Game 1 Box Score / Game 2 Box Score

ST. PAUL, Minn. — When it came to scoring runs, the Saint Mary's University baseball team matched Hamline inning-for-inning in the first game of their Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader Tuesday afternoon.

The Cardinals scored runs in the first and third innings. The Pipers, meanwhile, plated their runs in the first and fourth innings.

Problem was, the Cardinals' offensive output netted four runs — one in the first and three more in the fourth — while the Pipers parlayed their two innings of offense into nine runs — four in the first and five in the fourth — en route to the 9-4 MIAC win at Midway Stadium.

It wasn't the Pipers who did in SMU in Game 2 — it was the Cardinals themselves.

Hamline transformed two Cardinal errors into five unearned runs, including four in the fourth inning, as the Pipers completed the MIAC sweep with a 9-1 victory.

The Cardinals got out of the gates quickly in the opener, as David Reiter (Elgin, Minn.) belted a triple to right-center and scored on a Kevin Black (Mahtomedi, Minn.) groundout to second.

The lead, however, was short lived, as Hamline responded with four runs in the bottom of the first — the first three runs coming before SMU recorded the innings' first out. SMU knotted things up in the third, getting an RBI single from Dan Cosgrove (South St. Paul, Minn.) and a two-out, ,two run double off the bat of Brady Knudsen (Racine, Wis.).

Hamline then took the lead for good in the fourth, as James Bachmeier launched a three-run home run to left to highlight the Pipers' five-run outburst.

The Pipers picked up right where they left off in the nightcap, scoring twice in the second inning, before putting the game out of reach with four runs in the fourth — three coming on a bases-clearing, two-out double by Andrew Bennett.

Back-to-back, one-out walks by Cosgrove came back to haunt the SMU senior starter in the fifth, as Sam Wiener chased the Cardinal knuckleballer with a two-run double that padded the Pipers' lead to 8-0. Hamline added another run in the fifth on a passed ball, before the Cardinals finally got on the board when David Krieger (Mendoa Heights,, Minn.) led off with a single, moved to second on a single by Black, and scored two batters later on a wild pitch.

SMU added two more runs in the top of the seventh on a two-out, two-run double by Krieger, but that was as close as SMU would get in dropping its seventh straight.