DAVENPORT, Fla. — The Saint Mary's University baseball has certainly had a flair for the dramatic this spring trip.
 
Just two days after rallying for back-to-back wins over Illinois College by scoring five runs in the sixth inning of both games of the teams' twinbill, the Cardinals were at it again Tuesday.
 
Staring at a 6-2 deficit — and down to their final three outs — the Cardinals used yet another five-run inning, this time in the bottom of the ninth inning, in rallying for a 7-6, come-from-behind victory over Marian.
 
Saint Mary's scratched across the game's first run in the third, when Cam Miller () drew a two-out walk, moved to second on a passed ball, and, after Ryan Csida (Kimberly, Wis.) walked,  scored on a Cameron Weber (Holmen, Wis.) single.
 
The Sabres did the majority of their damage in the fifth, scoring four tomes against SMU starter XXX, before adding solo runs in the seventh and ninth to extend their lead to 6-2.
 
And set up the Cardinals' late-game heroics.
 
Daniel Sherman led off the bottom of the ninth for the Cardinals with a single, and Miller followed with a double to put runners on second and third with no one out. Csida drove in Sherman with a sacrifice fly to center and Weber laced a single to score Miller to cut the deficit to 6-4.
 
Riley Bauman (Stratford, Wis.) walked and a Sabre fielding error on a fly ball by Mason Coyle (Madison, Wis.) loaded the bases with one out. Pinch-hitter Brinton Anderson (Pulaski, Wis.) knotted the game at 6-6 with a two-run single, and Alex Crusan (Bloomington, Minn.) walked it off with a run-scoring single to plate Coyle with the game-winning run.
 
Weber and Crusan each finished with two hits to pace SMU's nine-hit attack, while Weber also drove in three runs and Anderson finished with 2 RBIs. Dylan Westcott (Holmen, Wis.) picked up the pitching win, allowing two runs on two hits in three innings of relief of starter Eric Stomberg (St. Paul, Minn.), who surrendered four runs — none earned — on four hits in going the first six innings.
 
The Cardinals (4-2 overall) are now off until Thursday, when they take the field for a nine-inning nonconference game against UW-Oshkosh. First pitch from Davenport, Fla., is set for 2:30 p.m.
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