Bates College’s Marcus Delpeche dunks over to Bowdoin defenders.
LEWISTON — Marcus and Malcom Delpeche will board a plane next week with the destination being the next step of their basketball twins.
The twins from Wilmington, Delaware, who graduated from Bates College in June, have both signed contract to play professionally in Germany with the Grevenbroich Elephants.
The Elephants play in Germany’s fourth division of basketball.
“They are fast, very athletic and able to defend,” Elephants coach Hartmut Oehmen said of the Delpeches on the team’s website. “They are also something for our fans with their jumping.”
Marcus Delpeche (6-foot-7) was named to the All-NESCAC first team in 2017, and finished eighth in the conference in scoring and third in rebounding (9.7 per game).
His scoring average increased each of his four seasons with the Bobcats, from 5.1 ppg as a freshman to 15.1 as a senior.
“This is the culmination of all the hard work we have both been putting in throughout short term and the summer,” Marcus Delpeche said in a news release put out by the school. “Besides working out five times a week and doing what we could to put our names out there, Malcolm and I also went to two combines and performed very well. And it was after the second combine where things really started taking off.
“Once I found out that we’d both be playing overseas and would be on the same team, that really made everything just that much more rewarding.”
Malcom Delpeche (6-foot-8) was a disruptive force on the defensive end for Bates. He led the NESCAC in blocked shots in 2016-17, averaging a career-high 3.1 swats per game. He was voted the conference’s defensive player of the year — only the second Bobcat to earn that award. During the season, he set Bates records for blocks in a game (7), in a season (74) and in a career (178).
He also scored 13.2 points per game and pulled down 8.8 rebounds.
“It’s both exciting and somewhat relieving to know that I get to share the same court as my brother one more time,” Malcolm Delpeche said. “Especially when you’re going to a foreign country you’ve never been to before. We know that it’ll definitely make the whole transition that much easier.
“Knowing that you’re getting paid to do what you love is a sensational feeling. I’m blessed and grateful to be in this position.”
Cabaniss receives NCAA scholarship
Recents University of Maine at Farmington graduate Sean Cabaniss has been awarded a prestigious NCAA postgraduate scholarship.
The NCAA awards 174 postgraduate scholarships each year — 87 to male athletes and 87 to female athletes — across its three divisions. He is only the third UMF graduate to receive the scholarship.
“Being awarded this scholarship is very humbling, and I wish to acknowledge the support and assistance of professors, coaches, teammates and administration that contributed to any accomplishments I had at UMF as well as the aspirations this funding will support,” Cabaniss said in a news release.
Cabaniss, of Vassalboro, will be continuing his education at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he will pursue his master’s degree in exercise and sport studies. He will also be a graduate assistant with the track and field team.
Cabaniss played four years (2012-16) as an outfielder for the UMF baseball team, and was named to the All-North Atlantic Conference first team.
He also was the co-founder of the Beavers’ track and field club team. The program started in 2013 and went on to become a full-time varsity team. Cabaniss competed on the outdoor track team in his fifth year as he earned a second degree and completed a coaching minor.
He set conference records in the long and triple jump. Last month, he was named as the NAC’s Man of the Year in a vote by the conference’s athletic directors and Senior Woman Administrators. He is the first UMF athlete to win the award.
Bates College’s Malcom Delpeche goes for a shot.
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