The Milford School District Field Hockey team recently renamed their outstanding leadership award. The award will now be known as the Jan Ellis Leadership Award after the team’s long time coach who passed away in January 2022. “I am beyond proud and grateful for naming this leadership award after Mom,” Gayle Parola, her daughter, said. “She would be very humbled …
At a recent school board meeting, Milford School District Superintendent Dr. Kevin Dickerson announced that the district was now using an electronic ticketing option through GoFan for all Milford High School winter sports. Dr. Dickerson explained that other schools had moved to an electronic ticketing system with much success. “It gives us an idea of what type of crowd we …
STAFF REPORT The 24th annual Reindeer Stampede at Killens Pond State Park Saturday was another rousing success, as 173 runners participated in the event which benefits the Milford High School cross country teams. Liam MeGinnis took the men’s 5K title in a time of 17:30, while Keely Arndt was the female winner recording a time of 21:30. In addition …
By DAVE McCALLUM Three times Milford drove inside the Mount Pleasant 10-yard line and three times the Buccaneers failed to come away with any points. That proved to be the difference in their season-ending 28-14 non-conference loss Thursday night on Senior Night at Briggs Stadium. The final time inside the Green Knights’ 10 proved to be the most painful of …
By Kevin Eickman If you haven’t been paying attention to the Milford Cross Country team in recent years, you have been missing quite a great deal. Under the leadership of coach Lance Skinner, along with a host of volunteers, Milford has become a team to be watched. With steady improvement, this is turning out to be a solid year …
By Kevin Eickman Last Friday night at Milford’s Briggs Stadium was a mixture of both old and new. With the induction of the 2022 12th Man Gridiron Club, Hall of Fame class, five past members of the Buccaneers football program were honored. Two of those honored, were part of the 2008 championship team, Head Coach Mike Tkach and linebacker/lineman …
By Kevin Eickman A 2-16 record is simply not the standard that Milford softball has set for itself over its history. One thing to understand, is that when you play a sport long enough, seasons like that happen. That was just the case last season for Milford, but it is something that third-year coach Mackenzie Reed believes will help …
By Kevin Eickman With COVID seemingly in the rearview mirror for now, the Milford Buccaneers baseball team is gearing up for a “normal” season. “Last year was pretty crazy, but at least we played. It will be nice to have full crowds back and have the real feeling of a normal season,” Coach Nick Brannan said. Milford finished last …
By Kevin Eickman Don Parsley, Jack Thode and Keegan Worley celebrate Thode’s wrestling wins at the Henlopen Conference Championship Last year it was simple to qualify for the state of Delaware individual wrestling tournament. With COVID peaking and a portion of the wrestling season wiped out, it was simply a matter of common sense to make the tournament open to …
By Kevin Eickman At the start of last week, the Milford boys’ basketball team was sitting at 8-8 after a Saturday win at Saint Mark’s. With the season winding down, this Milford team has started to play with a greater sense of urgency, knowing that a solid run to finish the season could land it in the state tournament. …
