The Muhlenberg swept McDaniel in its regular-season finale to clinch a Centennial Conference home playoff game.

The Mules (23-14, 9-7) won an epic first game, 14-13 in 13 innings, before taking the nightcap in more traditional fashion, 7-1. The finished in fourth place in the CC and will host fifth-place Dickinson in an elimination game on Tuesday.

The winner will travel to top-seeded Washington College for the remainder of the double-elimination tournament next weekend.

McDaniel entered the day with a chance at a CC playoff spot, and the two teams battled tooth and nail for more than three hours in the opening game. It was the second-longest (in terms of innings) game in program history, topped only by a 14-inning game vs. Swarthmore in 1983. It was also the first Muhlenberg game in which both teams scored at least 13 runs since 2012.

Junior Justine Bergara pitched all six of the extra innings, tying the school record for innings by a relief pitcher in a game, then tossed the first six innings of the second game to earn her second win of the day. She allowed only seven hits and two earned runs in her 12 innings of work.

Senior Sophia Cicchetti enjoyed a day full of milestones, going 7-for-11 with 6 runs scored and 4 stolen bases in the two games. She broke the school record for hits in a season, which had stood at 60 since 1999, tied her own school record for triples in a season (7) and game (2), broke the school record for triples in a career (14) and tied the CC mark for stolen bases in a season (41).

Junior Kaya Mahy had three doubles and a triple in the twinbill, with her last double giving her the milestone of 100 career hits. Junior Ava Calabrese tied a school record with three sacrifices in the opener.

Muhlenberg came from behind six times to win the first game, first plating four runs in the bottom of the sixth to turn a 4-2 deficit into a 6-4 lead. Sophomore Scooter Hulsen brought in the go-ahead run with a single, and freshman Lillie Teague followed with an RBI single of her own.

The Green Terror (17-23, 6-10) tied the game with two runs in the top of the seventh, and the Mules went down 1-2-3 in the bottom of the inning, setting the stage for an unbelievable set of extra innings.

Both teams scored the same number of runs in each of the first five extra frames, plating the runner who started on second in the eighth, ninth and 10th.

The script changed in the 11th, with McDaniel scoring three runs. Cicchetti began the bottom of the 11th on second and stole third, scoring on a wild pitch as Mahy struck out and reached first safely. Mahy scored on another wild pitch, making it 12-11, and a triple by Gillian Zack brought in a third run to keep the game going.

Each team went back to scoring a single run again in the 12th. Junior Dani Roban, in just her sixth at-bat of the season, delivering a run-scoring double in the bottom of the inning.

The top of the 13th saw the first – and only – extra-inning zero, with Bergara getting a popout and a strikeout after the Green Terror sacrificed its automatic runner to third.

Mahy began the bottom of the 13th on second and was sacrificed to third by Hulsen. Teague, the next batter, hit a deep drive to the right-center field gap that would otherwise have been an extra-base hit but went for a walkoff single.

The second game was far less dramatic, with the Mules scoring in each of their final four turns at bat to break away from a 1-1 tie.

After Hulsen's RBI single in the third made it 3-1, extra-base hits brought in the rest of the runs – a two-run double by Cicchetti in the fourth and RBI doubles by Zack in the fifth and Mahy in the sixth.

Senior Isabella Fogle pitched a 1-2-3 seventh to close out the sweep.

Prior to the doubleheader, the Mules honored their nine seniors – Cicchetti, Fogle, Zack, Jane Banahan, Dara DiMaiolo, Brianna Kessler, Raya Kunes, Kersti Svenningsen and Samantha Winegard.