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Kostes
Adam Radcliffe
77
Winner Carthage CARTHAGE 9-9 (2-7 CCIW)
64
North Park NPU 8-8 (3-5 CCIW)
Winner
Carthage CARTHAGE
9-9 (2-7 CCIW)
77
Final
64
North Park NPU
8-8 (3-5 CCIW)
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Carthage CARTHAGE 40 37 77
North Park NPU 27 37 64

Game Recap: #22 Men's Basketball |

Firebirds Notch Road Win at North Park

CHICAGO — The Carthage College men's basketball team picked up a 77-64 road victory over North Park in the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW) competition Wednesday night at North Park Gymnasium. 

Carthage (9-9, 2-7 CCIW) started with a small 10-8 lead in the first with a three-pointer from Crishawn Cook. The Firebirds broke the game open with a 17-7 run capped off with a layup from Nemi Ostojic with 5:05 left. North Park (8-8, 3-5 CCIW) cut the margin to 11 with a pair of free throws but the visitors outscored the Vikings 10-6 sparked by a three from Tyler Guest. Carthage held a 40-27 advantage heading into halftime. 

The Vikings shrank the deficit to five to start the second with back-to-back three-pointers. After the Carthage lead fell to four, another 17-6 run for the Firebirds opened the game up to 63-48 with a long-range bucket from Colton Sigel. North Park made an eight-point game with a tip-in bucket with 5:15 remaining, but seven straight points from Fillip Bulatovic extended the advantage to 76-62 as Carthage won 77-64. 

The Firebirds return home facing Millikin on Saturday, January 29 starting at 4 p.m. 

Head Coach Steve Djurickovic 

"Great way to start the second half of conference play. Our defensive energy and attention to detail allowed us to get off to a good start. The focus the last few days was to do a better job sharing the basketball and have a better shot selection. We finished with 19 assists and shot 57% from the floor, so I'd say we did a pretty good job. 

Freshman Kyle Kostes was fantastic today. He gave us a huge lift in the first half with three steals. We started off slow in the second half, but Kyle got two offensive rebound putbacks to stabilize us. 

A big one at home on Saturday against Millikin. We need to continue to play with this effort and attention to detail."
 

Quick Facts

  • Offensively, the Firebirds shot 32-56 (51%) from the field as Kyle Kostes recorded a new career-best 24 points off 10-13 shooting from the floor and 3-5 from long-range. 
  • Crishawn Cook chipped in with 13 points followed by Garrett Horner with 10 points, five rebounds, and four assists.  
  • Fillip Bulatovic led Carthage in rebounds with seven and two assists. 

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