GOSHEN, Ind. — Janara Flowers and TaNiece Chapman each scored 18 points to lead all players Wednesday night as the Goshen College women's basketball team fell 76-67 to fifth-ranked Taylor University in a Crossroads League contest at Gunden Gymnasium.

Alyson Prigge scored 10 points for her fifth double-figure scoring effort of the season and led the Maple Leafs (7-12, 0-7) with 8 rebounds.

The Trojans (19-0, 7-0) got 18 points from Kayla Kirtley, 15 from Becca Buchs and 12 from Abby Buchs. The latter two players, a pair of twins, combined to go 12-for-13 from the foul line; Taylor hit 20 of its 21 free-throw attempts while the Maple Leafs were 3-of-5.

Merideth Deckard scored 10 points for TU, which got 7 rebounds apiece from the Buchs sisters to lead the team.

Taylor's Sydney Huffman and Goshen's Mariah Roe each led their teams with 4 assists.

The Trojans may have been the team sporting the new ranking of fifth in the nation, but Goshen was the team that scored the first five points and shot 60 percent in the first quarter, leading 21-15 after 10 minutes of action. Flowers scored 11 of her points in the opening period

Taylor went on a run to start the second stanza, going 8-for-8 at the foul line as they turned a 25-19 hole into a 27-25 lead. The Trojans scored 20 of the 26 points in that quarter, but Flowers still led all scorers with 15 at halftime despite Goshen's 41-31 deficit.

Baskets by Prigge and Roe closed the gap to 5 points on a pair of occasions early in the third, but Taylor had another run in the coffers when it paired six straight free throws with back-to-back 3s that ran the lead back into double digits.

Goshen, which shot 11-of-15 (73.3 percent) in the fourth quarter, started the period on an 8-2 run and pulled within 65-58 on a Chapman bucket at the 4:08 mark. The Trojans countered by scoring the next four points and nine of the next 11, so Goshen got no closer before scoring the final five points of the game.

The Maple Leafs held Taylor, the nation's top-shooting team from 3-point range, to 35 percent (8-of-23) from distance. Flowers led all players with four triples; no Trojan had more than 2.

The Maple Leafs return to the floor on Saturday when they host local rival Bethel University in the next installment of the U.S. Highway 20 Cup. The women's game, which counts for half a point in the annual competition, begins at 1 p.m. with the men to follow at approximately 3.