Game 1 Box Score / Game 2 Box Score

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Saint Mary's University baseball team snapped out of a season-long eight-game losing streak with an impressive sweep of Carleton last Saturday.

And the Cardinals picked up right where they left off on Tuesday.

Fueled by the 4-for-5, 2-RBI, four-run performance from Tony Cicalello (St. Paul, Minn.) — not to mention the complete-game effort of Pat Gornick (West St. Paul, Minn.) — SMU posted its third straight win with an impressive 12-3 MIAC win over Macalester in the first game of their conference doubleheader.

That, however, was as far as the Cardinals' winning streak would stretch, as the Scots scored on a suicide squeeze with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning to lift Macalester to a 6-5 victory.

The Cardinals rallied from a 5-3 deficit in the second game with two runs in the top of the seventh, as SMU loaded the bases with one out, then got an RBI single from Ryan Majerus (St. Charles, Minn.) and an RBI bases-loaded walk from Dan Cosgrove (South St. Paul, Minn.) to tie the game 5-5.

In the ninth, it was the Scots' turn to load the bases, and, after Dane Bonath (Robbinsdale, Minn.) got Allen Combs to strike out, Marc Rodwogin laid down a perfect suicide squeeze, allowing Adam Wedwick to score from third with the game-winning run.

There was not need for late-inning dramatics in the opener, as SMU jumped out to a 5-2 lead after the game's first three innings — scoring a single run in the first on a sacrifice fly by Dusty Wilhelmy (Mendota Heights), then erupting for four runs in the third, fueled by another Wilhelmy sacrifice fly, an RBI single by Majerus and a two-run single by Jose Rueda (Winona, Minn.).

And the Cardinals were just getting warmed up.

SMU scored twice in both the fourth and fifth, then added three more in the seventh. All told, the Cardinals banged out 18 hits en route to their second-highest offensive output of the season in winning Game 1.

And while SMU was busy battering a pair of Scot pitchers to the tune of those 18 hits, Gornick was doing his part, holding Macalester to just eight hits in posting his first collegiate complete-game win. The SMU sophomore walked just one batter and struck out four in improving to 1-2 on the year.