Indian River High players Aaron Bennett, Collier Donald and Tyler Dean led the way for the Sussex East Warriors in an 11-1 American Legion Baseball victory over Sussex West.
Just like the weather as schools release students for the summer, American Legion baseball is heating up and swinging into action. Locally, two teams are taking the diamond this summer, as the Sussex East Warriors will play out of Dagsboro at Indian River High School and Spooner Post will host visitors at Sports at the Beach.
Sussex Tech and Sussex Central will begin state softball tournament play Saturday at 1 p.m.
Indian River girls soccer avenged a regular season loss to Sussex Tech when it mattered the most, as the Lady Indians moved to the state tournament quarterfinals with a win over the Lady Ravens.
Indian River and Sussex Tech girls soccer teams will meet, Tuesday, in the first round of the state tournament.
A pair of Indian River soccer players recently achieved school history, and five more announced their collegiate choices last week. Seniors Caitlin Forte and Victor Aguilar were respectively named to the girls and boys regional All-American teams, both firsts for any sports in Indian River history.
Indian River girls soccer finished its regular season with a 6-0 win over district rival Sussex Central. The Lady Indians (12-3 overall, 11-2 Henlopen) will now await the announcement of tournament pairings, where they figure to be somewhere between a six and eight seed.
Sean Lewis, Luis Barrientos and Trevor Wilkins, all former central Sussex baseball stars, are making their respective marks at Delaware Tech.
Just before the lightning struck, so did Indian Rivers’ bats in a key Henlopen Conference Southern Division contest at Woodbridge that was suspended due to a storm.
Indian River junior Max Wilkinson has been around the diamond long enough to see epic battles against Sussex Central. After the Indians' latest, an extra innings win over the Knights, the first baseman took some time to answer questions for us.
Having just watched Central tie the contest in the bottom half of the seventh inning thanks to Butch Booth home run, IR put up seven runs in the top half of the eighth en route to a 15-8 victory over its rival.
Sussex Central softball trounces rival Indian River, 13-1 in five innings.
Following is a brief wrap-up of reported action from Sussex Central, Sussex Tech and Indian River’s sports teams.
Central Sussex prep sports schedule for Thursday, March 24.
Spring sports sprung into action Tuesday evening in central Sussex, as our local prep sports stars took their respective fields, courses and tracks to begin the new season. Following is a brief wrap-up of yesterday’s reported action from Sussex Central, Sussex Tech and Indian River’s sports teams.
Parings for the state dual teams championship were set Sunday, with Indian River and Sussex Central both earning spots in their respective division tournaments.
Due to the dusting of snow that blanketed Sussex County last night, the Indian River School District and Sussex Tech have both announced two-hour delays for the Feb. 10 school day. IRSD will have no a.m. kindergarten.
Indian River wrestling lost its first match of a Jan. 22 quad meet at Sussex Tech, 32-30, to Cape Henlopen before rebounding for a dramatic 38-37 victory over the host Ravens and throttling Henlopen South foe Woodbridge 53-28.
It wasn’t the prettiest win in Indian River’s history, but the Lady Indians did enough Jan. 21 in a non-conference 35-22 victory over Sussex Tech to end a three-game losing skid and improve to 8-4 on the season.
