GOSHEN, Ind. — Alyson Prigge scored 27 points, breaking 20 for the second time in as many home games, and the Goshen College women's basketball team had three chances to tie or take the lead in the final minute of a 73-71 loss to Grace College in Gunden Gymnasium on Wednesday night.

Prigge was 12-of-16 from the floor and 3-of-5 from three-point range, following up on her 24-point performance in a win over Bethel on Jan. 18. She added 7 rebounds, two shy of Graysen Cockerham's team lead, to go with a block and an assist.

Cockerham added 13 points, Janara Flowers contributed 11 and TaNiece Chapman scored 10 for the Maple Leafs (8-15, 1-10). Chapman added 7 rebounds and Keyaira Murff chipped in 5 off the bench. Flowers led all players with 6 assists as Goshen assisted on three-fifths of its 30 field goals.

Grace (15-8, 6-5) got 26 points from Kyannah Stull, who was 8-of-19 from the floor but connected on 7 of 14 long-distance tries. Vironnica Drake added 22 points on 7-of-13 shooting to go with 4 assists while Kamryn Hostetler led the Lancers with 5 dimes.

Goshen outshot Grace 48 percent to 39 percent on 62 field-goal attempts apiece and came away with 42 rebounds to Grace's 27. The Lancers made up for those deficits by forcing 16 turnovers and canning 15 triples compared to 9 and 7 respectively for Goshen.

Grace led 22-13 after a quarter, finishing the opening stanza on a 13-3 run. The Lancers added five triples in the second period, scoring 21 points in 10 minutes but only extending their lead to 43-32 as Prigge put in 13 of Goshen's 19 points.

Each team made 15 shots in the first half: two-thirds of Grace's buckets were 3-pointers while Goshen went 1-of-13. Goshen proceeded to outscore its guest 39-30 in the second half, shooting 52 percent to Grace's 30 percent.

Prigge's personal 5-0 run trimmed the deficit to 54-50 in the final minute of the third quarter before the teams traded baskets, making it 57-52 Grace with 10 minutes to play. The Lancers pushed their lead back to 9 with a 7-3 spurt to start the fourth.

Goshen's defense would hold Grace to one made field goal in the final 6 minutes, getting back-to-back buckets from Chapman and Cockerham to pull within four at the 4:40 mark. Another pair of field goals later, it was 70-67 with 2:08 left and 71-70 after Flowers gave the Leafs the Lead with 38 seconds remaining.

Stull was fouled on a loose-ball scramble with 24 seconds left, sinking two free throws to put Grace up 72-71, and Cockerham missed a go-ahead shot on the other end. Goshen kept the ball when the rebound resulted in a held ball with 08.4 showing on the scoreboard, and Chapman split a double-team before losing the basketball with 4.9 seconds left.

After a foul on the inbound play with 2.3 seconds remaining, the Maple Leafs couldn't get a shot off as time expired.

Prigge scored 12 of her 27 points after halftime; Flowers added 10. Each of those players as well as Cockerham drained two threes in the second half.

Goshen hits the road Saturday to arrive at the University of Saint Francis and the two-thirds point of the Crossroads League schedule. Tip-off between the Maple Leafs and the 11th-ranked Cougars is set for 1 p.m. in the Hutzell Athletic Center.