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It’s an all-KCII area matchup Saturday afternoon in Riverside when the Hillcrest Academy Raven boys basketball team travels to meet the Highland Huskies. The Ravens come into the game with an overall record of 7-5 after a 56-39 loss at Wapello on Friday night. In the loss, the Ravens were led by Eli Ours 17 points. On the year, Ours leads Hillcrest at 16 points per game, fourth in the Superconference North Division. He also has a team best five assists and three steals per contest. John Hughe...

Ravens Face Indians in Return Match

For the second straight game, it was late heroics that lifted the Hillcrest Raven boys basketball team to victory as they took down Danville Saturday 51-49 at Hillcrest Union. Fresh off of a come-from-behind win at Winfield-Mt. Union by two on Friday, the Ravens would find themselves in need of late magic after Danville jumped out to a 16-12 lead after the first quarter. The Ravens hung around, down just two at half, 26-24 thanks to John Hughes 12 points before break. Out of the locker room, th...

An all-KCII area battle Friday night saw the Hillcrest Academy boys basketball team put together a late comeback to beat the Winfield-Mt. Union Wolves 38-36. It was the Ravens that got out to the fast start, leading 12-5 at the end of one quarter and 22-16 at the break in the defensive slugfest. Out of the half, the Wolves dug in even more on the defensive end, using that effort to spur a 14-2 run that spanned the entire third quarter, holding a 30-24 lead going to the fourth. WMU was still up ...

The Hillcrest Academy boys basketball team travels to Winfield-Mt. Union tonight to battle the Wolves in Southeast Iowa Superconference play. The Ravens come into the game at 4-4 on the year, climbing back to .500 on Tuesday with a 65-31 win over rival Lone Tree, in which Grant Bender scored a career high 18 points. On the season, the Ravens are led by Eli Ours at 15 points, three assists and three steals per game. John Hughes leads Hillcrest at five rebounds per game. Winfield-Mt. Union is 4-2...

An area boys’ basketball matchup took place at Hillcrest Union on Tuesday night and the home Ravens enjoyed a lopsided affair against Lone Tree winning 65-31.  From start to finish, the Ravens had a stranglehold on this one by jumping out to a 16-7 lead after one and 33-13 at the break. The only double-digit Lion quarter came in the third with 12 points, but the Ravens never took their foot off the gas offensively and ran away with the 34-point victory. Sophomore Grant Bender registered a ca...

The Hillcrest Academy boys basketball team opens up the second half of their schedule today when they host the Morningstar Mustangs in a non-conference matchup at Dwight Gingerich Court in Kalona. The Ravens come into the afternoon with an overall record of 2-4. Last time out they fell to Pekin on alumni night in Kalona 61-33, giving up 28 straight points to the Panthers. Eli Ours led the way for the Ravens in the loss, scoring 21 points, including five three point goals. For the season, Ours i...

The Pekin Panthers spoiled the virtual alumni night celebration for Hillcrest Academy Friday in Kalona with a boys basketball win over the Ravens 61-33. In a game heard on AM and FM KCII, Pekin put together three different runs over the course of the contest to control action from start to finish. In the first quarter a 7-0 burst put the Panthers up 17-6 midway through the frame before Hillcrest pulled within 20-16 early in the second quarter. The Panthers would close the first half on a 10-0 r...

The Hillcrest Academy boys basketball team is back in Kalona Friday night when the Pekin Panthers come to town. The Ravens are 2-3 on the year after Tuesday’s 70-62 loss to Cardinal in Eldon. Eli Ours led the Ravens in the contest with 18 points. Hillcrest is led in scoring on the season by Ours with 14 points per game. He also has a team best three and a half assists per contest and over three steals per game. John Hughes leads Hillcrest on the glass, pulling in five rebounds per game. Pekin...

The Hillcrest Academy boys basketball team fell below the .500 mark for the season on Tuesday with a 70-62 road loss at Cardinal of Eldon. The Ravens built a small lead early, up 6-2 in the game’s first two minutes, but the Comets closed the first quarter on a 21-4 run to take a lead they would not give up the rest of the night. After falling behind by 16, the Ravens clawed back into the game late in the first half to pull within seven before an Ian Liles banked in three pointer put Cardinal ...