The Muhlenberg baseball team scored once in the ninth and once in the 10th to come from behind and defeat Ursinus, 8-7, at Coca-Cola Park.

The game was originally scheduled to be a Centennial Conference doubleheader of two seven-inning games, but with rain in the forecast and the field needing to be tarped, the teams decided to play one nine-inning non-conference game.

And a thrilling game it was, with the Bears (2-5) hitting two home runs to overcome a 6-0 deficit, only to have the Mules (4-3) rally in their final two at-bats.

Coming four days after a 6-5 win in 11 innings at Dickinson, it gave Muhlenberg back-to-back extra-inning games for the first time since 1991, when both ends of a twinbill with Moravian went eight innings. The last time the Mules played consecutive games of more than nine innings? That was 1958, when they defeated La Salle and St. Joseph's in a pair of 10-inning contests.

Senior Robert Cappadona led off the bottom of the 10th with a line single to right. Senior Justin Kimmel squared to bunt him over, but didn't have to when the first pitch went for a wild pitch. Kimmel was walked intentionally, and then senior Cameron Miller was walked unintentionally to load the bases with nobody out. 

Senior Skyler Petrie followed by hitting a sharp ground ball that forced the Ursinus second baseman to his knees. The throw was offline, and Cappadona easily slid in safely with the walkoff run.

Freshman Ryan Friesen earned his second straight win with two scoreless, hitless innings in relief.

Muhlenberg tied the game in the bottom of the ninth after junior Trevor Virno singled with one out and scooted to third on a pinch-hit single by sophomore Ben Kollender. Virno, who drove in the tying run in the eighth inning of the Dickinson game, scored the tying run this time on a forceout.

The Mules jumped on top early with five runs against three Ursinus pitchers in the first, highlight by a two-run single off the bat of Kimmel - one of his three hits in the game. Junior Thomas Rodgers added an RBI single in that inning and another in the second, extending the lead to 6-0.

Junior Will Nomura pitched two scoreless innings in his first career start. Sophomore Quinn Rovner tossed a career-high four innings, setting the Bears down without allowing a run in his final three.

pictured above: Miller dives to tag out an Ursinus batter trying to beat out a bunt in the fifth.