By DONNY NADEAU
Saint Mary's Sports Information Director
 
CLERMONT, Fla. — The Saint Mary's University fastpitch softball team had so much fun scoring 12 runs in its 12-4 win over Webster on Saturday, that the Cardinals decided to do it again on Sunday.
 
And this time only needed six innings to do it.
 
The Cardinals erupted for four runs in the fourth and five more in the sixth, as they plated 12 runs for a second straight game, rolling to a 12-1, six-inning victory over Alverno Sunday morning.
 
Saint Mary's and Alverno traded first-inning runs — the Cardinals' coming on a Tara Nikolich (Chicago, Ill.) RBI single.
 
From there, however, it was all Saint Mary's.
 
The Cardinals scored twice in the second — on back-to-back singles by Paige Gudmundson (Plainview, Minn.) and Cassie Sutor (Chicago, Ill.) — before putting the game out of reach with four runs in the fourth.
 
Erin Sullivan (Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.) delivered the big blow in the fourth with a two-run, pinch-hit single, while Gudmundson laced a two-run single to highlight the Saint Mary's five-run sixth.
 
Gudmundson finished with three hits in four at-bats, while driving in three and scoring twice to pace Saint Mary's 11-hit attack. Hallie Schmeling (Onalaska Wis.) and Justine Schultz (Winona, Minn.) each chipped in two hits and Sullivan finished 1-for-1 with two RBIs.
 
Sutor picked up the complete-game pitching win, limiting Alverno to just one run on three hits, while walking one and striking out seven.