Game Summary

WINONA, Minn. — The end result may not have been too thrilling — the Saint Mary's University women's basketball team dropped its third straight, falling to St. Thomas 87-58 in a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference game Monday evening.

But there still was plenty of reasons for the Cardinals to smile.

Well, one reason in particular.

When Amy Burns (Winona, Minn.) took a feed from teammate Jamie Rattunde (Rollingstone, Minn.) and scored her sixth point of the game, it not only pulled the Cardinals within five, 28-23, with 7:20 remaining in the first half, but it also made her just the fifth person in SMU women's basketball history to score 1,000 points.

Burns finished the game with nine points and teammate Alissa Erichsen (Spring Valley, Minn.) added 13, but it was not enough as the Cardinals dug themselves an 11-point halftime hole they couldn't climb out of.

Despite shooting 61 percent from the field in the first half, the Cardinals still found themselves on the short end of a 47-36 halftime deficit, thanks in part to the fact that St. Thomas' offense did SMU one better, shooting a whopping 63 percent from the field (19-for-30).

Only problem was, St. Thomas' torrid shooting continued in the second half, as the Tommies connected on 16 of 28 field-goal attempts (57 percent) en route to 40 second-half points. SMU, on the other hand, netted just nine second-half field goals (9-for-30, 30 percent) in losing to the Tommies for the 35th straight time.