The Muhlenberg baseball team got two more solid performances from its starting pitchers but was swept by St. Mary's (Minn.), 3-2 and 5-2, on its final day in Florida.

The morning after an epic 21-strikeout game by senior Matthew D'Ambrosia, juniors Truman Devitt and Paul Poppert combined to allow only three earned runs and strike out 11 in 11 innings.

Devitt pitched a complete game, the first of his career, in the opener. He fanned five and did not walk a batter, but a two-out error in the fifth led to the Cardinals (5-4) scoring the tying and go-ahead runs.

Senior Brenden Weiss gave the Mules (6-6) a 1-0 lead with a two-out RBI single in the second.

Another two-out hit, a double by senior John Serruto, put Muhlenberg ahead 2-1 in the top of the fifth.

Weiss (pictured above) singled with one out in the seventh to put the tying run on base but was stranded.

Poppert struck out six in his five-inning stint in the nightcap.

Trailing 2-0, the Mules loaded the bases with nobody out in the fifth. After turning a 1-2-3 double play, St. Mary's intentionally walked senior Jack Avallone to re-load the bases. But sophomore Thomas Rodgers foiled the strategy by singling through the left side to bring in two runs and tie the game.

The Cardinals scored three runs in the top of the seventh to break the tie.

Weiss had two more hits in the nightcap and reached base in eight of 10 plate appearances in Muhlenberg's last three games in Florida. Sophomore Ryan Hebert went 5-for-8 in the twinbill, recording his first career three-hit game in the nightcap.

D'Ambrosia, Devitt and Poppert return north with a combined ERA of 2.17.