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Box Score 2 UPLAND, Ind. — Colby Malson doubled in both games of a doubleheader Saturday for the Goshen College baseball team as the Maple Leafs dropped 4-1 and 8-2 decisions to Taylor University in Crossroads League play at Winterholter Field.
Malson's two-bagger in the seventh inning of the opener set up a run-scoring single from Kody McGuire to put Goshen (19-23, 10-13) on the scoreboard, while his one-out rope down the left-field line in the first inning of game two scored Brad Stoltzfus and Ben Longacre for a 2-0 GC lead in game two.
Taylor (34-11, 14-6), which had its 20-game home winning streak snapped by the Maple Leafs on Friday, used a two-run Sam Wiese single to tie the score in the third inning. Jared Adkins's double drove in two more runs in the Trojan seventh, although a throwing error allowed three unearned runs to come in as well as the hosts extended their lead to 7-2. A wild pitch brought in the last TU run an inning later.
Ben Longacre paced the Maple Leafs with three hits in the doubleheader: McGuire drew three walks and Clinton Stroble II two.
Travis Grimm and Baylee Young drew the two Maple Leaf starts: Grimm allowed nine hits in four innings while Young gave up five in 4 2/3 frames. Chandler Ingle finished both games, tossing two innings on the afternoon and conceding two hits, an unearned run and a walk along with three strikeouts.
Josh Lane went 3 for 4 for the Trojans in the opener, tripling in the first inning before scoring the game's opening run on a Nathan Targgart sacrifice fly. Wiese, Adkins and Andrew Kennedy also added run-scoring hits.
Wyatt Whitman and Tanner Watson each had two-hit games for the hosts in game two while Adkins had their lone extra-base hit.
Luke Shively took the win after a six-inning start in the opener, allowing three hits and two walks on 89 pitches. Taylor used four pitchers to record between six and nine outs apiece in the nightcap: Rob Fox, the third hurler in sequence, took the win after two hitless and scoreless innings.
Goshen returns to the field on Monday for a single makeup game against Indiana Wesleyan University. The game will begin at 11 a.m. in order to avoid evening final exams at both schools and has been moved to IWU's campus so that the Wildcats can play another makeup game against Grace later in the afternoon. When the ersatz doubleheader is completed, Goshen and Indiana Wesleyan will be the only schools in the conference to have played a full complement of 24 games entering the last week of the season.