From Carnegie Mellon University Athletics
The Carnegie Mellon University men's basketball team defeated Mount Aloysius College 102-67 on Saturday, November 26 in the Carnegie Mellon DoubleTree Invitational. All 15 Tartans recorded a point, as the Cardinal and Gray even their season record at 2-2 while the Mounties drop to 0-4.
With the score 20-16 in favor of Carnegie Mellon at the 12-minute mark of the first half, the home team rattled off 12 straight points to push its lead to 32-16. During the stretch, freshman Zach Howarth (Freehold, N.J./St. John Vianney) connected on two of his four three-point buckets on the afternoon.
The Tartans maintained their lead the rest of the half and took a 50-29 lead into the break. Carnegie Mellon connected on 8-of-21 three-pointers in the first half and were led by Howarth's 12 points of the bench.
Two minutes into the second half, junior Thomas Cook's (Gwynn Oak, Md./Carver Arts & Tech.) jumper gave the Tartans a 57-36 lead and Carnegie Mellon never led by less than 20 points the remainder of the way.
Carnegie Mellon ended the game shooting 14-of-37 from behind the arc. It marked the most long balls made by the Tartans since connecting on 16 on November 30, 2013 in a win over Penn State New Kensington.
Howarth led the Tartans with a career-best 19 points on 7-of-9 shooting, including a 4-of-6 outing from long range. Senior Jack Serbin (New Albany, Ohio) recorded 14 points while junior Ryan Maha (West Mifflin, Pa.) chipped in with 13.
Sophomore Seth Henry (Fulton, Md./Reservoir) turned in a career day, as he scored nine points, grabbed a game-high seven rebounds and dished out a game-high four assists. Freshman Trent Suddeth (Winter Park, Fla./Trinity Prep) also collected a game-best seven rebounds and added eight points in the win while freshman Colin McNeil (Ringoes, N.J./Hunterdon Central Regional) dished out a game-best four assists as well and collected three steals.
The Tartans improve to 22-1 in program history when scoring 100 points in a contest. The lone loss came in a 102-100 setback to Westminster College in 2004.