Game 1 Boxscore / Game 2 Boxscore

WINONA, Minn. — For just the second time in their seven doubleheaders this season, the Saint Mary's University fastpitch softball team won the first of the two games, getting a season-best 12-strikeout performance from Jenny Schipp (North St. Paul, Minn.) in a 5-1 win over Hamline Monday afternoon at the SMU Field.

Which should have been good news for the Cardinals, considering they had won the second game in five of their first six twinbills.

Make that five of the last seven.

Hamline, which managed just three hits off Schipp — and helped the Cardinals out by committing four errors — turned the tables on SMU in the nightcap, taking advantage of four Cardinal miscues en route to a 5-0 Game 2 victory.

SMU was near-perfect in Game 1 — thanks in large part to Schipp, who, after giving up a first-inning run, allowed just two base runners, neither of which got past second. The sophomore right-hander walked just one — a leadoff walk to the Pipers' Amanda Gage to open the game — and struck out a season-high 12.

The Cardinals (12-10 overall, 5-5 MIAC) pulled even with Hamline with an unearned run in the third, then took the lead for good on an RBI double by Amy Edge (Mineral Point, Wis.) in the fourth, before breaking the game open with a three-run sixth that was highlighted by a two-run home run by edge over the right-center field fence.

Game 2 proved to be a polar opposite for the Cardinals, who did not commit an error in the first game, but committed four in the second.

And Hamline took full advantage of the extra outs.

The Pipers scored a pair of runs in the third inning on a two-run double by Gage, then added single runs in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings to seal the win.

Hamline pitcher Niki Seal held SMU to just four hits in Game 2 — including a first-inning double to Mandy Tschernach (Rice Lake, Wis.), a fourth-inning double to Nikki Jung (Mendota Heights, Minn.) and a fifth-inning triple to Hanni Lohmann (Lake Elmo, Minn.). She walked one and struck out three.