TUCSON, Ariz. — Seven hits in 11 tries from Jenna Thompson helped the Goshen College softball team rebound from an 0-2 start to split four games over the weekend in Tucson Invitational Games action. After going down to Madonna and Baldwin-Wallace on Friday, GC allowed one run over 14 innings on Saturday to knock off Dakota Wesleyan and Lawrence Tech and level its record at 3-3, marking the first time in five years that the Maple Leafs have won as many as three games over Spring Break.

Alexis Carpenter and Brooke Maes each registered wins in the circle for GC, with Carpenter allowing 11 hits in 14 1/3 innings while Maes struck out 7 in 13 2/3 frames. Each hurler fired a complete-game win on Saturday.

Maes and Sydney Stein each homered for the Maple Leafs, who also got five hits out of the leadoff spot from Candace Sutter and four each from Stein and Payge Scanlon-Boswood. Shortstop Courtney Crapser led the team with five runs batted in.

FRIDAY: Madonna 10, Goshen 4 (box score)

In their first of 13 games this year against teams receiving votes in the preseason poll, the Maple Leafs found themselves behind after two batters as a leadoff walk gave way to a steal and a run-scoring single. GC allowed two more runs in the second inning before Maes set the Crusaders (4-0) down in the third, then tied the game on her 13th career home run in the bottom of the inning.

Madonna added four unearned runs in the fourth inning and three in the sixth to set their half of the final score. Stein smoked a leadoff double to right field in the fourth inning and came around to score on a Thompson two-bagger three batters later, but Madonna hurler Madisen Henry allowed one hit in the last three innings to close out the complete-game win.

The Crusaders got three hits from shortstop Nicky Salloum and four RBI off the bat of catcher Mickey Kiser while Goshen was paced by two hits each from Thompson and Scanlon-Boswood. Maes went four innings in the circle, striking out two but taking the loss.

FRIDAY: Baldwin-Wallace 8, Goshen 1 (box score)

A leadoff home run in the fourth inning from Stein would account for all of Goshen's offense in the opening-day nightcap, an 8-1 defeat at the hands of NCAA Division III foe Baldwin-Wallace.

The Yellow Jackets stung Carpenter for three runs in the third inning, although only one of the scores was earned after she one-hit them through 3 2/3 innings. Maes would take over to start the fifth inning and tossed a pair of four-batter frames before Baldwin-Wallace scored five times on six hits in the top of the seventh.

BWU's 11 hits came from eight different players and all but one was a single, but Sam Mott was able to make that output stand up in a seven-strikeout, five-hit complete game. Krista Sutliff added a double for Goshen, which got five hits from five players, and Sutter and Stein each reached base twice.

SATURDAY: Goshen 3, Dakota Wesleyan 0 (box score)

Carpenter allowed four hits and struck out a pair in a complete-game shutout win Saturday afternoon, marking the first whitewashing of an opponent since Ame Blankenship turned the trick against Huntington on March 28, 2013. Dakota Wesleyan's hits were all singles and came in four different innings, although the Wildcats (1-8) would bring the tying run to the plate in the seventh after two Goshen errors.

The Maple Leafs took their first lead of the weekend in the second inning on a two-run Crapser single, scoring Scanlon-Boswood and Thompson, before adding an insurance run when Scanlon-Boswood scored on a fourth-inning squeeze play.

Goshen finished with 9 hits, led by a 3 for 3 showing from Thompson and a 2 for 3 mark by Scanlon-Boswood; each player laced a double. Crapser drove in all three runs. Sierra Haage went the distance in the circle for DWU.

SATURDAY: Goshen 4, Lawrence Tech 1 (box score)

A two-out solo homer from Brooke Dillon in the first inning gave Lawrence Tech an early edge, but the Blue Devils (3-6) got just one runner as far as third base thereafter and a four-run fourth swung the momentum the other way as Goshen leveled its weekend Saturday afternoon.

The Maple Leafs started their fourth with a lineout, a hit batter and a strikeout, nearly extinguishing their rally before it began. But four straight hits had other ideas: first Thompson and Allison White singled to load the bases, then Crapser smacked a go-ahead double followed by a Sutter hit to drive in two more and give the designated home team a 4-1 lead.

LTU brought the tying run to the plate in each of the next two innings, but Maes used a flyout and a popout to escape unscathed, then struck out Meredith Adams looking to end the game and rack up her second win of 2017. She threw 88 pitches in the win, allowing seven hits and striking out three. Sutter and Thompson each finished with two hits while Thompson drove in a pair.

Goshen returns to action with four games next weekend, facing Cincinnati-Clermont at 3 p.m. Saturday and Cincinnati Christian in Newport, Kentucky at 1 p.m. Sunday. The team's home opener follows on Friday, March 17 against Mount Vernon Nazarene.