CLAREMONT, Calif. - Mrdah Murali was 3-for-3 in the opener, and Avia Tuguldur was 3-for-3 in the nightcap to help the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps softball team earn a doubleheader sweep from Hamline on Friday at Athena Field. 

Hannah Adams threw a four-hit shutout in the opener, an 8-0 win in five innings, while the Athenas rallied from an early 4-0 deficit for a 7-4 win in the nightcap. With the wins, CMS moves to 7-4-1 on the season, while Hamline sees its record slip to 2-10 with the two losses. 

Adams struck out five and walked none in the opener, to improve to 5-1 on the year in the circle. Mrdah Murali was 3-for-3 with two RBI, Imani Ferris was 2-for-3 with three RBI and Rachel Sapirstein was 2-for-3 with three runs scored at the plate. 

Ferris started the scoring in the second inning with a sacrifice fly, and Avia Tuguldur hit an RBI double in the third to make it 2-0. A Ferris RBI single stretched it to 4-0, and a Murali triple plated two, before she came home on a wild pitch. Ferris then had another RBI single in the fourth to enforce the eight-run rule. 

Hamline got off to a 4-0 lead in the nightcap, but Giselle Lai cut the deficit in half with a two-run single in the second. Brooke Goodman tied the score in the bottom of the third with a two-out RBI single in the third, and Delanie Stevens broke the tie with a double to left center in the fourth.

Tuguldur then plated Stevens with a sacrifice fly to make it 6-4, and Ferris drove homer her fourth RBI of the day with a single to right. 

Goodman, Riley Cooper and Stevens each had two hits in the nightcap in support of the 3-for-3 game from Tuguldur. 

Perri Derian got the win for CMS by throwing 6.2 innings of relief, allowing just one run in the second inning and then shutting out the Pipers in the third through seventh. Stevens caught the final out in right field to end it when she snared a line drive with two runners on.

CMS will be back in action when it travels to Oregon next week for road doubleheaders with Linfield, Willamette and George Fox.