ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. — The Goshen College baseball team used a 10-run fourth inning to ensure that its 2018 regular season ended on a high note on Tuesday with a 16-6 win over Rochester College in non-conference action.

After giving up two runs in the first, the Maple Leafs (22-27) combined for 16 runs on 13 hits over the next three innings to seize control of the game. Rochester (5-38) scored two runs in both the fifth and sixth innings, but could get no closer and the mercy rule kicked in after the seventh frame.

Ben Longacre and Ryan Hartig each recorded three hits and three runs for GC while each left the yard with a home run. Clinton Stroble II also added a four-bagger and was one of four players (joining Hartig, Nolan Holcomb and Brad Stoltzfus) with two walks apiece. Kody McGuire also scored three times, part of the Leafs' largest offensive output of the season.

Longacre's fifth dinger of the season broke a 2-2 tie in the top of the third inning. Hartig, Cody McCoy and Holcomb all had run-scoring hits later in the inning, putting the visitors up 6-2 going into their double-figure fourth.

GC's first four batters of the fourth inning all reached on hits: Stroble emptied the bases with a three-run homer before Hartig went for back-to-back jacks to stretch the lead out to 10-2. The Warriors got two outs sandwiched around McGuire taking first base on a hit batter, but Goshen would laugh last as the final nine men of the inning reached base.

Holcomb singled, knocking in McGuire, before a Chase Hunter hit and a Stoltzfus walk loaded the bases. Longacre unloaded them with a triple, pushing the lead to 14-2, and then became the lead man in another set of loaded bases as Stroble was hit by a pitch and Hartig walked. The final two runs came on 90-foot advancements by way of a Colby Malson walk and a McGuire single; while McCoy reached on a fielder's choice as the 16th batter of the inning, McGuire was retired to end the frame.

Troy Justice's two-run single doubled the Rochester score in the fifth inning. In the sixth, Caleb Psycher doubled for RC's only extra-base hit of the day: Noah Wolfgang followed that with a single to cut the score to 16-5 before Psycher scored while Goshen cut down a runner stealing second. Psycher finished with three of Rochester's nine hits: Justice was the only other Warrior with two.

Nineteen Warriors and 18 Maple Leafs saw action in the midweek affair with GC using four pitchers to Rochester's six: each team's starting hurler was the only man to last longer than an inning. Kyle Staelgrave allowed two runs on six hits in four innings for the Leafs, striking out four and earning the win. Logan Jones worked a scoreless seventh.

The Maple Leafs now set their sights on the Crossroads League tournament, which opens Friday at Taylor University in Upland, Indiana. GC meets Huntington University at 10 a.m. Friday in the double-elimination event: those two teams will each play either Taylor or Mount Vernon Nazarene on Saturday.