Wednesday, November 30, 2011

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)

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Indian Hills Gets National Recognition

Ottumwa -- The Indian Hills basketball team maintained its No. 4 national ranking in this week’s National Junior College Athletic Association poll and has moved into the top spot in another poll.

The Warriors, off to an 8-0 start, took over the No. 1 ranking in the second installment of the JucoRecruiting.com Top 50, released on Tuesday. That poll ranks the top junior college basketball programs in the country, including those in California and Washington, who are not members of the NJCAA. And it includes all programs regardless of division or region.

In the JucoRecruiting.com ratings, Indian Hills leads a top five that also includes Northwest Florida State, Monroe CC from New York, Palm Beach State (Fla.) and College of Southern Idaho.

Indian Hills was third in the initial poll, behind Southern Idaho and City College of San Francisco.

The Warriors moved up from ninth to fourth in the NJCAA poll last week and remain in the No. 4 slot this week. They trail Monroe, Coffeyville CC and Northwest Florida in that poll and are just ahead of Palm Beach State.

Two future IHCC opponents – Vincennes (No. 7) and Howard College (No. 12) – are also included in the NJCAA Top 20. Upcoming foes Iowa Western CC, Missouri State-West Plains and Paris JC all received votes but didn’t make the Top 20. Three Rivers CC, one of two teams the Warriors defeated in a tournament in Missouri last weekend, was rated 19th at the time. They dropped out of this week’s rankings.

Indian Hills is currently in the midst of a 10-day break before returning to action at Ellsworth CC on Nov. 29. The next home game for the Warriors will be against Kirkwood CC on Dec. 6.

Kirkwood is fresh off a 20-point win over Southeastern CC last Saturday night and was 15th in last week’s NJCAA Division II poll.

Monday, November 21, 2011

Indian Hills Goes to 8-0 with Win in Missouri

Park Hills, Mo. -- The Indian Hills Warriors head into a 10-day break with a perfect record after the Warriors took care of Mineral Area College, 73-69, on the Cardinals' home floor on Saturday night.

The win was the third straight for the Warriors against a Missouri school and came one night after Mineral Area had knocked off No. 12 Wabash Valley. But Mineral Area couldn't make it two straight wins against ranked opponents as the No. 4 Warriors, even though they had trouble subduing Mineral Area, escaped with an 8-0 record.

Indian Hills led 42-31 in the early stages of the second half, but the Cardinals quickly shaved the lead to 48-47. After a MAC free throw, Gary Ricks, Jr., who had not scored up to that point, drilled back-to-back 3s to give the Warriors some breathing room.

DeAndray Buckley had a key play late in the game for Indian Hills, hustling the length of the floor to follow up a missed layup with a putback to give IHCC a seven-point advantage.

Roderick Bobbitt then nailed down the win for the Warriors, going to the free throw line three times in the final 33.4 seconds and hitting both ends of a one-and-one each time.

Bobbitt had a season-high 16 points for Indian Hills which withstood the outside shooting of the Cardinals in the second half. Mineral Area made seven 3s in the final half, four of them by Miguel Felipe. Jerome Davis and Darian Hooker had 20 points apiece for MAC.

Indian Hills won't play again until they travel to Iowa Falls to take on Ellsworth CC on Nov. 29.

INDIAN HILLS 73, MINERAL AREA 69

INDIAN HILLS Brandon Spearman 5 0-0 11, Gary Ricks, Jr. 2 0-0 6, DeAndray Buckley 2 0-1 4, Michael Haynes 2 0-0 4, D.J. Bennett 2 0-0 4, Kieran Woods 4 2-4 10, Dustin Hogue 3 6-7 12, Ronnie Stevens 2 2-7 6, Trinson White 0 0-0 0, Devin Delaney 0 0-0 0, Roderick Bobbitt 4 8-8 16 Team 26 18-27 73

