GOSHEN, Ind. — The Goshen College women's basketball team lost its penultimate home game of the season to the University of Saint Francis on Saturday, falling by a 72-36 margin in Gunden Gymnasium.

The 25th-ranked Cougars (17-11, 9-7 Crossroads League) got a game-high 21 points out of Kara Gerka and 12 from Sidney Crowe, each of whom shot better than 50 percent. Tyon McKenzie chipped in 11 points off the bench on 4-of-4 shooting.

Three players — Daysianae Hinton of Saint Francis and Mariah Roe and Graysen Cockerham of Goshen — tied for the game high with 6 rebounds, while Caitlyn O'Neal added 5 on her Senior Day. USF's Savannah Buck led all players with 5 assists, two ahead of Hinton.

The freshman duo of Cockerham and TaNiece Chapman each scored 10 points for the Maple Leafs (8-20, 1-15), who also got 9 points from Mariah Roe.

Goshen finished the first quarter on an 8-3 run, but the Cougars had scored the first 7 points including a personal 4-0 run by Sidney Crowe and never trailed in the quarter. The margin stayed within two possessions for most of the second quarter; Emma Applegate's shot from long range put USF up 29-21 with 31 seconds left and that was the halftime score.

Saint Francis shot 15-for-27 (55.6 percent) in the second half, posting 43 points and 18 rebounds in the final 20 minutes to come away with the victory.

The Maple Leafs will conclude their home schedule against eighth-ranked Taylor at 7 p.m. Wednesday before traveling to Spring Arbor in the regular-season finale next Saturday.