Game 1 Box Score / Game 2 Box Score

PERHAM, Minn. — Andy Ebert (Winona, Minn.) pitched a complete-game four-hitter, and Soctt Morrison (St. Paul, Minn.) was 2-for-3 with an RBI and Matt Domarus (Woodbury, Minn.) belted a two-run home run — the first of his two HRs on the day — in the Cardinals' three-run fourth inning as the Saint Mary's University baseball team posted a 5-1 victory over Concordia in the first game of the teams' Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader Saturday.

The Cobbers, however, came back to earn a split in the nightcap, scoring four runs in the bottom of the sixth inning en route to the 7-5 win.

Ebert was nearly flawless in posting his second straight win of the season, allowing four singles and a sixth-inning solo home run, while limiting just two Cobber runners past second base.

The Cardinals (3-1 MIAC, 5-3 overall) opened the scoring in Game 1 with a solo run in the third on an RBI single by Jamie Nowaczewski (St. Paul, Minn.). SMU increased its lead to 4-0 in the fourth, with Brad Huegel's (Alta Vista, Iowa) RBI single scoring Rob Kimlinger (Lake Elmo, Minn.), and Domarus' HR accounting for the other two runs. The Cobbers tagged Ebert for their lone run in the bottom of the sixth, but SMU regained the four-run cushion on an RBI single by Morrison in the top of the seventh.

The two teams traded solo runs in the first inning of Game 2, with SMU's coming on a two-out single by David McMahon (Coon Rapids, Minn.) SMU made it 3-1 with solo HRs from Kimlinger and Domarus in the second. Concordia knotted the game at three with a pair of runs off SMU starter Joe Duda (Rochester, Minn.) in the bottom of the fourth, but the Cardinals again regained the advantage, 5-3, plating a pair of runs in the top of the sixth. Concordia iced the win in the bottom of the inning, however, as Ryan Hebrink launched a three-run, pinch-hit home run and Matt Nustad added a two-out, run-scoring double of SMU reliever Mia Daggett (La Crosse, Wis.).