MINERAL AREA Jerome Davis 6 4-6 20, Darian Hooker 6 6-9 20, Miguel Felipe 4 0-0 12, Corrion Johnson 0 0-2 0, Fred Garmon 3 0-0 6, Randrick Caruthers 0 0-0 0, Donavan Jones 0 0-0 0, Jermaine Jones 2 0-0 4, Devontae Flanagan 0 0-2 0, Miguel Gotti-Ramos 2 3-6 7 Team 23 13-25 69

Halftime score: Indian Hills 33, Mineral Area 26; Three-point field goals: IHCC 3 (Ricks 2, Spearman 1); MAC 10 (Davis, Felipe 4; Hooker 2)

Saturday, November 19, 2011

In Battle of Rateds, Warriors Prevail

Park Hills, Mo. -- A second-half scoring barrage by sophomore guard Brandon Spearman helped propel Indian Hills to an 89-82 victory against Three Rivers CC in the opening game of the Bob Sechrest Memorial Classic on Friday.

Indian Hills, ranked 4th in the first regular-season NJCAA poll earlier in the week, defeated No. 19 Three Rivers for the first time in three trips to this tournament. And the Warriors scored 32 more points than they did against the Raiders in last year's matchup and 42 more than they managed against TRCC the year before that.

Michael Haynes scored on a three-point play in the second half to give the Warriors a 57-53 lead. After that, Spearman took over. He scored on a driving layup to build the lead to five. A couple minutes later, with the Warriors leading by two, Spearman hit his first of four three-pointers in the second half.

By the time he was done with his long-range shooting, Indian Hills was up by double-digits -- they eventually led by 12 -- and on the way to their 7th win in a row to start the season.

Spearman tallied a game-high 22 points, also a season-high, and got help from Haynes, who had 13, and Gary Ricks, Jr. and Kieran Woods with 11 each.

Indian Hills led for much of the first half, their largest lead at 35-21 after a 10-0 run. Three Rivers pulled to within two points, 43-41, at intermission.

The Raiders had two brief leads in the second half, the last at 53-52, before IHCC scored seven straight points and never trailed again.

Three Rivers cut a 12-point deficit in half with two minutes remaining, but didn't get any closer. The Warriors preserved the victory by making nine of 12 free throws down the stretch.

Indian Hills will try to make it a sweep against Region 16 foes in the tourney when they battle host school Mineral Area on Saturday night.

INDIAN HILLS 89, THREE RIVERS 82

INDIAN HILLS Brandon Spearman 8 1-4 22, Gary Ricks, Jr. 3 3-6 11, DeAndray Buckley 1 4-4 6, Michael Haynes 5 3-4 13, D.J. Bennett 2 0-0 4, Kieran Woods 2 7-11 11, Dustin Hogue 2 1-2 5, Ronnie Stevens 2 2-4 6, Trinson White 1 0-0 3, Roderick Bobbitt 1 6-8 8 Team 27 27-43 89

THREE RIVERS Ibrahim Djambo 6 6-7 19, Gerry Smith 3 3-4 9, Rudy Harrell 3 2-4 8, Tarius Johnson 7 3-5 18, Elgin Lee 7 1-2 15, Jordan McGowan 1 0-1 3, Ignas Palaima 1 0-1 2, Donnell Minnis 4 0-1 8, Bobby Peebles 0 0-0 0, Will Hollifield 0 0-0 0 Team 32 15-25 82

Halftime score: Indian Hills 43, Three Rivers 41; Three-point field goals: IHCC 8 (Spearman 5, Ricks 2, White 1), TRCC 3 (Djambo, Johnson, McGowan 1)

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Warriors up to 4th in the Nation

Ottumwa -- The bulls-eye on the uniforms of Barret Peery's Indian Hills Warriors just got a little bit larger with the Warriors moving up to fourth in the latest NJCAA basketball poll.

Indian Hills was rated 9th in the preseason poll and, thanks to a 6-0 start to their season, moved up five places in the first regular-season poll.

Coach Peery had said of the preseason ranking, "I’m excited to know that people recognize the hard work that we have put in to build this team so quickly. There will be pressure on us from Day 1 with a bulls-eye on our chest.”

Monroe College from New York is the No. 1 team in the latest poll, ascending to the top spot from their No. 2 preseason rating after downing preseason-No.1 College of Southern Idaho in the first weekend of the regular season.

