MARION, N.C. — A five-run second inning and three insurance runs in the seventh earned the Goshen College baseball team a bounce-back doubleheader split on Sunday as the Maple Leafs knocked off Montreat College 8-3 after losing the opener 4-0.

Four hits and a passed ball put the Maple Leafs (2-3) ahead for good, with Jason Grooms' two-run double driving in Brighton Schofield and Bobby Garcia for a 3-0 lead after Garcia opened the scoring by plating Kody McGuire. Mitchell Wilson and Clinton Stroble II kept the line moving with run-scoring hits to stake Colby Malson to a 5-0 lead as he went out for the bottom of the inning.

With the exception of back-to-back hits that scored a run in the fourth, Malson went unscathed until the sixth inning, when three singles loaded the bases for the Cavaliers. Montreat scored twice, on an infield error and a sacrifice fly, to cut the lead to 5-3 before Malson struck out the go-ahead run to end the inning.

McGuire, Garcia and Evan Creager all had run-scoring hits in the seventh inning, with McGuire's going for extra bases, and Montreat went down without a hit in its half of the seventh.

Four Maple Leafs finished with two hits and McGuire and Schofield each scored twice: Schofield drew two of the team's four walks. Malson allowed 6 hits and struck out 7 in the complete-game win.

Alex Soto and Fenway Parks each hit safely twice for Montreat, with Soto adding a triple for the team's only extra-base hit. Jared Drayton struck out 10 batters in 6 innings.

The Cavaliers did their damage in the fourth and sixth innings of the opener, stringing together three singles and a sacrifice fly in their second time through the order to take a 3-0 lead just after the 7-inning game's halfway point. The final tally was the product of a Parks double and an Aaron Takacs single in the sixth.

Ben Longacre had two hits, including a leadoff double, for the Maple Leafs. Takacs added three hits and Parks two for Montreat.

Goshen left the go-ahead runner on base in each of the first three innings, but Ryan Masterson limited GC to one baserunner over the last four frames in closing out a 4-hit shutout. Camm Nickell struck out 9 in going the distance for GC.

Goshen and Montreat wrap up their series Monday at 6 p.m. at the Big League Camp complex in Marion, North Carolina.