The Muhlenberg baseball team scored in each of the first seven innings and breezed to a 21-7 win at Penn State Berks.
The last time the Mules (9-7) topped the 20-run mark was in a 24-7 win against Penn State Berks last year. It's the first time since 2006 that they've scored at least 20 runs against the same team in back-to-back games.Â
Twelve different Muhlenberg players scored at least one run, and 10 drove in at least one run. Senior
Brendan Bussiere and sophomore
Marc Quarrie recorded three hits and scored three runs apiece. Quarrie hit a pair of doubles and drove in two runs.
Graduate student
Jack Kent had a perfect day at the plate, going 2-for-2 with a walk, hit by pitch, sacrifice fly and three RBI. Senior
Dylan O'Donnell and junior
Mason Mehling also finished with two hits.
The Mules put up single runs in the first three innings, then broke the game open with six in the fourth on two-run doubles by Quarrie, senior
Brendan Hughes and Mehling.
Kent hit a two-run single in the four-run fifth, and freshman
Steven Dimovski drove in a pair of runs with a pinch-hit single in the five-run sixth.
While Muhlenberg players were circling the bases, the Nittany Lions (3-11) were kept mostly off the bases in the first half of the game, as graduate student
Matt Oehrlein and freshman
Shane Ohl put a series of "O"s on the scoreboard.
Oehrlein
(pictured above), making his first career start, retired nine of the 10 batters he faced, walking one and striking out four. Ohl took the no-hitter into the sixth and allowed one run in his three innings to earn his first career win.
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