GOSHEN, Ind. — A seventh-inning comeback in game two came up one run short, forcing the Goshen College baseball team to settle for a doubleheader split by identical 6-5 scores against Siena Heights University on Tuesday at Sarge Yoder Field.

Goshen (9-17) wasted little time starting the offense, with five of the first six batters reaching base in game one. Clinton Stroble II lined an RBI double to left to take a 1-0 lead three batters in before Tanner Logan knocked in Ben Longacre with a groundout and Mitchell Wilson singled home Bobby Garcia.

Logan was at the plate when two more runs scored on a dropped fly ball in the second inning, staking starting pitcher Toby Fox to a 5-0 lead. Goshen added an insurance run in the fourth on a Kody McGuire sacrifice fly to take a 6-0 lead.

Siena Heights (8-12) scored on a wild pitch in the fifth inning and added four more in the sixth before Colton Daniel got the second man he faced to fly into a double play.

Longacre went 3 for 3 to pace Goshen's offense and Austin Bontrager added two hits. Garcia scored three times and Longacre twice. Fox took the win, allowing five hits in 5 1/3 innings, and Daniel picked up a save.

Again, Goshen struck first in the nightcap, taking a 1-0 lead in the third inning on a Stroble fielder's choice, but the Saints responded with four unearned runs in the top of the fifth for a 4-1 lead. Anthony Todaro's pinch-hit single in the sixth cut the margin to 4-2.

The Saints added two more runs on Logan Nolff's triple in the top of the seventh, and they would need every run they could get when Goshen's bats clicked in the bottom of the inning. Evan Creager and Malson started the inning by reaching base on a walk and a hit batter, respectively, bringing the tying run to the on-deck circle with no outs.

After two of the allotted three outs happened, Wilson singled through the left side to score Creager and a fielding error loaded the bases. Garcia and Brighton Schofield each added base hits to score one run apiece, bringing the tying run to third base, before a strikeout ended the game.

Brendan Green and Connor McCoy each recorded two hits in the second game for Siena Heights with Green scoring twice; McCoy and Nolff drove in two runs apiece. Wilson, Garcia and Creager all reached base twice for GC.

The Maple Leafs will look ahead to their Crossroads League series this weekend against Taylor University, but they have one less day to wait and a longer distance to travel to get there. Due to Friday's forecast, the series opener has been moved ahead a day and shifted to TU's Winterholter Field in Upland, where first pitch will happen at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. The final two games of the series remain set for Sarge Yoder Field on Saturday.