ELMHURST, Ill. – For the second time in as many games the Carthage College Red Men overcame a 20-point deficit.  This time it was a 21-point comeback on the road at Elmhurst College where the Red Men defeated the Bluejays in overtime, 93-91.
 
The win moves Carthage to 14-6 overall on the season and to 7-4 in the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin, while Elmhurst drops to 6-14 and 2-9 in the CCIW.
 
Brad Perry led the five Red Men scorers in double-figures with 17 points in the win.  Joining Perry in the starting five was Kevin Kozil with 11, while Kienan Baltimore led the guys off the bench with 15 points followed by Drew Joiner with 14 on 4-5 shooting from three and Derek Mason with 11. 
 
Joining the trio off the bench, Mike Kjeldsen added five points to give the Red Men a 45-14 edge in bench points on the night.
 
Elmhurst's Derek Dotlich opened hot for the Bluejays and forced the Red Men into an early timeout with Dotlich outscoring the Red Men singlehandedly, 8-2.  Later, Carthage responded with tough defense and blocks from Perry and Brad Kruse during a 6-0 Carthage run to get the Red Men within two at 13-11.
 
Dotlich finished the half as the high scorer with 14 points.
 
After Drew Joiner tied the game at, 17-17, on his first basket of night, Elmhurst responded with a 6-0 run before a three by Joiner and a pair of Perry free throws kept the game within three with 7:35 left in the half, 27-24.
 
An 11-0 run 8-0 run would give Elmhurst their largest lead of the half and eventually take a 42-31 lead into the halftime break behind a 26-18 advantage on the boards and an 8-3 Jays edge in second chance points.
 
Elmhurst exploded out of the locker room much like they did in the first half with a 6-0 run to push their lead to 17 at 48-31. 
 
A 7-0 with field goals from Perry, Stevenson and an and-one from Thomas to cut the lead back to ten, 48-38, with 17:13 remaining.
 
Three point struggles, which haunted the Red Men in the first half going just 2-12, continued in the second half as the Red Men started the final 20 minutes just 1-5 with their first of the second half coming from Derek Mason with 12:59 remaining to get the Red Men within 20 at 61-43.
 
It was the beginning much more basketball on the night as Carthage shot 55.2% from the field in the second half and 42.9% from three.
 
Later, a Jordan Thomas bucket and foul get the Red Men once again within ten and a Drew Joiner three cut the deficit to seven, 73-66, with 5:31 remaining.  It would be part of an 24-4 run over 8:00 minutes to take their first lead of the game at 77-76 with 2:11 remaining and a three-point lead with 15-seconds remaining on a Kienan Baltimiore tip-in.
 
During the run Carthage found the hot hand as a team, shooting 7-10 from the field with eight points from Joiner and five from Baltimore to lead the Red Men.
 
It looked as though the Red Men had it until Dotlich his fourth three of the game with 4-seconds remaining in regulation to send the game to overtime at 79-79.
 
Elmhurst took the lead to open the overtime on a three, which Carthage continued to fight back from most of the period despite cutting the lead to one on multiple occasions.  An acrobatic three-point play by Derek Mason set the Red Men up, down two with 23.5 left in the extra frame. 
 
Following split pair of free throws by Elmhurst, Drew Joiner launched a three with 15-seconds left to tie the game at 91-91.  On the ensuing possession, Mason and Joiner trapped Marquis Carter and forced a turnover to set the Red Men up for the eventual game-winning possession, which Kruse drove to the rim and drew a foul. 
 
Following Kruse's two at the line, Elmhurst's desperation last chance heave fell into Kruse hands and the Red Men walked out with the improbable comeback win, 93-91. 
 
Dotlich led the Bluejays with 23 points, followed by Carter with 18, Jalen Loving with 15 and Ryan Patton with 14.
 
Following the upcoming weekend off for the Red Men, Carthage will return home to Tarble to begin a three-game home stand starting with North Park next Wednesday at 7:00 p.m.