With the fall sports finally a memory, all attention turns to the winter competition. Basketball heats up and features the usual pre-holiday tournaments, with some good in-state games mixed in. The wrestling calendar includes two of the area’s biggest tournaments.
Girls
Basketball
Monday
Chesapeake Anne Arundel at Ss. Peter and Paul (3-2), 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday
Padua (0-1) at Mount Pleasant (2-2), 3:30 p.m.
St. Elizabeth (0-0) at Delcastle (1-2), 3:45 p.m.
Howard (0-1) at Archmere (2-0), 6:15 p.m.
Thursday
Ursuline (1-2) at Padua, 6 p.m.
St. Elizabeth at Polytech (1-2), 6 p.m.
Wilmington Charter (2-0) at Saint Mark’s (4-0), 7:15 p.m. The Force visit the Spartans in an early matchup of unbeatens. Charter is led by veteran guards Emma Brown and Sophia Meara. The Spartans, meanwhile, do not have a single senior on the roster, but juniors Sophia Messick and Bella Prado give them a good inside-outside combination.
Friday
St. Georges (2-1) at Archmere, 6:15 p.m.
Saturday
Saint Mark’s at Red Lion, 1 p.m.
Ursuline vs. Trinity Hall (N.J.), 6:30 p.m. at Holmdel High School (N.J.) in the Supers Game at the Shore
Sunday
Ursuline vs. Camden Catholic (N.J.), noon at Indian Hills High School (N.J.) in the Supers Game at the Shore
Boys
Basketball
Monday
Chesapeake Anne Arundel at Ss. Peter and Paul (0-2), 7 p.m.
Tuesday
Delcastle (0-1) at St. Elizabeth (2-0), 7:15 p.m.
Wednesday
Ss. Peter and Paul at Salisbury School, 4 p.m.
Salesianum (1-1) vs. Neumann-Goretti (Pa.), 7 p.m. at the Grail Sports Complex
Thursday
Saint Mark’s (2-0) at Wilmington Charter (1-2), 5 p.m.
Friday
William Penn (3-0) at St. Elizabeth, 7:15 p.m. The Vikings are off to a good start, but they face their second Blue Hen Conference Flight A test this week at home against the Colonials. Kye Rawls and Jermai Herring pace St. Elizabeth, while William Penn’s Gabe Valmond is among the top scorers in Delaware in the early going.
Salesianum vs. St. Vincent Pallotti (Md.), 8:15 p.m. at Bullis School (Md.) in the Bullis Holiday Classic
Saturday
Saint Mark’s at Red Lion (1-2), 2:30 p.m.
Wrestling
Saint Mark’s (1-1) at Conrad (1-2), 4 p.m.
Friday-Saturday
Archmere (0-0) at Howdy Duncan Invitational, William Penn High School
Saturday-Sunday
Salesianum (0-0) at Beast of the East, Bob Carpenter Center
Swimming (co-ed except where noted)
Tuesday
Tatnall (0-1 boys, 0-1 girls) vs. Archmere (0-0 boys, 0-0 girls), 3:30 p.m. at Walnut Street YMCA (no spectators)
Saint Mark’s (0-0) vs. Padua (0-0), 8:15 p.m. at Clarence Fraim Boys and Girls Club (girls only)
Thursday
Annapolis Area Christian and Archbishop Curley vs. Ss. Peter and Paul (1-0), 3:15 p.m., Easton Family YMCA (boys only)
Archmere vs. Salesianum (1-0)/Ursuline (1-0), 3:30 p.m. at H. Fletcher Brown Boys and Girls Club (no spectators)
Delaware Military (0-1) vs. Padua, 3:30 p.m. at Clarence Fraim Boys and Girls Club (girls only)
Saint Mark’s (0-0 boys) at Newark (0-0 boys, 0-0 girls), 7 p.m.