WINONA, Minn. — After one of the craziest doubleheaders in Saint Mary's University of Minnesota baseball coach Nick Winecke's tenure—a twinbill against Augsburg in which the Cardinals lost on a grand slam home run in the top of the ninth inning of the opener, and won on a two-out, walk-off round-tripper by Willie Doll (Amherst, Wis.) in the bottom of the seventh—the Cardinals took a more traditional route Saturday afternoon against Macalester.
 
Well, almost traditional—considering the Cardinals were the visiting team on their home field.
 
The Cardinals erupted for 13 runs—their highest offensive output since beating Concordia 14-11 in their third game of the season—in cruising to a 13-7 win over Macalester in Game 1, before riding the eight-inning pitching performance of Austin Jacobs (Cannon Falls, Minn.) to a 6-4 Game 2 victory in a doubleheader originally scheduled to be played at the Scots' Nicholson Field in St. Paul, Minn., but shifted to Max Molock Field.
 
The Cardinals got on the board first in the top of the first, as Willie Doll (Amherst, Wis.) led off with a walk, moved to second on a wild pitch, was sacrificed to third, and scored on Bob Kinne's (St. Paul, Minn.) RBI single to right.
 
Macalester answered in the bottom of the first, scoring an unearned run.
 
The Cardinals loaded the bases in the second on an A.J. Redders (Middleton, Wis.) single, a walk to Steph Scatassa (Westchester, Ill.) and a Scot error. Doll—who went 6-for-8 in Saint Mary's split against Augsburg on Thursday—continued to terrorize opposing pitchers, lacing a two-run double down the right-field line to score two. Cale Pieczynski (Plover, Wis.) lifted a sacrifice fly to score Saint Mary's third run of the inning and Doll quickly stole third and scored on a Macalester throwing error to make it 5-1.
 
And the Cardinals weren't done.
 
Kinne smacked a double down the left-field line, scoring Ben Buerkle (Roseville, Minn.)—who had singled. After a Kinne stolen base and a Dirk Drohner (Plover, Wis.), Saint Mary's executed a perfect double-steal, with Kinne scoring the Caridnals' final run of the inning for a 7-1 lead.
 
Doll was at it again in the third, as the senior hammered a two-out triple and, after Pieczynski induced a walk, scored on Buerkle's second infield bunt single of the game.
 
The Cardinals' seven-run advantage quickly shrunk to two, 8-6, as Macalester scored four times in the third—highlighted by Alex Baretta's lead-off home run—and added another run on a sacrifice fly in the fourth.
 
After being held scoreless in back-to-back innings, the Cardinals' offense returns to form, as Buerkle led off with a walk and scored on a one-out double by Kinne. Drohner followed Kinne's second double of the afternoon with an RBI single to push the Cardinal lead back to four, 10-6,
 
Saint Mary's padded its lead to 13-6 in the seventh, as Joe Seegers (Oconomowoc, Wis.) singled, moved to third on a single by Doll, and scored on a balk by Macalester pitcher Sean O'Brien.  Buerkle collected his third hit of the afternoon—a triple to right-center—to plate Doll, and scored on a Tyler Lursen (Maple Grove, Minn.) sacrifice fly.
 
The Scots rounded out the scoring with a single run in the bottom of the seventh, but it was not nearly enough, as the Cardinals won for the fourth time in their last five games.
 
Doll went 4-for-4—with a single, double, and triple—and scored a career-high four times, while Buerkle and Kinne both chipped in three hits in four at-bats. Buerkle finished with two RBIs and three runs score, and Kinne tallied three RBIs and a pair of runs. Eli Morrison Minneapolis (Minn.) picked up his second pitching win, allowing one run on two hits in two innings of relief. Ben Johnson (Brooklyn Park, Minn.) went the first three innings, surrendering five runs—three earned—on six hits, while Nathan Mathwig (Woodbury, Minn.) tossed the final two innings, giving up one run on two hits.
 
The Cardinals opened Game 2 with a single run in the second on an A.J. Redders (Middleton, Wis.) infield single, before adding two more in the third.
 
Seegers opened the Cardinal third with a single and moved to second when Doll was hit by a pitch. Buerkle then plated both with a one-out, stand-up triple to give the Cardinals a 3-0.
 
Saint Mary's tacked on another run in the fifth when Doll delivered a one-out, stand-up triple—his second of the day—and scored on a double steal. A Pieczynski two-run double in the seventh scored Jack Cherry (Hopkins, Minn.) and Seegers to make it a 6-0 Saint Mary's lead.
 
The Scots finally got to Jacobs—who cruised through eight innings without allowing a run, while holding Macalester to just four hits—in the ninth, loading the bases on a double, single and walk. Graham Low followed with a two-run double—chasing Jacobs and bringing on Ryan Fejt (Westchester, Ill.). A Cardinal error allowed a third Scot run to cross the plate and Nick Sia's RBI groundout made it a two-run game, 6-4.
 
That would be as close as the Scots would get, however, as Fejt got Ben Castagnetti to strike out swinging to seal the sweep-clinching win.
 
Seegers was the only Cardinal with more than one hit in the nightcap, going  2-for-3 with a pair of runs scored, while Doll, Pieczynski, Buerkle, Kinne, Redders, and Jake Mencacci (Wheaton, Ill.) accounted for the other seven hits.
 
Jacobs went the first eight innings—the longest start of his collegiate career—allowing four runs on seven hits. Fejt did not surrender a hit en route to his first save of the season.
 
The Cardinals (8-6 MIAC, 20-12-1 overall) return to action on Tuesday, playing host to Carleton in a 2:30 p.m. conference doubleheader at Max Molock Field.