GOSHEN, Ind. — Mariah Roe's season-high 20 points led the Goshen College women's basketball team Saturday in an 80-66 loss to Mount Vernon Nazarene University at Gunden Gymnasium in each team's first Crossroads League game of the decade.

Roe was 5-for-9 from the floor and 9-of-14 at the foul line for the Maple Leafs (7-9, 0-4). Graysen Cockerham added 12 points and led the team with 8 rebounds, while Keyaira Murff added 11 points off the bench.

Taylor Gregory paced Mount Vernon Nazarene with 24 points, 18 rebounds and 3 blocks, coming within two boards of a double-double in the first half. Sage Brannon and Maggie Coe each chipped in 15 points with Brannon recording a game-high 6 steals. Dani Ellerbrock registered 4 assists to lead all players.

The Cougars outshot Goshen 48 percent to 41 percent from the floor and 42 percent to 33 percent from long range. The teams combined for 56 free-throw attempts as a relatively speedy game ground to a halt with 19 fourth-quarter fouls: Goshen finished 19-of-33 and MVNU was 14-of-23.

Neither team led by more than 4 in the first quarter, with Coe's pair of free throws at :05.5 providing the difference in a 16-14 Mount Vernon Nazarene lead. MVNU went 7-of-17 from the floor and canned two 3s in the first 10 minutes before opening the second quarter on a 17-4 run and leading 46-25 at halftime.

Goshen made a run late in the third period, trimming a lead that peaked at 27 to 20 with 32 seconds remaining, and outscored its Ohio foe 21-12 in the fourth quarter to close within 13 points on two separate occasions.

Fifteen of Roe's 20 points came after halftime when she was 8-of-9 at the foul line and 3-of-5 from the floor. The season high was her best scoring output since putting up 22 against IU Kokomo in November of 2018.

Goshen returns to the floor Wednesday night, hosting Indiana Wesleyan University in Gunden Gymnasium at 7 p.m.