Wednesday, March 26,1980

SOUNDINGS

(From Page 18)

any of you have noticed the extremely low and high tides we've had this past week due to the moon being so close to the Earth. On Saturday afternoon Norm Switzler, Dave Bepici, Don Dodson, and I crossed over the Great Bay Bridge on the parkway, and the whole center of the channel was a

Ws all remarked we had never seen this sight before as we were all of the opinion that there was” eight ft. of water under the center of this bridge. Then? is also another theory on this very low tide, which I heard on television that night. THEY SAY that the Delaware River basin is losing quite a bit of water this year due to Ihe mildness of the winter, and the scarcity of ice floes, and that salt water infiltration is a possibility the whole length of the river. In fact, some experts are predicting a drought this season. I got so curious about these low tides, when I got

home I hopped in my TBird and rode over to the Oc«n Drive between Stone Harbor and Wildwood with my camera and took a picture of Hereford Inlet. It honestly looked like one big mud flat - and I’ll be darned if I could find an opening big enough to take

a boat out.

NOW BEFORE I forget it, I do have a fishing report on the Bay "Kandy” Laudf man has been taking some nice stripers in his nets there, and I’ve also heard that Fred-Layton Jr. has been having the same Jcind of luck up around

Bidwells Ditch.

After the stripers, there should be bunker, weakfish and other fish appearing in these stake nets - and that usually marks the start of a fishing season. So get

ready!

Next week I'll have a report on the Cape May County llatteras Anglers, and the plans of our local anglers as they try to get a group together to go after channel bass on the outer >ank of North Carolina.

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Spaghetti For Coastline Ad vances

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Sports Thur. COURT HOUSE - The Kiwanis Gub will sponsor a spaghetti dinner 4:30 to 8 pm. March 27 at the Middle Township High School cafetorium. Proceeds will benefit Kiwanis-sponsored baseball teams and the Middle Township Youth Football Organization Tickets are available from any Riwanian, Bob Mossbrook’s Gulf Station and Bill Adam's Shell Station here.

CAPE MAY - Middle Recreation overran Poplar Cafe 101-75 in a fast-paced Men's Basketball League contest. CharUe McNeil and Floyd ShelUm banged the boards and dumped in 33 and 28 pointa, respectively, to harness the Poplar. Steve Maniatka led the Cafe with 22 pointa. Coastline Advertising notched another victory coming up with a productive fourth period to whip Kona 122-94. CharUe Wise drilled in 51 points, George Durante pumped in 35 and John Linnington moved down low to score 17

Warriors Over Cavs

CAPE MAY - The ,* gigantic front wall of Reggie Taylor. Brian Jones* and Sean Magee powered the Warriors past the quicker Cavaliers, in Junior Basketball League,

play.

Taylor led all scorers with 35 points as team mates , Ken Wright and

Jones canned 12 and n points, res pecUvely. The Cave made it interesting by spreading their scoring around John 'Chicken' Richardson sped in for 20 points, Mike Dllle popped in 12, Nick Castellano drilled 11, and Steve Hand scored 10 points.

points for the Coastline offense. Boh Jackson, Kona's center, jammed in 52 points, led all scorers.

Standings

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Soccer Coaches

Are Needed

CAPE MAY-Thedty'« department of Public Relations is in need of individuals willing tocoach boys and girls between 7 and 16 years in the County

Soccer League.

Cape May will sponsor teams in the 7-9 age division, the 10-12 age division and the 15-16 age

division.

Anyone interested may call 884-8411 ext. 20 or 27

PARKWAY

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