West Plains, Missouri -- Both teams started the night with red-hot shooting, but Indian Hills was able to sustain that marksmanship the entire game and Missouri State-West Plains cooled off after their early success, and the Warriors went on to down the Grizzlies, 98-82, Saturday.  It was the 9th win in a row for IHCC and their 15th of the year in 17 games.

The victory allowed Indian Hills to continue their recent domination of MS-WP.  The win was their 9th straight in the series and they lead the Grizzlies in the all-time ledger, 27-5.

The winners got double-double performances from Tyon Grant-Foster and Maurice Calloo.  Grant-Foster poured in 18 points and collected 11 boards while Calloo, coming off a season-high 19 points the previous day, scored 12 with a season-best 14 rebounds.  Those two helped Indian Hills to a sizeable advantage on the glass, 51-33.

After the Grizzlies' Sardaar Calhoun hit a three to begin the scoring, IHCC's Chris Childs answered with a pair of treys.  Indian Hills grabbed a quick 12-3 lead on a Drake Jeffries 3-pointer, but Calhoun put the finishing touches on his squad's early comeback with another three.  All five of their field goals to that point, in a 15-15 tie, were threes.

But the visitors kept on firing.  Another Jeffries triple and others by Grant-Foster and Loseni Kamara allowed IHCC to build the lead to as many as 13 late in the first period.  The margin was 11 at the break.  It was a still a double-digit advantage until the Grizzlies got as close as they were the entire half at 62-56 on a bucket by Calhoun.  That was also the third and final basket of the game for Calhoun.  His team's scoring leader with a 21.5 average was limited to only eight points.

Indian Hills used a 14-2 run after seeing the deficit cut to six and was never threatened again.  Childs, who had back-to-back 3s to begin the final half, made two more as the Warriors were pulling away and ended the night with six, pushing his season total to 63.  He led the Indian Hills score sheet with 22 points.

The Warriors got a solid contribution from sophomore guard Malique Jacobs.  He scored on three consecutive possessions in the second half, made four straight foul shots after that, and wound up with a season-high 14 points.

The 12 3-pointers Indian Hills made gave them at least a dozen for the 7th game in a row.

Missouri State-West Plains was paced by Quentin Jones with 24 points.

The victory completes a season sweep over the Grizzlies for the Warriors, who have also beaten State Fair (Mo.) twice and another Region XVI team, Moberly, once.  They play Moberly again at home on Feb. 5.

Indian Hills has back-to-back home games next weekend -- against a pair of Illinois schools.  They'll take on John Wood Friday and Kankakee Saturday.

INDIAN HILLS 98, MISSOURI STATE-WEST PLAINS 82

INDIAN HILLS

Maurice Calloo 5 1-2 12, Tyrese Nickelson 0 2-2 2, Loseni Kamara 4 0-0 9, Chris Childs 8 0-0 22, Malique Jacobs 5 4-4 14, Tyon Grant-Foster 8 1-3 18, Drake Jeffries 5 0-0 13, Ben Lyon 0 0-0 0, Samba Kane 3 2-4 8  Team 38 10-16 98

MISSOURI STATE-WEST PLAINS

Sardaar Calhoun 3 0-0 8, Quentin Jones 8 2-2 24, Taevon Horton 4 1-1 10, Alex Peterson 4 1-1 9, Zavien Smith 3 1-1 7, D'Andre Vilmar 3 0-0 6, Nico Hill 1 0-0 3, Alex Rodrigues 6 0-0 15, Malik Tidwell 0 0-0 0  Team 32 5-5 82

Halftime score: Indian Hills 48, MS-WP 37; Three-point field goals: IHCC 12 (Childs 6, Jeffries 3, Calloo 1, Kamara 1, Grant-Foster 1), MS-WP 13 (Jones 6, Rodrigues 3, Calhoun 2, Horton 1, Hill 1)