By DONNY NADEAU
Saint Mary's Sports Information Director
 
CLERMONT, Fla. — The Saint Mary's University fastpitch softball team — coming off a come-from-behind 9-5 win over Bluffton on Sunday — picked up right where they left off on Monday.
 
Thanks to Paige Gudmundson.
 
Gudmundson drove in three of the Cardinals' four runs — including a game-winning RBI single in the bottom of the sixth — lifting Saint Mary's to a 4-3 victory over Regis in the first of its two games Monday.
 
Regis jumped out to a quick 1-0 lead with a run in its first at-bat, but the Cardinals responded, getting an RBI single from Heidi Stewart (Burnsville, Minn.) in the bottom of the second to pull even, 1-1.
 
And then Gudmundson took charge.
 
The junior belted a single up the middle in the , scoring both Justine Schultz (Winona, Minn.) and Marissa Kleckler (Oregon, Wis.) to give Saint Mary's a 3-1 lead.
 
The Pride pecked away at the Cardinal lead, scoring solo runs in both the third and fourth innings to knot the game at 3-3 — and set up more Gudmundson heroics.
 
Stewart opened the Cardinal sixth reaching on a Regis fielding error. Pinch-runner Teesa Shafranski (Stevens Point, Wis.) was sacrificed to second, moved to third on a ground out, and scored on Gudmundson's two-out RBI single.
 
Gudmundson finished 2-for-4, while Amber Chow (West St. Paul, Minn.), Tara Nikolich (Chicago, Ill.), Stewart, and Kleckler accounted for the other four hits.
 
Chow picked up the pitching win, blanking the Pride on two hits, while walking one and striking out six, in 3.2 innings of relief. Lexi Brooks (Searcy, Ark.) went the first 3.1 innings, surrendering three runs on four hits.