Last season, the Muhlenberg softball team came back from King's with a doubleheader split that included a no-hitter. This year, the Mules returned with a shutout sweep, 5-0 in the first game and 8-0 in the nightcap.

Senior Justine Bergara, who authored the no-hitter last spring, combined with three other pitchers - freshman Abigail Kim and sophomores Samantha Fehrenbach and Abby Liebowitz - to limit the Monarchs (4-8) to 10 hits in the two games. It was the first doubleheader shutout for the Mules (11-5) since 2022, when they did it against Washington, and the first on the road since 2014 at Ursinus.

After Bergara worked the first four innings of the opener, Kim allowed only two hits over the final three frames to earn the save. She remained in the circle at the start of the second game, giving up only a pair of singles in four innings to pick up the win.

The closest King's came to scoring was in the first inning of the first game, when graduate student Gillian Zack threw out a runner at home plate on a single to center field.

Zack also contributed with her bat, going 4-for-5 with a double in the two games.

Senior Kaya Mahy also had a huge day at the plate, going 6-for-7 with 6 runs scored. She scored the first run of the day on a groundout in the second inning after beating out an infield hit and racing around to third on a single by Zack.

In the fourth, Mahy went opposite field for her fifth home run of the season, hitting a ball that bounced off the top of the fence and went out. 

A two-run pinch-hit single by senior Dani Roban doubled the lead to 4-0 in the sixth, and another run-scoring groundout in the seventh closed out the scoring. 

The Mules broke open a 2-0 game in the nightcap with two in the sixth and four in the seventh. Sophomore Skyla Campisi, who went 3-for-4, hit RBI singles in both innings.

Zack and senior Kaitlyn Buurman had RBI doubles in the last two innings, and sophomore Lillie Teague (pictured above) knocked in a run with her third single of the game.