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. …
By Kevin Eickman Last year’s COVID pandemic took its toll on wrestling throughout the entire state of Delaware. While for the most part, the just completed fall seasons give cause for optimism, there is still a bit of a hangover lingering from last season. In a wrestling room that is almost packed, when interviewing Milford coach Don Parsley this …
By Kevin Eickman It has been the same story for Milford Buccaneers football this season, it has had a difficult time starting game. With the game shifted from Friday to last night (Monday) due to weather issues, Milford was hoping for something different. “We have had slow starts for most of the year, so I was hoping maybe tonight …
By Kevin Eickman The Milford field hockey team’s season got off to a slow start this year with the main culprit being a lack of finishing in the circle. Last week, the Bucs produced a solution to those problems as they played three games and came away with a 2-1 record. While it wasn’t perfect, it was progress. “The …
By Kevin Eickman The Milford Buccaneers football team has been plagued by slow starts this football season, and last Friday night as Milford traveled to Sussex Central to battle the Golden Knights for their homecoming game was no exception. While it was going to be no easy task for Milford to stay with the defending state champions in Delaware’s …
By Kevin Eickman The Milford Buccaneers field hockey team has been off to a bit of an up and down start. While they easily outclassed Seaford in the season opener, 11-1; things have not gone as smoothly as the Bucs would have liked since then. Currently, Milford has a 1-2-1 record and is just coming off a defeat at the …
By Kevin Eickman From left to right: Jonja Willey, Faith Mitchell, Taylor Humes and Eric Perry One of the more underappreciated sports during the fall season is that of cross country. With the season just getting underway, this year’s Buccaneer team is hoping to build off a winning season from last year, when both the boys and girls teams finished …
By Kevin Eickman Landan Hajek with his parents Twenty!!! That’s the number of players from three teams that were named to the 2021 All-State lacrosse squad. Those teams were Salesianum (8), Cape Henlopen (7) and Sanford (5). Taking that into account, that left only five spots to fill out the 25-man squad. The fact that a Milford senior, part of …
