The Muhlenberg softball team captured the second game of a doubleheader at Dickinson to cap a full weekend of play.

The Mules (16-9, 3-3) lost a doubleheader at home to Washington on Saturday before splitting a pair of thrilling extra-inning games at Dickinson on Sunday.

The final score of both games at Dickinson was 6-5, the first game in 10 innings and the second in eight. It was the first time since 1997 that Muhlenberg played a doubleheader in which both games went into extra innings, and the first time it ever happened in a Centennial Conference twinbill.

In the second game, the Mules took a 5-2 lead into the bottom of the seventh, but the Red Devils (5-13, 2-2) plated three runs to send the game into extras.

Muhlenberg started the eighth with senior Samantha Winegard on second. After freshman Gabby Colder sacrificed her to third, senior Brianna Kessler hit a ball that trickled down the third-base line. Dickinson let it go, hoping it would roll foul, but the ball hit the bag and Winegard scored the go-ahead run.

Dickinson put runners on second and third with one out in the bottom of the eighth, but freshman Samantha Fehrenbach ended the game with a strikeout and flyout to nail down her first career win.

The Mules jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first on a steal of home by freshman Peri Kahn and an RBI single by junior Kaya Mahy.

Colder knocked in a run with a two-out double in the third, and freshman Skyla Campisi hit an RBI single in the seventh.

It was Muhlenberg forcing extra innings with a late run in the opener. Trailing 3-2 after five, the Mules tied the game on a two-out double by Mahy.

That set the stage for extra innings in which each team scored a single run in both the eighth and ninth innings. Sophomore Scooter Hulsen brought in the run in the eighth with a squeeze bunt, and Kessler (pictured above) hit a two-out RBI single in the ninth. Dickinson walked off with the win in the 10th after Muhlenberg was unable to score in the top of the inning.

Sophomore Lauren Siesky pitched three scoreless innings in relief to allow Muhlenberg the chance to come back.

The Mules never led against Washington, falling 5-2 and 5-4. In the second game, Muhlenberg trailed 5-0 in the fourth before mounting a comeback.

After plating single runs in the fourth and fifth, the Mules got two more in the seventh on a triple by senior Sophia Cicchetti and a run-scoring ground ball. The tying run was on third when the game ended.

Fehrenbach was outstanding in relief, striking out 5 of the 10 batters she faced.

Cicchetti tripled in both ends of the Washington doubleheader to tie the school record of 12 career triples. She also hit safely in all four weekend games to extend her hitting streak to 20 games, the second-longest in program history. Her four stolen bases on the weekend moved her to within one of the school record of 32 in a season.