GOSHEN, Ind. — The nation's fifth-ranked softball team swept a doubleheader from Goshen College on Thursday as Marian University topped the Maple Leafs 7-3 and 10-9 at the John Ingold Athletic Complex. The second game was called after five innings because of darkness.

After a scoreless first three innings, the Knights (22-0, 12-0 Crossroads League) scored in each of the last four frames of the opener, using a 3-hit inning to put up three runs in the fourth before adding insurance runs on a Mary Crumlin single, an Issy Hoyt double and a Shelbie Stotts single over the following three innings.

Goshen (8-17, 2-7) got its three runs in the seventh, when Emily Cummings led off with a double and the Maple Leafs loaded the bases with no outs. Sandra Rodriguez drove in the first run with a ground ball to second, while the second run came in on a fielding error; Madison Matthews added an RBI single through the hole on the left side.

The Knights got three hits from Hoyt and two apiece from Stotts and Crumlin while catcher Sadie Baugh scored twice. Breena Smith pitched six shutout innings in the circle, striking out 7.

Marian opened an early 6-0 lead after an inning and a half in the nightcap, only to watch Goshen come back with 9 straight runs in the third and fourth innings. Each team finished with 12 hits despite playing in failing light and the game being two innings shorter than usual.

GC started the third with four straight singles sandwiched around a strikeout: Jessica Bachtell knocked in Madison Matthews before scoring on a Ri Koteles single and Emily Cummings crossed the plate on a fielding miscue.

Bachtell and Koteles each recorded 2-run homers in the fourth inning; Katherine Boyer added the go-ahead runs with a two-out, bases-loaded double off the left-field wall to make it 9-8.

After a single, walk, and sacrifice bunt started the top of the fifth, the Knights tied the game on a Kassidi Cadle sacrifice fly. Goshen nearly escaped the inning with a tie on a Stotts fly ball to right, but the ball tailed into no man's land near the foul line and dropped in for a base hit. The game was called after the bottom of the inning.

Bachtell and Cummings each registered three hits and two runs for the Maple Leafs; Koteles drove in 3 runs and Boyer 2. The Knights got 3 hits, 3 runs and 4 RBI from Cadle, who led the team in all three categories. Sydney Wilson got the win and Smith the save.

Goshen hits the road on Saturday to take on Spring Arbor University in a 1 p.m. doubleheader.