Williams' Career Night Helps Warriors To Road Win

Cedar Rapids, IA -- Frank Williams buried his fourth 3-pointer of the game, right before the buzzer at the end of the first half, to give Indian Hills a lead it would not relinquish as the Warriors went on to dump Kirkwood, 95-88, at Johnson Hall on Tuesday night.

Williams' bucket made it 39-37 at the half, in favor of the Warriors, who had battled back from an early seven-point deficit.  The 6-7 sophomore added two more 3s in the second half on his way to a career-high 20 points.

Jelan Kendrick started the second half for the Warriors with a 3-point play.  After Kirkwood's Devan Douglas hit a 3-pointer, Williams answered with a three of his own to make it, 46-40. 

IHCC eventually built the lead to 12 at 56-44.  Kirkwood cut the deficit to three points after a pair of free throws by Gage Heffernan, but Ronald Ross put the lead back at six with his third 3 of the game and the Indian Hills lead was never less than six the rest of the way.

The Warriors followed up a poor first-half free throw shooting performance by making 22-of-27 in the final half.  The two teams combined to shoot 90 free throws and there were 62 fouls called in the contest.

Dustin Hogue scored all of his 14 points in the second half for the Warriors and Gary Williams, Jr. scored 13, all but two of them at the foul line where he was 11-for-15.  Indian Hills had six players in double figures.  Kirkwood had five, led by 17 points each for Najeal Young and J.C. Fuller. 

Indian Hills now returns home for five consecutive games, starting with two in the PCS Classic this weekend.  The Warriors face Malcolm X on Friday and Independence (KS) Saturday.

INDIAN HILLS 95, KIRKWOOD 88

INDIAN HILLS 

Jameel McKay 5 2-4 12, Richard Amardi 2 2-4 6, TrinsonWhite 1 1-2 4, Dustin Hogue 3 8-9 14, Ronald Ross 3 1-4 10, Jelan Kendrick 4 3-5 11, Justin Moss 1 2-3 4, Frank Williams 6 2-2 20, Ronnie Stevens 0 1-2 1, Gary Williams, Jr. 1 11-15  Team 26 33-50 95

KIRKWOOD

Kevin Hunter 5 1-3 11, Najeal Young 6 5-7 17, Shaun Manego 0 3-4, Derek Witt 0 0-0 0, J.C. Fuller 6 3-4 17, Taylor Olson 0 2-2 2, Devan Douglas 5 5-6 16, Kasey Semler 2 2-2 8, Jalen Currie 0 3-4 3, Gage Heffernan 2 7-8 11  Team 26 31-40 88

Halftime score: Indian Hills 39, Kirkwood 37; Three-point field goals: IHCC 10 (F. Williams 6; Ross 3; White 1), KCC 5 (Fuller, Semler 2; Douglas 1)