Boys’ Basketball: Milford Mill Routs Towson

Aesop once taught that slow and steady wins the race. The Towson Generals discovered differently when they faced off against the defending county champions, the Milford Mill Millers, on Monday night.

The Generals got off to a slow start, scoring just two points in the first quarter as the Millers opened up a huge 17-point lead. Towson played steady the rest of the night, but could simply not overcome their early scoring drought as Milford Mill ran away with the win, 76-39.

“You look at the scoreboard or you read it in the paper and you think … we got killed,” said Towson head coach Timothy Gavin. “You think I would be disappointed, but I’m not ... That game could have been a lot worse, but our guys really fought hard."

The first quarter could not have any more one-sided. The Millers opened the game on a 12-0 run before Stefan Holmes finally scored the Generals’ first points of the game with just two minutes left in the quarter. Holmes finished the game with 17 points and was the only Towson player to score in double digits.

“One of the best performances of the year by and individual player going against one of the best teams in the county,” Gavin said.

Milford Mill’s Duane Miller quickly squashed any hopes of a Towson comeback, scoring seven straight points to close out the first. Miller finished the quarter with 12 points and ended the game with 14.

Even though they found themselves down by 17 points after the first quarter, 19-2, the Generals continued to play hard.

“It took them a quarter to adjust,” Gavin said. “My guys have never seen a team that fast.”

Towson struggled early to find open shots against a very fast and athletic Milford Mill team.

“It is really like they are playing with seven guys,” Gavin said. “That’s how fast they are.”

The Generals came out strong in the second, actually matching the Millers point-for-point in the early minutes of the quarter. But then three big Milford Mill 3-pointers—two from Katrell Myers and the other from Chase Cormier—widened the Millers’ lead to as many as 26 points.

The Generals found themselves down 38-13 at halftime, and they lost even more ground in the third quarter.

The Millers' Tevin Hanner scored eight points in the quarter, many of which came in transition, and finished the game with 13.

Though Towson scored 15 points in the third, they gave up a staggering 24 to find themselves down 62-28 entering the fourth quarter.

The game’s final eight minutes, however, would prove to be its closest.

Towson opened the fourth quarter on a 9-2 run with baskets coming from four different Generals—Holmes, Tim Wheeler, Larry Ennels and Collin Kent. Wheeler finished the game with four points, Ennels added five, and Kent threw in four more. But the Generals could not sustain their momentum.

The Millers ended the game on a 10-2 run, capping a huge 37-point victory, 76-39.

With the loss the Generals fall to 5-15 on the season.

“We have lost a lot in a row, but we are getting better,” Gavin said. “We just can’t get over the hump.”