In the 80s and early 90s, Major League Baseball was terrorized by the self proclaimed Bash Brothers of the Oakland Athletics, Jose Canseco and Mark McGuire, who weren’t actually related. Thirty years later, the Southeast Iowa Superconference has an actual pair of brothers to contend with for Hillcrest Academy in Luke and London Schrock that have put up enormous numbers on the baseball diamond. London, a senior and Luke, a sophomore, each drove in 34 runs on the season, seventh all time in Hillcrest program history for a single year. They fit in just ahead of Tyson Schrock and Cameron Gingerich and just behind Lance Yoder. That number was second best in the conference this year. The pair both hit above .400 with Luke at .407, fifth in the Superconference and London .405, right behind him in sixth. Luke edged London in the hits column, 33 to 32, the second and fourth highest totals in the SEISC in 2021 respectively. Both were first team All-Superconference selections.

London was part of a three way tie atop the Superconference in the home run chase in 2021 with three, joining Tyler Bell of Lone Tree and Jared Woerly of Louisa-Muscatine. Luke belted two homers this year, including a grand slam against rival Lone Tree that completed a 9-2 Raven comeback for a 16-10 win. London’s career RBI total of 75 places him seventh on the all-time Hillcrest list, ahead of Jackson Brokaw and behind Dallas Nye. While London Schrock may be departing through graduation after the 2021 season, that doesn’t necessarily mean that the Bash Brothers moniker can’t continue for  the Schrocks and the Ravens as younger brother Liam was also a member of the Hillcrest team this year as an eighth grader where he had nine hits and five RBI to go along with 14 runs scored in his first varsity season. Hillcrest finished the year with a 14-10 overall record.