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Box Score 2 MARION, N.C. — Ben Longacre, Mitchell Wilson and Char Reeves all had two hits with Longacre blasting a go-ahead homer Sunday as the Goshen College baseball team lost 3-1 and 11-2 to Montreat College in North Carolina.
Brighton Schofield added a double and scored the first run of the second game for the Maple Leafs (2-5).
Jared Drake went 6 innings on the mound in the opener for Montreat, allowing 4 hits and 3 walks while striking out 6.Colin Kriminger picked up the save after a one-hit seventh inning. Norman Kelly and Tarik Latchmansingh each recorded two hits with Kelly driving in all three runs.
Reese Whelen's bases-loaded walk pushed across Goshen's run in the first inning, but that was the last time GC would have multiple runners on base at the same time.
Montreat took a 2-1 lead in the fourth inning on a leadoff hit from Latchmansingh and a Kelly homer three batters later. The Cavaliers added on in the sixth when Alexander Soto singled and took second on a wild pitch, setting the stage for Kelly's RBI base hit back up the middle.
Reeves' second hit of the day brought the top of Goshen's order up as the tying run in the seventh inning, but a double play promptly erased the baserunner.
Braedon Evans went the distance for GC, posting a quality start (3 earned runs in 6 innings) but getting tagged with the loss. He allowed 7 hits and struck out 2.
Schofield's leadoff double and Whelen's second RBI of the day put Goshen up 1-0 in the second inning of game two and Longacre's homer broke a tie one inning later, but the Cavaliers scored in four straight innings to sweep the series in the afternoon game.
Montreat got a game-tying homer from Lewis Gonzalez in the second inning before scoring 7 times on 7 hits in the third, twice in the fourth and once in the fifth.
Gonzalez, Kelly and Brody Rubenstein all had two Montreat hits: Rubenstein doubled and Gonzalez and Soto each drove in two runs. Ricky Otero took the win after 6 innings of pitching, allowing 6 hits and 2 runs.
Longacre and Schofield each reached base twice for GC; Landon Roth, the fifth pitcher of the afternoon, worked a scoreless inning of relief.
Goshen's spring break trip continues in Tennessee on Monday when the Maple Leafs meet Johnson University in Knoxville. The festivities begin at 2 p.m. in a doubleheader.