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Baseball

Nine unanswered runs earn wire-to-wire win for split at Grace

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WINONA LAKE, Ind. — Tanner Logan went yard as part of a 6-RBI performance, Austin Bontrager added a career-high 3 hits and Baylee Young threw 6 innings out of the bullpen as the Goshen College baseball team locked up its fourth straight postseason berth with a 12-2 win over Grace College on Friday. The Lancers salvaged a Senior Day split by winning the opener 5-0.

Kody McGuire put Goshen (17-27, 11-15 Crossroads League) on the scoreboard in the second game of the doubleheader, driving in Logan with a single down the left-field line in the top of the second inning. Jason Grooms added a bases-loaded single for an insurance run in the third inning and the Leafs extended their lead to 3-0 on a wild pitch.

Grace (14-24, 10-16) put up two unearned runs in the bottom of the third, but Goshen would do the rest of the scoring with nine unanswered tallies over the final six frames. The fourth inning saw four runs on four hits, two errors and a hit batter: all three methods of reaching base also drove in runs as the visitors pulled in front 7-2.

A Logan single knocked in Mitchell Wilson in the sixth inning, running the margin to 8-2, before the 3-run shot from Logan in the seventh and another Logan base hit to score pinch-runner Evan Creager in the ninth. Logan finished 3 for 6 with 3 runs scored.

Grooms, McGuire and Clinton Stroble II each posted a pair of hits for Goshen, which racked up 16 hits to its hosts' 7. Creager scored four times as Stroble's courtesy runner; Wilson and Longacre scored twice each.

After Toby Fox got the start, Young allowed 3 hits and 2 unearned runs in an 85-pitch relief outing, striking out 5. Kyle Kotecki worked the final inning.

The victory was Goshen's 750th in program history.

Grace took the opener after scoring a first-inning run on a bases-loaded fielder's choice and holding on from there. The Lancers added insurance runs in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings, with Goshen scoring on a Logan sacrifice fly in the top of the sixth.

Colby Malson had three of Goshen's eight hits in the opener while Grace got 3 hits from David Anderson and 2 from Xavier Harris. Chris Griffin scored twice for the Lancers.

Houston Haney took the win for Grace, allowing 8 hits and 1 run over 7 innings while striking out 5.

The Maple Leafs and Lancers will finish their weekend series Saturday morning; game time has been advanced from 1 p.m. to 10 a.m. due to predicted inclement weather later in the day. The game is a de facto seeding playoff; the winner will be seeded seventh and the loser eighth in next week's conference tournament.

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