WINONA, Minn. — It was a classic case of the Tortoise and the Hare Saturday afternoon at Ochrymowycz Field.
 
Unfortunately for the Saint Mary's University of Minnesota men's soccer team—the Hare in Saturday's Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference fable—no matter how hard they tried, they could not write a more favorable ending.
 
Saint Mary's scored less than 20 minutes into the opening half, but slow-and-steady Concordia—aka the Tortoise—scored twice in an eight-minute span late in the second half, lifting the Cobbers to a 2-1 victory over the Cardinals in the teams' season finale.
 
Kyle Lichttenegger (De Pere, Wis.) got the Cardinals off to a fast start, scoring his fourth goal of the season in the 19^th minute to give Saint Mary's the early 1-0 advantage.
 
An advantage the Cardinals would carry through the first of the first half—and most of the second.
 
Concordia displayed an unstoppable finishing kick, however, as Aronah Muktarp pulled the Cobbers even with his sixth of the season with less than 17 minutes remaining in regulation.
 
Eight minutes later, the Cobbers struck again, as Sam Gess took a feed from Austin Peterson and beat Cardinal goalkeeper Nate Levy (Byron, Minn.) with what proved to be the game-winning goal.
 
Levy—one of six seniors playing his final collegiate game, finished with four saves, while CC goalkeeper Jackson Carr stopped two of the Cardinals' three shots on goal.
 
Saint Mary's closes out its season 2-7-1 in conference play and 4-11-2 overall, while Concordia finishes 2-6-2 in the MIAC and 9-8-1 overall.