Box Score GOSHEN, Ind. — TaNiece Chapman scored a team-high 15 points and led the Goshen College women's basketball team with 7 rebounds Wednesday night in a 70-57 Crossroads League loss to Huntington University at Gunden Gymnasium.
Alyson Prigge scored 11 first-quarter points and canned 3 triples on her way to 13 points for the night while Graysen Cockerham went 6-for-7 at the foul line to finish with 12 points and 7 rebounds.
Sarah Fryman scored 36 points on 16-of-24 shooting for Huntington, which shot 50 percent from the floor and outscored Goshen 17-10 in the fourth quarter. Fryman added 11 rebounds for a double-double while Sam Hammel scored 12 points and Alaina Rongos and Sara Doi each scored 8.
Mariah Roe added 7 points and 3 assists for Goshen (8-17, 1-12). The Maple Leafs shot 38 percent from the floor and 12-of-16 at the foul line, putting up 12 assists against 14 turnovers.
Huntington (17-8, 7-6) put up a 9-for-11 clip at the foul line to go with 8 assists and 11 turnovers. The Foresters outrebounded the Maple Leafs 33-30.
On National Girls and Women in Sports Day, the game featured two teams led by female coaches —each team also had a female assistant on the bench — and was played in the only Crossroads League gym named solely for a woman.
The game was tied 18-all after one quarter, and the tie extended to the methods of scoring: each team had 7 field goals and 2 three-pointers along with a perfect pair of free throws. Goshen led by as many as four points when a Prigge triple and a Chapman bucket made it 12-8 with 4:32 left in the quarter, but Fryman and Hammel combined to score eight of the next 10 points to give Huntington a 16-14 lead.
Though Goshen tied the game three times, Huntington never trailed in the second quarter, outscoring the Maple Leafs 22-16 and taking the lead for good on a pair of Fryman buckets with 4:00 remaining. From that point into the final minute, each team scored on five straight possessions and it was 40-34 in the visitors' favor at the half.
Each team scored 13 points in the third quarter, with Huntington going 6-for-11 from the floor while the Maple Leafs kept themselves in the game with 6 offensive rebounds. Roe added 6 points while Chapman had 4 in the period. Goshen closed the gap to 55-49 early in the fourth quarter before HU pulled away with a 10-2 run.
Goshen hits the road Saturday for a visit to Indiana Wesleyan University in the beginning of the Maple Leafs' last multi-game road trip of the season. Tip-off is set for 1 p.m. in Luckey Arena.