SPRING ARBOR, Mich. - The #16 Spring Arbor Cougars improved to 21-5 on the season after a 98-56 win over Goshen on Saturday afternoon on the Crossroads League's Jesus Won Day. Kyla Foster, Zy'Ann Phinezy and Paulecia Isom all scored in double figures for the Maple Leafs. This ends a stretch of five straight games where Goshen was playing an opponent that was either ranked or receiving votes in the NAIA coaches poll. 

Turnovers proved costly for the Maple Leafs throughout. Carrie Hiler hit a three to tie the game at 10-10, but Spring Arbor ended the quarter on a 13-2 run - a span of four minutes where Goshen had seven turnovers. The Leafs had 19 turnovers in the first half of action and 15 in the second. Goshen's fewest turnovers came in the third quarter, which was also the quarter where they scored the most points. After scoring 19 points in the first 20 minutes, GC put up 24 in the third quarter alone. The third was also the quarter where Goshen allowed the most points, giving up 32 to the Cougars.SAU capitalized on Goshen's mistakes, with exactly half of their 98 points coming off of turnovers.

Kyla Foster had a double-double with 12 points and 13 rebounds. She moved up three spots on Goshen's all-time rebounding list with 534 in her career now, passing Gretchen Nyce '93 (522), Jonell Kolb '86 (532) and Rachel Smith '99 (533). Foster had four assists in the game as well, and is now sixth in program history in that category with 285, passing Kris Johnson '00 (284). Zy'Ann Phinezy had ten points in 20 minutes off the bench. She was 3-5 shooting and 4-4 at the line. Goshen was 11-12 (91.7%) on free-throws as a team, their best free-throw percentage in a game with at least seven attempts since January 6, 2018 against Grace. Paulecia Isom had ten points off the bench as well with three assists to her name.

Jesus Won Day is a league-wide initiative to share with the world why and how Jesus has won in our lives. Players, staff and fans of both team wore shirts saying "Jesus Won" on the front in their team colors.

Goshen hosts Mount Vernon Nazarene on Wednesday, February 18 for Senior Night. Kyla Foster and Lillian Null will be the seniors recognized for Goshen.