All four seniors scored in double figures as the Muhlenberg women's basketball team improved its perfect start to 10-0 with a 73-56 home win against Elizabethtown in its first game after taking a break for final exams.

The 10-game winning streak is the 10th in program history, with six of those coming at the start of a season. The Mules, who are ranked 18th by D3hoops.com and began the day as one of 21 remaining undefeated teams in Division III, also extended their streak of consecutive years with double digits in victories to 26 - a school record for all sports.

Senior Rachel Plotke (pictured above) tied her career high of six three-pointers and finished with a game-high 20 points. Seniors Chelsea Gary (15 points, 12 rebounds) and Brandi Vallely (17 points, 10 assists) both recorded double-doubles, with Vallely notching her 27th career double-digit assist game. Senior Christina Manning just missed a double-double, finishing with 10 points and 8 rebounds.

The two teams showed a little rust from their finals layoffs at the start and were deadlocked at 3-3 midway through the first quarter. Manning's fast-break layup off a pass from Vallely ignited an 18-2 run that put Muhlenberg ahead to stay.

Trailing 21-6 after one quarter, the Blue Jays (5-3) - who in their last game toppled previously undefeated 2017 Centennial Conference runner-up Gettysburg by 23 points - outscored the Mules 18-10 in the second quarter to cut the gap to seven. 

The lead was still at seven, 47-40, with less than three minutes to go in the third quarter before Muhlenberg ended the period on a 9-2 run that featured a reverse layup by sophomore Ashley Polera and steal/layups by Polera and Vallely.

Elizabethtown never got within single digits again, and Manning's three-pointer with 3:04 left was the nail in the coffin, extending the Mules' lead to 68-49.

The Mules blocked 10 shots, with junior Carley Hamilton swatting four and Gary adding three. Muhlenberg forced 18 turnovers against a Blue Jay team that came in 12th in Division III with an average of 13.0 turnovers per game and held the visitors to 30.4-percent shooting.