The Hillcrest Academy girls and boys basketball teams scored a pair of wins in the Southeast Iowa Superconference Shoot Out to close last week. Thursday, the Raven girls ran away from New London 60-39 at Louisa-Muscatine. Hillcrest led 20-7 after one and 40-18 at the break. The Ravens maintained focus and didn’t let the Tigers back in the contest after intermission. Hillcrest outrebounded New London 44-18, came away with 22 steals and had 10 team assists. Malia Yoder went double double 28 points and 10 rebounds. Claire Withrow ended with 12 points and Niva Helmuth had 16 rebounds. Sophie Malott led the Tigers with 16 points. Head coach Mitchell Drey joined the KCII Radio Coaches Corner Saturday to talk about the win. “Malia Yoder as a point guard 28 points and 10 rebounds. Niva (Helmuth) who’s playing big inside for us, coming back on Thursday, ready to go and hustling, after missing time late against Wapello Tuesday. Delaney (Shaw) was right there close with her. I felt like to start this game the girls wanted to make a point of ‘we’re going to play as hard as we can because we’ve worked hard to get here. We had to fight and claw to get into this spot.’ They came in with the mindset of, all rebounds are already ours, we’re going to force steals, we’re going to play for each other and it showed!”