CHILLICOTHE — The St. Joseph Flyers made a good first impression.
The Flyers played the Ross County Christian Eagles for the first time ever on Tuesday and came away with a 69-45 win.
Wesley Neal led the Flyers with a game-high 17 points with Eli Whaley hitting three 3-pointers as he scored 11 points.
The Eagles (5-5) were led by Daniel Garabedian with 15 points and Samuel Clevenger with 11.
Whaley drained a pair of 3-pointers and scored 8 points and Landon Rowe scored 4 points as St. Joseph took an 18-8 first quarter lead.
Neal took over in the second quarter and scored 9 points including 3-of-4 at the foul line with Whaley adding another trey as the Flyers extended the lead to 36-19 at the break.
Garabedian and Carson Ramey scored 4 points each for the Eagles.
Neal scored 6 more points and Drew Brown got 4 more points and St. Joseph was now ahead 50-33.
Samuel Clevenger scored 7 points including 5-of-6 at the line for the Eagles.
The Flyers outscored the Eagles 19-xx in the fourth quarter to win going away.
Evan Balestra hit a trifecta and scored 7 points with Zane “Z-Man” Dressel and Jake Stephens scoring 4 points each for the Flyers.
Garabedian hit a pair of 3-pointers and Eli Delong added 5 points for Ross County Christian.
St. Joseph 18 18 14 19 = 69
Ross Christian 8 11 14 12 = 45
ST. JOSEPH (2-5): Jack Whaley 1 0 0-0 2, Brady Medinger 0 0 0-0 0, Aiden Deborde 0 0 0-0 0, Eli Whaley 1 3 0-0 11, Landon Rowe 3 0 0-0 6, Ian Whaley 0 0 0-0 0, Evan Balestra 3 1 0-0 9, Kai Clark 0 0 0-0 0, Drew Brown 3 0 0-0 6, Jake Stephens 4 0 0-0 8, Wesley Neal 7 0 3-4 17, Zane Dressel 2 0 0-2 4, Carter Johnson 3 0 0-0 6. Totals: 27 4 3-6 69. Fouls: 19. Fouled out: Stephens.
ROSS COUNTY CHRISTIAN (5-5): Nathaniel Clevenger 2 0 4-9 8, Caleb Dorrance 0 0 0-0 0, Daniel Garabedian 4 2 1-1 15, Eli DeLong 3 0 1-3 7, Jayden Beverly 0 0 0-0 0, Carson Ramey 1 0 2-2 4, Samuel Clevenger 1 1 6-8 11, Cash Detillian 0 0 0-0 0. Totals: 11 3 14-23 45. Fouls: 6. Fouled out: None.
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