GOSHEN, Ind. — Tahj Curry led Goshen College with 18 points Wednesday night in an 80-70 men's basketball loss to Siena Heights in Gunden Gymnasium.

Austin Branagan added 17 points and led all players with 8 rebounds while Sheddrick Porter Jr. scored 13 on the strength of 3 three-pointers. Curry added 7 rebounds and a team-high 4 assists while Colton Noel chipped in 6 boards off the bench.

Goshen (2-3) led 39-34 at the intermission after shooting 50 percent (15-of-30) from the floor in the first half, but Siena Heights (1-2) flipped the script with a 46-point second half that included 47 percent shooting and a 14-of-17 mark at the foul line.

Kevin Smith II and Keith Jordan Jr. each scored 16 points to lead Siena Heights, which also got 15 points from Kevin Rice, 12 from DeMarco Dickerson and 11 from PJ Austin. Jordan led the team with 7 rebounds, Smith had 4 steals and Dan Everhart added a game-high 5 assists.

The teams traded blows throughout the first half, with five lead changes in the first nine minutes before Goshen pulled ahead throughout the proverbial second quarter. The Maple Leaf defense held the Saints without a bucket for more than five minutes and Porter went on a personal 6-0 run to give GC a 35-26 lead at the 3:11 mark.

Goshen led by as many as 10 points early in the second half, but an offensive cold spell set up an 11-2 Siena Heights run that saw the Saints pull ahead with 11:24 to go. After a pair of empty possessions, Grant Monix sank a triple to put the hosts up 55-53 at the midpoint of the half.

The lead changed hands three more times over the next six minutes, culminating in a 6-0 Goshen run to go up 65-64 on a pair of Porter foul shots with 4:06 remaining. The Maple Leafs missed their next three shots, however, and P.J. Austin sank all three free throws at the 2:38 mark to run Siena Heights' lead back to four.

Austin and Rice went 10-of-11 at the foul line in the last five minutes for the Saints. SHU finished with an 80 percent mark (20-of-25) on free throws; Goshen had a higher percentage, 82 percent, but on only 11 attempts.

GC shot 47 percent from the floor and 41 percent from long range, but the Saints made up the difference with 20 free throws to Goshen's 9. The teams also combined to turn the ball over 36 times.

The Maple Leafs conclude their four-game regular-season homestand on Saturday when they take on Concordia University out of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Tip-off is tentatively scheduled for 4 p.m. following a pair of women's games in the Maple Leaf Shootout at 12 and 2.