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WINONA, Minn. — After last weekend's performance against Gustavus, Saint Mary's University women's hockey coach Terry Mannor was confident he was going to see a completely different Cardinal team take the ice Friday evening against Concordia.

How right he was — for two periods.

Just a week after managing just 21 shots and one goal — in the two games combined — against Gustavus, the Cardinals nearly tripled that in two periods against the Cobbers.

In fact, in the first and third periods, the Cardinals pelted the Cobber net with 29 shots and scored three goals.

Unfortunately for the Cardinals, those two stellar periods were sandwiched around a not-so-stellar period, in which Concordia outshot SMU 16-7 — and outscored them 3-0 — in handing SMU a 4-3 MIAC loss at the SMU Ice Arena.

"The game was a perfect example of why it's so important to play at your best for 60 minutes," said SMU coach Terry Mannor, whose team has now lost five straight. "We were unstoppable in the first and third periods, but we decided to take the second period off, and that cost us.

"You can't just go out there and go through the motions," Mannor added. "How can you outshoot a team 14-5 (in the first period) and 15-4 (in the third) and lose?"

Simple — get outshot 16-7 in the second.

The Cardinals appeared to be en route to a streak-snapping victory following the game's opening 20 minutes, as SMU held a 14-5 edge in shots on goal and boasted a 1-0 lead, thanks to the team-leading third goal of the season off the stick of Katie Cachey (Orland Park, Ill.).

Then came the second period — a period Mannor and the Cardinals would love to forget.

Kacey Franklin knotted the game at 1-1 three minutes into the period, and by the time the horn sounded, Bre Bain and Abby Callahan had also beaten SMU goalie Brittany Lemke (St. Charles, Ill.) to give the Cobbers a 3-1 edge.

Bain made it 4-1 49 seconds into the third period, but the Cardinals returned to first-period form, throwing 15 shots at Cobber goalie Maddie Haroldson, and getting goals from Madison Sienko (Mendota Heights, Minn.) and Val Rodriquez (Woodbury, Minn.) to cut the lead to 4-3 with just over a minute remaining in regulation.

That, however, would be as close as the Cardinals would get, as SMU fell to 1-4-0 in the MIAC and 1-6-0 overall.