Senior Matthew D'Ambrosia had not just a career night, but a historic night in the Muhlenberg baseball team's 5-0 win over Lesley. The righty set both the career and single-game program record for strikeouts while tying the Centennial Conference single-game mark.
 
Following Sunday's 13-strikeout effort, D'Ambrosia entered the night six strikeouts shy of the program record of 203. It took him just 10 batters to become the Mules' new strikeout king with a pair of punchouts in each of the first two innings before retiring the side in order on swinging strikeouts in the third.  He has 218 career strikeouts, moving into 14th in CC history.
 
That was just the beginning for the senior. He went on to strike out at least two batters in each of the first six innings then capped the game by striking out the side in order in both the eighth and ninth innings.
 
His 21 strikeouts on the night broke a single-game program record that had stood since 1965 and tied a CC record that has stood since 2011.  The performance comes in one shy of the NCAA Division III record that has been done three times, most recently in 2003.

D'Ambrosia's catcher, sophomore Danny Monzo, set a school record for putouts (20) in a nine-inning game.
 
Senior Sam Arnold drove in the only two runs the Mules and D'Ambrosia would need with a double down the left field line in the bottom of the fourth inning. Three insurance runs crossed the dish two innings later, two on a ground-rule double to left by senior Brenden Weiss. Weiss went on to score with the assistance of an error after junior Cameron Miller singled in the next at-bat.