GOSHEN, Ind. — Logan Primerano scored a career-high 36 points and Devin Heath-Granger added 12 assists as the Goshen College men's basketball team knocked off no. 16 Bethel 106-96 Wednesday night at Gunden Gymnasium.

Billy Geschke added 22 points and Christian Grider added five 3-pointers to finish with 21 for the Maple Leafs, who overcame a 72-57 deficit with 12:32 left in regulation. Goshen (6-5, 2-2) followed that with a 12-0 run to pull within 72-69 on a Grider triple at the 9:16 mark.

The teams traded baskets for several possessions, with GC taking the lead twice. Grant Gayler's 3-pointer put Bethel (10-2, 3-1) up 87-85 just inside the last 5 minutes: it would be the Pilots' last basket for more than four minutes.

Goshen scored 14 of the next 16 points for a 99-89 lead: after Heath-Granger's floater tied the score, Primerano scored the next eight points and Grider chipped in two baskets of his own. Geschke, Grider, Heath-Granger and Primerano went 7-for-10 at the foul line in the last two minutes to close out the win.

"What can I say? We responded after a less-than-impressive first half," said Goshen interim head coach Jon Tropf. "Our guys took it to a whole other level in terms of intensity and focus. That led to made shots and big defensive stops. Our guys play hard, and at the end of the day, if you do that, good things are bound to happen."

Heath-Granger's 12 dimes were the most in a game by a Maple Leaf since Stefon Luckey dropped 14 in an 84-80 win over IU South Bend on Nov. 13, 2013; on the scoring side, Primerano came four points shy of being the first GC man since Errick McCollum to score 40 points in a game. McCollum inflicted 42 on Saint Francis on Feb. 6, 2010 on the same floor.

Grider's 21 points put hm north of the 1,000-point plateau for his career, a plateau he reached on a two-point bucket with 1:47 remaining. He becomes the 27th man in Maple Leaf history with 1,000 points, the sixth to do it in Gunden Gymnasium, and the first Maple Leaf to reach 1,000 at home in a win since Nate Trueblood on Jan. 9, 1999 against Indiana Wesleyan.

Incidentally, Trueblood and Nate West now sit in a tie with Geschke for 17th place in school history with 1,109 points.

GC finished the game shooting 52.2 percent from the floor while Bethel finished at 54.8 percent; the Pilots finished with more rebounds, assists and turnovers, but Goshen drained 14 triples to Bethel's six. 

Goshen returns to the floor Saturday for a visit from East-West University with tip-off set for 1 p.m.

More to come when available.