Homewood-Flossmoor overwhelms Mount Carmel with pace and pressure

Homewood-Flossmoor overwhelms Mount Carmel with pace and pressure

Homewood-Flossmoor’s Darrius Hawkins Jr. was thrown into the fire last season, facing challenge after challenge as a freshman point guard running the show for a talented, ranked team.Hawkins passed the test. And Mount Carmel’s Ron Johnson is doing the same this year, but some games are learning experiences. That was the case on Monday as Hawkins and the Vikings attacked Johnson and Mount Carmel’s inexperienced backcourt with pace and pressure on…

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It was good for Darrius Hawkins Jr. to see the game from an unusual angle.  Homewood-Flossmoor’s sophomore point guard missed the end of a loss to Thornton and two more games with a leg injury last week. He spent the time on the sideline trying to think like a coach and be a motivator. “It was great to sit back and see things from a different perspective. It was very much needed but I’m back and ready to go,” Hawkins said. “I wouldn’t say I was …