The Muhlenberg softball team scored three runs in three straight innings and defeated Cedar Crest, 9-4, in the first game of a scheduled doubleheader.

The second game was called due to darkness in the middle of the fourth inning with the Mules ahead, 6-3.

Sarah Schubert, Sydney Carey and Nicole Bergamo - the three Muhlenberg seniors - all contributed to the win. 

Schubert broke a 3-3 tie in the bottom of the fourth with an opposite-field home run, her fifth career round-tripper. Schubert also was hit by a pitch and scored a run in the fifth and recorded two assists from right field by throwing out the batter at first base on a would-be single.

(Schubert also threw out a runner at home plate in the second game, although that assist won't count.)

Carey went 2-for-3 and started the Mules' three-run fifth with a two-out single. Bergamo pitched a scoreless seventh to wrap up the win, retiring the final batter on a comebacker.

Muhlenberg (6-2) trailed 1-0 before getting three consecutive two-out RBI hits in the third: a single by sophomore Genna Cicchetti, a double by freshman Sara Fallon and a triple by sophomore Cora Bridgers.

When Schubert hit her home run (pictured above), it gave the Mules a single, double, triple and homer in order in a span of six batters.

Cicchetti added another big two-out hit, a two-run single, later in the fourth, and sophomores Kristin Oberg (single) and Sarah Karmazyn (two-run double) delivered two-out run-scoring hits in the fifth.

Karmazyn was perfect at the plate, going 2-for-2 with a walk and a sacrifice to go along with two runs scored and a stolen base. Oberg swiped two bags.

Bridgers struck out five in 2 1/3 relief innings to earn her fourth win of the season.