Ottumwa -- Third-ranked Indian Hills was looking for a spark early in the second half of Saturday night's game with No. 19 Howard (TX) College in the final game of the PCS Classic. The visitors had run off nine straight points to open the second half to take a 37-32 lead.
The spark for IHCC came from sophomore guard Gary Ricks, Jr. Ricks scored off an offensive rebound for the first Warrior points of the half, then buried a three-pointer to tie the score at 37. But Ricks wasn't done just yet. He grabbed a defensive rebound and fed Dustin Hogue for a layup that gave the Warriors the lead for good.
By the time Howard scored again, it was a 14-0 run by Indian Hills that turned the game in the Warriors' favor.
Indian Hills pushed the lead to double digits three times in the second half and each time the visiting Hawks came back to cut the deficit to single numbers.
Rico Richardson's 3-pointer sliced the Indian Hills lead to 73-68 with just over three minutes to play, but Roderick Bobbitt picked up one of his 13 assists with a perfect pass to Jameel McKay to put the margin at seven and the Hawks never got closer than six points the rest of the game.
Bobbitt had 12 points and four steals to go along with his 13 assists. Hogue led IHCC with 14 and McKay had 13 points and 11 rebounds.
Howard led only once in the first half, at 11-10, after a rebound basket by Calvin Godfrey. Godfrey, the Hawks' second-leading scorer and a transfer from Iowa State, had eight points at halftime, but added only two more in the second half before fouling out with 10:21 to play.
Shavon Coleman led Howard with 23 points, 17 of them coming in the second half.
Howard drops to 10-3 with the loss. Indian Hills' 13-0 start is the best to open the season since the 2006-07 Warriors won 33 in a row.
INDIAN HILLS 85, HOWARD 77
INDIAN HILLS Brandon Spearman 2 2-2 8, Gary Ricks, Jr. 3 1-2 9, DeAndray Buckley 1 0-0 3, Michael Haynes 3 1-2 7, D.J. Bennett 3 0-0 6, Kieran Woods 2 0-1 4, Jameel McKay 5 3-7 13, Roderick Bobbitt 3 6-8 12, Dustin Hogue 5 4-7 14, Ronnie Stevens 2 1-1 5, Trinson White 0 0-0 0, Rawane Ndiaye 2 0-0 4 Team 31 18-30 85
HOWARD Calvin Godfrey 5 0-1 10, Shavon Coleman 7 7-12 23, Jerry Dixon 3 4-6 10, Rico Richardson 4 0-0 11, Phillip Miller 1 1-1 3, Chad Posthumus 2 1-2 5, Damion McGee 2 2-2 6, Zech Smith 0 0-0 0, Marsalis Stewart 0 0-0 0, Leon Cooper 4 0-0 9 Team 28 15-24
Halftime score: Indian Hills 32, Howard 28; Three-point field goals: IHCC 5 (Spearman, Ricks 2; Buckley 1), HC 6 (Richardson 3, Coleman 2, Cooper 1)
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