Softball wins twice in florida finale

Baseball Loses in 9th Rose-Hulman scored a run in the bottom of the ninth to hand the Muhlenberg baseball team a 3-2 loss. Junior Phil Cresta pitched a complete game against an Engineer team that was invited to the NCAA Tournament last year, striking out three and scattering 10 hits in 8 1/3 innings. After falling behind 2-0 early, the Mules tied the score with single runs in the fifth and sixth. Junior Dan Fisher drove in the first run with a two-out single, and senior Christian Conti scored the second after leading off with a triple. Click here for line score.

Brewer struck out 35 batters in 30 1/3 innings pitched in Florida. She also hit .560.

The Muhlenberg softball team finished its Spring Break trip to Florida on a high note, defeating both Heidelberg and Widener by seven runs to return home with a record of 3-5.

Sophomore Ashley Brewer pitched her second career shutout, a two-hitter, in the opener, a 7-0 win. She struck out nine and retired the last 11 batters after Heidelberg loaded the bases with nobody out in the fourth.

Brewer also had a pair of hits, one to start a three-run rally in the fourth and the other to knock in a run in the four-run fifth. Freshman Brittany Blohm hit a two-out, two-run double in the fourth to break a scoreless tie.

In the second game, the Mules overcame an early 2-0 deficit by scoring three runs in each of the first three innings and went on to win, 10-3.

Brewer was 3-for-4 with a double, and senior RiRi Ferrigno knocked in three runs with a sacrifice fly and two singles. Sophomore Alyssa Epstein and freshman Maggie Scarpelli had two hits apiece.
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