It's always hard this time of year with spring sports getting ready to start. “The team swam well, with several personal bests. “We were very pleased with the two weeks of practice between conferences and states,” said Cape coach Bill Geppert. Caesar Rodney was the first Henlopen Conference school, in ninth place, followed by Cape in 11th and Sussex Academy in 12th. Cape finished 11th overall, just ahead of Indian River and Sussex Academy.įollowing Tower Hill in the girls’ meet were Ursuline, Charter School of Wilmington, Newark Charter and Padua. 27-28 at the Sussex Academy Aquatic Center in Georgetown.įinishing behind Sallies in the boys’ meet were Charter School of Wilmington, Tower Hill, Appoquinimink and Sussex Tech. Hollingsworth and Darius Brown each scored 14 for Howard, and Jameer DeShields chipped in 10.Salesianum boys and Tower Hill girls took the top spots on the podium as the 2021 DIAA state champions Feb. His availability for the final is uncertain, but he was seen walking out of the locker room on his own after the game. Justin Molen led the Sals with 16 points and 12 rebounds on Thursday, but was helped off the floor with a leg injury late in the game. Defensively, rebounding, getting the ball and pushing, that’s what we have to do to beat them.” Obviously, offensively we’re a good team. Hynson, who had nine points and three rebounds in the semifinals, knows what the key will be. “They’ve got a couple of guys that are back for them that didn’t play the first time we played Tower Hill,” Trevisan said. The Hillers will be looking to avenge a 54-46 home loss to Sallies on Feb. Tower Hill looked very sharp in a 58-42 semifinal win over Seaford earlier Thursday. I’m really proud of them, and the job’s not done yet.” “They tried to muck it up and make it a little bit dirty, but our guys, I think for the most part, kept their composure. Salesianum's Dariyon Williams (left) is fouled by Howard's Darius Brown going for a rebound in the first half of a DIAA state tournament semifinal at the Carpenter Center on Thursday night. Howard is too good of a team to not make a run. “I’m super proud of the guys,” Trevisan said. The Sals quickly righted the ship with a 7-0 run. Once trailing 43-20, Howard scored 18 of the next 22 points to pull within 47-38 on De’Mere Hollingsworth’s offensive rebound bucket with 4:46 remaining. Then the Wildcats got their crowd fired up for the first time in the fourth quarter. The game got chippy late in the third quarter, with a couple of skirmishes requiring the officials’ attention and resulting in a technical foul and ejection for each team. ![]() “That’s really what they’re good at doing, getting the ball and scoring in transition, so we wanted to stop that early.” “Definitely rebound and stop them in transition,” Hynson said of the keys to slowing Howard. The Wildcats couldn’t get their fast-paced offense going and trailed 17-4 after one quarter and 31-13 at halftime. ![]() The stage wasn’t too big.”įourth-seeded Howard (18-5) scored a 62-59 victory at Sallies on Feb. ![]() “It helps that we made a few shots, a couple of threes,” Trevisan said. ![]() Then William Mutts scored on an offensive rebound and Brett O’Hara banked in a layup for a 13-0 lead with 1:33 left in the first quarter. Salesianum’s first three buckets were 3-pointers – from Isaiah Hynson, Justin Molen and Kareem Thomas. The guys executed from the jump.”įIRST SEMI: Tower Hill looks at home in reaching first DIAA boys basketball final “We made some key adjustments from the last time we played them. “It started with our defense,” Sals coach Taylor Trevisan said. Sallies overwhelmed the Wildcats at the start, as Howard missed its first eight shots and turned the ball over six times in the first seven minutes.
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