Huntington, IN — It is highly unlikely that Goshen head coach Steve Wiktorowski will ever have the desire to go to a local video store and rent any of the Twilight Zone series horror flicks.

Wednesday night at the Huntington College Merillat Complex, he lived through every episode.

Perhaps only an aura similar to that of the long running television series could offer explanation for Goshen’s eight of 52 shooting performance on the evening (15.4 percent), hindering the team to a 25-48 loss to Mid-Central Conference rival Huntington College. The Leafs set numerous program records for futility in the defeat, including the lowest overall shooting percentage in program history. The Leafs’ 25 points overall was also the lowest output in over 20 years of competition, as until Wednesday 42 points (against Indiana Wesleyan University in a 42-69 loss on Jan. 31, 1996) was the lowest point total a Leaf team had generated in the last 10 years of intercollegiate play.

Again, it was truly a Twilight Zone kind of night.

Ironically, it was Goshen (11-18, 3-11) that began the game in control and with a lead, as the team held an 11-9 advantage with 12:50 remaining in the first half. Unfortunately, that’s when the lid began to appear over the Leafs’ basket. Wiktorowski’s team would score only two more points — on freshman Kelsy McKee’s jumper at the 5:46 mark — before going to the locker room down by a 22-13 score at halftime. Goshen had converted five of 29 shots in the first half, good for a 17.2 percent effort.

With the laws of mathematics suggesting that the Leafs would break out of their collective funk in the second half — Goshen had shot nearly 40 percent from the field on the season to date — the eeriness of the night proved otherwise. Wiktorowski’s team scored a single free throw in the opening 9:46 of the second period, missing its first 11 shots from the field. Sophomore Danielle Haney was able to ring a three-pointer at the 10:14 mark, ending the drought but not the horrid shooting night for her team. Goshen finished the second period shooting a total three of 23 from the floor (13 percent).

Take away the Leafs’ shooting woes, and the team played well in other facets of the game. Goshen outrebounded Huntington by a 40 to 39 count and held the Foresters to just a 21 of 56 shooting performance (37.5 percent), winnable numbers on even an average shooting night. Unfortunately, the only place Goshen was able to score consistently came at the free throw line, and the team didn’t get there nearly enough: The Leafs knocked in six of seven freebies, with five coming in the second half of play.

No player scored in double figures in the loss, with senior Erin McDugle notching a team-high eight points on two of nine shooting. McKee added five points, while freshman Carly Feldman scored two points to go with a team-high seven rebounds.

The team can only hope that this was a once-in-a-lifetime type of occurrence, as the schedule gets no easier. Goshen will travel to 19th-ranked Taylor University for another MCC match-up on Saturday. Game time is set for 1 p.m.