Coffeyville (KS) CC is second and Palm Beach State College is third. Another Florida school, Northwest Florida State, is ranked right behind the Warriors at No. 5.

The next IHCC opponent, Three Rivers CC, slipped from 10th to 19th in the latest poll. The Warriors and Raiders will battle on Friday in the opening game of the Bob Sechrest Memorial Classic at Mineral Area College in Park Hills, Missouri. Indian Hills will take on Mineral Area on Saturday night. This weekend's contests mark the start of a stretch of four straight games on the road for the Warriors. Five of their first six wins have come on their home court.

Two future opponents of Indian Hills are in this week's Top 20. Howard (TX) College is No. 10. The Warriors will host Howard in the PCS Classic on Dec. 10. Vincennes University of Indiana, whom the Warriors will play at home on Jan. 3 and in Indiana on Feb. 7, is rated 14th.

Missouri State-West Plains, another future home-and-home foe of the Warriors, and conference rival Southeastern CC both received votes, but not enough to make it into the Top 20.

Ricks Selected as Scholarship Recipient

Ottumwa -- Indian Hills sophomore guard Gary Ricks, Jr. is this year's recipient of the Arnold Black Memorial Scholarship. Ricks, from Sylmar, California, was chosen for the award by the IHCC athletic department and coaching staff.

The 6-1 Ricks led the Warriors in three-point shooting and free-throw shooting last year as a freshman and was the team's second-leading scorer with a 12.5 average. He made 73 3-pointers for the season and had at least one three in 30 of the Warriors' 33 games.

The scholarship was established in 1992 in honor of Black, a former Ottumwa businessman who was a loyal Indian Hills basketball supporter. It is awarded to a sophomore who best exemplifies the strong competitive spirit shown by Black and exhibits his love for the game of basketball.

Last year's award winner was Dijon Farr. Past winners of the scholarship include Terry Black, Chauncey Leslie, Zach Morley and Sean Haluska.

Monday, November 14, 2011

First-Half Blitz Buries Carl Sandburg

Ottumwa -- Visiting Carl Sandburg College had to feel pretty good about the way they started out in Saturday's final game of the Reed Overhead Doors Classic against home-standing Indian Hills. Chad Thompson had three early three-pointers for the Chargers and when Zach Grover nailed a long three Carl Sandburg had a 20-13 lead.

But when the Warriors finally got untracked they did so in a big way. A 34-0 run overwhelmed the Chargers and vaulted IHCC into a lead that grew to 54-25 by halftime. The Warriors outscored Carl Sandburg 41-5 to close the first half and didn't let up in the second half as Indian Hills ended a stretch of six games in the first nine days of the season in a 117-59 blowout win.

It was the third time this season that Indian Hills eclipsed the 100-point mark and it pushed their season scoring average to 103.2 points a game.

All 13 players who saw action for the Warriors scored and seven were in double figures, led by Kieran Woods with 17. Jameel McKay had 15 points and 15 rebounds and Ronnie Stevens also had a double-double with 10 points and 10 boards.

Thompson, who had the hot hand early for the Chargers, led all scorers with 25 points and hit six 3s.

Indian Hills made it through their opening six games unbeaten and will have some time off before taking on Three Rivers CC in the first game of the Bob Sechrest Classic at Mineral Area College next Friday. Three Rivers was ranked 10th in the NJCAA preseason poll, one spot behind Indian Hills.

INDIAN HILLS 117, CARL SANDBURG 59

INDIAN HILLS Brandon Spearman 5 3-6 14, Gary Ricks 2 1-2 7, DeAndray Buckley 5 0-0 11, D.J. Bennett 5 0-0 10, Kieran Woods 7 1-2 17, Jameel McKay 7 1-1 15, Frank Williams 2 0-0 5, Dustin Hogue 1 0-1 2, Ronnie Stevens 5 0-0 10, Trinson White 4 2-4 10, Devin Delaney 3 1-2 8, Roderick Bobbitt 1 3-4 5, Gary Ross 1 0-0 3 Team 48 12-22 117

