For the second year in a row, the Muhlenberg baseball team opened its season with a 10-run win, defeating Cazenovia 13-3 at the Gallaudet Bison Classic.

The third through seventh hitters in the Mule lineup combined for seven hits, 11 runs scored and 10 RBI as the Mules overcame an early deficit with three big innings.

Junior Quinn Rovner and senior Donovan Brady combined on an eight-hitter on the mound. Rovner (pictured above) tossed the first six innings, striking out a career-high five, to earn his first career win as a starting pitcher. Brady finished up to earn his first career save.

Muhlenberg trailed 2-1 and had two outs and nobody on in the top of the fifth before six straight batters reached base. A two-run double by senior Thomas Rodgers and a two-run triple by junior Christian Schwarz highlighted the five-run frame. Senior Danny Monzo also hit an RBI single.

Junior Ben Kollender smacked a two-run single in a three-run sixth that extended the Mules' lead to 9-2.

Muhlenberg broke the game open with four runs on only two hits - a triple by senior Ryan Hebert and a single by Rodgers - in the eighth. The Mules took advantage of Wildcat wildness, with four straight batters reaching on either a walk or a hit by pitch.

Rodgers reached base in five of six plate appearances, scoring four runs, while Schwarz drove in four runs. Hebert scored three times.