Downstate Takes Division I and II State Titles in Football and Now Basketball. Good year for the Henlopen Conference! Look for a Repeat Next Year!
Downstate Takes Football & Basketball Titles
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I'm going to be "that guy," and say that while it's cool a 20-year drought ended today for the Henlopen, it was done by a school that should arguably be in the Blue Hen for travel purposes alone.
Come on Jeff Let us enjoy our day. Henlopen Conference!
yeah jeff cause its easier and closer for smyrna to go to wilmington & newark than going to dover,cr & polytech smh
There are still sports where the North teams have to schedule the South. IR, Delmar, probably Laurel and maybe even Sussex Central - a Henlopen North school - are farther.
I think they still do in baseball. Track, tennis, softball, field hockey, golf, cross country and more, I think as well.
For the record, I was trolling a little when I said what I did. Though I still think travelwise it makes sense for Smyrna to be Blue Hen, it is a Henlopen school and the championship should be celebrated by the entire conference. It's a big monkey off the Henlopen's back. Hopefully it's not two decades before it happens again.
its 38 miles from CR to Cape while its 38 miles from Smyrna to Wilmington and its 32 miles from Smyrna to Milford and 38 miles from Milford to Delmar and 37 miles from Delmar to Cape......my point is the Henlopen conference is farther spread out obviously and all the teams travel
Yup, and it was even worse then. Think about wrestling IR or Delmar on a Wednesday night. Meets back then didn't even start until 8 p.m. if both teams had full JV teams. It would be midnight before the traveling teams got home sometimes.
But Smyrna travels the farthest None of the schools you mentioned are closer to most the northern schools than they are the southern schools but Smyrna so they are not relevant in this argument
This travel thing isn't a new topic. It has been discussed several times before. One of the bigger reasons why people hated the idea of Smyrna being a Blue Hen school is that it would break up rivalries. But in reality, Smyrna doesn't have a natural rival overall because of its location. You can argue that CR/Smyrna wrestling is a big rivalry, but that's one sport and those teams would schedule each other anyway. If Smyrna went Blue Hen, it would make Middletown/Smyrna a thing again in a lot of sports... Just food for thought.
if smyrna was still the smyrna from the past decade, i'm pretty sure nobody from upstate would be calling for,insinuating or implying that they should be blue hen school......so as a downstate guy, i choose to stick to who and what they are and have always been, henlopen....it is what it is....congrats to the smyrna
"Arguably" ? What's the argument? They could honestly be in the Blue Hen if they wanted to, but have chosen to stay in the Henlopen. The Henny North was initially comprised of the larger schools from Kent and Sussex, that had been in the Diamond State Conference, until late in the 60's. Last time I checked, Smyrna is still in Kent County.
Again, leaving the conference is well within the rights of Smyrna, but they have chosen not to do so. Maybe they will choose to join the Blue Hen, but as of now they are in the Henlopen. It's not that complicated. No school can be forced to join a conference, it is a choice. On both the part of the school and the conference.
That's true but Dover is the middle of the state if you consider a town over the middle of the state downstate than Idk what to tell you
It's all about how they were initially broken down years ago, it's about population. Look at today. Over 500,000 people in NCC with about 400,000 in Kent and Sussex.
Henlopen catching up to Blue Hen was bound to happen. The publics in NCC have been diced up. There 4 votechs, over a dozen private/Catholic choices and over a dozen charters. Enrollment is dropping in all the schools so talent is being dispersed.
Gd post if Newark high got all the kids that are supposed to go there it would be unbelievable football and bball.
Smyrna HS won the championship.. All you small minded folks trying to piggy back on because they are from this conference or this county is hilarious..good grief! Smyrna won not downstate not Henlopen.. besides the 2 ships this year required 2 out of area transfers...
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Don't Hate! We are just celebrating a great year for the Henlopen Conference. Smyrna won Division I football Woodbrige won Division II football. Smyrna beats Woodbridge in the Henlopen Conference Basketball Championship. Henlopen won Division I and II in Wrestling. Let's us celebrate! Sorry RR that Carvel lost to the Henlopen Conference in Football and Basketball.
exactly .. if the Cowboys win do the Eagles fans celebrate that a NFC East team won as if they won also? nope its silly... Smyrna and Woodbridge won.. Milford didn't win just because they were in the same conference as WB..maybe I get it.. if Woodbridge wins then somehow your your kid at laurel is magically better because they play in the same conference..lol
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We heard for years that Downstate had not won a Championship in Basketball. The Private schools won more then half of them. But the public and private were cheering Upstate. Now we are cheering Downstate Dominance This year!
Bummy appreciates this regionalism. I remember how my heart swelled with pride when Wilmington High won the FB title and basketball title in the same year 1971-1972. Smyrna looks like it will be a power house for years to come.
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Exactly...exactly what I said in the other thread. NEVER heard talk of how they should be in the Blue Hen Conference or anyone upstate trying to claim them before their growth in the recent years to Henlopen North & state title contenders in major sports from one of the Henlopen South's bad teams.
Not quite. However, there are a lot of close ties between the schools down here. Particularly in the Henlopen South. Most people know a coach or player or some combination there of on other teams.Who would you rather see win, the team your co-worker has a son on, or some team you know nothing about? While there are some rivalries down here, for the most part, it is of a good nature.
But at the end of the day, when you see a conference that hadn't won a State title in 20 years, a conference that as a whole has a chip on it;s shoulder, succeed. Yeah, you tend to be happy for them.
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