HUNTINGTON, Ind. — A three-hit afternoon from Brooke Maes and a complete-game victory out of the right arm of Leah Herrman earned the Goshen College softball team a doubleheader split Tuesday at Huntington University, rebounding for a 6-1 win in game two after dropping the opener 9-1.

Maes reached base in all four plate appearances during the nightcap, leading off the second and seventh innings with singles and the fifth with a double. Her other trip to the plate, with one on and one out in the third inning, involved a fielding miscue that led to a pair of unearned Goshen runs. That theme would continue as the senior went on to score after all four plate appearances as well.

While four of the five innings in which Goshen (12-23, 4-12 Crossroads League) scored involved Maes reaching base, the actual driving in of those runs was shared by four different people. Taylor Sutliff knocked in Goshen's first run in the second inning before Koteles and Leah Herrman each came up with a runner on third and drove them in one frame later.

Cassandra Espinoza's leadoff double set up a Candace Sutter squeeze play in the fourth to drive in GC's fourth run. An inning later, Herrman's double came on the other end of the process, scoring Maes from third, before Sutliff chipped in a second RBI with a ground ball to third in the seventh.

Huntington (14-11, 9-6) scored its lone run of game two in the fifth on a Joelle Beals double after a two-out fielding error prolonged the inning. Herrman's only run was therefore unearned: the freshman threw 83 pitches in a 99-minute complete game, allowing six hits and no walks against three punchouts.

Herrman also recorded a pair of hits in two at bats while sacrifice bunting twice, joining Maes and Espinoza (2 for 4) as the only GC players to hit safely more than once. Beals was 2 for 3 out of the HU leadoff spot, accounting for both extra-base hits.

"It was exciting to see us firing on all cylinders today," said Goshen coach Kristen Kolter. "We played much better defense and executed our bunt game well, moved runners into scoring position and got timely base hits. We struggled to adjust to the offspeed pitcher in game one, but came into game two with fire and determination."

Koteles' sixth home run of the season, a solo shot in the top of the fourth, closed Goshen within 2-1 before Huntington broke open the opener with a seven-run fourth inning. The Foresters, who had scored in the first on two singles and a sacrifice bunt and tacked on an insurance run in the third with a Paige Eichelbarger double, sent 11 batters to the plate and picked up five hits in the inning.

The Maple Leafs left the go-ahead run on base once and the tying run another time in their five times at bat: Maes followed Koteles' leadoff handiwork with a one-out single in the fourth, but was unable to advance before the inning ended. Sutter and Katherine Boyer each had hits in the first inning as well.

Eichelberger and Kennedy Krull each recorded three hits in three tries for the hosts with Eichelberger driving in four runs and Abby Keaffaber two. Lairen Miller struck out three in a complete-game effort for the win while Goshen used three pitchers, all for between 22 and 36 deliveries.

The second-game win, combined with Saint Francis' sweep of a doubleheader at Grace, moves Goshen into eighth place in the Crossroads League win column. The Maple Leafs continue their conference lightning round of 10 games in six days on Wednesday with a visit to Spring Arbor; first pitch is set for 3 p.m.