots. Having come off of a win against a difficult game against Newark High School, Conrad was looking to extend their record to 5-1. Unfortunately, the Conrad red Wolves would be stunned and beaten by the Patriots 2-0. Now the Conrad Red Wolves are preparing to face their boxwood rivals the DMA Seahawks which is always a good game.

NEWARK, Del. – College of Charleston volleyball hits the road after a brief home weekend with Stony Brook as Delaware awaits for a two-match series in the Mid-Atlantic to close the book on September. Both sides enter fresh off a weekend split winning Saturday and dropping Sunday in their...