By DONNY NADEAU
Saint Mary's Sports Information Director
 
AUBURNDALE, Fla. — The Saint Mary's University baseball team held Albion to just three runs in six innings Monday afternoon.
 
Unfortunately, over those other two at-bats, the Britons erupted for a pair of four-run innings, as Albion handed the Cardinals an 11-7 nonconference setback.
 
Albion put together one of its two four-run innings in the second to grab an early 4-0 lead. Saint Mary's cut the deficit in half in the top of the third — getting RBI singles from Justin Weinberg (Eagan, Minn.) and Will Matthews (Geneva, Ill.).
 
Saint Mary's pulled even, 4-4, in the fifth on a two-run fielder's choice by Andy Tepp (tevens Point, Wis.) and took its first lead of the game on a Kody Kiel (Owatonna, Minn.) single in the top of the sixth.
 
Albion answered Saint Mary's sixth-inning run with one of its own, before erupting for four-run inning No. 2 in the seventh and adding two more runs in the eight for an 11-5 advantage.
 
The Cardinals put together a two-out rally in the ninth — getting an RBI single from Weinberg and scoring another run on a wild pitch to get within 11-7, but that was as close they would get in falling to 1-2 overall on the young season.
 
Weinberg, Matthews, and Tyler O'Brien (Belle Plaine, Minn.) all delivered a pair of hits against the Britons, while Matthews and Tepp drove in two runs each and Matthew Piechowski (Hutchinson, Minn.) scored three times.
 
Saint Mary's is back on the diamond on Tuesday, as the Cardinals square off against St. John Fisher in a 9-inning contest in Auburndale, Fla. Game time is set for noon.