Five pitchers combined to allow only seven hits and no earned runs as the Muhlenberg softball team swept a home doubleheader against Elizabethtown, 7-1 and 5-0.
The two wins ran the Mules' record on the season to 20-8, giving them their fourth 20-win season in the last five years and the 15th season of 20 or more wins in program history.
The opening game was scoreless through five before Muhlenberg blew the game open with two big innings.
After consecutive singles to start the fifth by junior
Peri Kahn, and sophomores
Ava Storlazzi and
Hailey Godin, sophomore
Ellie Williams (pictured above) came off the bench to pinch-hit and drilled a double down the third-base line to bring home the first two runs of the game.
Freshman
Sofia Gallahue followed with a two-run single to give the Mules a 4-0 lead.
Gallahue added a two-run single in the sixth to cap a three-run inning and extend the margin to 7-0.
Two days after her shortest start of the season, sophomore
Morgan Bobrowski returned to form with six shutout innings, allowing only three hits against a Blue Jay team that came in with a .333 batting average. Only one runner advanced past second base against Bobrowski.
Elizabethtown (14-12) spoiled the shutout by scoring an unearned run in the top of the seventh.
Storlazzi, batting for the first time in two weeks, went 3-for-3 for her second career three-hit game.
In the nightcap, freshman
Eden Clark, sophomore
Abigail Kim, and junior
Abby Liebowitz teamed up for a three-hit shutout.
Clark had runners on base in each of her four innings but pitched out of trouble to earn her eighth win of the season. Kim was outstanding in her two innings, retiring all six batters she faced, and Liebowitz worked out of a bases-loaded jam in the seventh to finish off the shutout.
The Mules scored all of their runs in the first two innings. The first four batters in the bottom of the first all singled, with Gallahue driving in the first run of the game after Storlazzi led off with her fourth straight hit and stole second. With one out and the bases loaded, senior
Scooter Hulsen singled between short and third to bring in two more runs.
Gallahue made it six RBI on the day with a run-scoring double in the second, coming around to plate Muhlenberg's final run on a single by junior
Lillie Teague.
The Mules stole six bases in the nightcap, including two by freshman
Izzy Wilmot, and now have 77 swipes on the season, the second-most in program history.