The Muhlenberg softball team extended its winning streak to five by winning a pair of games at the Margie Knight Classic in Salisbury, defeating Manhattanville, 7-4, and Juniata, 12-5.

The Mules (8-2) were supposed to have started playing at 1:30, but weather delays pushed the start of the games back to 3:00. Both games were long, and the last out wasn't recorded until close to 10:00.

Muhlenberg's bats didn't seem to mind the long day, scoring 19 runs on 22 hits in the two games and raising the team batting average through 10 games to .371.

The opening game was tied 3-3 before the Mules broke it open with four in the third. After a bases-loaded hit batter brought in the go-ahead run, senior Maddy Svenningsen delivered the big hit, a pinch-hit two-run single up the middle. 

A sacrifice fly by freshman Izzy Wilmot capped the rally, and Muhlenberg didn't score again. But it didn't need to, thanks to the stellar relief pitching of freshman Eden Clark. She allowed one run on three hits in four innings of work, striking out seven of the 17 batters she faced.

Junior Lillie Teague went 3-for-4, while junior Peri Kahn had a pair of hits, including a double, and freshman Josie Hoffacker scored two runs - one from second on an infield single - and swiped a pair of bases.

The Mules got good starting pitching and relief pitching in the nightcap - from the same player. Junior Josie Krieman made her first start for Muhlenberg and pitched three scoreless innings, then came back in the sixth when Juniata started to inch closer and tossed two more scoreless frames. She fanned six and allowed only three hits in her five total innings of work.

Kahn doubled in the second to bring home the first run of the game, and after the Mules plated two more runs in the third, they blew the game open with a six-run fourth that began with Svenningsen (pictured above) getting hit by a pitch. Hoffacker hit a two-run single in the big inning, and freshman Sofia Gallahue, who went 3-for-4 in the game, delivered an RBI single.

A two-run single by freshman Lucia Cantarinha - her first career hit - and an RBI single by freshman Sophia Giambalvo accounted for three insurance runs in the seventh, an inning that began with a pinch-hit double by sophomore Emersynn Fair.