Transcript Points under .500 in the freshman batting average of Becki Toth (2001-05), the softball player of the decade.

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Points under .500 in the freshman batting
average of Becki Toth (2001-05), the softball
player of the decade. Toth’s .417 average was
the best ever by Mule freshman with more than
35 at-bats and earned her all-region honors.
She ended her career with a .366 average on
the strength of a school-record 182 hits. Toth
earned All-Centennial Conference honors four
times, making the first team both as an
outfielder and as a shortstop.
Becki’s father, Dick Toth, was an all-conference football player at Muhlenberg. Other
second-generation Mules of the decade included Justin Henning (soccer), Samuel
Hayden (soccer), Steph Light (lacrosse), John Kalis (baseball), Doug Folger (football),
Jenn Risley (basketball), Courtney and Brittany Williams (volleyball), Debra Crockett
(track and field) and Mike Brown (lacrosse).
82:52,
82:54
Time of goal scored by sophomore
Cody Antonini in back-to-back 1-0
wins by the men’s soccer team
against Gettysburg and Dickinson in
2009. The goals extended Antonini’s
scoring streak to eight games, the
longest from the start of a season by
a Mule since 1971. Antonini led
Muhlenberg to the top seed in the
Centennial Conference playoffs and
was named CC player of the year
and a first-team All-American.
81.7
Stroke average in 2006-07 for Kimberly
Snyder, the women’s golf player of the
decade. Snyder’s average in her only year at
Muhlenberg broke the previous school record
by more than 12 strokes. She finished first at
four tournaments during the year, including the
Centennial Conference Championships, and
shot a school-record 75 in the first round of the
Nike Collegiate Classic. Snyder’s performance
at the CC tournament led Muhlenberg to its
second title,
by a 30stroke
margin over
five-time
defending
champion
McDaniel.
80:28
Time of Tom
Reilly’s third goal
against Neumann
on August 30,
2008, giving the
Muhlenberg
soccer teams two
hat tricks on the
same day for the
first time ever.
Earlier that afternoon, Renee Dessimone
scored three goals against St. Joseph’s (N.Y.),
becoming the first women’s soccer freshman
to record a hat trick in her first game as a
Mule. Reilly notched the first hat trick for the
men’s team since 2000 in just his second
game for Muhlenberg.
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School-record career assists for
men’s lacrosse player Mickey
Norton (2005-08). He more than
doubled the previous mark of 39
and finished his career as
Muhlenberg’s all-time leading
scorer with 123 points. Norton also
set the school record for assists in
a season (26) and tied the marks
for points in a season (42) and
assists in a game (5).
Mickey’s younger sister, Renee, played on the Muhlenberg field hockey
team in 2008-09. Other brother-sister duos in different sports include the
Rutts (Lauren in field hockey and Jordan in tennis), the Tranguches (Nick
in football and Maria in soccer) and the Lutzers (Marissa in tennis and
Bradley in lacrosse).
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Kurt Kunsch’s pole vault of 14-7 in 2000 is now
one of the oldest records on the books. Kunsch
won the Centennial Conference gold medal both
indoors and outdoors that year.
Also the number of
school records set or
tied by the track and
field teams during
the decade. Only 17
records that existed
in 1999 survived the
decade, none for
women’s indoor
track.
Rachel Drosdick is
responsible for four
of the 79, setting
school records in the
indoor and outdoor
long jump, the
heptathlon and the
pentathlon.
78-74
Combined record of
Muhlenberg’s four Centennial
Conference championship
softball teams (2000, 2001, 2003,
2009) in the decade.
That isn’t such a great winning
percentage, of course, but the
Mules played their best in the games that mattered most, often after
struggling against tough competition early in the season. Muhlenberg’s
CC record those four years was a much more impressive 48-16.
Only the 2001 team (pictured) finished more than a game above .500,
going 25-17, and that was after starting out 7-11. The 2000 team started
4-12 and finished 18-18, and in 2003 the Mules were 1-12 before turning
it around. Their final record of 16-21 included two NCAA Tournament
wins. The 2009 squad ended up 19-18 after a 6-10 start.
77.9
Stroke average for Zachary Oyer in
2008-09 — the best by a Mule golfer in
the decade. Oyer shot in the 70s in 12 of
16 rounds, with a low of 73, and was
Muhlenberg’s top finisher at the
Centennial Conference Championships,
tying for sixth.
0.76
Goals-against average for Kim Laurino in her junior year of 2001.
