GOSHEN, Ind. — Jason Grooms made a home-run-robbing catch in the seventh and final inning and backed it up with a walk-off homer in the bottom of the frame Saturday as the Goshen College baseball team took a 3-2 win from Huntington University in the middle game of a Crossroads League baseball series at Sarge Yoder Field.

Huntington won the series opener 18-10 on Friday and took the finale 8-4 on Saturday afternoon.

Grooms' homer, which came two strikes before the game would have gone to extra innings, was the only scoring outside of the third inning in Saturday's first game.

The Foresters (20-10, 14-5) had opened the scoring after a leadoff walk in the top of the third inning. A single put runners on the corners with no outs, and two infield ground balls moved the trail runner to third for a Jacob Hansen single to make it 2-0.

The Maple Leafs (13-24, 7-12) put their first three runners on base in the bottom of the inning, with Bailey Owens singling and Colby Malson adding a walk before Ben Longacre doubled to left to put the remaining two men in scoring position. Mitchell Wilson added a game-tying sacrifice fly two batters later.

Only one runner reached third base over the next three innings: with two outs in the top of the sixth, Huntington's Ian McCutcheon singled to left and later reached the hot corner after a stolen base and a throwing error. Malson, in his third inning of relief, struck out Jarret Gray to send the game to the seventh in the deadlock that Grooms broke.

The teams combined for nine hits in the opener of Saturday's doubleheader: Longacre and HU's Adam Roser each had two.

Huntington scored in six of the first seven innings of the finale as Donovan Clark stole his way around the bases and crossed the plate on a wild pitch for a 1-0 lead two batters in. It was 2-0 after three innings and 7-0 by the sixth, when three straight Goshen singles and a Wilson groundout brought home a pair of runs.

Goshen added two more runs in the seventh on three singles, a fielding error and a fielder's choice.

Clark finished with five hits and five steals for the Foresters while Longacre, Stroble and Jason Grooms each recorded a pair of safe passages for the Maple Leafs. Caleb Landrum pitched 7 innings and allowed 3 earned runs for the win.

Friday's opener was anything but a pitchers' duel with the wind blowing out at 30 miles per hour, gusting to 44. Huntington scored four times in the second inning before Goshen countered with five runs over the next three frames to take a 5-4 lead through five.

The Foresters sent 12 men to the plate in a 38-minute top of the sixth inning that culminated in 8 runs and a 12-5 lead, but the Maple Leafs answered with four of their own in the bottom of the inning. Huntington added six more tallies in the top of the eighth and finished with 21 hits.

Longacre and Kody McGuire each homered for Goshen in the losing effort, which saw Wilson post a double and Malson a triple. Longacre, Stroble and Tanner Logan all had sacrifice flies.

Hansen was one of three Foresters to finish with three hits, ending up a triple shy of the cycle.

The results left Goshen tied for eighth place in the conference at 7-12 with eight games remaining; the league's bottom six teams are all within 2½ games of the Maple Leafs, one way or the other.

Goshen returns to Spring Arbor University on Tuesday to finish its lone midweek series of the conference season; the teams will play a seven-inning game followed by a nine-inning contest, with the doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m.