Cooper Mueller (above, 13) was responsible for doing the heavy lifting on guarding Penn star Sam Brown (left). (Photo: Josh Verlin/CoBL)
By Josh Verlin
It was at halftime, Charlie Thornton said, that Radnor had a decision to make. The Raptors were locked in a battle, holding a one-point lead on the road at archrival Lower Merion, in the only regular-season meeting between the two Central League favorites, and according to Thornton, it came down to a choice.
“Are we going to bend and break,” the Radnor senior recalled them saying, “or are we going to stay together and try to really win the game?”
It was an obvious answer, of course, though easier said than done — at least, so you’d think. The way Radnor played the final 16 minutes against the program used to being the class of the league, it looked like it was no more difficult than the simple flipping of a switch.
With everybody in the Radnor top seven contributing almost equally, the Raptors put their foot down on the road, a decisive third quarter leading to a runaway 64-41 win on Tuesday night in Kobe Bryant Gymnasium.