By Jerome Taylor
Once Jackson Hicke pulled down the defensive rebound, he hit his stride quickly and got to the rim for a coast-to-coast finish.
The very next play, he drove down the middle of the lane, finished a layup through contact and completed the and-one. Hicke’s personal 5-0 run sent Radnor to the locker room at halftime with an eight-point lead over Haverford.
And they didn’t look back.
The junior finished with 21 points and 15 rebounds in the 53-38 victory, and now the Raptors are heading to the Central League finals.
“Jackson has had that in him all year…he’s so intelligent, and he learned this whole year how to get himself ready for this moment,” Radnor head coach Jamie Chadwin said. “[Haverford] is one of the best defensive teams you’re going to see, and it didn’t matter to him. He’s going to find a way to get the space he needed and be aggressive and put his best out there against their best.”
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