Chestnutt leads Central win

Scott Chestnutt poured in 31 points as Central's boys basketball team knocked off visiting Caruthersville 63-46 Wednesday night and improved to 11-3.

Chestnutt hit 12 of 16 shots from the field as the Tigers shot 69 percent as a team, connecting on 24 of 35.

Ryan Delph and Eli Harris both scored nine points for Central. Mitch Craft had eight points and 12 rebounds.

"We really shot the ball well, Scott had a great game and Mitch really got on the boards," Central coach Derek McCord said.

Kyle Hubbard had 20 points for Caruthersville (4-5), which trailed just 31-27 at halftime.

Central's JV (6-4) lost 48-43 despite 16 points from Tyrone Reece and 11 from Garrett Ozbun. Tuesday, the JV beat Perryville 58-31 as Jared Thomas had 14 points, Ozbun 12 and Reece 10.

Caruthersville `12 15 11 8 -- 46

Central 13 18 17 15 -- 63

CARUTHERSVILLE (46) -- Plessie Ellit 2, Chad Benson 4, Manshane Foreman 4, Kyle Hubbard 20, Dominic Branch 7, Paul Sanders 5, Allen Ford 4. FG 19, FT 4-6, F 23 (3-pointers: Hubbard 2, Branch 1, Sanders 1. Fouled out: Branch)

CENTRAL (63) -- Eli Harris 9, Jake Knepp 4, Will Johnson 2, Ryan Delph 9, Mitch Craft 8, Scott Chestnutt 31. FG 24, FT 14-24, F 13 (3-pointers: Harris 1. Fouled out: Craft)

JV: Caruthersville 48, Central 43

St. Vincent 59, St. Pius 41

St. Vincent led 35-14 at halftime and romped in the first round of the Ste. Genevieve Tournament, a four-team, round-robin event.

Alex Armbruster led the Indians (3-3) with 14 points and Scott Prost had 13.

The Indians play Crystal City at 6 p.m. today and Ste. Genevieve at 7:30 p.m. Friday.

St. Pius 12 2 11 16 -- 41

St. Vincent 18 17 17 7 -- 59

ST. PIUS (41) -- Andy Kennedy 22, Cory Prindville 11, Rodney Blase 4, Carlos Bish 2, Jeff Wingbermueler 2. FG 17, FT 3-4, F 16 (3-pointers: Kennedy 4. Fouled out: none)

ST. VINCENT (59 ) -- Alex Armbruster 14, Scott Prost 13, Zach Moll 9, Danny Rellergert 7, Jacob DeWilde 5, Justin Balsman 4, Pat Siegmund 4, Luke Guyot 3. FG 24, FT 7-15, F 13 (3-pointers: Armbruster 1, Moll 1, Rellergert 1, Guyot 1. Fouled out: none)

Advance 68, Kelly 61

Advance erased a nine-point first quarter deficit to win a home game late Tuesday night.

Tyler Bowman led Advance (6-4) with 21 points and Jeremy Limbaugh had 10. Trey Simmons made five 3-pointers for Kelly and led the Hawks (3-7) with 17 points. Kendal Deason added 13 for Kelly.

Kelly 16 13 11 21 -- 61

Advance 7 24 15 22 -- 68

KELLY (61) -- Brooks Edmonds 4, Kendal Deason 13, Trey Simmons 17, Kent Deason 4, Chris Romas 5, Michael Glastetter 6, Josh Jones 8, Derek Felter 4. FG 21, FT 12-17, F 24 (3-pointers: Kend. Deason 2, Simmons 5. Fouled out: Jones and Kend. Deason)

ADVANCE (68) -- Alex Sample 3, Jeremy Limbaugh 10, Tyler Bowman 21, Daryl Wade 4, Drew Sherman 9, Rylan Dunivan 8, Dustin Kalinski 9, James Masters 4. FG 22, FT 21-34, F 15 (3-pointers: Sample 1, Bowman 2, Dunivan 2, Sherman 1. Fouled out: none)

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Delta Tournament

Top-seeded Twin Rivers routed No. 4 Chaffee 80-57 and No. 2 Delta rolled past No. 3 Woodland 77-43 in the semifinals of the Delta New Year's Tournament.

