Men's Basketball | 12/11/2025 12:33:00 AM

Box Score The Cloud County Community College men's basketball team fell victim to a late-game scoring drought to close out their Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference (KJCCC) home game against Coffeyville Community College on Wednesday, December 10, outscored 11-0 over the final three minutes in a 72-68 loss inside Arley Bryant Gymnasium.

Cloud County (6-6, 1-5 KJCCC) has lost five straight games all by single digits. The T-Birds led by as many as ten points in the game, which featured four ties and 13 lead changes. Sophomore guard DJ Holloway led Cloud County in scoring with 22 points and five rebounds. Sophomore forward Elidjah Savane and freshman forward D'ontez Walker had 12 points each. Savane grabbed seven rebounds, while Walker had three rebounds and three steals. Sophomore guard Kuel Akot added 10 points with two made three-pointers.

Cloud County scored the first ten points of the contest and led for the first 14 minutes and 49 seconds before Coffeyville captured its first lead of the night at 27-26 on a transition three by freshman forward Ulysses Webb with 6:11 remaining in the first-half. The T-Birds got back into a groove and scored on three straight possessions to lead 36-31 with 1:55 to go before halftime. The Red Ravens connected on back-to-back opportunities in the paint but Cloud County was up 36-35 at the intermission.

Both teams traded points with the game tied at 45 five minutes into the second-half. Cloud County then went on a 19-10 run over the next ten minutes, bringing the score to 64-55 with 5:23 to play. Shortly after, Coffeyville trimmed the deficit to three points on a fastbreak layup by freshman guard Jack Sorrell, but the T-Birds stretched the lead back to seven following a pair of free-throws from redshirt freshman Manasseh Stackhouse and a finish in the paint by Savane.

The T-Birds then went the final three minutes and six seconds without a point. Coffeyville received two three-pointers by sophomore guard Konstantin Popovic, sandwiched around a dunk by Sorrell, to retake the lead at 69-68 with 40 seconds to go. Sorrell and sophomore Daniel Ntambwe sealed the win with free-throws in the closing minute.

Ntambwe finished with 21 points on 7-of-9 shooting and 7-of-10 free-throws to lead Coffeyville. Freshman Ke'Bari Lewis added 14 points, while Sorrell, Webb and sophomore Rashid Kuta chipped in nine points each.

The T-Birds outrebounded Coffeyville 42-33 and outscored the Red Ravens 42-36 in points in the paint. Cloud County also had a 14-12 advantage in second-chance points, but was limited to 23.5 percent shooting from three-point range, including going 1-of-7 (14.3 percent) from behind the arc in the second-half.

Cloud County hits the road on Saturday, December 13 to take on the Hutchinson Blue Dragons at 4 pm in the Hutchinson Sports Arena.