The Muhlenberg baseball team suffered a tough loss in its first Centennial Conference home game of the season, falling to Haverford 8-5 in 12 innings. 

The Mules (10-10, 0-3) jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first inning, with the first four batters reaching base and ultimately scoring. Seniors Chris Grillo and Matt Riebesell singled in runs on consecutive pitches, and junior Michael Martinez hit an opposite-field RBI single.

The Fords (10-9, 3-0) drew even with their own four-run inning in the top of the third, and it was mostly zeros on the scoreboard after that.

Sophomore Cameron Miller singled in the go-ahead run in the bottom of the sixth, but Haverford tied the game against on a triple and wild pitch in the next half-inning before winning it on a three-run homer in the 12th.

Sophomore Truman Devitt (pictured above) tossed four shutout innings in relief, striking out five. He retired the last seven batters he faced, breezing through the 10th and 11th after working out of a bases-loaded jam in the ninth.

Grillo went 3-for-5 to move into eighth place on the program's all-time list with 158 career hits. He also stole two bases. Sophomore John Serruto also had three hits, including a double. 

The game tied for the longest the Mules have played since joining the CC: they lost to Franklin & Marshall, 7-6, in 12 innings in 2012. They haven't played a game longer than 12 innings since 1992.