UPLAND, Ind. — Ryan Hartig broke a tie with Preston Carr for the most games played in a Goshen College baseball uniform, but Hartig and the Maple Leafs saw their season end Saturday morning in a 9-3 loss to Mount Vernon Nazarene University in the Crossroads League tournament at Taylor University's Winterholter Field.

Hartig and classmate Cody McCoy finished with three hits apiece for sixth-seeded Goshen (22-29), whose third regular senior starter, Brad Stoltzfus, drew two walks to extend his career free-pass record to 113.

Mount Vernon Nazarene (24-25), the seventh seed, got three hits apiece from Jesse Staudt and Ashton Myers, each of whom went yard in the second half of the contest.

The Cougars scored the game's first run after a pair of one-out walks in the top of the first before tacking on a second tally in the second on a Nick Moser single.

Hartig used a pair of bunts to cross the plate in the fourth, laying one down and beating the throw for a leadoff single and moving to third on a Kody McGuire sacrifice bunt. Colby Malson's intervening walk meant the Maple Leafs sported men on second and third before McCoy's RBI single, but a pickoff and a strikeout would end the inning before GC had a chance to dent the lead further.

Staudt's solo shot was the lone hit for either side in the fifth, and both teams stranded runners in the sixth after another Hartig hit.

McCoy's single started Goshen's rally in the top of the seventh: he moved up 90 feet to second when Nolan Holcomb reached on an error and 90 more to third when Chase Hunter flied out to the track in right. A walk to Stoltzfus loaded the bases for Ben Longacre, who singled to close the gap to 3-2 before Hartig took a game-tying walk.

Despite a Malson groundout to third, the scoring in the seventh wasn't over; unfortunately for Goshen, its half of the inning was. Mount Vernon Nazarene started the inning with five straight baserunners, getting a two-run hit from Devin Pearl and a three-run jack from Myers one batter later, and scored six times for a 9-3 lead.

Goshen put runners in scoring position in both remaining innings, getting a one-out McCoy double in the eighth and a pair of two-out hits from Clinton Stroble II and Hartig in the ninth, but stranded 11 runners on the day to Mount Vernon Nazarene's eight.

Braedon Evans started and threw six-plus innings for GC, allowing eight hits: Kyle Kotecki and Colby Malson each worked out of the bullpen. MVNU used five pitchers with Adam Goodpaster taking the win in relief.

The defeat closes the book on Goshen's 2018 season, which in turn closes the book on a three-year span in which GC won at least 19 games every year. That feat is unmatched in school history: only the 1995-97 teams join the 2016-18 teams as winners of 10 or more conference games for a three-year streak.

The 2018 Goshen team set a program record with 14 triples and improved on last season's total of 303 strikeouts from the mound, notching five more in seven fewer games. Stoltzfus also graduates with a tie for the program's lead in career runs scored, matching Josh Keister's 133, while Longacre (49 runs and 22 doubles) and Malson (10 saves) each set single-season records.

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