The Muhlenberg softball team reached some rarified air, sweeping Haverford, 6-4 and 1-0, in its second-to-last doubleheader of the regular season.

The Mules (30-8, 11-3) are just the second team in College athletic history to win 30 games in a season. The only other was the 2013 softball team, which finished 31-9-1 to set the College record for wins in a season.

This year's team, which has won 13 in a row, will take aim at that mark when it closes out the regular season with a doubleheader at Gettysburg on Saturday. Those two games also have Centennial Conference playoff implications: If the Mules win at least one of the games, they will clinch the second seed and a home playoff game.

After previously breaking the school record for stolen bases in a season, the Mules set a new record for hits in a season (375) and tied the mark of 10 shutouts in a season, set in 1991 and matched in 2009.

Named Division III pitcher of the week earlier in the day, freshman Eden Clark was responsible for the record-tying shutout, tossing a three-hitter in the second game for her third consecutive shutout. Clark walked six and struck out six, including the final batter of the game with the bases loaded, to extended her unscored-upon streak to 21 innings.

Muhlenberg scratched out its only run in the fifth when sophomore Ava Storlazzi singled, went to second on an error, and came around on a pair of groundouts.

The Mules had only one run-scoring hit in the opener - a two-run single in the second by freshman Izzy Wilmot that gave them the lead for good. Muhlenberg pushed across runs on a forceout in the third and a squeeze bunt by Josie Hoffacker in the fourth to take a 4-2 lead. 

It was 4-3 in the sixth when the Mules scored the runs that proved to be the difference on a bizarre play. Hoffacker was on third when sophomore Hailey Godin, who was on first, took off trying to steal. Godin stopped halfway to second to try to draw a throw, and when the Fords (23-11, 6-8) threw to second, Hoffacker took off for home and got in a rundown. Hoffacker was heading back to third when the Haverford shortstop threw wildly, allowing both runners to score. 

Storlazzi (pictured above) had two hits in each game to extend her hitting streak to 12 games, including nine with multiple hits.