DOVER — The Delaware State baseball team gave J.P. Blandin a nice going-away present on Tuesday.
In Blandin’s last home game as the Hornets’ coach, DSU dumped Route One rival …
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DOVER — The Delaware State baseball team gave J.P. Blandin a nice going-away present on Tuesday.
In Blandin’s last home game as the Hornets’ coach, DSU dumped Route One rival Delaware, 15-5, at Bob Reed Field.
It was DelState’s seventh victory in the all-time series that the Blue Hens lead 7-26. The 15 runs were also the Hornets’ second-highest total against Delaware.
DSU opened up a 7-1 lead after two innings and put the contest out of reach with seven runs in the fifth.
Senior Krew Bouldin put up six RBI for the Hornets, who out-hit the Hens, 10-5.
Delaware State (18-12 NEC, 20-24 overall) has now won four games in a row and sits in fifth place in the league standings. The top six teams make the NEC tournament.
The Hornets end the regular season with a three-game series at Central Connecticut State (16-13 NEC, 17-22 overall) starting this afternoon.
Blandin is retiring after the season. The Middletown native has been DSU’s head coach since 2001.
Hornets get new soccer coach
Natasha Ademakinwa has been named Delaware State’s new head coach in women’s soccer.
Ademakinwa had been the men’s and women’s head coach at Shawnee State University, which is located in Portsmouth, Ohio. The Bears have an NAIA Division I athletic program.
A native of London, Ademakinwa was the Shawnee head women’s soccer coach for six seasons and head men’s coach for two years.
Along with her college coaching experience, Ademakinwa has 22 years of coaching experience at various levels and has a UEFA National ‘B’ coaching license.
The Hornets went 0-14-1 in the fall, scoring only two goals.
College softball
Wilmington 12, Adelphi 0: The Wildcats scored six runs in the first inning and never looked back in clinching the East Super Regional on Wednesday.
Wilmington won the series 2-0 to advance to the NCAA Division II national tournament for the second year in a row.
The Wildcats had 14 hits in the five-inning contest led by Gabriella Saucedo who went 3-for-3 with two RBI and two runs scored.
Spiders moving on
Like Delaware, Richmond’s football program is leaving the Coastal Athletic Association after next season.
Rather than moving up to the FBS level like the Blue Hens, who are joining Conference USA, the Spiders will play in the Patriot League, which is more known for its academic prowess.
Richmond announced on Tuesday that will be an associate member of the Patriot League starting in 2025. The Spiders won the NCAA FCS Division I national title in 2008 and have reached at least the second round of the playoffs nine times since 2005.
The Blue Hens will play at Richmond on Oct. 19 this season. Delaware is 20-14 all-time vs. the Spiders but started 10-2 in the series.
Richmond has won six of the last eight meetings, including a crushing, last-second 21-13 win in 2022.
DSU opening athletics museum
Delaware State has announced it will be opening an athletics museum on campus.
The facility will be known as the Loockerman Hall Athletics Museum. The school is looking for donations of memorabilia to be displayed.
According to a flier, the museum is “dedicated towards honoring the amazing legacy of DSU Athletics.”
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