Skip To Main Content
Skip To Main Content

Goshen College

Austin Branagan waits to check into the game.
82
Winner Huntington (Ind.) HU 7-1; 2-1
69
Goshen (Ind.) GOC 3-9; 1-4
Winner
Huntington (Ind.) HU
7-1; 2-1
82
Final
69
Goshen (Ind.) GOC
3-9; 1-4
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Huntington (Ind.) HU 38 44 82
Goshen (Ind.) GOC 29 40 69

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | Tony Miller

Early Huntington run halts hopes of winning streak

Branagan and Curry go for 20+ in loss

GOSHEN, Ind. — Austin Branagan played every minute of the game and led all scorers with 23 points and 3 3-pointers, but Huntington University topped Goshen College 82-69 Wednesday night in a Crossroads League men's basketball game at Ruth Gunden Gymnasium.

Tahj Curry added 20 points and Michael Bowers went a perfect 6-for-6 at the foul line to finish with 17 points for Goshen (3-9, 1-4). Branagan and Curry led all players with 7 rebounds and Bowers had 6 to go with 3 assists and 2 steals. Curry tied for the game high with 4 assists.

Huntington (7-1, 2-1) got 17 points from Zach Goodline, one of five Foresters to score in double figures. Peyton West added 16 Hank Pulver chipped in 14, Caleb Middlesworth scored 12 and Ben Humrichous contributed 11.

Goodline finished with 4 steals, Humrichous and Middlesworth each grabbed 6 rebounds, and West and Pulver led the team with 4 assists.

After a pair of buckets in each goal in the first two minutes, Huntington held the Maple Leafs without a point for six possessions and almost five minutes as it raced to a 15-4 lead. The visitors led by as many as 15 in the first half, though Goshen cut that margin to as little as 7 with a 7-0 run beginning at the 3:00 mark. Pulver and Mitchell Wilson scored heading into the locker room to put HU up 38-29.

The Foresters scored six of the first eight points in the second half as well, going up by as many as 17. The Maple Leafs got as close as 11 on two occasions. Goshen shot 53 percent (17-for-32) from the floor after halftime after turning in a 38 percent (11-for-29) effort in the first period.

Sixteen of Curry's 20 points came in the second half as did 11 of Bowers' 17 and 12 of Pulver's 14.

While each team came in among the NAIA leaders in 3-pointers, the iron was unkind to both sets of shooters: Huntington finished 5-for-24 (21 percent) from long range and Goshen was 5-for-19 (26 percent).

Goshen returns to the floor on Saturday with a visit to Grace College in its shortest road trip of the season. Tip-off is set for 1 p.m. at the Manahan Orthopaedic Capital Center.

Print Friendly Version