GOSHEN, Ind. — Ben Longacre homered in game one and Brighton Schofield scored on a wild pitch in game two to break a pair of ties and the Goshen College baseball team held on to sweep 20th-ranked Taylor University 3-2 and 8-7 Tuesday at Sarge Yoder Field.

The win gave Goshen its first sweep of Taylor in the regular season since 1964 and the second such sweep in school history. 

Mitchell Wilson led all players with 4 hits, including a pair of doubles, and Colby Malson finished both games on the mound for the Maple Leafs (12-17, 6-6). Colton Daniel added 2 1/3 innings of scoreless relief in game one to take the win.

Goshen took a second-inning lead in the opener on back-to-back doubles by Tanner Logan and Wilson, adding an insurance run on a Bobby Garcia groundout. The Trojans answered an inning later when TJ Bass uncorked a two-run, game-tying single as the last of three straight hits.

Longacre's solo shot three pitches into the fifth rounded out the scoring. Malson allowed a leadoff double to the Trojans (24-11, 4-7) in the seventh and final inning before retiring the next three men to earn the save.

Goshen took a 6-0 lead through three innings in the nightcap with the help of two bases-loaded walks in the first inning and a two-run opposite-field dinger off Stroble's bat in the second. Garcia added the final run on a throwing error.

Taylor was not content to make the Leafs' afternoon a cakewalk, starting the fourth with three straight hits before a Conner Crawford homer cut the lead to 6-4. Another bases-loaded free pass, one of 11 drawn by GC batters, made it 7-4 through six innings.

That insurance run meant that Crawford's home run in the eighth inning, a two-run shot, and TJ Bass' ninth inning solo shot only tied the game, allowing Malson to again retire the next three batters and hand things off to his offense.

Helping his own cause, Malson led off the bottom of the inning with a single before yielding his spot on the bases to a pinch-runner. Stroble doubled into the left-center field gap to put two men in scoring position, but Logan never had a chance to bat before Schofield scored on a wild pitch.

Stroble went 3 for 6 in the second game, joining Brett Lawson as the only players with 3 hits. 

The second victory was the 100th of Maple Leaf head coach Alex Childers' career; he joins Harold Yoder and DeVon Hoffman as Goshen coaches to reach that mark. It also gave Goshen its second season sweep of the Trojans

Goshen returns to the field on Wednesday at Purdue University Fort Wayne; the game was postponed from Tuesday so that the Maple Leafs could make up their twinbill with Taylor. First pitch is set for 3 p.m. at Mastodon Field.