Girls' get blown out by Loy Norrix, 79-43, following injury to Danielle Hicks

The Marshall High School (MHS) girls' varsity basketball team may have lost more than just a basketball game Thursday night against Loy Norrix at MHS. In the first quarter, with Marshall ahead, 10-8, junior guard Danielle Hicks drove the baseline and after missing her layup attempt, she hit the ground hard underneath the basket. Officials stopped the game seconds later after Norrix tied it at 10 with just under two minutes to play in the quarter. Hicks was assisted off the court by coach Sal Konkle and trainer Chuck Middleton. Hicks would not return and spent the rest of the game with an icepack on her right knee and needed crutches to make her way to the locker room. Hicks' absence along with Norrix's tenacious defense were no match for the Redhawks as Marshall would manage only two field goals over the next 14 minutes of action as they saw their record fall to 8-3 with the 79-43 loss. The extent of Hicks' injury was not known late Thursday night.