CARL SANDBURG Chad Thompson 7 5-6 25, Dakota Grider 1 0-0 3, Seth Wickert 3 2-2 8, Spencer Pratt 1 0-1 2, Marvin Nunn 2 1-4 5, Caleb Lepisto 1 1-4 3, Chris Martin 0 0-0 0, Zach Grover 2 4-4 10, Jordan Hart 1 0-0 3 Team 18 13-21 59

Halftime score: Indian Hills 54, Carl Sandburg 25; Three-point field goals: IHCC 9 (Ricks, Woods 2; Spearman, Buckley, Williams, Delaney, Ross 1), CSC 10 (Thompson 6, Grover 2, Grider, Hart 1)

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Weekly Coaches' Show Debuts Tonight

Ottumwa -- Indian Hills basketball coach Barret Peery will be featured on a weekly show on KMGO Radio (98.7 FM), live from Appanoose Rapids Brewing Company on East Main Street in Ottumwa.

KMGO's Edwin Brand will host the program, which will air from 6 - 7pm every Wednesday night during the basketball season. Coach Peery will take questions from listeners as well as from those in attendance. He will also have special guests, including IHCC players, during the course of the season.

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)

Friday, November 11, 2011

Warriors Return Home and Rout Mid Michigan

Ottumwa -- Indian Hills broke open a tight game with a 9-0 spurt in the first half and then used a 23-2 run early in the second half in posting their fourth straight win to begin the season, a 109-56 pasting of visiting Mid Michigan CC on Thursday night.

The Warriors turned a 26-19 lead into a 35-19 advantage on five free throws and a pair of baskets by Dustin Hogue. After MMCC's DeOndra Callahan scored four straight points, the Warriors' Jameel McKay hit a bucket to build the lead to 14 and that's where it was at halftime.

Indian Hills ran away from the visitors at the start of the second half, using their trademark press to force numerous turnovers, many of which they converted into easy baskets.

Thirteen straight points by IHCC were interrupted by a Mid Michigan field goal, and the Warriors then ran off 10 more points to double the score on the Lakers at 72-36.

Michael Haynes, McKay and Hogue all scored 15 points for the Warriors, who improved to 4-0 on the season. MMCC had only double-figure scorer -- Jake Blake with 10.

Indian Hills will host the Reed Overhead Doors Classic this weekend, starting with a game against John Wood CC on Friday night.

INDIAN HILLS 109, MID MICHIGAN 56

INDIAN HILLS Brandon Spearman 4 0-0 9, Gary Ricks 1 1-2 3, DeAndray Buckley 1 3-4 6, Michael Haynes 7 1-4 15, D.J. Bennett 3 0-0 6, Kieran Woods 2 3-3 7, Jameel McKay 6 3-7 15, Frank Williams 4 2-2 12, Dustin Hogue 7 0-1 15, Ronnie Stevens 0 1-3 1, Trinson White 1 4-4 7, Devin Delaney 3 0-0 6, Roderick Bobbitt 3 1-1 7, Gary Ross 0 0-0 0 Team 42 19-31 109

MID MICHIGAN Sheldon Lowman 2 5-5 9, DeOndra Callahan 2 4-4 9, Williams Sams, Jr. 0 4-6 4, Jake Blake 5 0-2, Allen Seales 0 0-0 , Branden Robinson 2 2-7 7, Kyle Gross 0 0-0 0, Lance Maney 0 4-4 4, Dwayne Cureton 2 0-0 4, Matt Loomis 0 1-2 1, Tony Larkins 0 0-0 0, Austin Irrer 3 1-1 8 Team 16 21-31 56

Halftime score: Indian Hills 46, Mid Michigan 32; Three-point field goals: IHCC 6 (Williams 2, Spearman, Buckley, Hogue, White 1), MMCC 3 (Callahan, Robinson, Irrer 1)

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Warriors Pass First Road Test

Sedalia, MO -- Indian Hills coach Barret Peery was anxious to see how his team would respond to its first road game after his Warriors opened the season with back-to-back homecourt wins. And he had to be pleased with the Warriors' play in a 91-86 win at State Fair CC on Tuesday night.

