Strong pitching and timely hitting lifted the Muhlenberg baseball team to an 11-1 win against Clarkson in the second game of its season-opening doubleheader.

Clarkson scored four late runs to take the opener, 7-3.

Junior Luke Foley started the second game and gave up a run after only three batters. But that would be the only time the Golden Knights crossed the plate, with Foley, sophomore Shane Ohl, grad student James Hopke and junior Charlie Siper putting up zeroes for the last 8 2/3 innings.

Foley stranded multiple runners in the second and third, ending the former inning with back-to-back strikeouts, before working a 1-2-3 fourth. Ohl (pictured above) allowed only two hits in his three innngs, fanning three, and Hopke and Siper finished up with a scoreless frame apiece. The four pitchers combined to scatter 10 hits and walk only one. 

Sophomore Mike Carcich was the big bat in the lineup, going 3-for-4 with 5 RBI. He hit a game-tying single in the bottom of the first and a go-ahead two-run double in the third before capping a five-run fourth with a two-run single.

Sophomore Thomas Rorick put the icing on the cake with a two-run double in the eighth.

Freshman Matthew Lehberger walked three times and scored three runs, and sophomore Sean Habeeb went 2-for-3 with an RBI double.

In the opener, the Mules trailed 3-0 in the fourth before rallying to tie the game. After Lehberger led off the fourth with a single, his first career hit, senior Thomas Pranzo launched his fifth career home run over the fence in right.

In the fifth, sophomore Marius Haughton singled with two out - his first career hit - and came around with the tying run on a triple by Rorick.

Clarkson broke the tie with three in the seventh and added one more in the eighth.

Haughton had three hits in the doubleheader and made two nice catches, one in left field and one in right field. Carcich went 5-for-8 in the twinbill, hitting a triple in the opener.