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WINONA, Minn. — Friday evening, the Saint Mary's University women's hockey team's offense could do no right, as Concordia held the Cardinals off the scoreboard in a 4-0 Cobber victory at the SMU Ice Arena.

Fortunately for SMU, in the teams' rematch on Saturday, the Cardinals offense could do no wrong.

The Cardinals scored a pair of first-period goals — and led by the play of goalie Sarah Gustafson (Esko, Minn.), SMU made it stand up, snapping the Cobbers' nine-game unbeaten streak with a 2-0 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference victory.

"I thought today's performance could quite possibly be our best overall performance of the season," said SMU coach Terry Mannor. "Everything we've been working on over the past several weeks, it all seemed to click today."

SMU took a page out of Concordia's playbook in the opening period, as the Cardinals — who surrendered a pair of first-period goals in Friday's 4-0 loss to the Cobbers — scored twice in the game's opening 20 minutes on Saturday.

Lindsey Paschke (New Prague, Minn.) got the Cardinals off and running, scoring her second goal of the season at 5:32, and Kassie Lien (Grantsburg, Wis.) would add a power-play goal seven minutes later to give SMU its two-goal advantage.

And Gustafson made sure two goals was more than enough, as the senior stopped all 24 shots she faced — including 10 in the second period — en route to her fourth shutout of the season and ninth of her four-year collegiate career.

The Cardinals (5-10-0 MIAC, 7-14-1 overall) close out the regular season next weekend, hosting Hamline in a 7 p.m. game at the SMU Ice Arena on Friday, before traveling to the Warner Coliseum in St. Paul, Minn., for the second game of the two-game conference series on Saturday.