INDIANAPOLIS — The second-ranked team in the NAIA downed Goshen College Sunday afternoon as Marian University topped the Maple Leaf softball team 2-0 and 8-0 in a Crossroads League doubleheader on the MU campus.

Marian (36-2, 27-1) scored both of its runs in the second inning of the opener, getting a Sadie Baugh fielder's choice to take the lead after a walk and a hit batter before Angelica McKibben doubled in the second run. The Knights tried to move another runner into scoring position with a sacrifice bunt, but Goshen first baseman Sandra Rodriguez became the pivot person on a 5-3-2 double play to retire Baugh at the plate to end the inning.

The Maple Leafs (15-30-1, 7-19-1) brought the tying run to the plate in three of the last four innings, getting a leadoff walk from Rianna Koteles in the fourth before one-out free passes to Cassandra Espinoza in the sixth and Rayna Moraga in the seventh. GC went 0-for-6 with two fielder's choices and a sacrifice bunt in those instances, however, as Knight starter Breena Smith allowed four walks and no hits in a complete-game win.

Designated player Issy Hoyt was the lone Knight with multiple hits and one of three to post doubles. Koteles batted three times for Goshen but did not record an official at bat, reaching base on two walks and posting a sacrifice bunt.

Following Marian's Senior Day festivities between games, the Knights opened the scoring with two unearned runs in the second inning and capped it with two more in the sixth of an 8-0 mercy-rule win.

In between, MU added two runs in the third inning, scoring on a Hoyt single and a Carly Greene groundout, and went up 5-0 on a fielding error in the fourth. Both teams got two hits in the fifth inning but stranded them both, and the Knights tacked on an insurance run with three straight sixth-inning hits before a bases-loaded fielding error ended the game.

Brooke Maes and Taylor Sutliff each singled for the Maple Leafs off Marian starter Cassie Perry, who also issued two walks in five innings. Grace Lumpkin finished the game out of the bullpen. The Knights got two hits apiece from Hoyt, Olivia Hoffman and Sidney Gerkin, the last of whom also doubled and stole two bases.

Three Goshen pitchers saw action on the afternoon: Maes threw 4 1/3 innings between the two games while Moraga worked four innings in game one and Alexis Carpenter fired three in game two. The Maple Leaf trio combined for one walk and three earned runs.

Goshen concludes a four-day stretch of doubleheaders on Monday when it hosts Indiana Wesleyan University at 1:30 p.m. at the Ingold Athletic Complex.