After a day off in Myrtle Beach, the Muhlenberg softball team returned to the field to do the same thing it did on Monday - shut out both of its opponents.

The Mules (7-2) blanked St. Joseph's (L.I.), 11-0, and Gwynedd Mercy, 3-0, to set a school record with four consecutive shutouts. They had recorded three straight shutouts several times previously, most recently in 2006, but had never spun four in a row. The four whitewashes are one more than the team had all last year.

Muhlenberg also has a seven-game winning streak, its longest since the 2013 squad won 10 in a row. The Mules have allowed a total of three runs in those seven games. 

Six different pitchers - seniors Raya Kunes and Isabella Fogle and sophomore Lauren Siesky against St. Joseph's and junior Justine Bergara, sophomore Leeanna Zagrodnik and freshman Samantha Fehrenbach against Gwynedd - combined to allow only seven hits in the two games. In 12 innings, only three opponent runners reached second base, and only one made it to third.

The Mules used aggressive baserunning to take advantage of St. Joseph's miscues in the first game, scoring their first four runs on errors and wild pitches. Junior Ava Calabrese delivered a two-run single in the third to make it 6-0, and a five-run fourth featured two-run doubles by seniors Gillian Zack and Samantha Winegard.

Zack, senior Sophia Cicchetti and sophomore Scooter Hulsen all had two hits in the game.

The second game was much more competitive, with Muhlenberg scratching out single runs in the first, third and fifth.

Cicchetti led off the first by hitting a ball down the third-base line. The throw to second appeared to have beaten her as she tried to leg out a double, but she got in a rundown and made it into second safely. She advanced to third on a passed ball and scored on a sacrifice fly by freshman Peri Kahn.

In the third, Cicchetti reached on an error, stole second and third, and scored on Hulsen's single up the middle. Hulsen added a two-out RBI single in the fifth.

Bergara pitched the first five innings to extend her personal unscored-upon streak to 17 innings. She got help defensively from Zack, who ended the top of the third by throwing out a runner attempting to advance from second to third on a fly ball to center.

Zagrodnik worked a 1-2-3 sixth, and Fehrenbach (pictured above) tossed the seventh to earn her first career save.

The Mule staff's streak of 24 consecutive scoreless innings is close to the school record of 27.2, set in 2000.