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Five-run 10th pushes Leafs across finish line in marathon

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SPRING ARBOR, Mich. — As if 28 hits and nine walks in a game wasn't enough, the Goshen College softball team scored 5 times in the top of the 10th to top Spring Arbor University 20-15 in a marathon Crossroads League game on Monday afternoon.

Jessica Bachtell and Allison White each hit safely five times for the Maple Leafs (13-20, 7-10), who also got four hits from Cassandra Espinoza and three apiece from Emily Cummings, Ri Koteles and Sandra Rodriguez. Koteles led all players with four walks.

Cummings took the win after 8 1/3 innings in the pitcher's circle, throwing 209 pitches to 45 batters.

Goshen scored in every inning except the seventh and the ninth: after a 4-4 tie through two innings, the Maple Leafs scored the next nine tallies to lead 13-4 by the middle of the fifth.

Spring Arbor (11-20, 4-15) answered with three runs in the fifth, three in the sixth and four in the bottom of the seventh to send the game to extra innings.

The Cougars had four three-hit performances off the bats of Cora Millay, Chloe Gignac, Kyla Semones and Sydney Taylor. Hope Longenbarger scored five runs after reaching base five times, including three on walks. Fifteen of Spring Arbor's 16 hits were singles.

Rodriguez smacked the game's lone home run to cap a six-run third inning for Goshen; the Maple Leafs rapped five doubles, with Cummings recording two. Goshen left 19 runners on base and Spring Arbor stranded 16.

Following the extra-inning affair, game two of the doubleheader did not begin until nearly 7:30 p.m. and was called because of darkness 51 minutes later. That contest, which was halted in the bottom of the fourth with Goshen leading 3-2, will be completed at a later date.

Goshen will return to the field for its second road doubleheader in as many days on Tuesday, when it visits Huntington University for a 3 p.m. first pitch.

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