The Muhlenberg baseball team opened Bicentennial Park, its new home field, with a thrilling 10-9 win against Penn State Berks. 

It was the bicentennial win for head coach Tod Gross, who became the 10th coach in Muhlenberg athletic history to reach the 200-win mark in one sport. 

The Mules' cozy home played small in its first game, with each side hitting two home runs on a day when the wind was blowing out. 

No home run was bigger, though, than the grand slam hit by sophomore Steven Dimovski in the seventh inning. After the Mules (3-7) loaded the bases with one out on two walks wrapped around a double by sophomore Mike Carcich, Dimovski (pictured above) jumped on the first pitch and hit a no-doubt home run, the first of his career, over the fence in right.

Dimovski's slam, the fifth hit by Muhlenberg since the start of last season, extended a 6-5 lead to 10-5.

The Nittany Lions (2-8-1) came back with a two-run homer in the top of the eighth and threatened to further cut into the lead, but junior Frank Kern came on in relief to get out of the jam. He got help from junior catcher Spencer Hobson, who threw out a runner trying to advance on a pitch in the dirt, with Dimovski making a nice tag at third base.

Berks added two more runs in the ninth, but with the bases loaded and two outs, sophomore second baseman Thomas Rorick battled the wind and rain to catch a popup in shallow right field, nailing down the win and giving junior Charlie Siper his first career save.

Muhlenberg trailed by four runs before it ever came to bat, but halved the deficit in the bottom of the first when Hobson hit his first career home run. An RBI single by freshman Emmy Bulis and a sacrifice fly by sophomore Sean Habeeb gave the Mules their first lead, 5-4, in the fourth. 

Habeeb added an RBI single in the sixth.

Sophomore Kieran Mulholland settled down after allowing four runs in the first to shut out the Nittany Lions in his final three innings. Sophomore Shane Ohl gave up a game-tying home run on the first pitch he threw, but retired nine of the next 11 hitters, striking out four, to earn his first win of the season.

Every batter in the Mules' starting lineup recorded at least one hit. Dimovski reached base in all four of his plate appearances, adding a single and two hit-by-pitches to his home run, and scored all four times.