Cape Henlopen and Tower Hill lead DIAA hockey brackets
Division one starts Friday with quarterfinals, while division two plays first round matches on Wednesday.
By Kevin Iyer ·
Cape Henlopen holds the number one seed in the Division One bracket after finishing the regular season without a loss. The Vikings beat Lake Forest 10 to 0 in the Henlopen Conference Championship game to secure that top position. Their Division Two counterpart, Tower Hill, holds the top seed in that bracket after finishing 14 and 1. The Hillers lost their only game of the season to the Vikings.
The postseason schedule begins on Wednesday, November 4, with Division Two first round games. Division One skips that round because its field contains only eight teams. Those games start on Friday, November 6, with the quarterfinals. The top four seeds in Division Two received a bye and will not play until the quarterfinals on Saturday, November 7.
In Division Two, Indian River hosts Mount Pleasant at 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday. That is the first meeting between the two schools this season. Wilmington Friends plays Delaware Military Academy at 2:30 p.m. on the same day. Friends won the Division Two championship last year. Concord plays Sussex Academy at 5:00 p.m. at Odyssey Charter, and Lake Forest hosts Ursuline at 4:00 p.m.
The Division One quarterfinals take place on Friday, November 6. Cape Henlopen hosts Appoquinimink at 2:30 p.m. for their first meeting of the season. Caesar Rodney hosts Charter School of Wilmington at 3:00 p.m. Padua plays Milford at 2:30 p.m. at Tatnall. This marks the second consecutive year those two teams have met in the postseason, with Padua winning 2 to 1 last year. Smyrna hosts Odessa at 2:30 p.m. for their first matchup this season.
The Division Two quarterfinals are scheduled for Saturday, November 7. All four games start at 11:30 a.m. Tower Hill plays the winner of the Lake Forest and Ursuline game. Newark Charter faces the winner of the Concord and Sussex Academy match. Caravel plays the winner of the Wilmington Friends and Delaware Military Academy game. Archmere hosts the winner of the Indian River and Mount Pleasant match.
The brackets were released on November 2. The regular season has concluded, and all listed games are official for the 2026 DIAA Field Hockey Tournament.
