WESTFIELD, Ind. — Rianna Koteles tripled twice in the opener and Jolie Groeneveld capped the scoring with an inside-the-park three-run homer in game two as Goshen College bashed its way to a doubleheader sweep of Calumet College of St. Joseph on Saturday, winning 5-2 and 12-3 on Diamond 15 at Grand Park.
Rayna Moraga and Bernadette Quintero each picked up their first pitching wins of the season in the doubleheader: Moraga went the distance and struck out 8 batters before Quintero fired four shutout innings in a run-rule-shortened second game.
Ashley Glazer's two-run single gave the Maple Leafs (2-2) an early lead in the bottom of the second inning in game one as Regan Sheipline and Mia Pawelski crossed the plate. Kayla Kirmani got one run back for Calumet (0-2) with an RBI triple in the top of the third before she crossed the plate on a game-tying squeeze play.
Koteles led off the bottom of the third with a triple, but finished the inning there as none of her teammates could get her the final 60 feet. That wouldn't be a problem in the fifth when Jessica Bachtell singled in her catcher for a 4-2 lead. Bela Aros scored on a passed ball later in the inning to make the lead 5-2.
Oakland City got a leadoff hit in each of the final two innings, but went 0-for-6 thereafter to extinguish its own threats.
Moraga picked up her first win in the circle since April 9, 2019. She threw 114 pitches and scattering five hits, all but one of which were singles.
Calumet split the pitching duties three ways with Josseline Monge getting the start and Sarah Kessler throwing the business end of the game. Kessler took the loss after allowing the final three runs on three walks and two hits in 2.0 innings.
The Maple Leafs cracked open three big innings in the second game, scoring four runs in each of the middle three innings of a five-run game that was shortened by the run rule. Goshen picked up a season-high 10 hits and was aided by four Crimson Wave errors.
After a hitless first inning, Cassandra Espinoza and Kyra Wilson started the top of the second with walks. A Groeneveld single plated the first run while Wilson and Groeneveld each came around on a throwing error following Sheipline's single. A passed ball later scored Sheipline to make it 4-0.
Quintero set down the Crimson Wave in the bottom of the second before stepping to the plate and knocking in Bela Aros after a leadoff walk in the third. Wilson doubled to right to push the lead to 6-0 and Kyra Wilson chipped in an apparent two-run single that became a force play when Calumet got an out at second.
The Crimson Wave got their first hit in the third inning, only to promptly erase it on a steal attempt, and Aros and Espinoza led off the fourth with Goshen hits. After Quintero put a ball in play to score Aros on an error, Groeneveld cleared the bases with a shot into the right-field corner as she raced around to score. That ran Goshen's lead to 12-0, marking the largest Maple Leaf advantage since it was 15-1 after four innings against Huntington on April 5, 2019.
Calumet got all three of its runs in the bottom of the fifth against the Goshen bullpen. Kenzie Lanman led off with a single and her pinch-runner stole second. A Cassie Reed double knocked in the first run before hits from Kirmani and Grace Elrod kept the line moving. Elrod's hit brought the runner that would have canceled the run rule to the plate before a groundout ended the game.
Groeneveld went 3-for-3 with 4 runs batted in to raise her average to a team-high .455. Reed was the only Crimson Wave with two hits or an extra-base knock.
Goshen continues its three-day, six-game trek across the state of Indiana on Sunday when it travels to Oakland City University. The nearly 10-hour round trip culminates in a pair of games beginning at 2 p.m. EST at East Gibson Girls Softball League Field.
