Game 1 Box Score / Game 2 Box Score

ST. PETER, Minn. — What do you get when you cross 30 mph winds and an aluminum bat?

For Saint Mary's University baseball coach Nick Whaley, you get a sore neck — and a big headache.

The sore neck came from watching 19 doubles, one triple and eight home runs bounce off the bats of the Cardinals and host Gustavus during Wednesday's Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader.

The headache didn't come from the constant pinging of the ball off the aluminum bats, but rather from the fact that SMU came out on the losing end of both games — falling 15-5 in the opener, then dropping a 17-9 decision in the nightcap.

The Gusties banged out 19 hits in the opener, scoring a pair of runs in each of the first two innings, then putting the game out of reach with four runs in the fourth and seven in the fifth.

SMU, meanwhile, plated two runs in the fourth on an RBI sacrifice fly by Matt Rink (Rochester, Minn.) and an RBI single by Nick Winecke (St. Paul, Minn.), then added three more in the seventh — two on Seth Pugh's (Crystal, Minn.) second home run of the season and the other on an RBI single by Rink.

It was more of the same in Gam 2. SMU jumped out to a 5-4 lead after three innings, getting a two-run home run from Rob Kimlinger (Lake Elmo, Minn.) in the first and a two-run HR by Dan Cosgrove (South St. Paul, Minn.) as part of a three-run third.

Over the next two innings, however, Gustavus outscored the Cardinals 9-0 — including their second seven-run inning of the doubleheader — to take a commanding 13-5 advantage.

The Cardinals got RBI doubles from Cris Collins (Rochester, Minn.) and Kimlinger, and a their third two-run home run of the game, this one by Dusty Wilhelmy (Mendota Heights, Minn.) to cut the lead to 13-9, but the Gusties responded with four runs of their own in the bottom of the inning to complete the sweep.