The Muhlenberg baseball team finished its 2022 season by splitting a pair of one-run games at McDaniel.

The Mules (16-21, 5-13) came back to win the opener, 4-3 in 11 innings, before dropping the nightcap, 6-5.

Muhlenberg scored the winning run after two were out and nobody on base in the top of the 11th. Sophomore Nick Whelan drew a five-pitch walk, went to second on a wild pitch, and scored when junior Christian Schwarz hit a sharp single up the middle.

Senior Will Nomura retired the side in order in the bottom of the 11th, striking out the final batter he faced to complete a five-inning scoreless stint out of the bullpen. Nomura (pictured above) struck out five in improving to 4-1 on the season.

The Mules trailed 1-0 before scoring three runs in the sixth on an RBI single by junior Caleb Tereska and a two-out, two-run single by senior Ryan Hebert.

McDaniel (20-20, 5-13) scored twice in the bottom of the sixth to tie the score. Muhlenberg advanced a runner to third base in the ninth and 10th before finally plating the go-ahead run in the 11th.

Hebert went 3-for-5, while Whelan, Schwarz, Tereska and senior Trevor Virno had a pair of hits apiece.

The lead changed hands four times in the second game. Muhlenberg turned a 1-0 deficit into a 3-1 lead in the second on a two-run double by freshman Aidan Legner and an RBI single by sophomore Nick Belli. 

The Green Terror scored three of their own in third to retake the lead in the third, but the Mules went back on top at 5-4 on back-to-back bases-loaded walks in the sixth. McDaniel scored two unearned runs in the bottom of the eighth.

Senior Danny Monzo hit two doubles in the nightcap to finish the season with 14 two-baggers, tying for the fourth-most in a season in program history.