GOSHEN, Ind. — Demarkus Stuckey scored a game-high 27 points and Goshen College ran its men's basketball winning streak to four games Sunday afternoon with a 71-64 victory over Holy Cross College in Gunden Gymnasium.

Tamaje Blackwell scored a season-high 10 points on 7-of-9 shooting for the Maple Leafs (5-11), who scored 10 straight points late in the first half to seize control. Patryck Ostrowski added 11 points off the bench. Alhassan Barrie led the team with 9 rebounds, 2 more than Stuckey, who had a game-high 5 assists.

Holy Cross (9-8) put four players in double figures, paced by Storm Cook and Robby Jimenez with 14 points apiece, but got that consistency at the cost of a standout individual performance. Where the Maple Leafs got 7 field goals from Blackwell and 9 from Stuckey, no Saint made more shots from the floor than Jimenez's 5. Bryce Crosen added a double-double with 10 points and a game-high 14 rebounds.

The Maple Leafs trailed just once, at 7-6 in the first five minutes, and cracked open a 16-16 game with a nine-point run in 90 seconds just after the middle of the first half. All 9 points in that span came on 3-point plays of sorts: after Ostrowski and Ben Cotton hit field goals from beyond the arc, Brandon Watkins scored 3 the old-fashioned way to run the lead to 25-16.

Holy Cross added a pair of its own triples, trimming the lead to 4 before their hosts got hot again. Noel and Stuckey each scored before a personal foul, a technical foul and a turnover led to six GC points in 19 seconds for a 38-24 lead.

Stuckey's field goal with 2 seconds left made it 40-27 Goshen at halftime on the strength of 48.4 percent shooting (15-for-31). The Maple Leafs forced 9 turnovers in the opening 20 minutes and held Holy Cross to 10-of-26 shooting for 38.5 percent.

The Saints scored 12 of the first 16 points after halftime, including personal 4-0 runs by Jordan Gaines and Lorenzo Moore, to get back within 5 points at 44-39. Goshen countered by sealing the basket for more than four minutes, forcing two turnovers and three one-shot possessions, and answered with a 13-3 run to push the lead back into double digits.

Holy Cross didn't go quietly, pulling back within two possessions at 64-58 in the final three minutes, but could get no closer. Stuckey made five straight foul shots across three trips to the line to seal the win.

"This was a really good team win," said Goshen head coach Jon Tropf. "We defended at a high level and made some big-time shots. We've been stressing to our guys that we need to compete on every possession, and they have done that in this recent stretch. I'm very proud of how we've grown as a team."

Goshen shot 76.5 percent (13-for-17) at the foul line, the team's second-best mark of the season. Blackwell and Watkins were perfect on free throws; Stuckey and Colton Noel each shot 75 percent and combined for 12 attempts.

Goshen outdid Holy Cross by two field goals, 25-23, holding the Saints to 41.6 percent shooting and out-rebounding them 34-32. The Saints finished with 11 assists to the Maple Leafs' 8; each team forced 13 turnovers.

The Maple Leafs' fourth straight win marks their most consecutive victories since a 9-0 start to the 2015-16 season. Their last two games have also ended with the same score, a feat accomplished just once before in program history: Goshen defeated Bluffton and Indiana Wesleyan by identical 84-78 margins on January 29 and 31, 1998.

Goshen is back in action Wednesday night for a game that serves as both an end and a beginning: the contest with Trinity International University is the team's first game of 2019 and the final non-conference game of the season. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. EST in Deerfield, Illinois.