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Kaya Mahy tagging out runner at second
7
Franklin & Marshall FMC 4-9, 0-1 CC
16
Winner Muhlenberg MUHL 9-8, 1-0 CC
Franklin & Marshall FMC
4-9, 0-1 CC
7
Final
16
Muhlenberg MUHL
9-8, 1-0 CC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 R H E
Franklin & Marshall FMC 0 0 4 0 3 7 7 2
Muhlenberg MUHL 8 1 0 0 7 16 17 1

W: Kunes, Raya (3-3) L: Aliza Sheflin (2-4) S: Fogle, Isabella (1)

0
Franklin & Marshall FMC 4-10, 0-2 CC
4
Winner Muhlenberg MUHL 10-8, 2-0 CC
Franklin & Marshall FMC
4-10, 0-2 CC
0
Final
4
Muhlenberg MUHL
10-8, 2-0 CC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Franklin & Marshall FMC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
Muhlenberg MUHL 2 0 0 0 2 0 X 4 5 0

W: Bergara, Justine (2-4) L: Aliza Sheflin (2-5)

Game Recap: Softball |

Softball Sweeps First CC DH

A game-ending home run and a historic shutout powered the Muhlenberg softball team to a home sweep of Franklin & Marshall.

The Mules (10-8, 2-0) won the opener, 16-7, and took the nightcap, 4-0, in their first games against a Centennial Conference opponent since winning the championship last May.

Sophomore Justine Bergara was the star of the nightcap, tossing a three-hitter for her first career shutout. She struck out 10, becoming the first Muhlenberg pitcher to toss a shutout and reach double digits in strikeouts in a CC game since 1994 - the first year of the CC. Bergara allowed only five baserunners, none past second base, and struck out the Diplomats' cleanup hitter three straight times.

Bergara got all the runs she would need in the first inning, when sophomore Kaitlyn Buurman drove in a run with a long double to center and scored on a single by freshman Scooter Hulsen. 

A two-run single by Hulsen in the fifth doubled the Mules' lead.

The first game was of a different sort. Muhlenberg scored eight runs in the bottom of the first inning and led 9-0 after two. The Diplomats (4-10, 0-2) closed to within two runs in the top of the fifth, but the Mules ended the game via the eight-run rule by plating seven runs in the bottom of the fifth. The final three came in on a home run by junior Kersti Svenningsen, her second career round-tripper.

Junior Sophia Cicchetti had the big hit in the eight-run first, a single that (with the help of a throwing error) cleared the bases and extended Muhlenberg's lead from 4-0 to 7-0. Junior Gillian Zack hit a two-run single in the fifth, four batters before Svenningsen's blast.

Cicchetti (3-for-3, 3 runs scored), junior Samantha Winegard (2-for-2, 3 runs scored) and sophomore Ava Calabrese (2-for-2, 2 RBI) were all perfect at the plate in the opener. 

The 16 runs were the most scored in a CC game by the Mules since 2012, when they plated 17 in a win against Haverford. They were the most by the Mules in a CC opener since 1997.

Pictured above: sophomore Kaya Mahy tags out an F&M runner trying to stretch a single into a double in the fifth inning of the nightcap. Zack recorded the assist from center.


 
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