Outstanding pitching carried the Muhlenberg baseball team to a doubleheader sweep at Gettysburg in its first Centennial Conference games of the season.

Four pitchers combined to allow just 13 hits and one earned run in 18 innings as the Mules (9-10, 2-0) won 3-2 and 7-1 for their first doubleheader sweep at Gettysburg since 2010.

Junior RJ Hennessey struck out a career-high 11 batters - including five straight in one stretch - in six innings to pick up his third win of the season in the opener. Sophomore Matthew D'Ambrosia closed out with three scoreless, one-hit innings to earn his second save.

In the nightcap, senior Timmy Pilrun earned his 10th career win, tossing seven innings and allowing no earned runs while striking out six. Freshman Truman Devitt, pitching on his 19th birthday, worked two scoreless innings to complete the sweep, ending the game on a called third strike.

Muhlenberg answered a Gettysburg run in the first inning of the opener with two in the top of the second on a two-run double to deep center by sophomore Brenden Weiss.

The Bullets (6-12, 0-2) tied the score with an unearned run in the bottom of the sixth, and again the Mules responded in the next half-inning, with junior Matt Riebesell singling in junior Chris Grillo with two outs for what proved to be the winning run.

D'Ambrosia made the run stand up, getting help in the ninth from sophomore John Serruto, who made two nice plays on ground balls - one going to his left and one going to his right - for the first two outs of the inning.

Juniors Stephen Koester and Jon Capra had a pair of hits apiece in the first game.

Muhlenberg took full advantage of sloppy play by Gettysburg in the nightcap, scoring two runs on wild pitches, one on a balk and two on bases-loaded hit batsmen.

Freshman Robert Cappadona led off the game with a double to the left-field corner and scored on a wild pitch. Capra hit an RBI single in a three-run third, and sophomore Billy Brittingham singled in a run as part of a three-run seventh.

Pilrun (pictured above) gave up his lone run in the third and escaped further damage in that inning, and again in the sixth, by striking out a Gettysburg batter with one out and the bases loaded.

Weiss added to his double in the first game with a triple to deep center in the nightcap.