MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — As if squaring off against Augsburg — one of the top teams in the conference — wasn't a daunting enough task, the Saint Mary's University men's soccer team had to do so against an angry Auggie team that was coming off back-to-back losses.
 
And Augsburg in general — and Kebba Janneh in particular — took out their frustrations on the Cardinals.
 
Janneh scored a pair of unanswered goals — erasing an early 1-0 Saint Mary's lead — as the Auggies dealt the Cardinals a 2-1 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference setback at Edor Nelson Field Saturday afternoon.
 
Diego Rivera (Chicago, Ill.) got the Cardinals off and running early, beating Augsburg goalkeeper Oscar Herrara in the game's 15th minute — the junior's first goal of the year — to give SMU a 1-0 advantage.
 
Saint Mary's clung to that one-goal cushion until late in the first half, when Janneh rifled a shot past SMU goalkeeper Daniel Sessler (Brookfield, Ill.) to pull Augsburg even with less than three minutes remaining before the break.
 
And Janneh wasn't finished, striking again less than 10 minutes into the second half — netting his second of the game on a header off a cross by Alex Giles — to give the Auggies the lead for good, 2-1.
 
The Augsburg's stifling defense limited the Cardinals to just four shot attempts — with Rivera's first-half tally the only shot on goal — while the Auggies attempted 18 shots, including nine that found their way to Sessler.
 
The Cardinals (0-6 MIAC, 3-9 overall) are right back in action on Wednesday — once again taking on one of the conference's best — as they host 22nd-ranked St. Olaf in a 7 p.m. contest at Ochrymowycz Field.