Box Score GOSHEN, Ind. — The Goshen College women's basketball team scored 20 straight points in the third quarter to lead by as many as 11 points, but Spring Arbor University's Teona Feldpausch scored on a weak-side offensive rebound with 0.5 seconds remaining Wednesday night as the Cougars topped the Maple Leafs 58-57 in Gunden Gymnasium.
Graysen Cockerham led the Maple Leafs (8-21, 1-16 Crossroads League) with 16 points, shooting 6-of-8 from the floor. Janara Flowers scored 12 and Mariah Roe had 10. Flowers also paced the Maple Leafs with 5 steals while Roe and Cockerham finished with 5 boards apiece.
TaNiece Chapman led Goshen with 9 rebounds alongside 7 points, 3 assists and 3 steals, but the Cougars outrebounded the Maple Leafs 32-29. Grace Shoobridge led SAU with a double-double behind 14 points and 13 rebounds while Feldpausch finished with 8 and 8.
The Cougars (8-20, 3-14) got 16 points from Anne Marie Wright, 14 from Shoobridge and 11 from Gracie Cabana. All 58 SAU points and all 32 rebounds came from their five starters. Shoobridge led all players with 5 assists.
Goshen's defense racked up 15 steals with four players posting three or more, but Spring Arbor outshot the Maple Leafs 44 percent to 39 percent while forcing 19 giveaways in their own right. Each team had at least one player with 7 turnovers.
The game also gave Goshen head coach Stephanie Miller the program's longevity record: the ninth-year head coach coached her 277th game, breaking the mark of 276 set by Steve Wiktorowski from 2002-11.
SAU scored 10 of the game's first 12 points before Goshen answered with an 11-0 run by the 2-minute mark of the first quarter, but the Cougars made the last three buckets of the quarter and led 20-17 at the first break. A 7-0 run allowed the guests to open a double-digit lead in the second quarter and lead 34-26 at halftime.
Goshen's 20-0 run came after the teams traded baskets to start the third quarter: five Maple Leafs scored, led by Flowers with 8 points, while the Cougars went 0-for-3 from the floor and turned it over nine times. A 37-28 hole became a 48-37 lead before SAU scored the last five points of the quarter.
Roe scored 5 straight points to start the fourth quarter and Cockerham added back-to-back buckets around a Shoobridge score, putting Goshen up 57-46 with 6:54 remaining. From that point forward, SAU shot 4-for-9 and Goshen was 0-for-6 with a quartet of turnovers.
Anne Marie Wright's 3-pointer brought SAU within one point at 57-56 with 4:07 remaining before each team got six consecutive stops. After an SAU turnover, Goshen was called for an over-and-back violation with 14.6 seconds left to put the ball in the Cougars' hands.
Cierra Lipps' go-ahead three-point shot missed to the left, but Feldpausch was there to clean it up in the final seconds.
Goshen called timeout to advance the ball to the forecourt, but a pass into the paint was deflected out of bounds and the ball turned over to Spring Arbor.
The win, combined with Bethel's loss at Mount Vernon Nazarene, locked Spring Arbor into the eighth and final spot in next week's Crossroads League tournament.
Goshen concludes its season Saturday at Bethel University with a game that will determine ninth place in the conference standings as well as half a point in the U.S. Highway 20 Cup. Tip-off is set for 1 p.m. at the Wiekamp Athletic Center in Mishawaka.