A day after scoring an incredible comeback win with nine runs in the bottom of the ninth, the Muhlenberg baseball team nearly pulled off another one.

The Mules trailed McDaniel 9-0 through three innings and 12-3 through five before scoring at least four runs in three consecutive innings to close to within one. The Green Terror (26-10, 9-5) stemmed the tide, however, and won 21-16 before completing the sweep with a 15-5 victory in the nightcap.

Sophomore Steven Dimovski ignited Muhlenberg's comeback effort with a home run on the first pitch of the sixth inning. Run-scoring singles by sophomores Sean Habeeb and Mike Carcich, plus a run-scoring groundout, brought the Mules to within 12-7.

In the seventh, freshman Matthew Lehberger knocked in a run with a bunt single, and two batters later sophomore Marius Haughton belted his second home run of the season, a three-run shot, to make it 12-11.

McDaniel scored five times in the bottom of the seventh for some apparent breathing room, but the Mules (10-21, 5-9) didn't led the Green Terror breathe. RBI singles by Habeeb and Haughton (pictured above), combined with two ground balls and an error that brought in three more, added up to another five-run inning and a tight 17-16 lead for McDaniel.

A three-run homer in the bottom of the eighth capped a four-running Green Terror frame, and Muhlenberg ran out of answers in the ninth despite putting two runners on base.

Junior Spencer Hobson led a 19-hit attack by going 4-for-5 and driving in a pair of runs. Habeeb, Haughton, and Lehberger added three hits apiece, while Dimovski (hit, four walks) and sophomore Jason Hughes (two hits, three walks) each reached base five times.

Graduate student James Hopke pitched 1.2 innings of scoreless relief, striking out the first batter he faced with a runner on third and one out in the fifth before facing the minimum three batters in the sixth.

Senior Thomas Pranzo gave the Mules a 1-0 lead in the first inning of the nightcap with an RBI single, but the Green Terror scored in each of its seven turns at bat to win by the 10-run rule. Freshman Danny Cutrupi hit a two-run single in the seventh.