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Stroble smashes three homers in 19-8 win over Spring Arbor

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UPLAND, Ind. — Clinton Stroble II launched three home runs and the Goshen College baseball team led wire-to-wire in a 19-6 victory over Spring Arbor University on Monday morning in an elimination game at the Crossroads League tournament.

The seventh-seeded Maple Leafs ensured a spot among the tournament's final four teams with a win, advancing to another elimination game Monday night. Sixth-seeded Spring Arbor was eliminated.

Mitchell Wilson added 4 hits to lead the team; Stroble recorded 3 and Colby Malson and Ben Longacre chipped in 2 apiece.

Stroble knocked in 6 runs, hitting one of every flavor of home run except the grand slam. Jason Grooms and Kody McGuire drove in 3 runs apiece with McGuire adding a 3-run shot of his own in the eighth inning.

The 19 runs were the most scored by a Maple Leaf team since a 23-11 win over Indiana Wesleyan on April 15, 2017.

The Maple Leafs (20-28) reached the 20-win plateau for the third time in the last four seasons, and they started early, recording their first three runs before their first out. Malson led off the game with a single and Longacre drew a walk before Stroble pulled a 3-run shot to left field.

Goshen tacked on a run in the third inning on a Grooms sacrifice fly before plating three in the fourth for a 7-0 lead. Mitchell Wilson singled to center field and two more runs scored on a throwing error when Tanner Logan hit into a fielder's choice.

SAU posted its best offensive output of the day in the fifth inning, a four-run frame that included three triples and a two-run single off the bat of Evan Lorey. Goshen answered in kind, though, as Stroble blasted a 2-run homer to center in the top of the sixth inning.

Conner Lengerich's 2-run homer brought Spring Arbor back within 10-6 after seven innings. but at that point neither team could know that Goshen's run production was barely halfway done.

The Maple Leafs came alive for four runs in the eighth, getting a leadoff solo shot from Stroble before a Wilson single and Grooms walk put two on to set up McGuire's jack.

The ninth was a five-run frame that started with a Longacre double before Austin Bontrager drew a bases-loaded walk, Grooms uncorked a 2-run single, McGuire reached on an error and Brighton Schofield added a sacrifice fly.

Spring Arbor finished the scoring with a 2-run Vincent Hershberger single in the bottom of the ninth.

Baylee Young threw 4 2/3 innings and 78 pitches for the Maple Leafs, striking out 4 and allowing 4 hits. Colton Daniel gave up 1 hit in 2 1/3 innings of relief, claiming the win before Kyle Kotecki and Quinlan Armstrong pitched an inning each.

GC will play either Indiana Wesleyan or Taylor at approximately 8 p.m. Monday night; the game will be the fourth contest of the day at Taylor University's Winterholter Field, so additional delays are possible if earlier games run long.

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