The Smyrna High boys’ soccer team just missed the field of 16 for last year’s state tournament, but the Eagles are gearing up for another run at it this fall. They’ll have to do it with a younger group, though, after 11 seniors graduated from last year’s 9-6 team.
This fall, the Smyrna High varsity volleyball team will play in the high school’s brand new gymnasium for the first time. Although the gym has changed, the team’s focus has not.
With the school year rapidly approaching, fall sports practices have also shifted into high gear at Smyrna High. The varsity field hockey squad is no exception. The team has been sweating through conditioning, drills and practices as it prepares for the upcoming season.
The free Kent County Young Waterfowlers program and hunter safety training will start in Sept. 14 in Smyrna. Sessions will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays through the end of the month from 7 to 9 p.m., at instructor Larry Poore’s pole barn.
Before she goes to battle with the Monster for the first time, Danica Patrick will appear at a free question-and-answer session on the base of the Monster Monument at Victory Plaza, presented by AAA, at 12:45 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 25.
The Delaware Division of Parks and Recreation announced Aug. 16 that a new management company will oversee day-to-day operation and maintenance of Garrisons Lake Golf Course south of Smyrna. Forewinds Hospitality, which currently manages the Deerfield Golf and Tennis Club at White Clay Creek State Park, has assumed management of the facility.
The Lady Blue Rocks softball travel team will be holding tryouts for all age groups at Big Oak Park, 417 Big Oak Road, just south of Smyrna.
At the age of 14, Taylor Dixon can already call herself a world champion horse rider. The soon-to-be freshman at Smyrna High won two first place titles at the Pinto World Championship in Tulsa, Oklahoma in early June, in the English Pleasure and Hunter Under Saddle categories in the youth senior division for ages 14 to 18. Later that month, she won first place in Hunter Under Saddle at the Paint World Show at Fort Worth, Texas, also in the youth senior division.
Smyrna-Clayton Little Lass is hosting a softball camp Aug. 23-27 for ages 5-13. Camp will start at 6 p.m. daily with check-in starting at 5:30 p.m.
The Pike Creek Golf Club abruptly closed on July 26, leaving the future of the 174-acre property uncertain.
Scenes from the 2010 Smyrna Fundamental Football Camp, held July 26-29. The camp was sponsored by the Smyrna Athletic Boosters.
The 14th annual Olde Tyme Peach Festival 5K will be held Saturday, Aug. 21 at Silver Lake Park in Middletown. The event starts at 8 a.m. and will be held rain or shine. Registration starts at 7 a.m., and a Kiddie K begins at 7:50 a.m.
Rowers from up and down the East Coast are getting their boats ready and their team assembled for one of the largest regattas of the year, and it’s right here in Middletown. The Howard M. Smith Diamond State Masters Regatta will return to Noxontown Pond Sunday, July 25, starting at 8:20 a.m.
The Delaware Senior Olympics held its 2010 Bricks MultiSport Team Invitational Triathlon competition at Lake Como on July 17.
The Smyrna-Clayton Little League will hold its next board meeting on Tuesday, August 3 at 6:30 p.m., in the Club House at the Little League Complex located on Duck Creek Parkway, across from the Smyrna High School. Nominations will be accepted during this meeting for officers and directors.
Dylan Voss and James Jarman homered to help lift Smyrna-Clayton from a 4-0 deficit to an 8-5 win in the District I Senior League baseball title game Monday night in Smyrna.
This fall, hunters will encounter a number of changes in regulations, including a new crossbow season, a statewide red fox season, use of pellet firearms for squirrel hunting and licensing changes.
The Clayton Police Department and Providence Creek Academy are teaming up to offer “Midnight Basketball” on Friday nights this summer, starting July 16.
Smyrna Middle School fall sports tryouts will be held in late August. The dates for each sport along with registration information are in this story.
Smyrna Middle School fall sports tryouts will begin next week. All student-athletes must have an up-to-date physical exam with the form turned in to SMS before they can try out.
