Box Score

Driving to New Jersey to play its home games while Cedarcreek Field recovers from the winter may not have been ideal for the Muhlenberg baseball team, but it was no inconvenience for Jimmy Cody.

The senior outfielder belted two home runs, including the game-winner in the bottom of the seventh, as the Mules came from behind to defeat Penn State Harrisburg, 8-6.

Cody also homered in Muhlenberg's last game at the Diamond Nation turf fields and is the first Mule to hit three round-trippers over a two-game span since 1997, when Steve Faella belted three in one game. Cody, who had exactly one home run in each of his first three years at Muhlenberg, recorded the program's first multiple-home run game since Nick Busillo in 2012.

The Mules (5-5) trailed 6-2 before Cody began the comeback with a leadoff homer in the bottom of the sixth. Two singles and an Andrew Rava sacrifice fly made it 6-4.

Senior Conor McDermott, who reached base in all four plate appearances (two singles and two walks), led off the seventh by drawing a walk. Senior Chris Manfredonia sacrificed him to second, and senior Michael Giordano doubled to left to bring him in, trimming the margin to one. That set the stage for Cody, whose two-run blast put Muhlenberg ahead, 7-6.

Rava's sacrifice bunt set up McDermott's two-out RBI single for an insurance run in the bottom of the eighth.

Sophomore Ryan Banks got two quick outs before running into trouble in the top of the ninth. A double and infield single put the tying runs on base for the Lions (4-9), but with a 3-2 count, the sidewinding righty got a called third strike to nail down the win.

Banks (pictured above) worked the final three innings without giving up a run to earn his first career win.

Sophomore John Icaza was 2-for-4 and drove in a run with a first-inning double, and Manfredonia singled in a run in the second.