The Muhlenberg softball team jumped out to big leads early and went on to sweep its first two games in Myrtle Beach.

The Mules (3-3), who began their Spring Break trip with a stop in Virginia for a doubleheader at 10th-ranked Randolph-Macon, defeated Salem State, 12-3, and Albertus Magnus, 3-2, at the Fastpitch Dreams Spring Classic.

Junior Sophia Cicchetti led off the Salem State game with a triple and hit a two-run triple in her final at-bat in the fifth, tying the school record of two three-baggers in a game, achieved six times previously but not since 2001.

Cicchetti also hit her first career home run for Muhlenberg, a solo blast in the fourth. She is the fifth different Mule to have three extra-base hits in a game and the fourth to have 10 total bases in a game.

Also going yard was junior Samantha Winegard, who capped a four-run first with her first career home run. Winegard (pictured above) narrowly missed another home run in the third, hitting a double off the top of the fence.

Junior Gillian Zack doubled twice, also coming just short of a home run, and freshman Maddy Svenningsen hit an RBI double in the fifth. The eight extra-base hits – four doubles, two triples and two home runs – tied a school record set in 1994 and matched in 2009.

Junior Isabella Fogle made her first career start in the circle, allowing no earned runs in three innings, to earn her first career win.

In addition to her two doubles, Zack threw out a runner trying to score from second on a single to center.

The second game was much closer but also featured a big extra-base hit – a two-run double by freshman Scooter Hulsen in the second to bring in the first runs of the game. Hulsen scored on Cicchetti's sacrifice fly for what proved to be the winning run.

Junior Raya Kunes and sophomore Justine Bergara made sure the three runs were enough, allowing only two runs to an Albertus Magnus squad that scored 27 runs in winning its first two games of the season. Kunes pitched the first four innings to earn the win, and Bergara gave up only one single in her three innings to earn her first career save.

The Mules were held to five total hits at Randolph-Macon, losing both games by identical 6-0 scores. Fogle pitched 2.2 innings of scoreless relief in the opener, and Svenningsen had two hits, including a double, in the nightcap.