SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Midway through game two of Sunday's conference softball doubleheader with Morningside University, College of Saint Mary had put itself in position to gain a split.

The Flames scored three times in the top of the fourth to take a 3-2 lead on the Mustangs. However, Morningside answered with five runs in its next three at-bats to complete an 11-2 (5 innings) and 7-4 sweep of the Great Plains Athletic Conference twinbill at the Jensen Softball Complex.

CSM (5-23 overall, 3-9 GPAC) was riding high after Saturday's sweep of Briar Cliff University, but couldn't maintain that momentum.

"We're disappointed with today,'' CSM Coach Carolyn Todd Bray said. "We're struggling with consistency, and we didn't swing as well at the plate today.''

In that fourth inning of the second game, Shaylynn Campbell opened with a walk and took second on Maria Perez's single. After a wild pitch, Amber Kosmicki had an RBI single. Then Haley Anderson drove in a run on a groundout to tie the game at 2-2. After an error loaded the bases, Paige Stuck drew a bases-loaded walk to give the Flames a 3-2 lead. However, the visitors left them loaded after a flyout ended the inning.

Morningside (20-12, 8-4) took over from there, as CSM managed just one more run, on Campbell's seventh-inning single, which scored Stuck, who had doubled.

"Morningside did a great job making adjustments at the plate,'' Bray said.

Stuck, Campbell and Perez led the offense in game two with two hits apiece. Bray was pleased with her team's infield defense in the second game.

In the opener, Morningside jumped on top quickly, taking a 7-0 lead after two innings.

Ella Watts provided the offensive highlight for CSM with a solo homer to left-center in the third inning. In the fourth, Perez singled and pinch runner Kayla Reed eventually scored on Maycee Hays' single. But those were the only dents the Flames made in the scoreboard.

"Morningside is a really good team,'' Bray said. "They just flat-out beat us today.''

CSM returns to action Wednesday at 6 p.m. with a nonconference game at Bellevue University.