The Muhlenberg baseball team won one of three home games over the weekend, splitting a Senior Day doubleheader with McDaniel the day after dropping a single game to Swarthmore.
Prior to the McDaniel doubleheader, the Mules (16-18, 5-9) honored seniors
Aidan Legner,
Brendan Hughes,
Dylan O'Donnell,
Brendan Bussiere,
Ethan Brochin and
James Hopke along with junior
Jacob Meirowitz, who is graduating early.
Three of the seniors played prominent roles in the win as Muhlenberg overcame a 3-0 deficit to defeat McDaniel, 9-5, in the opener.
Hughes pitched into the seventh inning to earn his third win of the season and also drove in two runs with a groundout and a single. Brochin tossed the final 2 2/3 frames to earn his eighth career save, retiring the final hitter with the bases loaded. Legner scored a pair of runs.
Held to no runs and one hit through the first four innings, the Mules took advantage of two Green Terror errors to break through in the fifth. After the leadoff batter reached on an error, freshman
Sean Habeeb and graduate student
Jack Kent beat out consecutive bunts to load the bases.
Another error brought in two runs, and Hughes' groundout tied the game. With two outs, freshman
Chris Moglia delivered a two-run single to put Muhlenberg ahead.
Three consecutive run-scoring hits - a double by sophomore
Marc Quarrie, a single by Hughes and a single by sophomore
Spencer Hobson - brought in three more runs in the sixth.
Quarrie tripled and scored the Mules' lone run of the second game against McDaniel, an 11-1 loss, but it was performance against Swarthmore that made the biggest mark.
Quarrie hit two home runs, a game-tying grand slam in the second and a two-run shot in the fifth, to tie the school record of 11 home runs in a season. The grand slam was his second of the season and the third of his career, making him the program's all-time leader in grand slams.
Quarrie added two singles in the game, a 23-12 loss, and junior
Thomas Pranzo also had four hits, including a pair of doubles, and drove in two runs.