William Jewell had to wait an hour and 40 minutes for their second post-season meeting in six days with Great Lakes Valley Conference rival Quincy University, but it proved to be worth the wait as the Cardinals won their first game in NCAA Tournament play 5-3 against the Hawks.

Rain postponed the start of the contest, an elimination game in the tournament for Jewell against a Quincy team that had won in the first round of the tournament. The Cardinals took advantage of five Quincy errors in the contest, leading 2-0 going into the sixth inning behind Preston Felgate, scoring on an error and a sacrifice fly by Sam Morman, who drove in Luke Lucchetti. Lucchetti had started the inning by beating out a ground ball to the shortstop, stealing second and going to third on a catcher throwing error, and coming home on a short fly ball by Morman.

Quincy rallied to tie the game in the sixth against Felgate, but the Cardinals responded with three runs in the top of the seventh. After Bryan Porting reached on a one-out error, Hunter Brown doubled with two outs, Coleman Waheed drove in two runs with a double to retake the lead, and Jared Patton drove in a third run in the inning with a single to give the lead right back to the Cardinals.

Chris Mancha entered the game to pitch in the seventh, and allowed a single run in the ninth inning to get his third save of the year. ,

The game ended with a line drive off Mancha's glove that deflected to Bryan Rezin at second base, who quickly threw to first baseman Andrew Miller to double a runner off base.

The Cardinals (38-18) had nine hits in the contest, one error and turned one double play; Quincy (40-16) had seven hits and five errors. ,Felgate was the winning pitcher, allowing two runs on four hits, walking two and striking out three.

Jewell will play Ashland University in a 3:00 elimination game for both teams on Saturday.

Quincy had won 15 of their past 16 games entering the contest; the Cardinals won for the fifth time in six meetings between the teams this season.