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Game Summary vs. Macalester / GameDay Online

ST. PAUL, Minn. — When it comes to Saint Mary's vs. Macalester, the Scots have had the Cardinals' number.

The Scots entered Friday's Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference game against SMU owning a seven-game winning streak — and a 21-game unbeaten run (18-0-3) — against the Cardinals.

Unfortunately for the Cardinals, the numbers didn't add up in SMU's favor Friday, either, as Macalester scored three second-half goals to break opening a one-goal lead and push the Scots to a 4-1 MIAC win.

The Scots controlled play in the opening half, holding SMU without a shot on goal, while putting five shots on SMU goalkeeper Jon Szafranski (Barrington, Ill.), including a Ryan Marshall shot that beat the Cardinal junior to give Macalester a 1-0 lead at the half.

But then, the first half hasn't been the problem for the Cardinals, however — the second half has.

And Friday was no different.

SMU entered Friday's contest having been outscored 10-1 in the second half of its last three games combined (5-0 losses to both Augsburg and Carleton and a 3-2 loss to St. Norbert), and the Scots promptly put three on the board in the game's final 45 minutes in handing the Cardinals their fourth straight loss.

"It wasn't a 4-1 game — we played much better than the final score indicated," said SMU coach Chris Dembiec. "I thought we played a very strong first half, we did the things we wanted to do and went into the break just down one goal.

"I don't know what it is, but we just seem to struggle coming out of the break."

Andrew Yokum pushed Macalester's lead to 2-0 five minutes into the second half, but the Cardinals responded with a goal of their own — a Bobby Gas (Lake Zurich, Ill.) tally off a Ryan Rademacher (La Crosse, Wis.) corner kick — 12 minutes later. The Cardinals then scored again — unfortunately, this time it was into their own net — and the Scots added another by Jake Rocke in the 84th minute to seal the win.

"We are still just making too many mistakes," said Dembiec, whose Cardinals — who fall to 0-6-1 in the MIAC and 2-11-1 overall — return to action Wednesday, traveling to Upper Iowa for a 3 p.m. nonconference game. "We're doing a lot of good things out there, but you can't keep making the mistakes that we are making — teams like Macalester just make you pay to tough a price."