Chichester’s Vince Wildrick looks to shoot between two Academy Park defenders in the first quarter. (Pete Bannan – MediaNews Group).
By Matthew DeGeorge
Vince Wildrick felt the pressure and knew just how to react.
It was a rare frantic possession by Chichester in the second quarter Thursday night against Academy Park. The ball found its way to Wildrick near the top of the lane, where he’d been camped all night in the soft middle of a 2-3 zone that Chi eventually forced the Knights to abandon. When his man overplayed him on his right, Wildrick dug into his bag of tricks, hitting his defender with a spin move and banking a left-handed shot off glass and in.
It was an early sign that everything was going the way of Wildrick and Chi.
Behind a pair of 15-2 runs in the first half, Chichester created early distance on the way to a 68-30 rout of a green Academy Park side. Widrick’s role in Chi’s patient and thorough dismantling of AP showed in that roll to the glass and in so many smaller instances on the night.
“That’s one of my go-to moves,” Wildrick said. “If they’re pressuring me, I go by and drop step. It’s one of my favorite moves. I just felt the pressure, I felt them overplay me, step through and it’s just natural.”
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