Warriors Rebound for Win in Missouri

Park Hills, MO -- The Indian Hills basketball team showed some resiliency on Saturday night, bouncing back from their first loss of the season the night before to take down Mineral Area College, 58-44, in MAC's tournament.

Indian Hills had three separate runs of seven or more points in the second half to break open a close game on the way to the Warriors' eighth win of the season.

The first run, a 10-0 spurt, gave the Warriors a 35-26 lead with 13:34 to play. After a Cardinals' field goal, Indian Hills scored eight straight points, all by Gary Ricks, on two 3-point field goals and a two-pointer. Following two MAC free throws, Indian Hills ran off seven points in a row, the last five by Chad Dillard, who scored a career-high 15 points.

A slam dunk by Jerome Jones gave the Warriors their largest lead at 58-36, before Mineral Area tallied the final eight points of the game.

Jones, like Dillard, also had his IHCC career-high with 15 points and Ricks added 13. Brier West was the lone player in double-figures for MAC with 10.

The Warriors are idle until playing three games in three days next weekend at a tournament in Scottsbluff, Nebraska.

INDIAN HILLS 58, MINERAL AREA 44

INDIAN HILLS Stephen Coles 1 0-4 2, Jerome Jones 7 0-0 15, Derrick Hill 0 0-0 0, Dijon Farr 4 0-0 9, Kelvyn Valdez 0 0-0 0, Bruno Ferreira 1 0-0 2, Riley Stuve 1 0-0 2, Chad Dillard 6 3-3 15, Gary Ricks 5 0-0 13, Latroy Taylor 0 0-0 0, Giovanni Smith 0 0-1 0, D.J. Bennett 0 0-0 0 Team 25 3-8 58

MINERAL AREA Darion Hooker 0 0-0 0, Riley Raulston 2 0-0 5, Demetrius Harris 1 4-5 6, Drew Thomas 1 0-0 2, Josh Minner 4 0-0 8, DeAndre Ballard 1 0-2 2, Derrius Walker 0 0-0 0, Brier West 4 0-0 10, Greg Gibson 1 0-0 2, Errol Isom 0 0-0 0, Vakhtang Kadaria 3 0-0 6, Corrion Johnson 1 1-2 3, Leland Smith 0 0-0 0 Team 18 5-9 44

Halftime score: Indian Hills 25, Mineral Area 22; Three-point field goals: IHCC 5 (Ricks 3, Jones 1, Farr 1), MAC 3 (West 2, Raulston 1)