Billy Preston sang “nothing from nothing leaves nothing,” and Julie Andrews sang “nothing comes from nothing, nothing ever could,” but something did come from last night’s scoress tie in women’s soccer at Scranton.

Something that hadn’t happened since the very first game the Muhlenberg women’s soccer team played.

Mule goalie Michele Toher made 10 saves – including two spectacular diving stops late in regulation and early in overtime – against the regionally ranked Royals. It was the most saves by a Muhlenberg goalie in a scoreless tie since 1991, when Jen Samble made 29 against Swarthmore in the program’s first game as a varsity sport.

(Incidentally, Samble was on campus last weekend as a member of the 1991 softball team that got inducted into the Muhlenberg College Athletics Hall of Fame.)

There have been only nine scoreless ties in the program’s 21-year history. Here are the save totals from each of those games:

• 1991 vs. Swarthmore – 29 (Jen Samble)
• 1995 vs. Beaver – 6 (Jackie Vanderstreet)
• 2003 vs. Moravian – 4 (Kayla Boisvert)
• 2004 vs. Moravian – 5 (Stacey Spector)
• 2005 vs. Scranton – 7 (Kayla Boisvert)
• 2008 vs. Moravian – 2 (Kate Morrissey)
• 2008 vs. Gettysburg – 4 (Michele Toher)
• 2010 vs. St. Joseph’s – 2 (Michele Toher)
• 2011 vs. Scranton – 10 (Michele Toher)

Scoreless ties generally fall into two categories: closely played games with low shot totals or games in which one team has a huge advantage in shots but just can’t put one in. Most of the Mules’ 0-0 draws have been of the first variety.

Toher’s 10 saves also were the most by a Muhlenberg goalie in a shutout effort since Stacey Spector made 11 against Dickinson in 2004. Those are the only two cases of a Mule keeper reaching double digits in saves in a shutout since 2000.

Although Toher didn’t match Samble’s save total, she did pass her on the program’s career list with her 17th shutout. Toher ranks third all-time.

And that’s something.