The Muhlenberg baseball team opened Centennial Conference play with a doubleheader split at McDaniel.
 
After dropping the opener, 15-8, the Mules (8-12-1, 1-1) came back to win the nightcap, 5-3, behind the pitching of sophomore Jayden Barroqueiro, who struck out 11 in six innings to notch his first career complete-game win (the game was delayed by lightning in the top of the seventh and never resumed).
 
Barroqueiro allowed only four hits. Two of them were home runs that accounted for all of the Green Terror runs, but both times he struck out the next batter. Barroqueiro struck out four straight batters twice in the game in recording the most whiffs by a Muhlenberg southpaw since 2005.

Muhlenberg broke a 3-3 tie with two runs in the top of the fifth. Senior Caleb Tereska led off with a double and scored what proved to be the game-winning run on an error. Sophomore Aidan Legner followed with an RBI single.

Tereska, Legner and junior Nick Whelan each had two hits in the win.

The opening game was a slugfest that was tied 6-6 after three innings before McDaniel (13-8, 1-1) scored six runs in the fourth to build an insurmountable lead.

Sophomore Brendan Hughes (pictured above) struck the big blow for the Mules, belting a three-run homer - the first of his career - in the second. Junior Jack Kent went 4-for-5 for his first career four-hit game, and Tereska was 3-for-5 with a pair of doubles.