SPRING ARBOR, Mich. — Tahj Curry scored 32 points Saturday afternoon for Goshen College, but the Maple Leafs lost to Spring Arbor University 89-76 in a men's basketball game at the McDonald Athletic Center.

Michael Bowers came off the bench to score 16 points while Austin Branagan added 9, all in the first half.

Spring Arbor (7-6) broke a 17-all tie with a 10-0 run in the proverbial second quarter, shooting 56 percent in the first half and 53 percent for the game. The Cougars added 22 free throws to Goshen's 15 and outrebounded the Maple Leafs 39-29.

Goshen (3-19) got 7 rebounds from Ryan Mansbarger and 6 from Kedrick Bibby while Curry led the team with 3 assists. Bowers chipped in a game-high 3 steals.

Five Cougars finished in double figures in the scoring column, led by 27 points and 13 rebounds from Brandon Durnell. Both of those totals led all players. Daniel Cluster added 15 points and 9 rebounds while Nate Flannery had 10 to go with a game-high 6 assists.

SAU pushed its lead to 15 points in the first half following a 9-2 run which Flannery capped with a 3-pointer at 2:09 remaining. The lead hit its high-water mark for the half at 47-31 with 58 seconds remaining before Braden Kingery hit a 3-pointer to close it to 47-34 at the break.

Goshen started the second half on a 6-0 run and got within 56-50 on a Curry 3-point play with 14:58 remaining. Curry added another old-fashioned triple at 13:48 before scoring at 13:27 to make it 60-57, putting the Maple Leafs on a 26-13 run over about 7 minutes.

Spring Arbor had the answer for that, however, in the form of a 9-2 run that spanned the next 3½ minutes to push the lead back to double figures. Goshen would not get back to single digits in the final nine minutes.

While both schools are members of the Crossroads League, Saturday's game did not count in the conference standings as Spring Arbor is playing a non-conference schedule this season due to the effects of the pandemic on schools in Michigan. The conference games that SAU played before that Jan. 13 decision still count as conference games but are not considered for tournament seeding.

For seeding purposes, Goshen is 0-11 in the Crossroads League, chasing 5-7 Taylor and 4-7 Saint Francis. The top eight schools out of the remaining nine make the CL tournament.

Goshen returns to conventional conference games on Wednesday with a visit from top-ranked Indiana Wesleyan University. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. in Ruth Gunden Gymnasium.