Game 1 Box Score / Game 2 Box Score

WINONA, Minn. — The Saint Mary's University baseball team did everything right Wednesday afternoon in its Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader against Macalester.

For 13 of the 14 innings, that is.

Macalester scored six runs in the top of the seventh inning — on just two hits — to break open a 1-0 game and carry the Scots to a 7-0 victory and a split in the doubleheader. The Cardinals, behind the complete-game pitching of Andy Ebert (Winona, Minn.) won the opener in convincing fashion, 6-1.

Joe Duda (Rochester, Minn.) and Macalester's Marcus Turner were locked in a heated pitcher's dual in Game 2, as Turner held SMU (6-2 MIAC, 8-4 overall) to just three hits through the game's first six innings, while Duda matched him pitch-for-pitch, limiting the Scots to four hits and the game's lone run.

In the seventh, however, the Cardinals fell apart. Back-to-back walks and a seeing-eye single loaded the bases for Macalester with no one out. The next two batters, Ty O'Connell and Damon Dahlheimer hit grounders to second baseman Tony Cicalello (St. Paul, Minn.), who tried to force the runners out at the plate, but failed both times.

And things just got worse. A sacrifice fly and a two-run double made it 5-0 Macalester, while SMU's second error of the inning and an RBI groundout pushed that advantage to 7-0.

In the first game, Ebert tossed a seven-hjtter — his second straight complete game — striking out six and not walking a batter. Scott Morrison (St. Paul, Minn.), Duda and Brad Huegel (Alta Vista, Iowa) all collected a pair of hits to pace the Cardinals' 10-hit attack, with Duda driving in a pair of runs with his bases-loaded, third-inning double.

SMU opened the scoring in the second on an RBI single by Huegel and a sacrifice fly by Aaron Smolinski (White Bear Lake, Minn.). The Cardinals made it 5-0 in the third as Duda laced his double and Rob Kimlinger (Lake Elmo, Minn.) added a sacrifice fly. David McMahon's (Coon Rapids, Minn.) one-out single in the fourth accounted for the Cardinals' other run.