2006

chances at EC

maki gmosto

PhOTOS BY ROBBIE ROBERTSONfTHE NEWTON RECORD Former Lake standout lvon Hickmon (14) has went from a walk-on at East Central to a Division I propect. starter as a red-shtrt freshman for the Warriors last yeat: Now as a red-~hirt sophomore. Hick· mon is one of those valued junior col· leg pla ·ers that will graduate in Decembet' and be four-year college after Christmas and be available for spring training. "When these four-)ear schools sign junior college players, they like it ''hen the kids graduates in Decem– ber,'' Underwood said. ·'And Ivon has got a lot of different people looking at him right now. He's one of our top players on defense and will make somebody a fme player at the next level. "It's hard to tell about a kid like Ivon at the high school level. You never real– ly know how those kids are going to do until you put them up against the bet· ter competition. After Ivan made the team. he really started to improve. We knew we had a pretty good football '--·-- Un m'lnr> the beSt QUt Of hiS Sit·

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