GOSHEN, Ind. — It may have been Graysen Cockerham's party, but it was TaNiece Chapman's night to do the honors.

Chapman led all scorers with 20 points and grabbed a game-high 12 rebounds for her eighth double-double of the season Wednesday night as the Goshen College women's basketball team broke open a non-conference game to beat Grace Christian University 79-42 at Ruth Gunden Gymnasium.

Cockerham, who was recognized after the game for becoming the 17th member of Goshen College's 1,000-point club, added 6 points as the Maple Leafs split the scoring 13 ways. All 14 players registered a point, a rebound or an assist; 13 of them had at least two of the three and 10 got into all three categories.

Goshen (7-17) held Grace Christian (6-13) to 25 percent shooting, including a 19 percent (4-of-21) mark from 3-point range, while knocking down 31 field goals and half a dozen 3-pointers at the other end of the floor. The Maple Leafs racked up 59 rebounds, their most in a game since walloping Adrian in December 2015, and cleaned the offensive glass 24 times, their highest total in a game since November 2019.

GC finished the game 31-for-88 from the floor, the most field goal attempts the team has had since the 2014-15 season opener at IU Northwest, when it also made exactly 31. That ties for the most shots Goshen has attempted in a game since the NAIA began collecting game-by-game stats in 2003-04.

Part of the reason the Maple Leafs took so many shots was that they spent very little time watching the ball go the other way: Goshen turned the ball over just twice while forcing 18 turnovers and held the Tigers to 7 offensive rebounds. The two turnovers are also the fewest given up by a GC team in the NAIA statistical database era.

Claire Rauck added 8 points for Goshen: Janara Flowers, Keyaira Murff, Sophia Eli and Cockerham all scored 6. Emily Brandeberry grabbed a career-high 8 rebounds, while Murff added 6 and Rauck and Suzanna Yoder each nabbed 5. Kiarah Copeland led all players with 3 assists.

Emily Libey connected on six field-goal tries to lead Grace Christian with 18 points. Jada Reese narrowly missed both halves of a double-double with 9 points and 8 rebounds while Ashley Hoek added 8 points and 11 boards.

Goshen never trailed, but the game was tied three times in the first quarter and a Reese bucket made it 13-10 at the 2:00 mark. From that point, it would be more than nine minutes before the Tigers scored again – a pair of Hoek free throws in the second quarter that made it 35-12 – and almost 12 minutes before the next GCU field goal, from Reese on the final possession of the half.

Goshen outscored the visitors 46-8 over a span of nearly 19 minutes that covered all of the second quarter and most of the third: it was 17-10 at the quarter, 39-15 at halftime and 59-18 when GC took its largest lead with 3:20 left in the third period. The Maple Leafs led 63-28 after three quarters.

The game finished in a tidy 83 minutes, in part because only 18 fouls were called.

Wednesday was not all sunshine and roses for the Maple Leafs, though, as Huntington defeated Bethel in a Crossroads League makeup game at Platt Arena: that win locked the Foresters into a top-six seed in the CL tournament beginning on Feb. 23 and means that Goshen can finish no better than seventh. However, the Maple Leafs are locked into no worse than the eighth seed thanks to their head-to-head sweep over Grace, which will assure them of a playoff berth for the first time since 2017.

Goshen can lock in the seventh seed Saturday with a win over Mount Vernon Nazarene at the Ariel Arena in Ohio. Tip-off is set for 1 p.m.