Warriors Romp in Opener

Ottumwa, IA -- Indian Hills rolled to a 25-point halftime lead and routed visiting Carl Sandburg College, 91-51, at the Hellyer Student Life Center Tuesday night in the season-opener for both teams. Jeff Kidder, starting his 5th season as head coach of the Warriors, has a brand new roster made up of six sophomore transfers and nine freshmen. And it was a chance for all 10 players who saw action to get acclimated to IHCC basketball in a game that was decided very early in the first half.

One of the talented IHCC freshmen, Dijon Farr, helped get the Warriors off to a quick start with back-to-back three-pointers, the second of which made the score 9-2. Indian Hills had their first double-digit lead when Brandon Garrett hit a pair of free throws to push the advantage to 11 at 18-7. From there the lead steadily grew to as many as 28 points in the first half. Carl Sandburg didn't hit double figures as a team until just over three minutes remained in the half.

The halftime score was 41-16.

IHCC expanded the lead to 40 points at 60-20 early in the final half and led by as many as 47 points twice before settling for the 40-point final margin.

The Warriors showed they may have a pretty good outside shooting attack, hitting 11 3s on the night. Four of those came from Larry Stone who led the IHCC scoring with 20 points. Farr added 15 and Derrick Hill had 12. Both Farr and Hill had three treys.

Jo-Paul Jones scored all 15 of his team-leading points for Carl Sandburg in the second half.

All 10 of the Indian Hills players who played had at least one field goal.

The competition will get a lot tougher for the Warriors this weekend when they host the Jack Blackwell Tire Company Classic. IHCC will take on Lee College on Friday night and perennial power Highland Community College from Freeport, Illinois on Saturday night.

Indian Hills 91, Carl Sandburg 51

INDIAN HILLS Aaron Austin 4 3-3 11, Brandon Garrett 4 3-4 11, Bruno Ferreira 1 1-2 3, Chano Rashiduddin 3 0-0 6, Derrick Hill 4 1-2 12, Dijon Farr 5 2-2 15, Larry Stone 8 0-0 20, Alex Vouyoukas 1 2-2 4, Chad Dillard 2 2-2 7, Erik Eckhardt 1 0-0 2 Team 33 14-17 91

CARL SANDBURG Isaiah Cunningham 0 0-0 0, Justin Sharp 0 0-0 0, Stephen Reynolds 2 0-1 5, Jeremy Sewell 2 4-4 8, Shauntrell Manney 1 1-2 4, Drake Webster 1 3-3 6, Patrick Lewis 2 0-0 6, Zach Stortzum 0 0-0 0, Jo-Paul Jones 6 0-0 15, D.T. Thornton 3 1-4 7 Team 17 9-14 51

Halftime score: Indian Hills 41, Carl Sandburg 16; Three-point field goals: IHCC 11 (Stone 4, Hill 3, Farr 3, Dillard 1); CSC 8 (Jones 3, Lewis 2, Reynolds 1, Manney 1, Webster 1)