Pitching Carries Baseball to First CC Win
The Muhlenberg baseball team broke into the Centennial Conference win column with a doubleheader split at Franklin & Marshall.
The Mules (7-20, 1-8) snapped a nine-game skid with a 3-1 win in the opener before the Diplomats (13-15, 5-3) came back to take the nightcap, 7-4.
Oustanding pitching by senior Ryan Friesen and junior Ethan Brochin carried Muhlenberg to the win in the first game. The two righties held F&M to four hits.
Friesen worked the first seven innings, allowing only two singles and fanning a career-high 9. He retired the leadoff batter in every inning, and only one Diplomat advanced past first base in the first six frames.
Brochin (pictured above) took over in the eighth and worked out of a bases-loaded jam by striking out F&M's No. 5 hitter. The leadoff batter in the ninth doubled, but Brochin retired the next three hitters on a strikeout and two popouts to nail down his fourth save of the season.
The Mules plated single runs in the third, sixth and seventh. Freshman Spencer Hobson, who went 3-for-4, singled to set up a run-scoring error in the third and doubled in a run in the sixth.
Senior Ryan Riccio led off the seventh with a triple, his 10th extra-base hit of the season, and scored on a two-out single by freshman Marc Quarrie.
Muhlenberg led 4-1 after scoring three runs in the top of the third of Game 2, but the Diplomats came back with three in the bottom of the inning and three more in the sixth.
Hobson had two more hits in the second game, while Quarrie and senior Nick Stannard each contributed RBI singles.
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