Warriors Stay Unbeaten with Road Win

Iowa Falls, Ia. -- Showing little effect from a 10-day layoff, the Indian Hills Warriors made a season-best 11 three-pointers and blew out Ellsworth CC on the Panthers' homecourt Tuesday night, pummeling the hosts, 105-83.

It was the 4th time in nine games that Indian Hills has topped the century mark in scoring and pushed their offensive average to just under 100 points a game.

IHCC took the lead for good at 13-11 on a pair of free throws by Brandon Spearman, part of a season-high 29-point outing for Spearman. Twenty of those points came in the first half.

Alfreeman Flowers did his best to keep Ellsworth close in the early-going. He came off the bench to pour in 22 points in the opening half and finished with 34.

Flowers got ECC within a point with a tip-in and Spearman then hit back-to-back 3s to push the Indian Hills lead to 32-26. With the Warriors on top 34-28, Gary Ricks, Jr. buried three consecutive 3s to increase the lead to 43-28 and the Warriors never led by fewer than 10 points the rest of the night.

Ricks and Spearman each had five 3s and Ricks, like Spearman, had a season-high point total tallying 15.

The largest lead for the 4th-ranked Warriors was 29 points in the second half.

Dustin Hogue had 11 points for IHCC and DeAndray Buckley and Jameel McKay scored 10 each. All of Buckley's points came in the first half and all of McKay's came in the second 20 minutes.

Indian Hills will play its 4th straight road game on Saturday night against St. John's Northwestern Military Academy in Marshalltown as part of the Emerson JUCO Challenge. After that, the next six contests for the Warriors, including four in a row in December, are all at home.

INDIAN HILLS 105, ELLSWORTH 83

INDIAN HILLS Brandon Spearman 8 8-9 29, Gary Ricks, Jr. 5 0-0 15, DeAndray Buckley 4 1-1 10, D.J. Bennett 4 0-0 8, Kieran Woods 2 0-0 4, Jameel McKay 5 0-0 10, Roderick Bobbitt 2 2-2 6, Dustin Hogue 5 1-2 11, Ronnie Stevens 3 2-4 8, Frank Williams 1 0-2 2, Rawane Ndiaye 1 0-0 2 Team 40 14-20 105

ELLSWORTH Malcolm Canada 7 3-3 18, Mario Donaldson 5 3-5 17, Jared Fulks 0 0-0 0, Johny Dailey 0 0-0 0, Alfreeman Flowers 14 3-4 34, Abrie Anderson 1 0-0 2, Dwayne Haley 1 0-2 2, Charles Ieans 2 0-0 4, Antone Moore 2 0-0 6 Team 32 9-15 83

Halftime score: Indian Hills 57, Ellsworth 42; Three-point field goals: IHCC 11 (Spearman, Ricks 5, Buckley 1), ECC 10 (Donaldson 4, Flowers 3, Moore 2, Canada 1)