WINONA LAKE, Ind. — Emily Cummings fired a two-hit shutout for a 1-0 victory in the opener and Mother Nature had her say after eight innings of 7-7 softball in the nightcap as Goshen College won and tied at Grace College to close the Crossroads League softball season on Saturday.

The Maple Leafs (19-32-1, 13-22-1) needed three batters to take the lead in the first inning, and Cummings did the damage, lacing a double to deep left to score Madison Matthews.

The junior proceeded to let her pitching do the talking in the circle, setting down the final 21 batters she faced after starting the game with back-to-back infield singles.

Ri Koteles added a fourth-inning single for the Maple Leafs, who also had Taylor Sutliff reach on a sixth-inning walk. All told, the teams combined for one hit and two baserunners over the final 45 batters.

Cummings struck out 4 and needed 93 pitches to get through her complete game, picking up her 13th win of the season and posting her third shutout.

In the second game, 7 runs and 15 hits per team led to Goshen's second tie in as many seasons as rain moved through northern Indiana.

Jessica Bachtell went 5 for 5 to pace Goshen's offense, which got a pair of doubles from Sutliff and 2 hits apiece from Koteles and Hayley Courtney. Bachtell drove in two runs and Sutliff scored twice while Rayna Moraga, Hannah Grimes and Mad Kuipers split time in the circle.

The Lancers (10-37-1, 6-29-1) struck first, getting a second-inning double from Hannah Harless to take the lead before adding on with a 3-run third that included four hits and a sacrifice fly.

Goshen got two of the runs back in its half of the third inning on a Bachtell single, then cut the lead to 4-3 when Sutliff and Courtney led off the fourth with back-to-back hits.

An RBI groundout, a passed ball and a throwing error led to Goshen scoring three times in the fifth for a 6-4 advantage before Koteles singled home Bachtell to put a wrap on the scoring.

Unfortunately for the Maple Leafs, Grace had enough of an answer to tie the game in the sixth inning. After a leadoff single and a groundout, the Lancers strung together every kind of hit except the home run, tying the game on an Olivia Scarborough triple with two outs.

Neither team got a runner past second base in either the seventh or eighth innings.

Grace finished with 3 hits apiece from Sam Heim and Scarborough, which were two of the team's 5 multi-hit performances. Scarbrough drove in 3 runs and Harless knocked in a pair.

The win in the first game ensured that Goshen would not enter its first Crossroads League tournament since 2013 as the eighth and final seed, but whether the Maple Leafs will be seeded sixth or seventh hinges on a potential makeup game between Marian and Huntington.

The Knights led the Foresters 6-0 Saturday when the second game of their doubleheader was abandoned because of rain; if the game is resumed and Huntington comes back to win, HU would jump Goshen into the sixth spot.

In any case, Goshen will begin the conference tournament on Wednesday against either Indiana Wesleyan or Taylor. Complete pairings, sites and schedule information will be released by the conference office after the Monday deadline to complete the season.