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WINONA, Minn. — The Saint Mary's University women's soccer team held Gustavus in check Wednesday evening in the teams' Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference game at Ochrymowycz Field.

In fact, the Cardinals held 14 of the 15 Gusties who played to just two shots on goal.

That other Gustie, however, proved to be too elusive for the SMU defense, as GAC's Amanda Cartony scored twice — including the game-winner with less than 15 minutes remaining in regulation — leading Gustavus to a 2-1 victory.

“It's the story of our season,” said SMU coach Neil Cassidy. “We play a pretty solid game, but a couple of mistakes come back to haunt us.

“I thought the ladies played their hearts out,” Cassidy added. “We certainly played well enough to get a victory tonight.”

Unfortunately, as well as SMU played, the Cardinals just couldn't shut down Cartony.

The Gustavus junior scored the only goal of the opening half, sneaking past the Cardinal defenders and feathering a shot that beat SMU goalkeeper Miranda Halling (Rochester, Minn.) into the lower right-hand corner.

SMU knotted things up six minutes into the second half, as Sloane Kuramoto (Rochester, Minn.) scored her second goal of the season on a pretty passing play that started with Tessa Scanlon (Cologne, Minn.) chipping the ball to Bethany Schmidt (Sparta, Wis.), who fed a streaking Kruamoto. The SMU senior finished the tic-tac-toe play with a blistering shot that GAC goalkeeper Jessica Richert had no chance at.

The game would remain deadlocked until the 75th minute, when Cartony notched her second of the game and fourth of the season, drilling a high shot that deflected off the outstretched hands of Halling and slipped into the net.

The Cardinals (0-4-0 MIAC, 0-9-0 overall) are back in action on Saturday, when they host Concordia in a 1 p.m. conference game at Ochrymowycz Field.