By Tony Miller
Sports Information Director

GOSHEN, Ind. — Sydney Stein led Goshen College with a double-double in a 77-57 women's basketball loss to the University of Michigan-Dearborn on Wednesday evening in Gunden Gymnasium.

Stein paced the Maple Leafs with 16 points and 10 rebounds, supporting the former with an 8-of-11 clip at the foul line. She earned the latter, a new career high, despite the two teams posting the second-best combined shooting percentage of any Maple Leaf game this year (38.8 percent).

Hanna Hochstetler added a career-high three assists off the bench to pace the Maple Leafs (0-5) while Carley O'Neal added 10 points. Taylor Roasa added eight points and Logan Kyre seven, both of which are career highs.

The Wolverines (3-3) used a pair of early Sade Lemons 3-pointers to take the early lead and led 16-13 at the quarter behind four triples in the opening stanza.

Unfortunately for Goshen, that luck continued into the second quarter, where UMD shot 10-for-18 from the floor and nabbed the rebound on six of those misses in a 28-point quarter. Natalie Spala scored 12 of those points herself to account for 80 percent of her scoring on the evening as the visitors took a 44-24 lead into the intermission.

Roasa and O'Neal each scored twice for Goshen in the third quarter, and after a Jeorgia Jones bucket 41 seconds into the fourth period gave UMD its largest lead of the night, the Maple Leafs outscored their guests 20-14 the rest of the way.

"I was disappointed in our performance tonight," said Goshen coach Stephanie Miller. "We got beat in every hustle stat in the first half, but I was pleased to see our effort pick up after halftime. Our players are fighters and they are prideful, so we stuck it out and kept competing and will keep grinding until we find ways to win."

Lemons and Spala led Michigan-Dearborn with 23 and 15 points respectively, followed by 12 from Jones. Lemons' team-high seven rebounds powered the Wolverines, who cleaned their offensive glass 19 times, to a 44-29 win in the rebound category: Stein's double-figure performance accounted for more than a third of Goshen's team total.

Each team turned the ball over 19 times, with UMD's Meredith Williams (four) and Goshen's Haley Archibeque (three) leading their teams in steals. Kayla Knight led all players with four assists in the Wolverine ledger.

"Sydney Stein had a nice first night back and gave us some terrific bursts of energy, working hard for hustle plays on the glass," Miller continued. "Mariah Roe did a nice job of taking care of the ball and pestering other teams' defenders. Logan Kyre was an excellent teammate from the bench, vocally locked in to support everyone, and delivered with energy and production on the floor. I'm not pleased with tonight, but nothing has changed about how much I believe in this crew, the way they play for each other, and the direction in which we are heading."

The Maple Leafs have the weekend off before continuing their season-long four-game homestand next week against Great Lakes Christian. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. Tuesday night in Gunden Gymnasium.