The Muhlenberg baseball team made its Senior Day a memorable one, sweeping a doubleheader from two-time defending Centennial Conference champion Johns Hopkins.

The Mules (15-18, 4-10) never trailed in the two games, winning 6-4 and 9-2. Seniors Evan Spano and Will Nomura combined on an eight-hitter in the opener, while junior Quinn Rovner went the distance in the nightcap, allowing only six hits. 

A senior had a four-hit game in each end of the doubleheader, with Trevor Virno going 4-for-4 in the opener and Danny Monzo going 4-for-5 in the nightcap.

Muhlenberg loaded the bases without hitting the ball in the bottom of the first inning of the opener on a walk and two hit batters before Virno's two-run single opened the scoring. 

Doubles by Virno and senior Thomas Rodgers made it 3-1 in the bottom of the fifth, but the Blue Jays (18-15, 8-6) hit a two-run homer to tie it in the top of the sixth. 

The Mules took the lead right back with three in the bottom of the sixth. After a walk and a hit batter, Monzo hit a high fly ball to the deepest part of the field that the Hopkins center fielder almost tracked down. With the runners holding to see if the ball would be caught, it went for a long run-scoring single. A second run scored on a passed ball, and freshman Aidan Legner brought in the third with a groundout.

Nomura pitched a scoreless seventh and eighth, then retired the final three batters after giving up a leadoff home in the ninth for his fourth save of the season and the eighth of his career.

Spano allowed six hits and struck out four in his six-inning stint, retiring nine straight Blue Jays in one stretch.

Rovner was magnificent in the nightcap, tossing his first career nine-inning complete game. He gave up three hits and a walk in the sixth, when the Blue Jays scored their two runs, but allowed only three baserunners in the other eight innings, with only one getting past first base. Rovner retired Hopkins 1-2-3 in five of the nine innings, striking out five in becoming the first Mule hurler since 2010 to win six games in a season. 

Muhlenberg took advantage of Hopkins errors to jump out to a 5-0 lead. Singles by Monzo and Virno, combined with an error on a potential double play, loaded the bases in the second. Sophomore Ryan Friesen brought home the first run with a sacrifice fly, and senior Ryan Hebert followed with a two-out, two-run single.

Monzo's 11th double of the season set up a run in the third, and back-to-back errors in the fourth plated another run.

After the Blue Jays closed to within 5-2 in the top of the sixth, the Mules got one run back in the bottom half of the inning when Freisen led off with an opposite-field double and eventually scored on a ground ball by sophomore Nick Belli.

Another infield error contributed to a three-run eighth that blew the game open. Senior Ryan Gilbert drew a bases-loaded walk for the first run, and sophomore Jonathan Toth punched a single through the drawn-in infield with the bases loaded for two more.

The Mules did not make an error in the two games and held the Hopkins first and third hitters - one of whom came in tied for the CC lead with 10 home runs and the other who was hitting .412, third in the league - to a combined 0-for-15.