The Chesterton girls basketball team built a big lead and cruised to a 61-43 non-conference victory at North Newton on Tuesday night.

The Trojans jumped out to a 21-11 lead after one quarter and pushed it to 37-18 at the half. The Spartans made a third quarter run, but never got closer than 10 points.

Emma Schmidt led the CHS offense with 16 points and Nalani Malakowski tallied 14 points, including three 3-pointers.

Rounding out the scoring were Ingrid Hurst (10 points), Sophie Raffin (6 points), Ciara Bonner (5 points), Emma Pape (4 points), Carley Balas (3 points), Liz Pokorney (3 points) and Kristina Kokot (1 point).