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Box Score 2 MARION, Ind. — Brooke Maes went 3 for 3 and scored twice in the second game of a doubleheader Friday, but 12th-ranked Indiana Wesleyan University swept a pair of Crossroads League contests from Goshen College by 9-0 and 12-6 margins at the IWU softball field.
Courtney Crapser singled in the second inning and doubled in the fifth of the opener for the Maple Leafs (11-22, 3-11), who also got a walk in the opening frame from Rianna Koteles.
Indiana Wesleyan (30-5, 11-3) opened the scoring with a Tori Boyer single in the bottom of the first before doing the bulk of the damage in an eight-run third inning that saw the Wildcats send 11 batters to the plate.
IWU hurler Danielle Munn got a complete-game win in the 73-minute game, striking out eight in five innings. Springer led all players with three hits while Kelsey Kooistra added two.
The Leafs took advantage of a pair of IWU errors to score twice in their first time of asking in the second game, getting a leadoff single from Koteles and a two-out base hit from Taylor Sutliff to knock in Leah Herrman.
Goshen added a third run in the top of the second, stringing together singles from Maes, Cassandra Espinoza and Koteles, but watched the hosts score seven runs in the first followed by two in the second for a 9-3 lead. First baseman Kristen Exposito homered a second time in the third inning to put IWU up 12-3.
The Maple Leafs doubled their scoring output in the fourth inning after a leadoff walk to Allison White was followed by a four-hit outburst that included run-scoring hits from Espinoza, Boyer and Brianna Sherman. The three runs in the inning were enough to fend off the run rule, but GC left two runners on base and would put two more on in the final three innings against relief pitcher Carlie Weaver.
Koteles, Sutliff and Espinoza all added a pair of hits in the nightcap, a game that saw the teams combine for 28 hits, six walks and four errors. Tori Boyer and Michaela Loveless each recorded three hits for the Wildcats, who totaled eight extra-base knocks.
Mckenzey Ridge worked four innings to get the win for IWU: for Goshen, Alexis Carpenter took the loss before Maes worked 5 1/3 innings and threw 99 pitches in relief.
After Saturday's scheduled doubleheader with Taylor was postponed because of forecast sub-freezing wind chills, the Maple Leafs will return to the field on Monday afternoon for a home meeting with Grace. That twinbill is slated to begin at 3 p.m. at the John Ingold Athletic Complex.