Radnor’s Jackson Hicke goes up for a shot against Archbishop Ryan on Saturday. (Photo: Josh Verlin/CoBL)
By Joseph Santoliquito
Jackson Hicke isn’t the first-guy-off-the-bus type. You know the kind. The imposing figure. The intimidator. Eagles’ mammoth defensive tackle Jordan Davis sets a vivid picture.
Opposing teams see that and they tend to quake.
They don’t when they see Radnor get off the bus. If Saturday night in the Fifth Annual Diane Mosco Invitational Shootout is any indication, the Central League and any team in the PIAA District 1 Class 5A better start.
Hicke personifies Radnor.
If you didn’t know him, and area basketball folks are still finding out, you would assume Hicke, Radnor’s Princeton-bound 6-foot-5 senior, is more the Tom Holland-type with a basketball, sans the Spider-Man suit. Take a closer look and the contrary surfaces in scraped elbows and knees, and a purplish bruise under his right eye or they miss the time Hicke hit two free throws with blood pouring out of his nose.