Game 1 Box Score / Game 2 Box Score

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — After having his last six games postponed due to weather, Saint Mary's University baseball coach Nick Whaley was thankful for Sunday's nonconference doubleheader against Coe.

Just being able to get back outside and play a game put a smile on the Cardinals head coach's face.

That was about the only thing Whaley had to smile about, however.

Coe proved to be a rather ungracious host Sunday afternoon, as the Kohawks erupted for six runs in the bottom of the fifth inning to beat the Cardinals 8-2 in the first game, then held SMU to just two hits en route to a sweep-clinching 5-0 Game 2 victory.

The Cardinals and Kohawks traded first-inning runs in Game 1, with SMU getting its run on a one-out sacrifice fly by Brady Knudsen (Racine, Wis.) that plated Kevin Black (Mahtomedi, Minn.), who had one of the Cardinals' two first-inning hits.

From there, however, SMU's offense went into an early hibernation, as the Cardinals managed just six hits over the next 13 innings — including three in the top of the seventh, when they put the first two runners on, but could only managed a two-out, RBI single by Black.

Coe, meanwhile, had its offense in high gear, as the Kohawks erupted for six fifth-inning runs — while tagging three SMU pitchers for eight runs on 12 hits — to put Game 1 out of reach.

And it was more of the same in the nightcap, as Coe parlayed its six hits into five runs — two in the third and three more in the fourrth — while holding SMU to a first-inning single by Robbie Johnson (Lake Elmo, Minn.) and a two-out single by Brandon Verbout (Rochester, Minn.) in the fifth.

The Cardinals, who fall to 1-6 overall with the losses, return to action next Saturday and Sunday, traveling to Waverly, Iowa, to face Wartburg in a Saturday doubleheader, then heading to Mount Vernon, Iowa, for a nonconference twinbill against Cornell on Sunday,.