GOSHEN, Ind. — Darienne Maust led all players with a career-high 18 winners while Christy Swartzendruber and Meghan Gerke matched their own career bests with 13 and eight respectively as Goshen College knocked off Spring Arbor University in four sets Friday night at Gunden Gymnasium.

Goshen (9-6, 4-3 Crossroads League) won the opening stanza 25-18 before dropping the second by the same score and falling behind 21-16 in the third. But after Swartzendruber's kill closed the gap to 21-17, four Cougar errors and a block helped GC tie the score at 23. The Maple Leaf front line closed out the set with three straight kills, one from Gerke and the final two by Maust.

The final set started out nip-and-tuck with ties at 1, 3, 5 and 7. Maust's first two kills of the set made the score 9-7 Goshen, and the Maple Leafs never trailed again. The freshman added five kills in a seven-point span to take the score from 18-15 to 23-17 before Swartzendruber and Lexa Magnuson added spikes to set the final score at 25-19.

Goshen hit .302 with 18 kills in the final set, finishing with 53 winners and a .171 hitting percentage for the match as a whole. Spring Arbor (3-10, 0-8 CL) finished just two kills shy of Goshen's total and hit .178, including .293 in the second set. Rebekah Kujat had 16 hills and Kasey Follis 11 for the Cougars.

"Spring Arbor is a much better team than their record shows," said Goshen coach Jim Routhier. "They keyed on Kylie and Lexa and put us on our heels for the entire second set. But that almost played back to our strength, because there's always someone to step up and take the lead to win and tonight Darienne played a great match."

Both teams posted seven blocks, with Kujat and Swartzendruber recording the match's only solo stuffs. Lindsay McQuinn had a hand in five of the six assisted stops for GC.

Goshen finished the night with five more assists, getting 26 from Sydney Cruz and 22 from Ally Roehr, but SAU's Annica Stotz led all players with 36. Gabrielle Hilliard of Spring Arbor finished with a match-high 20 digs: Swartzendruber, Roehr, Erin Strock and Danielle Plank all finished in double figures for the hosts.

The Maple Leafs return to the court barely 20 hours after Friday's match finished, visiting Taylor at 3 p.m. Saturday: it is the second and final time this year that Goshen plays three conference matches in a four-day span.