The game wasn't decided until IHCC's Brandon Spearman hit two free throws with 1.1 seconds on the clock. Spearman's foul shots came after teammate Jameel McKay hit one of two free throws with 16.1 seconds left.

State Fair then had two chances to get to within one point, but missed both shots before Spearman was fouled and iced the win.

With the Warriors leading by four at 88-84, SFCC's Kenny Chery, who led all scorers with 31 points, stole a pass and made a layup to cut the lead in half. State Fair then got another steal in the IHCC backcourt, but couldn't score from in close and McKay rebounded the miss. That's when he hit one free throw to make it a three-point game.

The game was tight throughout with 12 ties and six lead changes. The Warriors owned the biggest lead of the night when Frank Williams hit consecutive field goals to build a 42-34 advantage. Chery's late first-half bucket cut the lead to two at the half.

State Fair had a couple of brief leads in the second half. With the game tied, Spearman scored on a driving layup to give IHCC the lead for good at 70-68. Williams nailed a three-pointer in transition to make it 78-72 with around five minutes to play, but again, the Roadrunners came back.

They were within a point after a Michael Bradley free throw with just over four minutes remaining. Michael Haynes had two big baskets for the Warriors and McKay added a layup off a steal to help Indian Hills hold on.

Spearman led the IHCC scoring with 19 points and Haynes added 15.

Indian Hills plays three more games this week, all at home, starting with a contest against Mid Michigan CC on Thursday night.

INDIAN HILLS 91, STATE FAIR 86

INDIAN HILLS Brandon Spearman 7 4-4 19, Gary Ricks 2 2-2 7, DeAndray Buckley 2 2-2 7, Michael Haynes 6 3-4 15, D.J. Bennett 0 0-0 0, Kieran Woods 5 2-4 14, Jameel McKay 3 2-4 8, Frank Williams 5 0-0 12, Ronnie Stevens 0 0-0 0, Roderick Bobbitt 4 1-2 9, Rawane Ndiaye 0 0-0 0 Team 34 16-22 91

STATE FAIR Kenny Chery 11 9-10 31, Fred Wilson 5 6-10 17, Ayodele Ojo 2 2-4 6, Antonin Galaya 2 4-4 10, Michael Bradley 5 3-4 13, Lucas Kidane 1 0-0 2, Charles Beard 0 2-2 2, D'Angelo Tucker 1 2-2 5 Team 27 28-36 86

Halftime score: Indian Hills 46, State Fair 44; Three-point field goals: IHCC 7 (Williams, Woods 2, Spearman, Ricks, Buckley 1; SFCC 4 (Galaya 2, Wilson, Tucker 1)

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Warriors Down Highland, Go to 2-0

Ottumwa -- The 9th-ranked Indian Hills Warriors completed a season-opening sweep of their two games in the Jack Blackwell Tire Company Classic on Saturday night, holding off a late rally to upend Highland (Ill.) CC, 89-75, at the Hellyer Center.

Indian Hills was finally able to put some distance between themselves and the visiting Cougars by grabbing a 79-59 lead in the second half. Highland then provided some anxious moments as they quickly cut the deficit to 80-69. But HCC couldn't score on a possession that would have cut the IHCC lead to single digits and the Warriors went on to notch their second straight win to open the 2011-12 campaign.

The Cougars took an 18-11 first half lead, hitting two of their four 3-pointers for the game to jump ahead. The Warriors went ahead on a Michael Haynes basket at 21-20 and Roderick Bobbitt gave IHCC the lead for good with a three that broke a 23-all tie.

The Warriors outscored HCC, 11-3 to start the second half and never led by fewer than 10 points the rest of the night.

Jameel McKay helped to jump-start the IHCC offense with 13 first-half points and he led the Warriors' scoring with 20. Haynes added 13 and Buckley chipped in 12. Parker paced Highland with 16.

Indian Hills goes on the road for the first time on Tuesday night when the Warriors battle State Fair CC in Sedalia, Missouri. They will play four games in five nights next week with the final three games in consecutive nights at home.


