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MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — It was a doubleheader that spanned two days (sort of) and in the end, the Saint Mary's University baseball team came away with its fourth straight doubleheader split.

And if coach Nick Winecke learned anything from SMU's two games against Cornell, it was that his Cardinals are a better late-night team than early-morning squad.

In a game that kicked off at 10 p.m. Saturday night, the Cardinals banged out 14 hits and scored in four of the seven innings in handing Cornell an 8-3 nonconference setback.

In the nightcap — with its final out occurring well after 2 a.m. — it was the Rams who came out on top, scoring six times in the second inning en route to a 7-6 victory.

Andy Edholm (Hudson, Wis.) swung the hot bat for the Cardinals in the opener, going 4-for-5 with a pair of RBIs, while Kevin Gannon (Roselle, Ill.), Zach Wolfe (Wabasha, Minn.), Danny Geraghty (Chicago, Ill.) and Mike Feriancek (River Falls, Wis.) all chipped in a pair of hits.

The Cardinals gave starter Teddy VanRanst (St. Paul, Minn.) an early 4-0 lead with a pair of two-running innings in their first two at-bats, while plating three more in the fifth. VanRanst went the first five innings, allowing one earned run on five hits, while striking out three in improving to 2-1 on the season.

Cornell turned the tables on SMU in Game 2, scoring all seven of its runs in the first two innings — including sending 10 batters to the plate in a six-run second inning.

The Cardinals began digging out of the seven-run hole with a single run in the second, two more in the third. SMU made it a 7-4 game with a solo run in the sixth, then got within one in the bottom of the seventh, but could not get the tying run in from third.

Geraghty collected his second straight two-hit game in the nightcap, while Edholm and Jon Schlemmer (De Pere, Wis.) also had two hits to fuel the Cardinals' nine-hit attack.

The Cardinals (7-5 overall) are back in the Metrodome on March 25, squaring off against UW-Oshkosh in a nonconference doubleheader scheduled to being at 9  p.m.