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Pitching staff sets season strikeout record in rubber-game win at Grace

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WINONA LAKE, Ind. — Four home runs and five doubles powered the Goshen College baseball team to a 12-2 victory over Grace College on Saturday in each team's Crossroads League finale at Miller Field.

Jason Grooms and Mitchell Wilson went yard twice, Tanner Logan added a pair of doubles and the team's pitching staff set a new single-season record with its 318th strikeout of the year.

Goshen (18-27, 12-15) scored in five straight innings from the second to the sixth before adding two insurance runs in the ninth.

After Logan's double allowed Grooms to knock in the first run of the game in the second inning, a Clinton Stroble double doubled the lead in the third inning before Wilson made it 4-0 with a full-count 2-run homer.

Grooms led off the fourth inning with a solo shot and Wilson added a 2-run homer in the fifth before Brighton Schofield doubled in Logan and Austin Bontrager to take a 9-2 lead.

Logan's sixth-inning sacrifice fly and Grooms' 2-run homer in the ninth rounded out the Goshen portion of the scoring.

Braedon Evans took the win after allowing 2 runs and 4 hits in 5 innings, striking out 5. His final punchout, retiring Xavier Harris to end the fifth, tied the team record of 314 strikeouts in a season set in 2010. Colton Daniel had the honor of breaking the record with the first out of the sixth inning.

The win means that Goshen finishes the season alone in the seventh spot in the Crossroads League standings, earning its fourth consecutive berth in the Crossroads League tournament. The Maple Leafs will take on second-seeded Mount Vernon Nazarene University in the first round of the double-elimination bracket on Friday at Taylor University.

Before turning its attention to the conference tournament, however, the Maple Leafs will host Rochester College on Tuesday in the final game of the regular season. First pitch is set for 2 p.m. as Goshen recognizes its seniors at Sarge Yoder Field.

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