Box Score The Carthage College men's basketball team (4-4, 0-0 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) won its second game in two days on Sunday, Dec. 11 with a 75-61 victory over Coe College (3-5) at Tarble Arena in Kenosha, Wis.
 
Carthage led from the game's opening minutes, as the Red Men jumped out to an early, 13-3 lead at 15:29.  After Coe pulled to within three, 15-12, at 12:38, the Red Men used a 19-6 run to go up by 16 points, 34-18, at 5:56.  Carthage led by 13 at halftime, 39-26.  The Red Men extended their lead to 18 points in the second period, 52-34, at 12:58.  The lead went to as much as 24 points, 70-46, at 5:40, although the final margin was 14 points, 75-61.
 
Carthage shot a blistering 53 percent (29-55), including 58 percent in the second half (14-24), while Coe shot 43 percent for the game (21-49).  The Kohawks out-rebounded the Red Men by a 36-22 margin but turned the ball over 20 times to just seven for Carthage.  Five Red Men scored in double figures.  Max Cary (Sr., Geneva, Ill.) had 14 points on six-of-eight field goals.  Malcom Kelly (Jr., Kenosha, Wis./Reuther) scored 13 points with four rebounds, Reese Herth (Fr., Morton Grove, Ill./Skokie-Niles West) 12 points, Donte Logan (Fr., Evanston, Ill./Skokie-Niles West) 11 points, and Mitch Thompson (Jr., Orland Park, Ill./Sandburg) chipped in 10 points.  David Mataloni was the lone Coe player in double figures with a game-high 17 points on six-of-eight shooting, along with six rebounds.

“We played well against a good basketball team,” said Carthage head coach Bosko Djurickovic.  “We're happy to get through the weekend with a couple of wins.  Donte Logan is a difficult player to guard, because of his lateral movement.  We didn't have him until Dec. 1 because of a thumb injury, and we might have won a couple more game if we would have had him.  The key now is to keep tweaking things with our role identification, and if we can do that, we have a chance to be a pretty good basketball team.  We were killing Malcom Kelly earlier this year by having him play the point and guarding the other team's best player.  Now, we can let him concentrate of playing defense, which he excels at, and playing good, solid off-the-ball offense.  We played three freshman a lot in this game, and they are the nucleus of something good down the line.  We shot the ball 55 times, and that's good.  Kids don't like playing slow-down basketball.”
 
Carthage travels to Milwaukee on Saturday, Dec. 17 to play a 3 p.m. game versus Cardinal Stritch University (9-2) at Stritch Gym.