ARDEN HILLS, Minn. – Junior Tommy McDonald hit a walk-off two-run double as the St. Olaf College baseball team scored the game's final seven runs to defeat Saint Mary's University (Minn.), 10-9, in an elimination game at the 2019 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Baseball Playoffs on Friday at Bethel University's Hargis Park.

Saint Mary's (20-18) overcame an early 3-0 deficit by scoring the game's next nine runs before St. Olaf (27-14) plated the final seven runs over its final three at bats to survive and eliminate the Cardinals. The Oles scored three runs in the eighth and three more in the ninth, capped by McDonald's two-out, two-run double.

With the win, third-seeded St. Olaf advances to face second-seeded Saint John's in an elimination game that will be the second matchup between the two programs in as many days. The Johnnies topped the Oles, 6-3, on Thursday evening before falling to top-seeded Gustavus, 9-5, on Friday afternoon.

St. Olaf jumped out to an early 3-0 lead with two runs in the first and one in the second. After the first two batters were retired in the first, the Oles put together a two-out rally, capped by a two-run double to center by Andrew Nomoto to open the scoring.

In the second, Jake Ossell delivered a one-out RBI double after Ryan Torbenson started the inning with a single to give the Oles a three-run lead. Hunter Barber kept the Cardinals scoreless through three innings before Saint Mary's scored nine runs over the next four frames to take a 9-3 lead.

Trailing 9-3, Dylan Blake got one run back for St. Olaf with a RBI single in the bottom of the seventh that scored McDonald. The Oles got within two runs with a three-run eighth, scoring on a bases-loaded walk to TJ Rogers, a sacrifice fly off the bat of McDonald and another RBI single from Blake.

Nomoto opened the home half of the ninth with a double and scored two batters later on a run-scoring single up the middle by Torbenson with one away. After a lineout for the second out, Ossell singled to right, Rogers singled to shortstop and McDonald lined a double to left center to score both Ossell and Torbenson.

After entering the game with two outs in the seventh, junior Max Marshall threw 2.1 innings of one-hit relief to earn his fourth victory of the season. Eli Morison suffered the loss after being charged for the final two runs after entering the game following Nomoto's leadoff double in the ninth.

All nine position players had at least one hit and six had multi-hit games for St. Olaf, led by Blake's 4-for-5, one-run, two-RBI performance. Rogers added three hits and a run out of the leadoff spot, McDonald drove in three runs and had a pair of hits and Torbenson scored three times.

All nine starters for Saint Mary's also had at least one hit. Andy Tepp and Will Matthews each homered for the Cardinals.