"Downstate" Delaware Named TopOfTheCircle.com Region of the Year

The counties of Kent and Sussex in Delaware have been collectively named Region of the Year by TopOfTheCircle.com, the market leader in scholastic field hockey.

(PRWEB) December 28, 2004 -- For the second time, The TopOfTheCircle.com national Region of the Year consists of two adjacent counties in a single state of the Union.

In 2004, the counties of Kent and Sussex -- collectively known as "downstate" Delaware -- sent both participants to the state championship game after being the underrepresented part of the state for years, seeing schools from the Wilmington area dominate state tournament play.

In their moment in the spotlight, Camden Caesar Rodney and Lewes Cape Henlopen did not disappoint, playing a fine match that Caesar Rodney won 3-0.

"For years," says founder Al Mattei, "the schools in the northern third of the state were flat-out better than the downstate teams."

That changed, for the moment, in 2004.

"It's pretty special," said Caesar Rodney head coach Debbie Windett. "In 26 years of coaching at Sussex Tech and at Caesar Rodney, I have never had a faster forward line."

"Exciting things are happening in Kent and Sussex Counties," said Mattei. "This could very well include the addition of a varsity program at historically black Delaware State University starting as early as 2005."

The Caesar Rodney win also put to rest, for the moment, the infamous "Quarter Curse" which has seen certain landmarks featured on American state quarters fall victim to misfortune -- a lightning strike to the Maryland statehouse, the collapse of the New Hampshire Man In The Mountain, the dropoff in popularity of the Indianapolis 500, the cancellation of the Washington Crossing the Delaware reenactment to New Jersey, and record low harvests for Georgia peaches and Vermont maple tree syrup.

TopOfTheCircle.com, founded in 1998, is the largest scholastic field hockey website in the world. It covers all aspects of the American field hockey community, from club to college, from coast to coast.

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