Butte Central’s varsity basketball team swept Corvallis in Southwestern A games Saturday afternoon.

Central’s girls went on the road to beat the Blue Devils in a 45-38 battle, while the BC boys rolled to a 66-25 win over Corvallis at the Maroon Activities Center.

The Maroons will close the regular season Tuesday when Dillon comes to town for a doubleheader. BC will be celebrating Senior Night, honoring seniors Caden Tippett, Arika Stajcar and Ryan Peoples before the games.

For the BC boys, a win over the Beavers would give them the outright Southwestern A regular-season title. Central’s girls will host Stevensville in the first Divisional play-in game on Thursday.

BOYS
Butte Central 66, Corvallis 25
Corvallis scored first in the one when Reese Tucker tossed in a buck after a nice pass from teammate Conner Jessop.

That was the end of the good news for the Blue Devils.

Jaxon Hiatt buried a 3-pointer to put Central up 8-5 a few minutes later, and the Maroons took off. Central led 19-7 after the first quarter and 30-12 at halftime.

BC blew the game open with a 21-5 third quarter on its way to improving to 15-2 overall and 8-1 in the Southwestern A.

Despite sitting out the fourth quarter with the game in hand, BC junior Joshua Sutton sank four 3-pointers and scored 16 points to lead all scorers. That ran his career total to 965 points heading into Tuesday’s regular-season finale.

Cade Kelly scored 10 points, and Peoples and Hiatt each scored nine points. Peoples made 5 of 6 foul shots and scored all of his points in the first half to help the Maroons take control.

GG Fantini, who led the team with four steals, joined Noah Sutton with seven points.

Fantini and Peoples each dished out three assists.

Burkley Lakkala, who grabbed seven rebounds, scored three points, and Gunnar O’Brien sank a 3-pointer for his first varsity points of the season.

Henly Mansanti added too points for BC, which also got contributions from Teghan Sparks and Grady Button.

Jessop scored nine points to lead the Blue Devils, who fell to 3-15 and 2-9. Dylan Wirt scored four points and grabbed six rebounds, while Tucker, Nathan Keller, Michael Kearns and Trevin Epling each scored three.

CORVALLIS (3-15, 2-9) — Tanner Sorensen 0-2 0-0 0, Easton Jessop 0-2 0-0 0, Conner Jessop 4-11 0-0 9, Dylan Wirt 2-11 0-0 4, Reese Tucker 1-2 1-2 3, Dexter Harper 0-4 0-2 0, Nathan Keller 1-2 0-0 3, Cole Murdock 0-0 0-0 0, Michael Kearns 1-1 1-2 3, Trevin Epling 1-1 0-0 3. Totals 10-37 2-6 25.
BUTTE CENTRAL (15-2, 8-1) — Ryan Peoples 2-7 5-6 9, Cade Kelly 3-6 2-4 10, Joshua Sutton 6 -11 0-0 16, GG Fantini 3-6 0-0 7, Jaxon Hiatt 4-10 0-0 9, Noah Sutton 3-8 0-0 7, Burkley Lakkala 1-1 1-1 3, Henly Mansanti 1-2 0-0 2, Gunnar O’Brien 1-2 0-0 3, Teghan Sparks 0-0 0-0 0, Grady Button 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 24-53 8-11 66.
Corvallis        7          4          5          8 — 25
Central           19        11        21        15 — 66
3-point goals — Corvallis 3-16 (C. Jessop 1-4, Keller 1-1, Epling 1-1, Wirst 0-3, Harper 0-3, Sorensen 0-2, E. Jessop 0-2), BC 10-28 (J. Sutton 4-7, Kelly 2-2, N. Sutton 1-6, Hiatt 1-5, Fantini 1-3, O’Brien 1-2, Peoples 0-2, Mansanti 0-1). Rebounds — Corvallis 26 (Tucker 6, Wirt 6), BC 29 (Lakkala 7, Hiatt 5, Peoples 4). Assists — Corvallis 4 (C. Jessop 2), BC 10 (Peoples 3, Fantini 3, J. Sutton 2). Steals — Corvallis 0, BC 10 (Fantini 4, Hiatt 2). Turnovers — Corvallis 13, BC 3. Fouls — Corvallis 10, BC 10. Fouled out — none. Technicals — none.

GIRLS
Butte Central 45, Corvallis 38
CORVALLIS — The Maroons used a big third quarter to avenge a home loss to the Blue Devils.

Central led 23-19 at halftime, and the Maroons took control with a 15-5 run in the third quarter as they improved to 6-11 overall and 3-6 in conference with the win over the third-place Blue Devils.

Zayonna Otherbull scored 13 points, and Luci Fantini came off the bench to toss in 11 to lead the Maroons in the win. Kenzie McQueary joined Fantini with a pair of 3-pointers. She scored eight points.

Jaedyn Maldonado scored five points, while Braelyn Schelin scored four, and Jordyn Samson and Rylee Forbes each scored two.

Stajcar also contributed for the Maroons.

Ava Loran scored 14 points to lead the Blue Devils, who fell to 8-10 and 5-5. Ella Varner poured in 11 points, and Kate Allen scored nine.

BUTTE CENTRAL (6-11, 3-6) — Kenzie McQueary 2 2-2 8, Zayonna Otherbull 6 1-3 13, Rylee Forbes 1 0-0 2, Braelyn Schelin 2 0-0 4, Arika Stajcar 0 0-2 0, Jordyn Samson 1 0-0 2, Jaedyn Maldonado 2 1-3 5, Luci Fantini 2 5-6 11. Totals 16 9-16 45.
CORVALLIS (8-10, 5-5) — Ava Loran 3 5-8 14, Ellie Knapp 0 0-0 0, Ella Varner 4 2-2 11, Kate Allen 3 2-2 9, Briella Epling 0 0-0 0, Kaia Benson 1 0-2 2, Savanna Johnson 0 0-0 0, Lauryn Homberg 1 0-0 2. Totals 12 9-14 38.
Central           10        13        15        7 — 45
Corvallis        12        7          5          14 — 38
3-point goals — BC 4 (McQueary 2, Fantini 2), Corvallis 5 (Loran 3, Varner, Allen). Fouls — BC 18, Corvallis 17. Fouled out — none. Technicals — none.