Revenge can be oh, so sweet. Especially when it's meted out with the subtlety of a jack hammer.

It was way back on Dec. 22 when the Williamsburg Raiders dealt the Marion Indians their only WaMaC Conference loss of the season. Last Tuesday was the time for the scale to be balanced.

The Indians outscored the Raiders 35-26 in the second half after securing a 35-27 halftime advantage, and Marion beat Williamsburg, 70-53, in league play Jan. 19 at Marion. The Raiders had erased a 23-point Indians lead while winning the first meeting between the two WaMaC West rivals, 72-70, in a pre-Christmas encounter in Williamsburg.

This time the Indians built on their lead instead of squandering it. And after they whipped Maquoketa, 49-36, last Friday in Maquoketa, they owned a six-game winning streak with records of 11 -3 overall and 9-1 in the WaMaC.

There is still a lot of conference basketball left to play. Marion was to travel to Center Point-Urbana Tuesday and host Waterloo Columbus Friday before going head-to-head with Benton Community as part of Rivalry Saturday this weekend at the U.S. Cellular Center (6:45 p.m. tipoff). That's three important league games in five days for the WaMaC West-leading Indians.

The win over Williamsburg was sweet, indeed. The Indians put the clamps on every Raider on the court with the exception of standout Chad Malloy, who scored 25 of Williamsburg's 53 points.

Marion got 23 points from Kasey Semler and 12 from Corey Kramer, each of whom Hunter Sade had 16 points working from inside, Dalton Combs added eight and Dusty Albaugh had seven points and a game-high eight rebounds.

Defense was the order of the day in the win over Maquoketa. The Cardinals totaled just nine field goals and 17 of their 36 points came from the free throw line. The Indians weren't a lot better, hitting just 18 of 45 from the floor (2 of 12 3-pointers) while struggling to find their range.

Semler had 14 points, Sade 13 points and nine rebounds and Kramer 11 points to lead Marion.

Sade averages 14.3 points and 6.9 rebounds per game. Semler is at 13.4 points, Kramer averages 12.3 points while hitting 44.4 percent of his 3-point attempts ( 24 of 54), and Dusty Albaugh averages 7.4 points and 3.8 rebounds.