Second-Half Dry Spell Dooms Warriors

Park Hills, Mo. -- A scoring drought at the start of the second half that lasted for nearly nine minutes was too much to overcome as the Indian Hills Warriors dropped a 55-47 decision to No. 3-ranked Three Rivers at the Bob Sechrest Classic on Friday night.

Three Rivers (5-1) took a 28-21 lead into the second half and built the advantage to 37-21 before Aaron Austin's field goal at the 11:11 mark gave the Warriors their first points of the half. Marquise Carter followed with a three-pointer for the Raiders and TRCC had its biggest lead of the game at 40-23.

IHCC was finally able to generate some offense after the Carter trey started a 20-7 run for the Warriors (5-2). Dijon Farr, who had begun the spurt with a three, made a two-point goal to bring the Warriors to within four at 47-43.

Three Rivers then went inside to their backup post player, Aloysius Henry, on two straight possessions and he scored both times to build the lead back to eight points and IHCC didn't get closer than six after that.

Twenty-four turnovers and 10-of-22 free throw shooting were big reasons why the Warriors weren't able to complete the comeback try. IHCC was only 3-of-10 at the foul line in the second half.

After trailing early, the Warriors tied the score on a three-pointer by Aaron Austin and grabbed a brief lead on a Brian Wilson free throw. But that was the last time that Indian Hills would have a lead.

Three Rivers took their largest lead of the opening half at 24-15 before Farr hit consecutive field goals to cut the lead to four points. Farr led the IHCC scoring with 14 points. Austin joined him in double figures with 10.

Carter had a game-high 18 for Three Rivers.

Indian Hills will try to bounce back from the loss in the final game of the classic on Saturday night against host school Mineral Area.

THREE RIVERS 55, INDIAN HILLS 47

INDIAN HILLS Dwan McMillan 2 2-5 7, Aaron Austin 4 1-2 10, Brandon Garrett 2 1-3 5, Bruno Ferreira 0 2-6 2, Chano Rashiduddin 0 0-0 0, Derrick Hill 1 2-2 4, Dijon Farr 6 0-0 14, Larry Stone 1 1-2 4, Brian Wilson 0 1-2 1, E.J. Hicks 0 0-0 0, Alex Vouyoukas 0 0-0 0, Chad Dillard 0 0-0 0 Team 16 10-22 47

THREE RIVERS Marquise Carter 7 2-3 18, Aloysius Henry 4 0-0 8, Pierre Mitchell 0 1-2 1, Nick Niemczyk 1 0-0 3, Ehimen Orukpe 2 4-4 8, David Prater 1 0-0 2, Josh Terry 1 4-8 6, Richard Walker 1 2-2 4, Jamarcus Williams 0 3-6 3, Byron Wright 1 0-0 2, Lance Miller 0 0-0 0 Team 18 16-25 55

Halftime score: Three Rivers 28, Indian Hills 21; Three-point field goals: IHCC 5 (Farr 2, McMillan 1, Austin 1, Stone 1), TRCC 3 (Carter 2, Niemczyk 1)