The Hillcrest Academy Raven soccer team travels to Wapello tonight for a Southeast Iowa Superconference match with the Indians. The Ravens come into the night with an overall record of 2-3. The Ravens were shut out last week in a loss to No. 13 Mediapolis 1-0. On the season, Hillcrest is led by Will Kolck with three goals, John Hughes, Dominic Bouse and Johnny Diaz each with one assist and in goal, Aiden Krabill has 34 saves and a 72.3% save percentage.
Wapello is 1-8 on the season, knocking off Highland 5-4 on Tuesday for their first victory of the season. Hector Zepeda had four goals to lead the Indians in the win. On the season, Zepeda has 14 goals to lead the team, Robert Vazquez has a team best five assists and in goal, Kainoa Seumanutafa has made 136 saves with a 70.5% save percentage. Hillcrest has won eight straight in the series including a 6-0 victory in 2019. Action starts tonight at 7p.m. in Wapello.
There was no shortage of postseason awards handed out to the Wapello boys’ basketball team, as they recently had six players receive All-Conference honors by the Southeast Iowa Super Conference.
Maddox Griffin had a monstrous junior campaign and cashed in with a Co-Player of the Year selection in the North Division along with Pekin’s Brady Millikin. Griffin led many statistical categories in the league including points per game with 17.6, 163 total assists, 84 steals, and 71 made free throws. The 6’3’’ guard made 56% of his field goals, was a 72% foul shooter, and brought in 7.1 rebounds a night. Caden Thomas was also selected to the first team. No one in the division was more efficient, as the 6’5’’ senior made 65% of his shots to rank first and his 18 blocks was fifth. Thomas recorded 11.5 points and 6.4 boards a contest.
The No. 13 Wapello Indian boys basketball team saw their season come to an end in heartbreaking fashion in Tuesday’s class 1A district seven championship game against No. 5 Easton Valley 50-48 in double overtime in Clinton. The River Hawk defense made things tough on Wapello early, holding the Indians to just four first quarter points as they built an early advantage of six. Wapello answered back in the second frame to pull within 20-18 at half. Out of the break it was the Wapello defense that dug in, holding Easton Valley to just seven in the third to give the Indians a slim 28-27 lead going to the final quarter. In the fourth, the two teams stayed tight with Easton Valley leading by a pair with just 25 seconds remaining. On the final possession of regulation, the Indians got a tip in to send the game to overtime.