Laurino was named to the All-Centennial Conference women’s soccer
first team and was the hero of the CC championship game against Johns
Hopkins, making nine saves and protecting a 1-0 lead despite facing 16
shots in the second half. It was her school-record ninth shutout of the
season, and she finished her career holding school records for career
shutouts (25) and goals-against average (0.85).
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Combined
seconds for
the men’s
lacrosse
team to win
consecutive
games in
overtime on
the road in
2004. The
Mules beat Centenary, 12-11, on a
goal by Justin Hollander 58
seconds into overtime. Seven days
later, Hollander assisted on the
winning goal 17 seconds into the
extra period for an 8-7 victory at
Merchant Marine.
0.75
NCAA-leading average triples per
game for the baseball team in
2005. Matt Long led the Mules
with four three-baggers, and 11
different players had at least one.
All four
statistical
championships
won by the
Muhlenberg
baseball team
have been in
the triples-pergame category
(one team and
three
individual).
74-70
Score of the men’s basketball win against
Ursinus in the last game of the 2005-06 regular
season. Needing a win to clinch a playoff berth
and without their leading scorer and rebounder,
the Mules beat the first-place Bears in front of a
large home crowd. Tom Scott scored 27 points.
The next year, Muhlenberg proved it was no
fluke. Again in a “win and in” situation, but this
time on the road, the Mules defeated the
favored Bears 76-68, with Scott again leading
the way with 25 points.
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Goals in 2003 for Courtney Tapkas, the
women’s lacrosse player of the decade.
She ranked fifth in Division III in goals per
game, setting school records for goals and
points (84) in a season and tying marks for
hat tricks in a season (12) and goals in a
game (9). Tapkas would go on to become the
program’s all-time leader in points (262) and
goals (218). She is the only player in team
history to earn All-Centennial Conference
honors all four years.
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School-record and Centennial
Conference-leading number of
ground balls for Bradley
Lutzer in 2005. The first
senior to graduate from the
reinstated Muhlenberg men’s
lacrosse program, Lutzer
earned All-CC second-team
honors. He was one of the
first two players in program
history to receive All-CC
recognition.
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Combined finishes at the NCAA Mideast
Regional from 2000 to 2002 for Brendan
Gallagher. He came in 32nd in 2000, 15th
in 2001 and 24th in 2002. Combined with a
22nd-place finish in 1999, that made
Gallagher the first (and to date, only) fourtime all-region runner for Muhlenberg
cross country. In 2001, Gallagher became
the first Mule to qualify for the NCAA
Championships in cross country.
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Lowest round by a Muhlenberg golfer in the decade.
Bill Snow (below) shot a two-under-par 70 at the
Gettysburg Fall Invitational in 2008.
Matt Berman (right) carded his 70 in the
spring, at the 2001 Susquehanna TeeOff Tournament on a par-70 course. It
was the first of Berman’s three
tournament wins that year. The last was
at the Centennial Conference Championships, where he
led the Mules to the championship. Berman averaged 79.3
strokes per round in 2000-01 and is the men’s golf player
of the decade.
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Also the margin of victory for the men’s
basketball team in a 107-37 win against
Philadelphia Biblical in 2007-08, breaking a
59-year-old school record.
69-28
Career record of Jason McLean
entering the 2001 NCAA
Championships. One of four Mule
wrestlers to qualify for nationals
that year, McLean returned as the
first All-American in program
history, finishing eighth at 141
pounds. His 34 wins on the season
rank second on Muhlenberg’s alltime list.
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Career touchdowns scored by Matt
Bernardo (2000-03) — a school and
Centennial Conference record. At the
time of his graduation, Bernardo
ranked ninth in Division III history with
408 career points. He received AllAmerica honorable mention as a
junior and was a three-time first-team
All-CC selection. Bernardo still holds
school records for rushing yards in a
career (4,117), all-purpose yards in a
season (2,173), rushing touchdowns
in a season (19) and total
touchdowns in a season (22).
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School-record extra-base hits (48 doubles, 7
triples, 12 home runs) for the softball team in
2009. RiRi Ferrigno (right) had 13 of the extrabase hits, including a school-record four in one
game vs. Franklin & Marshall.
Samantha Crist (left) had the biggest
extra-base hit, a walkoff grand slam to beat
Gettysburg, 8-5, in the opening game of
the Centennial Conference playoffs. The
round-tripper propelled the Mules to the
CC championship.