GOSHEN, Ind. — Devin Heath-Granger became the fourth member of the Goshen College men's basketball senior class of 2018 to score 1,000 career points Saturday as the Maple Leafs lost 87-74 to second-ranked Saint Francis in Gunden Gymnasium.

Four days removed from setting the Maple Leafs' career assist record, Heath-Granger entered the day 15 points shy of his scoring milestone. After eight points in the first half and a basket three minutes into the second stanza, the senior fell nearly silent: his one shot in the next four and a half minutes missed the mark.

With three starters picking up their fourth personal fouls in the first eight minutes after halftime, Goshen (10-16, 3-11 Crossroads League) put the ball in its point guard's hands three times in four trips. All three times, he connected. The first two scores were unassisted, one coming off a turnover. A Colton Noel assist put Heath-Granger over the top: the freshman forward kicked the ball out to the right wing for a 3-pointer with 9:54 remaining, giving Heath-Granger 17 points on the day and 1,002 for his career.

Saint Francis (22-4, 12-2), had used a 9-0 run to close the first half; the Cougars had scored 17 of the last 19 points before Heath-Granger's personal 7-0 run, so the 1,000-point plateau closed Goshen within 57-53 after leading by as many as nine points in the first half..

Days after eclipsing Kenny Edwards' assist record and weeks after passing Roger Prough, Heath-Granger's scoring prowess linked him with both men in the history books once more. Saturday marked the 37th anniversary of Edwards' 1,000th point, which came in a loss at Marion College (now Indiana Wesleyan University). Prough was part of the only previous Maple Leaf team to have four 1,000-point scorers active simultaneously: junior Ben Johnson joined seniors Prough, Paul Gayler and Nate Trueblood in the four-figure club on Feb. 13, 1999.

While the 1998-99 team boasted four 1,000-point scorers, they were split among two graduating classes; only three came from the class of '99, matching a record set in 1971 by Moe Miller, Roger Springer and Bob Zuercher. The cohort of Heath-Granger, Billy Geschke, Christian Grider and Conner Funkhouser makes the class of 2018 the first in Maple Leaf history with four 1,000-point scorers in the same class.

In addition to Heath-Granger's milestone, Saturday also featured 21 other players who rotated through the court nine at a time in a regulation game.

That game began as a barn-burner, with USF making six of its first eight shots and Goshen six of its first 12: at the first media timeout, the Maple Leafs led 17-16. The following six minutes were a different story, as each team managed one field goal between the first and second media timeouts. By the 7:40 mark, the 17-16 score had grown only as far as 19-18.

The Cougars turned a five-point Goshen lead into a tie at 23-all; the Maple Leafs then held their foes to one basket in the next five minutes, embarking on a 12-3 run for a 35-26 lead with 107 seconds left in the half. USF didn't go quietly into the dressing room, though, making its last three shots to go with a pair of foul shots and tie the score at 35.

GC scored nine of the first 13 points after the intermission, four of which came from Funkhouser, to take another lead at 44-40 with 16:34 to play. Little did the team know the edge would be its last: USF's aforementioned five-minute spurt put the team up 11 five minutes later.

The Maple Leafs got as close as four points on Heath-Granger's milestone basket; after USF pushed the lead back to eight, Goshen closed within three again on a Noel foul shot with 6:31 to play. The Cougars scored eight of the next 10, though, and added an 8-0 spurt to lead by as many as 14 in the final minute.

Each team ended the day with four players in double figures: Heath-Granger's 19 points and Funkhouser's 16 led Goshen while Bryce Lienhoop and Chandler White added 28 and 21 respectively for the guests. White finished with 11 rebounds for the day's lone double-double.

After shooting 42.9 percent (12-for-28) from the floor in the first half, USF upped its shooting to 16-for-26 (61.5 percent) in the second stanza. The Cougars also finished with 26 second-half free throw attempts thanks to the Maple Leafs' 17 fouls, and they converted on 20.

Goshen added nine foul shots in 11 tries after halftime, when the 3-point line didn't do either team much good: the Leafs were 2-of-11 from long range over the final 20 minutes and USF was 0-for-5. The hosts shot 43.8 percent in the first half and 42.6 percent in the second.

"I'm very pleased with our effort," head coach Jon Tropf said. "We just didn't execute in certain segments and that cost us. We made strides defensively and in rebounding. Our guys weren't prepared for a few set actions and that's my fault; they still battled, and that's why I love them so much."

Both teams finished with 34 rebounds: while White and Lienhoop accounted for almost two-thirds of the Cougar total, five Goshen players and the team got at least three boards, paced by Alhassan Barrie with seven. His rebounding total matched Heath-Granger's game-high assist figure: both teams had 15 assists, and while Goshen committed one more turnover it also posted one more steal.

Heath-Granger wasn't the only Maple Leaf to move up in the record books: Patryck Ostrowski got his 32nd block of the season to claim 10th place on the single-season list, while a Geschke free throw with 2:41 left pushed the senior past Brice Hartman for ninth place on GC's career scoring list at 1,413 points.

Grider's 12-point performance eased him into 13th place on the scoring list, passing Jeff Osborne and Bob Zuercher as he sits a point shy of 1,200. Additionally, Geschke laid claim to seventh place on the career free-throw list: his penultimate foul shot, also at the 2:41 mark, passed Matt Littleton.

Heath-Granger's day in the record books didn't end at the scoring plateau, either: his four steals broke a tie with Littleton for the third-most in GC history. Finally, the seven assists gave him 165 for the season, matching Edwards' 1977-78 campaign and his own 2016-17 effort for the second-most in GC history: Edwards' 181 dimes in 1980-81 are the annual record.

The loss meant Goshen couldn't take advantage of defeats suffered by Huntington and Grace in the Crossroads League playoff race; Taylor's win over Mount Vernon Nazarene pushed the Trojans a game farther ahead of Grace and Goshen in the race for the eighth and final tournament position.

Goshen returns to action Tuesday in its second-to-last home game of the season, a 7 p.m. tip-off with Mount Vernon Nazarene.