In consolation semifinals, No. 5 St. Vincent defeated No. 8 Chaffee JV 57-26 and No. 6 Oran beat No. 7 East Prairie 58-44.

Amanda Lance poured in 38 points for Twin Rivers. For Chaffee (4-6), Kegan Orr had 17.

Delta (8-1) got 24 points from Ashley Elliott and 13 from Sarah Cook. Woodland was led by Cortney Glastetter with 17 and Amanda Abner with 16.

Sierra Paulus led St. Vincent (3-6) with 28 points and Ashley Richardet had 10. Casey Guzman scored 16 for Chaffee's JV.

Tiffany Glastetter scored 25 points for Oran and Courtney Nenninger had 13. East Prairie got 13 from Liddia Thomure.

The tournament concludes Saturday.

DELTA 77, WOODLAND 43

Woodland 8 12 17 6 -- 43

Delta 23 26 16 12 -- 77

WOODLAND (43) -- Casey Brimmer 6, Amanda Abner 16, Cortney Glastetter 17, Heather Beel 2, Kandice Abner 2. FG 18, FT 7-15, F 11 (3-pointers: none. Fouled out: none)

DELTA (77) -- Jessica Livingston 7, Sarah Cook 13, Crystal Burnett 3, Ashley Elliott 24, Shea Smith 5, Rachel Ware 2, Kaci Menz 9, Kayla Seabaugh 6, Becky Rozmirsky 8. FG 33, FT 8-11, F 14 (3-pointers: Livingston 1, Cook 1, Menz 1. Fouled out: none)

TWIN RIVERS 80, CHAFFEE 57

Chaffee 14 10 11 22 -- 57

Twin Rivers 18 21 21 20 -- 80

CHAFFEE (57) -- Lindsay Everett 2, Kegan Orr 17, Molly Fowler 5, Amy Holmes 9, Morgan Kiefer 5, Samantha Hendrix 5, Natalie Townsend 7, Sarah Dooley 9. FG 18, FT 17-36, F 15 (3-pointers: Orr 2, Kiefer 1, Townsend 1. Fouled out: none)

TWIN RIVERS (80) -- Amanda Trout 7, Brittany Padron 5, Jessica Marshall 5, Candice Heath 13, Ashley Amerion 2, Chelsey Morgan 4, Amanda Boatner 3, Amanda Lance 38, Huggins 3. FG 32, FT 9-17, F 28 (3-pointers: Lance 2, Huggins 1, Boatner 1, Marshall 1, Padron 1, Trout 1. Fouled out: Padron)

ST. VINCENT 57, CHAFFEE JV 26

Chaffee JV 8 5 6 7 -- 26

St. Vincent 13 15 19 10 -- 57

CHAFFEE JV (26) -- Casey Guzman 16, Rachel Hendrix 4, Christa Beck 2, Suzanne Reischman 1, Chelsey Walter 1, Tori Keyes 1, Tara Propst 1. FG 8, FT 10-26, F 16 (3-pointers: none. Fouled out: none)

ST. VINCENT (57) -- Sierra Paulus 28, Ashley Richardet 10, Amanda Carron 8, Rachel Hadler 5, Laura Gremaud 5, Joy Donze 1. FG 23, FT 8-15, F 18 (3-pointers: Hadler 1. Fouled out: none)

ORAN 58, EAST PRAIRIE 44

East Prairie 4 12 14 14 -- 44

Oran 12 15 16 15 -- 58

EAST PRAIRIE (44) -- Michelle Redman 5, Liddia Thomure 13, Leslie Brown 4, Lacie Tatum 4, Janet Bowers 7, Asia Tipler 11. FG 19, FT 5-11, F 19 (3-pointers: Thomure 1. Fouled out: none)

ORAN (58) -- Tori St. Cin 6, Mandi Wood 6, Wendy Eftink 6, Courtney Nenninger 13, Tiffany Glastetter 25, Amanda Eftink 2. FG 23, FT 12-28, F 11 (3-pointers: none. Fouled out: none)

--From staff reports