St. Lawrence University's baseball team won its first game of the 2011 season in Florida on Wednesday morning scoring single runs in both the bottom of the eighth and ninth innings to edge Knox College 7-6.

It was the first win for Saint coach Pete Hoy in his career as a head coach and the Saints will take a 1-4 record into a 5 p.m. Thursday game against Otterbein.

Sophomore catcher Matt D'Auteuil went three for three with a double and  two walks against Knox and drove in the game-winning run with a single in the bottom of the ninth. Khifer O'Connor went two for four with a triple and single and Matt DeLuca was one for three with a double for the Saints.

Rookies  Ian Anderson and Joe Riley accounted for seven innings for the Saints with Michael Dell'Olio pitching 1.2 innings and junior Kyle Donaldson earning the win with 1.1 innings of scoreless relief.

Knox took a 5-3 lead in the sixth, but the Saints cut it to 5-4 in the bottom of that inning, and after Knox made it 6-4 with a run in the top of the seventh, the Saints answered again. Dell'Ollio and Donaldson combined to shut down the Knox attack in the top of the eighth and ninth and the Saints tied it at 6-6 in the bottom of the eighth before winning it in the ninth.