The Muhlenberg softball team split a pair of eight-run rule games at Kean, a team that has received votes in the national poll this season.

The Mules (7-9) won the first game, 8-0 in five innings, before dropping the nightcap, 10-1 in five. Kean, which won games in two of the last four NCAA Tournaments, had not lost by the eight-run rule since 2018 and had not been eight-runned at home by a non-conference opponent since 2015.

Senior Cora Bridgers tossed her eighth career shutout in the opener, allowing only two hits and fanning four. The Cougars (14-4) got only one runner to third base, and that came with two outs in the bottom of the fifth. Bridgers struck out the next batter looking to end the threat, and the game.

Muhlenberg jumped on top with four runs in the top of the second. Sophomore Raya Kunes led off with a single and beat the throw to second base on a sacrifice bunt by freshman Kaya Mahy. After Bridgers moved the runners along with her own sacrifice, sophomore Gillian Zack drove in the first run with a single up the middle. The Mules added three more runs on a pair of Kean errors and a fielder's choice.

Mahy (pictured above) made it 6-0 in the third by blasting a two-run homer, the first of her career, with a teammate on base.

Sophomore Sabrina Reichelt contributed to Muhlenberg's final two runs, singling to lead off the fourth and coming in on a single by senior Genna Cicchetti, and driving in Mahy, who had led off with a double, with a two-out single in the fifth.

The offense cooled down in the second game and was held without a hit until two outs in the fifth, when Zack hit her second home run of the season. Kean eneed the game with a walkoff two-run homer in the bottom of the frame.