WINONA, Minn. — Sunday's showdown against Concordia didn't go quite as Saint Mary's University men's soccer coach Corbin Bowers had hoped.
 
The Cardinals entered Sunday's matchup with the Cobbers on the heels of their first win of the season — a 2-1 victory over Augsburg last Sunday.
 
And Bowers was hoping his Cardinals would ride that momentum into a second straight win Sunday.
 
Concordia, however, had other ideas, as the Cobbers scored a pair of first-half goals and added another late in the second half in dealing Saint Mary's a 3-1 conference setback at Ochrymowycz Field.
 
Concordia opened the scoring in the 13th minute when Patrick Smith tapped in a rebound off a penalty kick for a 1-0 Cobber lead. CC pushed that advantage to 2-0 in the 39th minute when Brendan Koplin rifled a shot that beat SMU goalkeeper Daniel Sessler ().
 
The Cobbers would maintain that two-goal advantage until the 79th minute, when Eli Szymanski (La Crosse, Wis.) converted on a penalty kick to cut the deficit to 2-1.
 
Nate Weaver gave CC some breathing room, however, scoring just five minutes after Szymanski's tally to seal the victory — the Cobbers' fourth in five games.
 
Sessler finished with five saves in goal for the Cardinals, while CC goalkeeper Noah Sahr stopped one of SMU's two shots on goal.
 
The Cardinals (1-2-0 overall) are back in action on Wednesday, heading to Collegeville, Minn., for a 5 p.m. matchup against Saint John's. The two teams will then return to Winona, Minn., on Sunday for a 4 p.m. rematch.