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Daisey tosses no-no Senior’s no-hitter wraps up regular season for Indians By Mike Stern Staff Reporter The artist saved her best work for last. Senior righthander Megan Daisey made her final regularseason high school start a masterpiece. The Shenandoah University commit pitched her first career no-hitter at Henlopen Conference rival Woodbridge as the Indians’ softball team defeated the Blue Raiders, 5-0 in its regCoastal Point • Mike Stern ular-season finale Monday, Indian River’s Megan Daisey threw a no-hitMay 13. ter, adding her 200th strikeout of the year The defending champialong the way, against Woodbridge. onship game participants will take an 11-7 overall record into hurling the Indian River softball team the DIAA post-season. past Delaware Military Academy. Daisey’s dominance included 15 But visiting Seahawks’ freshman strikeouts — her 13th double-digit whiff ball performance, which brought pinch hitter Gracie Riccio drilled a her season total to an amazing 204 Ks. two-out, two-run homer over the leftfield fence to tie the score at 2-2. She faced only 24 batters, allowing DMA tallied twice in the 9th inning walks in the first inning to junior to defeat IRHS, 4-2, on Saturday, May catcher Kalli Chelton, in the second 11. frame to freshman outfielder Jordyn The verdict hardly detracted from Tyre and in the sixth inning to freshDaisey’s memorable performance, man outfielder Isabel Usilton. highlighted by 17 strikeouts — just Holy Family University commit one short of the career-high 18 she Katie McHale drove in the eventual had notched four days earlier in a 3-2 winning run for the Indians, with a loss in nine innings at Middletown. sacrifice fly to right field that gave IR The Shenandoah University coma 1-0 lead in the visitors’ second. mit allowed just five hits and one The Green & Gold added two earned run, with no walks permitted. more runs in the fifth on a Blue Raider error and a passed ball to make The double-digit strikeout total — it 3-0. Junior designated player Sophie her 12th such single-game performance of 2024 — gave her 189 for the Scurci’s RBI triple and junior second baseman Jillian Coulbourn’s run-scor- season. The Indians (10-7 overall) scored ing single added insurance in the sevsingle runs in the fourth and fifth inenth. nings. Senior third baseman Olivia Hitchens gave the hosts a 1-0 lead on Indian River falls to DMA an RBI-single that scored junior Daisey put on another spectacular display of pitching into extra innings on May 11, coming within one out of See SOFTBALL page 2
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West-Werner tops Hudson for school board seat By Mike Smith Staff Reporter Anita West-Werner — a colonel in the U.S. Air Force who advises the Pentagon, and a commercial airline pilot — this week won the Indian River School District Board of Education seat representing District 4. She will take over the seat vacated by 20-year board member Donald C. Hattier, who retired from the board. West-Werner claimed 492 votes in voting on Tuesday, May 14, to Joshua Hudson’s 343 votes. Hudson is a captain with the state’s fish and wildlife police, and his wife is an IRSD teacher. West-Werner garnered 109 votes at the Indian River High School polling location and 377 votes at the Millville Community Center polls. Hudson received 150 votes at the high school location, while he earned 187 votes at the community center.
David Maull, a IRSD spokesman and public relations specialist, said, “We have not seen so many board openings to be filled in one year as we have this cycle, with the various board of education departures.” Ivan Neal and Kimberly Taylor earlier this year were tapped to reWest-Werner place outgoing representatives for District 2 and District 5, with no opponents in the May midterm election for those seats. On the final day of the school board campaign for District 4, West-Werner focused her time meeting voters and was planting yard signs on Windmill Road and at Millville’s Evans Park. See ELECTION page 6
Officials talk drugs with LB students By Susan Canfora Staff Reporter As disconcerting as it is to hear a child worry about someone he loves enduring the ravages of drug addiction, it gives Drug Enforcement Agency officials the opportunity to listen to the concerns of youth and teach them about the dangers of drugs. That’s what Frank McCartney, community outreach specialist for the Philadelphia Division of the DEA, and Andrew Eiseman, diversion program specialist, achieved during presentations to fourth- and fifth-grade students at Lord Baltimore Elementary School this week. “I’m looking at a 9-year-old kid, thinking, ‘That’s a lot to carry for a loved one.’ And he really, genuinely, was concerned for his loved one, but it was a good opportunity to talk and to help these children understand the dangers of drugs. As a grandparent, it is important to me. It’s really important to me that these kids make good choices,” he
said after the Tuesday, May 14, presentation, adding that he and Eiseman make presentations to many schools throughout the year. “It’s very different from when we were growing up, when you could experiment and not necessarily die,” McCartney said. “Each year, the risk is getting higher. The substances are getting more and more dangerous. We try to make these children our ambassadors. DEA is another big agency in our government, and we need them to talk to their parents and their brothers and sisters.” “We give them a little test at the end. They do very well,” Eiseman said. Ocean View Police Department officer and Lord Baltimore School Resource Officer Rhys Bradshaw said the program will be presented every year to inform students about, and warn them about the dangers of, cigarette smoking, nicotine, vaping, illegal drugs and alcohol. See DRUGS page 4