Indian Hills Makes John Wood Fifth Straight Victim

Ottumwa -- The final score of Friday's game between Indian Hills and John Wood CC in the Reed Overhead Doors Classic was a bit midleading. The final margin of victory in a 94-71 IHCC win was distorted by a late 15-0 run. Until then, John Wood had refused to fold in the face of relentless IHCC pressure and the Trail Blazers were still within 11 points at 79-68 with around four minutes to play before the late run gave the Warriors some breathing room coming down the stretch.

Indian Hills withstood John Wood's one-two punch of Regan Bruenger and Antonio Landers, who combined to score 56 of their team's points. Bruenger had 29, 18 of those in the second half, and Landers scored 18 of his 27 in the first half. But nobody else scored more than four points for JWCC as they suffered their first loss of the season in five games.

Jameel McKay led the Warriors with 20 points and he tied Dustin Hogue for the team rebound lead with eight. Brandon Spearman tallied 15 for the Warriors and had three of their seven 3s. Kieran Woods and Roderick Bobbitt each had 12 for the 5-0 Warriors.

Indian Hills will take on Carl Sandburg on Saturday night in the final game of the tournament.

INDIAN HILLS 94, JOHN WOOD 71

INDIAN HILLS Brandon Spearman 6 0-0 15, Gary Ricks 3 1-2 9, DeAndray Buckley 2 0-1 5, Michael Haynes 2 1-4 5, D.J. Bennett 0 0-0 0, Kieran Woods 5 2-3 12, Jameel McKay 8 4-6 20, Frank Williams 1 0-0 2, Dustin Hogue 5 0-0 10, Ronnie Stevens 0 1-2 1, Trinson White 1 1-2 3, Roderick Bobbitt 4 3-3 12 Team 37 13-23 94

JOHN WOOD Michael Roy 2 0-0 4, Regan Bruenger 9 9-9 29, Jamal Wolfe 2 0-4 4, James Lane 0 0-0 0, Antonio Landers 8 8-9 27, Brad Hamilton 1 1-2 3, A'Darius Porter 1 2-2 4, Matt Putrich 0 0-0 0, Kyle Brown 0 0-0 0 Team 23 20-26

Halftime score: Indian Hills 40, John Wood 33; Three-point field goals: IHCC 7 (Spearman 3, Ricks 2, Buckley, Bobbitt 1), JWCC 5 (Landers 3, Bruenger 2)