Although July is six months away, the Muhlenberg women's basketball team has already started celebrating the fourth.

For the second time in less than a week, the Mules used a fourth-quarter fireworks to pick up an important Centennial Conference win. Muhlenberg set a school record with 32 fourth-quarter points to come from behind and defeat Dickinson, 73-63.

Junior Rachel Plotke scored 13 of her game-high 18 points in the fourth quarter, and sophomore Sara Dilly netted 11 of her 15 in the final period. Junior Brandi Vallely finished with 16 points and 12 assists for her third double-double of the season, and junior Chelsea Gary just missed one of her own, recording 10 points and nine rebounds. Senior Maggie Zerbe pulled down 12 rebounds.

The Mules (12-6, 9-4), who last Saturday outscored Johns Hopkins 25-5 in the fourth for a come-from-behind win, trailed 52-41 with 8:30 showing on the game clock before beginning their comeback with a Plotke three. That kicked off a 25-3 run in which the Red Devils (12-6, 9-4) made only one field goal over a stretch of almost nine minutes.

After Vallely stole an inbounds pass and went the length of the floor for a layup, Dilly hit a baseline jumper to tie the game at 53-all with 5:19 left. Dilly (pictured above) drained her second three of the quarter to put Muhlenberg ahead for good 43 seconds later.

Plotke drove in for back-to-back layups to widen the lead to 60-55 at the two-minute mark, and the Mules went 13-of-14 from the line the rest of the way to ice their fourth consecutive win and move into a tie for third place in the Centennial Conference, just one game out of first.

Muhlenberg shot 57.1 percent from the field in the fourth quarter in avenging a triple-overtime loss at Dickinson earlier in the season.

With her 12 assists, Vallely moved into the CC all-time top 10 with 391 for her career. She has eight career games with at least 12 assists; all other Mule players have two.