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MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — It wasn't quantity that mattered to the Saint Mary's University baseball team Wednesday afternoon in its Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader against Augsburg.

It was quality.

The Cardinals outhit the Auggies 9-5 in the first game, but it was Augsburg that made the most of its five hits — and four hit batters, two walks and a pair of SMU errors — scoring three runs in the third and adding a pair of unearned runs in the bottom of the sixth en route to a 5-4 victory.

Quality at-bats by Rob Kimlinger (Lake Elmo, Minn.) and Matt Domarus (Woodbury, Minn.) and earned the Cardinals a series split, as Kimlinger broke a 5-5 tie with a solo home run in the fifth inning, while Domarus gave SMU a two-run cushion with a solo shot in the sixth to give SMU a 7-5 win.

The Cardinals held Augsburg scoreless for 10 of the 13 innings it batted, but in those three innings, the Auggies erupted for 10 runs — including five in the bottom of the fourth inning of Game 2 to tie the game 5-5.

Fortunately for the Cardinals, two swings of the bat — once by Kimlinger in the fifth and once by Domarus in the sixth — were enough to earn SMU the split.

SMU had jumped out to a 5-0 advantage in the second game, scoring twice in the second — on an RBI single by Jose Rueda (Winona, Minn.) and an RBI double by Domarus — and three times in the fourth.

In the opener, the Cardinals again held a lead late, overcoming Augsburg's three-run second with a single run in the third and two more in the fourth to take a 4-3 lead. Augsburg, however, used a bases-loaded sacrifice fly and an RBI double to score two runs and secure the 5-4 win.