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WINONA, Minn. — It's a script made for Hollywood.

Playing for the Saint Mary's University women's hockey team this winter, Julie Bartosz (Mokena, Ill.) scored her first goal of the season — and just the second of her collegiate career — on Senior Day to help the Cardinals to a 4-3 victory.

On Sunday, playing for the SMU fastpitch softball team, Bartosz was at it again, as the senior launched her first collegiate home run — on Senior Day — to lead the Cardinals to a 9-1 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference victory over Macalester in the opening game of their doubleheader at the SMU Field.

Unfortunately, the Cardinals ran out of Hollywood magic and weren't able to write the happy ending they were hoping for, as Macalester outlasted SMU 4-2 in the nightcap to earn the split.

The Cardinals jumped out to a 3-0 lead, scoring single runs in each of the first three innings — including Bartosz's solo home run in the second — before pushing that advantage to 5-0 with a two-run fourth.

Macalester finally got a run off SMU starter Kayla Peterson (Lewiston, Minn.) in the top of the fifth, but the Cardinals answered with four runs in the bottom of the fifth to ice the 9-1, five-inning victory.

Paige Carter (Rosemount, Minn.) and Hailey Ohl (Bloomington, Minn.) — two more of the Cardinals' five seniors — joined Bartosz in jump-starting the Cardinals' 11-hit offensive attack in the opener. Carter went 3-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored, while Kristen Thelen (Rochester, Minn.), Nat Boissiere (Plymouth, Minn.) and Alex Raske (Chicago, Ill.) all had two hits. Thelen and Ohl each drove in two runs.

Peterson — yet another Cardinal senior — picked up her team-leading 11th win on the mound, scattering seven hits, while allowing just the one fifth-inning run and striking out one.

It was Macalester that got out to the early lead in Game 2, as the Scots scored two runs in the top of the first inning. SMU answered with a solo run in the bottom of the first on a Boissiere single, and both teams plated single runs in the second inning — the Cardinals on an RBI single by Thelen.

The Scots would add a run in the seventh on a two-out Abby Cox solo home run to ice the victory.

Mel Hamilton (Homewood, Ill.) was the only Cardinal with more than one hit in Game 2, as the sophomore went 2-for-3. Thelen, Ohl, Raske, Boissiere and Anna Ramboldt (Goodhue, Minn.) — yes, the fifth SMU senior — accounted for the Cardinals' other five hits.

SMU (10-8 MIAC, 17-12 overall — which has now played three doubleheaders in the last three days — gets an off day on Monday, before closing out the regular season with a conference twinbill at St. Olaf on Tuesday and a home doubleheader against Carleton on Wednesday.