Game 1 Box Score / Game 2 Box Score

ST. PETER, Minn. — The last time the Saint Mary's University baseball team faced Gustavus — in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference post-season tournament a year ago — SMU pitcher Cory Kanz (Oronoco, Minn.) tossed eight near-flawless innings, holding the Gusties scoreless on just four hits.

A three-run home run by Tom Ramy in the bottom of the ninth, however, put a damper on Kanz's stellar outing as the Gusties eliminated the Cardinals from the playoffs, 3-0.

Thursday afternoon, it was Aric Kittleson's (Prescott, Wis.) turn to hurl a gem against the Gusties, allowing just two runs — one earned — through seven innings of Game 1 of the teams' MIAC doubleheader.

But it was the Gusties — make that Ramy — that once again stole SMU's thunder, as Gustavus scored three runs in the top of the eighth inning, two on a home run by Ramy that proved to be the difference in GAC's 5-4 Game 1 win victory.

Ramy hit his third home run in as many games against the Cardinals in the nightcap, as the Gusties completed the sweep with a 10-5 win.

SMU jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the second inning of the first game on a two-out, two-run home run by Ryan Majerus (St. Charles, Minn.), but the Gusties battled back to tie it with single runs in the fourth and fifth.

After getting the Gusties in order in the sixth and seventh, Kittleson gave up a one-out single in the eighth and was lifted for reliever Chuck Wright (Winona, Minn.). After giving up an infield single to Bryant Rogness, and then picking Rogness off first for the second out, Wright gave up an RBI single to Trent Larson and Ramy's two-run home run.

SMU tried to battle back in the bottom of the eighth, scoring a pair of runs — one on an RBI groundout by Matt RInk (Rochester, Minn.) and the other on a two-out, RBI double by Rob Kimlinger (Lake Elmo, Minn.) — but the Cardinals left Kimlinger stranded at second.

Gustavus didn't need any late-inning heroics in the second game, pounding SMU starter Dane Bonath (Robbinsdale, Minn.) for eight runs in the first two innings. GAC added two more in the fourth to make it 10-0, before SMU's offense finally came to life.

The Cardinals (5-5 MIAC, 10-10 overall) scored three times in the sixth, highlighted by Tony Cicalello's (St. Paul, Minn.) two-run single, and added two more in the seventh on RBI singles by Cicalello and Pat Jacobsen (Stillwater, Minn.), but it was too little, too late.