After suffering a late inning loss, 7-6, in game one of a doubleheader on Monday, Lourdes bounced back to defeat Goshen 6-4 in the nightcap at J. Harold Yoder Field in Goshen, Ind.
 
"I thought we battled all day, and it was unfortunate we were only able to come away with one win," head coach Jeremy Snow said afterwards.  "Overall I was pleased with our play on all sides of the ball."
 
Lourdes scored in the opening inning of both games.  In the opener, Jay Denman (Toledo, Ohio/Saint Francis de Sales H.S.) led off with a double and eventually scored on a sacrifice fly from Glen Crabtree (Medina, Ohio/Black River H.S.).  A run-scoring single in the second by Dallas Riggs (Prescott, Ariz./Paradise Valley H.S.) made it 2-0 Gray Wolves as Ryan Kroll (Brownstown, Mich./Carlson H.S.) scored.
 
Goshen responded in the bottom of the second, scoring a single run before taking the lead on a three-run home run by Clinton Stroble II in the third.
 
The Gray Wolves tallied three of their own in the fourth as a triple by Crabtree plated two and he scored on a throwing error to give Lourdes a 5-4 lead.  Denman's RBI single in the fifth increased the lead to two.
 
The Maple Leafs answered with two in the bottom of the fifth on a single by Vincent Caschera to tie the game before scoring what would be the game-winning run on a hit in the sixth.
 
Denman went 3-for-5 in the opener for the Gray Wolves while Reilly Walters (Bowmanville, Ont./Bowmanville H.S.) had two hits as part of Lourdes' 11-hit effort.
 
Travis Grimm earned the win out of the bullpen for Goshen with a scoreless sixth while Spenser Triplett earned the save pitching the seventh.  Kyle Sacher (Barberton, Ohio/Barberton H.S.) suffered the loss (0-1) for the Gray Wolves in relief.
 
In game two, Denman again led off with a double and scored on a single by Riggs.  Riggs then scored on the first of five Goshen errors in the contest.  Two more Maple Leaf errors in the second led to a pair of unearned runs as the Gray Wolves increased the lead to 4-0.
 
Goshen (21-22-1) scored single runs in the third and fourth to cut the lead in half, but Lourdes added two insurance runs in the sixth.  Walters had a hit that plated two, the second coming on an error in the outfield.
 
The hosts added a run in the sixth and scored another in the seventh, but stranded the potential tying runs on base in the final frame.
 
Devin Stanley (Euclid, Ohio/Saint Edward H.S.) and Walters each had two hits for the Gray Wolves, as Lourdes banged out nine in game two. 
 
Jeremy Zsolcsak (Brownstown, Mich./Roosevelt H.S.) earned the win (1-1) in relief while Bill Laranga (Maumee, Ohio/Maumee H.S.) earned the save for the Gray Wolves.  Seth Lapp started and went three innings, suffering the loss (0-1) for Goshen.
 
"I was proud of our young guys on the mound competing and staying in the strike zone," Snow added.
 
Lourdes (8-28) will continue its road trip this weekend with a three-game series against Aquinas.  First pitch of Saturday's doubleheader is set for 1 p.m. at Kimble Stadium in Grand Rapids, Mich.