GOSHEN, Ind. — Candace Sutter rapped three hits in the opener and five hits total in a doubleheader Tuesday as the Goshen College softball team lost a doubleheader to Huntington University 6-4 and 5-1 after the games were moved from HU to Goshen's John Ingold Athletic Complex due to wet grounds.

The Maple Leafs (6-12, 3-9) used a Sydney Stein groundout to take a 1-0 lead in the first inning of game one before two runs came home on a Taylor Sutliff squeeze play in the second to give Goshen a 3-1 lead through two frames.

Huntington (11-10-1, 6-6) chipped away at the deficit with an unearned run in the third inning before taking the lead for good in the fourth. Marty Harris, who led the Foresters with three hits, came home on a passed ball before a Natalie McGuire single and Casey Lehman sacrifice fly brought in the other two runs to make it 5-3.

GC would counter with a run in the bottom of the inning when starting pitcher Alexis Carpenter led off with a double and scored two batters later on a Sutter hit. But Huntington added an insurance run in the top of the seventh to hold on for the 6-4 win.

Carpenter and Emily Namisnak doubled for Goshen in game one: outside of Sutter, the team's six hits came from six different players. Lairen Miller fired a nine-hit complete game for HU.

Namisnak's solo home run with one out in the first formed all of Goshen's scoring against Forester hurler Camille Furrow, who struck out six in another complete-game effort, in game two.

Huntington scored thrice in the third inning, as singles by Furrow and McGuire bookended back-to-back doubles by Lehman and Audra Klopfenstein, and twice more in the fifth on a two-run Sabrina Bethel double. Goshen loaded the bases with three singles in the seventh inning, bringing the tying run to the plate, but Furrow was able to induce a popup to seal the win.

Lehman accumulated four hits in the nightcap while Furrow and Bethel posted three each for HU: Bethel was the only player on either side to drive in more than one run. Carpenter and Brooke Maes each allowed six hits to 16 batters in the circle for Goshen.

The Maple Leafs visit Indiana Wesleyan for a doubleheader at 5 p.m. Friday; the road twinbill will be Goshen's second of the conference season before playing 10 straight games away from home beginning next Tuesday.