INDIAN HILLS 89, HIGHLAND 75

INDIAN HILLS Brandon Spearman 1 3-6 5, Gary Ricks 2 0-0 6, DeAndray Buckley 3 5-5 12, Michael Haynes 6 1-1 13, D.J. Bennett 3 0-0 6, Kieran Woods 3 1-2 9, Jameel McKay 7 6-10, Dustin Hogue 2 1-3 5, Ronnie Stevens 1 1-2 3, Trinson White 0 0-0 0, Roderick Bobbitt 2 3-5 8, Rawane Ndiaye 1 0-0 2 Team 31 21-34 89

HIGHLAND Tre' Burnette 4 0-0 9, Deonte Jones 3 2-2 10, Demetrius Tolliver 3 1-1 7, Kris Sereme 1 0-0 2, Michael Ochereobia 2 1-2 5, Joseph Danforth 1 2-6 5, Aaron Nelson 7 1-2 15, Jeremy Parker 4 8-9 16, Samuel Ford 2 1-2 5, Tariq Qaasim 1 0-0 2 Team 27 16-24 75

Halftime score: Indian Hills 38, Highland 33; Three-point field goals: IHCC 6 (Ricks, Woods 2, Buckley, Bobbitt 1), HCC 4 (Jones 2, Burnette, Danforth 1)

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Lopsided Win for Warriors to Open Season

Ottumwa -- An early 20-0 run enabled Indian Hills to take control and the No. 9-ranked Warriors went on to rout Indiana Dabney University, 119-57, in IHCC's season opener in the Jack Blackwell Tire Company Classic on Friday night.

The visitors were playing only the second game in the program's history. They had lost an overtime contest to Malcolm X earlier in the week.

They grabbed a 7-3 lead as the Warriors started slowly on the offensive end. But Indian Hills finally got untracked, ran off 20 points in a row and never looked back.

The Warriors put up 101 shots, grabbed 70 rebounds and attempted 36 free throws as 13 of the 15 players who saw action scored.

Dustin Hogue led the way with 20 points for Indian Hills, 13 of them coming in the first half as IHCC opened up a 61-31 lead at intermission.

Hogue was one of six players in double figures. Kieran Woods added 18 points and Michael Haynes 17 for Indian Hills in new head coach Barret Peery's Warrior debut.

Michael Skinner was the lone IDU player in double digits with 10 points.

Indian Hills will take on Highland (Ill.) CC on the second night of the tourney on Saturday night. Highland rallied in the second half to down the William Penn JV, 74-61, in Friday's first game.

INDIAN HILLS 119, INDIANA DABNEY UNIVERSITY 57

INDIAN HILLS Brandon Spearman 4 4-4 12, Gary Ricks, Jr. 0 0-0 0, DeAndray Buckley 1 0-1 4, Michael Haynes 6 4-6 17, D.J. Bennett 5 1-1 11, Kieran Woods 6 5-5 18, Jameel McKay 4 2-4 10, Frank Williams 4 0-0 9, Dustin Hogue 9 2-5 20, Ronnie Stevens 1 0-0 2, Trinson White 1 2-2 5, Devin Delaney 1 2-2 4, Roderick Bobbitt 2 2-2 6, Rawane Ndiaye 0 1-4 1, Gary Ross 0 0-0 0 Team 45 25-36 119

INDIANA DABNEY Brandon Hill 0 0-2 0, Kyle Holmes 4 0-1 8, Sodiq Ayanlaja 1 4-6 6, Steve Hilal 0 0-0 0, Tony Jones 2 0-2 4, Charles Outlaw 1 5-6 7, Michael Skinner 3 3-6 10, Andre Lemott 0 0-0 0, Shawn Starks 2 4-6 8, Jeremy Shedrick 2 2-2 8, Archie Boyd 3 0-6 6 Team 18 18-37 57

Halftime score: Indian Hills 61, Indiana Dabney 31; Three-point field goals: IHCC 4 (Haynes, Woods, Williams,White 1); IDU 3 (Shedrick 2, Skinner 1)