Krew Bouldin lined a single down the right field line to score Mike Worthington with two outs in the bottom of the 10th inning to give Delaware State a dramatic 7-6 walk-off victory over Norfolk State in its MEAC baseball tournament opener on Thursday.

The win was Delaware State’s first in a MEAC Tournament opener since 2015. The top-seeded Hornets (23-21) will play again on Friday at noon in the four-team, double-elimination tourney being hosted by Norfolk State.

The Hornets are seeking their first MEAC Tournament championship since winning their lone title in 1989.

The Spartans intentionally walked Trey Paige to face Bouldin.

“Teams have been rightfully walking Trey all year, so it was great to come through in that situation,” said Bouldin, the Appoquinmink High grad. “I was just looking for something good to hit and was lucky enough to get it.”

Bouldin had a game-high four hits (4-for-6) to lead the Hornets’ 10-hit attack.
Mike Carrington (Dover) threw four hitless innings of middle relief for the Hornets, striking out three without allowing a walk. Ethan Edelson retired all three batters he faced in the Norfolk State 10th to record the win.

DelState is looking to win two MEAC Tournament games for the first time since 2015.

Delaware 4, Northeastern 0: Zach Klapak fired seven scoreless innings before Mike Biasiello slammed the door as the Blue Hens remained in CAA Tournament contention.

Klapak, who picked up his team-leading sixth victory of the season, allowed just three hits while striking out six. He was helped out by three double plays, including one in the fifth when he snared a line drive and doubled the Huskies runner off first.

Aidan Kane and Nick Vera each finished with two hits for UD, while John Weglarz added a pair of RBI.

Softball

Sussex Central 8, Conrad 0: The third-seeded Golden Knights blanked the No. 14 Red Wolves in the second round of the DIAA state tournament.

Central (16-3) will host No. 11 Wilmington Charter (13-7) on Saturday at 11 a.m. in the state quarterfinals.

Laurel 10, Red Lion Christian 0: The No. 13 Bulldogs upset the No. 4 Lions to reach the state quarterfinals.

Laurel will next face either No. 5 Delaware Military or No. 12 Newark Charter. That second-round contest is being played on Friday.

Caravel 9, Delmar 6: The top-seeded Buccaneers rallied from a 4-0 deficit by scoring three runs in fourth, fifth and sixth innings to advance to the DIAA state quarterfinals.

The No. 17 Wildcats out-hit Caravel, 11-10, as Jordyn Hollamon (double, triple, 1 RBI) went 4-for-4 , Ally Marley (1 RBI) went 2 for 2 and Emily Smith homered.

Appoquinimink 4, Smyrna 0: The No. 2 Jaguars scored three first-inning runs before blanking the No. 18 Eagles in the second-round tourney game.

Savannah Lord pitched a two-hitter with 10 strikeouts for Appo (17-2) which got back-to-back home runs from Hailey Watlington and Olivia Marinucci.

Meghan Shirey and Gianna Duca had singles for Smyrna (9-11) while Makayla Bratley pitched a four-hitter.

Middletown 3, Delmarva Christian 2: The No. 7 Cavaliers rallied for three runs in the bottom of the seventh to top the No. 10 Royals.

Girls’ soccer

Three Henlopen teams in tourney: Three Henlopen Conference teams have made the fields for the DIAA Division I and II girls’ soccer state tournaments that were announced on Thursday.

Henlopen South champion Indian River is the only downstate squad in the Division II bracket. The sixth-seeded Indians (10-3) will host No. 11 Delaware Military (7-8) on Saturday at noon in the opening round.

In Division I, second-seeded Caesar Rodney (12-3) will host No. 7 St. Georges (9-4-1) at 7 p.m. on May 25 in the quarterfinals. On Thursday, sixth-seeded

Smyrna (9-6) will go to Wilmington to take on No. 6 Padua (10-4) at 7 p.m. in Abbessinio Stadium.

Baseball

Lake Forest 10, Milford 4: Quade Gannon drove in four runs, including three on a home run, to spark the Spartans.

Pitcher J.D. Mudri, who struck out six, earned the victory while T.J. Hooks (2 hits), Adam Schiff (2 hits) and Adam Schiff (3 runs) also led Lake Forest.

Ryan Mejia, Nick Hurd, and Mason Morris had two hits apiece for the Buccaneers.

Sussex Tech 6, St. Mark’s 1: The Ravens scored four runs in the first and Grant Allen pitched a three-hitter with five strikeouts to earn the victory.

Offensively, Sussex Tech was led by Landon Ruark and Dakota Culley, who both went 2-for-3 with an RBI.

Indian River 11, Newark 6: The Indians used a four-run seventh to close out the victory.

Colton Benton (2 RBI, 3 runs) went 3-for-4 with a triple while Roman Keith and Ben Cordrey both had three RBI. Frank Bunting added a pair of RBI.

Middletown 10, Smyrna 4: The Cavaliers overcame an early 4-2 deficit to win their seventh game in a row.

Connor Ryan, Derek Davis and Jake Macey had Smyrna’s hits.

Caravel 8, Sussex Central 0: Reif Steen had of the Golden Knights’ three hits in the loss.

Laurel 24, Dickinson 0: The Bulldogs (9-7) won their sixth game in a row, including their second straight by shutout.

Boys’ lacrosse

Cape Henlopen 18, Sanford 10: Hank D’Ambrogi tallied eight goals and a pair of assists for the Vikings, who led 15-7 going into the fourth quarter.

Mikey Frederick added five goals and an assist for Cape, which got seven saves from Evan Erhardt. C.J. Fritchman won 16 of 22 faceoffs.

St. Mark’s 21, Sussex Central 2: The Golden Knights dropped a non-conference decision to the Spartans.