The Muhlenberg softball team split a Centennial Conference doubleheader with Dickinson, winning the nightcap in walkoff fashion.

A late home run sparked the Red Devils (11-9, 1-1) to a 6-1 win in the opener. In the nightcap, junior Gillian Zack drove in the lone run with two outs in the bottom of the seventh.

The second game was a crisp pitching duel, with each team managing only two hits in the first six innings. Dickinson went down 1-2-3 in the top of the seventh, setting the stage for the dramatic win.

Senior Sara Fallon led off the bottom of the seventh by dunking a hit into short right field. The next batter, sophomore Kaya Mahy, laid down a successful bunt, and when the throw trickled off the glove of the Red Devil second baseman covering first, freshman pinch-runner Lauren Siesky scampered to third.

After Mahy stole second, a strikeout, intentional walk to junior Sophia Cicchetti and forceout at the plate left the bases loaded with two outs. Zack fell behind, fouled off a 1-2 pitch and then hit a deep drive over the head of the Dickinson right fielder. Under different circumstances it would have been a three-run double, but the game ended as soon as Mahy touched the plate (pictured above).

Muhlenberg's last 1-0 walkoff win came in 2015 on a fielder's choice. The Mules (11-9, 3-1) hadn't walked off with a 1-0 win on a hit since 2010.

Zack's "single" made a winner of sophomore Justine Bergara, who earlier in the day was named CC pitcher of the week. Bergara pitched her second straight shutout, a two-hitter, and extended her unscored-upon streak to 17 innings. She struck out only two batters but only allowed two to reach base.

The opener was tied 1-1 until Dickinson hit a two-run homer in the top of the sixth. The Red Devils went on to tack on three insurance runs. 

Muhlenberg's lone run scored on two extra-base hits in the third, a triple by Cicchetti and a double by Zack. Junior Samantha Winegard also hit a double and reached base in all three of her plate appearances.