INDIANAPOLIS — The Goshen College baseball team saw its starters allow a single run in the first 12 innings they pitched this weekend in a three-game series with Marian University, but the Knights swept a Saturday doubleheader to take the series after the Maple Leafs won Friday's opener 7-1.

Kade Gorman allowed 5 hits and 1 run in 6 1/3 innings on Friday, posting a quality start in the process, while Braedon Evans threw 4 no-hit innings on Saturday before Camm Nickell carried a lead into the fifth inning.

FRIDAY: Goshen 7, Marian 1 (box score)

The Maple Leafs (8-15, 3-6) got on the board first and never trailed in the opener. Three straight singles to start the fourth inning opened the scoring, with Kody McGuire's shot through the left side scoring Mitchell Wilson, and Wilson doubled the lead with a sacrifice fly an inning later. Bobby Garcia promptly doubled in the usual sense of that word to score Chase Hunter and make the lead 3-0.

Goshen extended the margin to 5-0 with three singles, a walk and a passed ball in the sixth before the Knights turned a leadoff walk into their lone run in the bottom of the inning. McGuire earned a painful RBI in the ninth when he was hit with a pitch with the bases loaded, two batters before Anthony Todaro added a sacrifice fly.

Gorman scattered 5 singles and 7 strikeouts in 6 1/3 innings of work, eventually yielding the mound to Kyle Kotecki, Nick Caplinger and Colton Daniel.

Ben Longacre and Clinton Stroble II each finished with three of Goshen's 16 hits; Colby Malson, Wilson and Garcia recorded two apiece. Wilson was the only player on either side to score twice, a feat McGuire replicated with RBIs.

SATURDAY: Marian 2, Goshen 1, 10 innings (box score)

Maple Leaf pitching struck out 13 batters and nearly made a third-inning run stand up to clinch the series win, but Marian came back to tie the score in the seventh inning of the scheduled seven-inning affair and won 2-1 in extra frames.

Goshen turned the game's first baserunner into the game's first run in the third inning, getting a two-out hit from Bailey Owens and bringing him around on a Colby Malson walk and a Ben Longacre RBI single for the 1-0 lead.

Braedon Evans and Malson combined to take a 1-hitter into the seventh inning, but Goshen's offense would produce only two more singles behind them and both runners were later retired on the bases. Marian scratched out the tying run on a fielding error and two singles in the bottom of the seventh.

The Maple Leafs had their best chance to win the game in the ninth inning, when McGuire singled with two outs and Evan Creager added a base hit to left, but the Knights cut down the go-ahead run at the plate.

Following a one-out error in the 10th, Marian bunted the winning run into scoring position and Leo Lopez singled him in to even the series.

Chase Dowell took the win for the Knights after five innings of 3-hit shutout relief and 3 strikeouts. All 10 hits in the game were singles and no player had more than one: Owens was the only player to reach on both a hit and a walk.

SATURDAY: Marian 5, Goshen 3 (box score)

Extra innings in the first game of the doubleheader meant that the second game was shortened to seven innings, but the Knights (12-11, 4-3) needed just six to break open a 3-3 tie and claim the series win.

Malson led off the game with one of his team-high 3 hits, scoring on a double-play grounder later in the inning. After Marian took the lead with a two-run Evan Hickman double in the third, the Maple Leafs responded with a pair of two-out singles from Owens and Malson to take a 3-2 lead in the middle of the fourth.

Marian tied the game on three singles in the fifth inning and took the lead with a pair of unearned runs in the sixth as Matt Turk plated two on a bases-loaded single. The Maple Leafs went down in order in the seventh.

In addition to Malson, Longacre reached on a pair of walks for the Maple Leafs; Hickman, Lopez and Turk all had multiple hits for Marian.

Ethan Darter took the win after two innings of relief for Marian; Reese Wills had gotten the start and worked 5 innings. Camm Nickell tossed a complete game and struck out 8 for GC.

Goshen hosts Bluffton University for a single 9-inning game at noon Sunday at Sarge Yoder Field.