INDIANAPOLIS — The Goshen College softball team led Monday's first game in the tenth inning and rallied to bring the tying run to the plate in the seventh inning of the second game, but the Maple Leafs could not finish either upset in a pair of losses to seventh-ranked Marian University by 3-2 and 10-7 scores.

Goshen's Mia Pawelski and Marian's Sydney Wilson traded nine shutout innings in the circle before each team scored in the 10th thanks to the international tiebreaker rule. Jolie Groeneveld hit an RBI triple to put the Maple Leafs on top before Lanie Horen and Savannah Harweger each picked up their second hit of the game to tie the score for the Knights. Kassidi Cadle provided the walk-off winner.

Goshen (14-21, 4-15) picked up nine hits in regulation, all of them singles. The Leafs left runners on the corners in the second inning and loaded the bases with two outs in the fourth in addition to getting two hits in the sixth.

Marian (28-8, 5-3) had five hits in the first seven innings, one of which was promptly erased by a fielder's choice in the top of the first. A walk and a wild pitch allowed the Knights to get runners in scoring position in the third and fourth innings respectively, but the game continued scoreless until the tenth.

Regan Sheipline singled with one out in the top of the 10th, moving Ellie Van Heerde to third base. Groeneveld's triple plated one run but not two as Sheipline was thrown out at the plate, but GC got its second run anyway on an Alisyn Catenacci single three pitches later.

The Knights also started their half of the inning with a single before a fielding error moved the runners up 60 feet. A bunt hit left runners on the corners and a groundout moved both into scoring position before Harweger singled to tie the game and Cadle hit a sacrifice fly to win it.

Wilson struck out 11 and allowed 12 hits while throwing 152 pitches in the win: Pawelski struck out 3, gave up 9 hits and walked the game's only batter while throwing 129.

The day's final game showed that the offense was not missing from April 12 but was merely backloaded as the teams combined for 17 runs on 32 hits.

Groeneveld's sacrifice fly put GC ahead with two outs in the first inning, a lead the Maple Leafs held until Cadle's triple scored Harweger in the third. Harweger also singled in a five-hit rally that put the Knights up 3-1 after four innings.

Goshen answered in the fifth with a leadoff single from Edith Vega before back-to-back doubled from Catenacci and Miranda Hipolito tied the score, but Marian pulled back ahead in the bottom of the inning with a Sarah Kush single to lead 4-3.

The Knights thought they had broken the game open with a six-run sixth, coming within two bases of triggering the run rule at 10-3 with a runner on second. GC had other ideas, though, getting four straight hits to open the top of the seventh capped by an Ashley Glazer homer to cut the lead to 10-7.

After a pitching change, Stacey Landry walked and Bernadette Quintero singled to bring the tying run to the plate with no outs. An infield popout, a groundout and a strikeout ended the game before it could get more interesting.

Hipolito and Harweger both led all players with 4 hits and each team had five multi-hit performances. Landry reached base four times by a combination of two hits and two walks.

Thanks to rain over the weekend that moved the Marian doubleheader from Saturday to Monday, Goshen must now make trips to central Indiana on back-to-back days to play the two highest-rated teams in the Crossroads League. The second half of the series comes at 4 p.m. Tuesday when GC visits 10th-ranked Indiana Wesleyan.