The setting could have not been more appropriate for the Delaware Scholastic Hockey Association’s Flight B championship on Feb. 25.
Delaware Military Academy faced defending champion Hodgson Vo-Tech, which had dashed the Seahawks’ hopes of winning their first title last year.
This year, the Seahawks had a mission to play more calmly, setting aside nerves, and to eliminate the internal strife that frustrated DMA in last year’s championship.
Sticking together this year, the Seahawks earned an 8-6 victory over the Silver Eagles to finish the year at 19-0 - earning the school's first championship title.
It also helped that the Seahawks believed the pressure was on Hodgson to repeat, not themselves, said senior Dylan Baist-Bliss, of Middletown.
“We were the underdogs,” said Baist-Bliss, who had one assist in the game.
Baist-Bliss was a defenseman, along with fellow Middletown products Chris Jamison (senior defenseman) and Nate Gemmato (freshman left winger).
And this is just the beginning for a school that is relatively young, Baist-Bliss said. DMA opened its doors in the fall of 2003.
“This isn’t going to be the first championship that any team wins,” he said. “This is the beginning of our school and it’s the beginning of our sports, I think.”
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The setting could have not been more appropriate for the Delaware Scholastic Hockey Association’s Flight B championship on Feb. 25.
Delaware Military Academy faced defending champion Hodgson Vo-Tech, which had dashed the Seahawks’ hopes of winning their first title last year.
This year, the Seahawks had a mission to play more calmly, setting aside nerves, and to eliminate the internal strife that frustrated DMA in last year’s championship.
Sticking together this year, the Seahawks earned an 8-6 victory over the Silver Eagles to finish the year at 19-0 - earning the school's first championship title.
It also helped that the Seahawks believed the pressure was on Hodgson to repeat, not themselves, said senior Dylan Baist-Bliss, of Middletown.
“We were the underdogs,” said Baist-Bliss, who had one assist in the game.
Baist-Bliss was a defenseman, along with fellow Middletown products Chris Jamison (senior defenseman) and Nate Gemmato (freshman left winger).
And this is just the beginning for a school that is relatively young, Baist-Bliss said. DMA opened its doors in the fall of 2003.
“This isn’t going to be the first championship that any team wins,” he said. “This is the beginning of our school and it’s the beginning of our sports, I think.”
