GOSHEN, Ind. — Colby Malson squeezed home two runs, Ryan Hartig and Clinton Stroble II each rapped three hits and Braedon Evans fired a complete-game, seven-inning three-hitter Saturday as Goshen College split a baseball doubleheader with Bethel College, winning 4-0 and losing 8-7 at J. Harold "Sarge" Yoder Field.

Bethel (14-8, 5-7 Crossroads League) sent a runner to first base two batters into the game, with leadoff man Austin Branock taking a fastball off the upper arm before moving up on a wild pickoff throw and a flyout. Not only would BC not score, the Pilots only got runners to third base in one other inning.

Preston Carr drew a leadoff walk for Goshen (16-15-1, 6-6) and opened the scoring four batters later on a Hartig single. Hartig added an insurance run after a bunt hit in the fourth inning, coming in from second base on a Bethel miscue.

BC put the tying runs on base with one out in the fifth after a Seth Kermode hit and a fielding error that sent Brandon Diss to second base. An Evans wild pitch to the backstop allowed Diss to third base, but the ball caromed back to catcher Stroble, who retired the lead runner at the plate, and Evans induced a groundout to end the inning.

Stroble and Hartig started the sixth inning with walks before advancing to second and third on a throwing error. Following a strikeout, Malson bunted the ball down the first-base line. Bethel pitcher Jared Laurent tagged Malson, allowing the first run to score, as his momentum carried him toward first base. By the time Laurent could stop, react and throw home, Hartig's left hand swept across the plate ahead of the tag to push the lead to 4-0.

Evans retired Bethel in order in the seventh inning for his fourth win and fourth complete game of the year. Hartig finished 2 for 2 with two runs. Jared Laurent allowed four hits and one earned run for the Pilots but took the loss.

Much like Friday's series opener, Bethel took an early 2-0 lead in the second game after rapping seven singles, a double and two sacrifice bunts in the first three innings. Goshen got one run back in the third frame after a Connor Clemens leadoff walk and two errors.

A quartet of singles in the fourth inning netted just one run for the Pilots after a pickoff and a double-play grounder got starting pitcher Blake Collins out of the inning.

GC tied the game on back-to-back singles by Malson and Clemens in the bottom of the fourth inning, then took a 5-3 lead in the fifth on two-out hits by Stroble, Hartig and Armstrong, the latter of whom came up again in the sixth and drove in two more runs with another two-out single.

The Pilots added a run on two doubles, and that was it for the scoring in the first eight innings. Collins left in line for the win after six innings and two strikeouts: Bethel reliever Eric Kelver, along with Maple Leafs Malson and Travis Grimm, each posted perfect relief innings.

But a baseball game is nine innings long, and the Pilot ninth was another story. Branock and Collin Affolder started the inning with bloop singles. Kelver loaded the bases as a hit batsman before Mike Wathier unloaded them with a three-run, game-tying double. Goshen retired the next batter on a strikeout and ended the inning on a double play, but not before a Sean Luzon hit put Bethel up 9-8.

Cody McCoy drew a one-out walk in the bottom of the inning, but Branock induced a 3-6-1 double play to end the game and get the save.

Branock rapped four hits and Affolder and Diss three each for Bethel, which tallied 18 hits, although 14 were singles. First baseman Mike Wathier doubled twice.

The Maple Leafs finished with nine hits, including three from Stroble and two by Armstrong, and drew nine walks, which was nine more than their pitchers allowed. The teams combined to leave 20 runners on base.

Kelver picked up the win while Spenser Triplett took the loss for GC.

The Maple Leafs, one of three Crossroads League teams that have played all 12 of their scheduled conference games through this weekend, host Siena Heights in a non-conference doubleheader at 2 p.m. Tuesday. Live video for the twinbill will be available at GoLeafs.net.