Timely plays in the field, at the plate and in the circle lifted the Muhlenberg softball team to its first win of the season, 2-1 at Stockton in the second game of a doubleheader.

The game was tied 1-1 when sophomore Scooter Hulsen led off the top of the sixth with a single. After a force play, freshman Peri Kahn scooted from first to third on a groundout to short, beating the throw to third with a nifty slide. The next batter, junior Kaya Mahy, brought in the go-ahead run with a clean two-out single through the left side.

That set the stage for a crazy finish. The Ospreys (1-1) had runners on first and second with one out in the bottom of the seventh when their hitter belted a deep fly ball to right. Hulsen went back to catch it, then threw to second to double up the Stockton runner, who had left too early, to end the game.

The double play made a winner of junior Justine Bergara, who scattered seven hits in picking up her ninth career win. She worked out of a bases-loaded, no-out jam in the first and also stranded two runners in the fourth.

Bergara got fielding help in the fifth when the Ospreys tried a double steal with runners on first and third and two out. Mahy, playing second base, took the throw from freshman catcher Skyla Campisi, held the ball until the runner on third broke for the plate, and nabbed her with a perfect throw back to Campisi.

Junior Ava Calabrese drove in the first run for the Mules (1-2) with a fourth-inning single.

In the opening game, a 9-4 Stockton win, Mahy (pictured above) provided the biggest highlight when she hit a two-run homer, the fourth of her career, in the sixth. Senior Sophia Cicchetti went 3-for-4 with a stolen base and a run scored.