RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Six runs in one game and half a dozen in the other powered the Goshen College softball team to a doubleheader sweep of La Sierra University on Wednesday, winning 6-4 and 6-2.

Emily Cummings went 3 for 4 at the plate with a go-ahead triple while firing a complete game in the opener, and a three-run fifth inning helped the Maple Leafs lead for all but two batters of the nightcap.

Cummings scored the Maple Leafs' first run of the day, crossing the plate on a Brianna Sherman sacrifice fly to make it 1-0 in the second inning, and Madison Matthews plated Katherine Boyer with a two-out single to make it 2-0 after three.

Goshen (3-9) tacked on another run on Ri Koteles' first home run of the season in the fourth.

La Sierra tied the game in the fourth, posting a pair of unearned runs in an inning with three singles, but the deadlock would be short-lived. Goshen loaded the bases with one out in the top of the fifth, and after a lineout to center field, Cummings unloaded them with a three-bagger into the left-field corner for a 6-3 lead.

Cummings the hitter gave Cummings the pitcher all the help she needed, as the Golden Eagles didn't muster another hit to the outfield until the seventh inning. Two seventh-inning doubles added a run to the home half of the scoreboard, but a groundout to third base ended the game and put Goshen back in the win column.

Cummings finished with 3 hits while Boyer and Matthews had two apiece for the Maple Leafs. Kallie Sorenson's two hits led the way for La Sierra. Cummings allowed 7 hits and struck out 9 in the circle.

The Maple Leafs took the lead three batters into the second game and held it the rest of the way. Edith Vega was hit by the third pitch of the afternoon; after she stole second and took third on a sacrifice bunt, Jessica Bachtell's sacrifice fly put the visitors up 1-0. A Taylor Sutliff double set up GC's first insurance run to double the lead in the second inning.

Following a Golden Eagle tally in the third, GC broke the game open with three runs in the fourth. Two singles and a walk loaded the bases with no outs, setting the stage for a two-run Matthews single and a Koteles sacrifice fly that created a 5-1 lead.

La Sierra threatened in the bottom half of the fifth, loading the bases with two singles and a walk to bring the tying run to the on-deck circle, but relief pitcher Hannah Grimes retired the second batter she faced to get out of the inning with the lead intact at 5-2. Goshen got that run back on a Bachtell squeeze play in the sixth to set the final margin.

Rayna Moraga took the win in the circle after 4 2/3 innings of pitching for GC; the sophomore allowed 8 hits and 2 earned runs on 83 pitches. Vega finished with 3 hits and Koteles 2.

Brandi Almaraz, Sorensen and Taylor Brooks each had two hits for La Sierra.

GC returns to action Friday in Arizona when it plays the first half of a four-game series with Benedictine University at Mesa. First pitch is set for 3 p.m. EST.