Milford

When guard Demon Brown went down with an injured shooting hand earlier this month, many predicted doom for Randallstown. But in last night's crucial Baltimore County game at No. 14-ranked Milford Mill, the 11th-ranked Rams showed they still have plenty left.Tony Darden scored a game-high 27 points, and Randallstown forced 30 turnovers in a 58-54 win, breaking the Millers' winning streak at eight.The victory moved the Rams (12-3 overall, 7-1 in the Hoopsters Division) into a virtual tie with Milford for second place in the division, behind undefeated Woodlawn.

The wait ended yesterday for Bob Greene and Baltimore County.Greene, Milford Mill High's first-year head football coach, held his first practice yesterday, the opener for most schools in the Baltimore area.Greene, 50, has spent the past 12 years as an assistant coach. His hiring is a milestone of sorts for Baltimore County. He becomes the second black varsity head coach in a county that last year celebrated its 25th season of football.Joe Yates, who coached at Parkville during 1972-81, was the only other black head football coach in Baltimore County.

WESTMINSTER -- Milford Mill coach Jesse Hannon was perhaps the most surprised person in Scott S. Bair Stadium when he heard his girls team had won the state Class 1A track and field title yesterday at Western Maryland College."

Mandy Clark made her Milford Mill basketball debut Tuesday, contributing 19 points to a 69-38 victory over Towson.A second-team All-Baltimore City/County point guard last season at Woodlawn, Clark emerged in fall ball as one of the area's top players, but she had been ineligible this winter, because she did not meet the county's residency requirement.Two years ago, Clark moved here from South Carolina to live with her sister and enrolled at Woodlawn, but her sister was not her legal guardian.

It begins at 6 a.m. with the ringing of the alarm clock. By 6:15, out of the bed and in the bathroom. An hour remains to get out the door.At 7:15, at a bus stop on Liberty Road in the Lochearn area of Baltimore County. A witness to the morning traffic rush in the chill of the winter air. On a bus to the subway, then a 15-minute ride to downtown Baltimore.Around 8:10, Norman Nolan is off of the bus in East Baltimore and entering Dunbar High. He says that the travel wasn't a major adjustment.

Milford Mill football coach Reggie White knows that his team's 4-0 start this season can mean only one thing. The Millers finally have learned how to finish. A year ago, Milford lost five games by a combined 20 points in limping to a .500 record. Included in those losses were several blown leads, particularly in the third quarter, when the team's usually staunch defense often turned into a sieve. Heading into tomorrow night's game at Catonsville, however, the Millers have yet to allow a single point in the third quarter.

Emanuel Milford Sr., a retired steelworker and longtime Turners Station resident, died Thursday of esophageal cancer at Franklin Square Hospital Center. He was 80. Mr. Milford was born and raised in St. Stephen, S.C., and began working in the foundry at Bethlehem Steel Corp's Sparrows Point plant after moving to Turners Station in 1952. He retired in 1989. Mr. Milford, who was known as "Manny," enjoyed taking daily walks around his neighborhood, watching Westerns on television and taking family vacations.

After Milford Mill lost every starter from last year's Class 3A state championship team to graduation, it seemed the Millers might need a few years to get back to the final four. They proved otherwise. In a remarkable display of rebuilding, Millers coach DeToiya McAliley brought the team along steadily, and it peaked at the right time. "I always stressed to them that they would never be last year's team, but a different team, and they can make their own mark and put their own stamp on this season.

In the week leading up to yesterday's game at Milford Mill, Eastern Tech coach Bruce Strunk warned his players not to take the Millers lightly. Never mind that Milford Mill may be down compared to last year, Strunk said, it is still a dangerous football team. Halfway through the game, the message got through. The No. 11 Mavericks shut out Milford Mill in the second half and pulled away to a 41-12 victory that kept alive Eastern Tech's playoff hopes and spoiled the Millers' homecoming.

As easy as it is to find references to Milford Mill -- the high school, the swim club, the road -- it is not all that easy to find the neighborhood. That's because it's a street, not a defined neighborhood, say many of those who live in the vicinity of what is traditionally thought of as Milford Mill. "When we first moved here, the name Milford Mill was much more known to us than it is now. Milford Mill Road was just a very little, narrow, two-lane road," said Wendall Sisler, vice president of the nearby Silver Creek community.