VOLGA – Carly Granum topped the 1,000-point mark for her career as Sioux Valley beat Chester Area 67-31 in a Big East Conference girls’ basketball game Tuesday night.

The senior went 9-of-19 from 3-point range for 27 points – pushing her career total to 1,002.

“I’m just super proud of it,” said her coach and father, Jamie Granum. “I told the girls after the game and even in the huddle, without them – Carly doesn’t create a lot on her own. She’s a specialist. I mean, you put Carly on a AA team or something like that and she can sit in the corner and someone creates for her. I’m just super proud of her. To have two 1,000-point girls in the family. …

“We had our fifth-grade girls’ team in the locker room and I let them know that here’s a girl that’s 5-foot-5 1/2, she has the smallest hands I’ve ever seen and here she is putting down 1,000 points in Class A girls’ basketball. That’s just time, effort and playing with good teammates.”

Carly joined her sister Kaylee, a 2015 graduate in the Cossacks’ 1,000-point club, which now has eight members.

Sioux Valley was up 23-5 after a quarter and pushed the margin to 43-17 at halftime.

“We started out slow, I think I used a timeout at about the 45-second mark; I felt that we were unprepared to start the game and I let our girls know it,” said Granum. “We came out of it after that, so I don’t know.”

Lynsey Stevens scored 15 of her 16 points in first half. Miakken Vincent knocked down four treys while adding 14 points.

Cassie Rawden dished out 11 assists.

The Cossacks had another effective game from long range, finishing 15-of-31. They’ve depended on the 3-ball as their primary weapon this season.

“If we could shoot 50, I’d shoot 50,” said Granum. “We might be the best H-O-R-S-E shooting team in the state; I have a 2 (Granum) and a 3 (Vincent) right now that I feel are the best shooters in the state and I would put them up with anyone. We don’t have much of a post presence, so we have to play faster than we did tonight to push the basketball, to get open 3s. A lot of teams have been locking down on Carly and it’s just going to get harder and harder and harder.”

Jennilee Hoyer paced the Flyers (5-7, 2-4) with nine points.

The Cossacks improved to 8-3 (4-2).

Granum said his team needs to continue to improve on the defensive end.

“Defensively, we still just have some issues,” he added. “I told the kids after we watched film (Monday) that it’s really unacceptable where we’re at defensively. You know, going into the season that was probably the highest priority mark, is can we get them interested in playing defense. And I think that’s where it starts, because I don’t think there’s anything technique, strategy, any of that stuff; other than just want to. It’s been tough.”

Sioux Valley returns to action with a game at Dell Rapids on Friday at 7:45 p.m.

Notes: The other Sioux Valley 1,000-point scorers on the girls’ side are Margie Stubkjaer (1992 graduate), Londa VanderWal (1993), Leah Bakke (2000), recordholder Val Kleinjan (2007), Taylor Olson (2011) and Carley Peterson (2015).

SIOUX VALLEY 67, CHESTER AREA 31

Chester Area (5-7, 2-4 BEC)

Makenna Larson 3-7 0-2 7, Tiffany Mohr 0-0 0-0 0, Hanna Reiff 1-1 0-0 2, Brianna Backus 1-6 0-0 2, Kenna Brown 0-0 0-0 0, Hailey Bleeker 0-0 0-0 0, Jayda Kenyon 1-2 0-2 2, Jennilee Hoyer 4-15 0-0 9, Hailey Ewoldt 0-0 0-0 0, Jada Becker 0-3 0-0 0, Dakota Alfson 1-5 0-0 2, Jadon Wages 3-7 1-2 7. Totals 14-46 1-6 31.

Sioux Valley (8-3, 4-2 BEC)

Cassie Rawden 2-3 0-0 4, Ellie Schmidt 1-2 0-0 3, Lynsey Stevens 6-13 3-4 16, Carly Granum 9-19 0-0 27, Taylor Jung 0-0 0-0 0, Rylan Willis 0-1 0-0 0, Miakken Vincent 4-10 2-2 14, Rachel Miller 2-3 0-0 4, Perri Liedtke 0-0 0-0 0, Abbie Schneider 0-0 0-0 0, Alicia VanderWal 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 24-51 5-6 68.

Chester Area   5  12  10    4  –  31

Sioux Valley 23  20  13  11  –  67

3-point goals – CA 2-14 (Larson 1-4, Hoyer 1-5, Wages 0-1, Backus 0-4), SV 15-31 (Granum 9-19, Vincent 4-8, Schmidt 1-1, Stevens 1-3). Rebounds – CA 26 (Alfson 9), SV 30 (Vincent 6). Assists – SV (Rawden 11). Turnovers – CA 22, SV 14. Total fouls – CA 9, SV 9. Fouled out – none. Technical fouls – none.

Photo: Sioux Valley’s Carly Granum drops in a 3-pointer during the first half of the Cossacks’ 67-31 Big East Conference win over Chester Area on Tuesday night in Volga. The senior hit nine 3-pointers while scoring 27 points, pushing her over the 1,000-point mark for her career.