The Muhlenberg softball team suffered its first doubleheader loss of the season, dropping a pair of games at McDaniel that came down to the final batter.

The Mules (18-8, 3-3) trailed by seven runs heading into the last inning of the first game but came just short of tying the game. The Green Terror (15-9, 3-3) did the coming back in the nightcap, scoring five times in the bottom of the seventh to walk off with an 8-7 win. 

Senior Kristina Qualben belted her 17th career home run in the second game, and seniors Allyson Sweeney (5-for-8) and Kristy Selby (4-for-8) both ended the day with 99 career hits.

In the opener, RBI singles by Sweeney and Qualben and a two-run single by freshman Genna Cicchetti in the top of the seventh cut a 9-2 deficit to 9-6 with two outs. Junior Sarah Schubert, who scored Muhlenberg's first two runs, came up as the tying run and hit a long drive to center field that was caught just a few feet in front of the fence, ending the game.

Freshman Sarah Raab singled in Schubert, who had doubled, to break a 3-3 tie in the third inning of Game 2. Qualben (pictured above) extended the lead to 7-3 with a three-run blast in the sixth - her fifth home run of the season and her 50th career extra-base hit.

It was 7-4 with two outs in the bottom of the seventh, but the Mules never got the third out, as four straight hits won the game for McDaniel.

Freshman Kristin Oberg had a pair of hits in each game.