Four errors in the field, five wild pitches and a passed ball were too much for Benilde-St. Margaret’s to overcome as those mistakes led to an 11-4 defeat at St. Francis.

Things looked promising for the Red Knights early as Dan Labosky bunted for a hit to start the game and, after a sacrifice bunt by Sam Lynch moved him to second, a fielding error allowed Keaton Studsrud to reach base and, one out later, he stole second ahead of John Backes’ two-out, two-run single and Colin Polarek, running for Backes, scored on Michael Kaminski’s double to give the visitors a 3-0 lead.

The Saints, however, would not let Backes out of the first inning as six consecutive batters reached base, five of whom scored, before Dunham DeRemer came on with the bases loaded. He got a ground ball, which resulted in an out and a run scored, before Ryan Ratke, the ninth batter in the inning, flew out to right field. Kolton Oie, who faked a tag-up at second base, was caught when Marshall Hoemke made a perfect throw to Studsrud covering second base and Oie, who attempted to advance to third, was easily thrown out for an inning-ending double play.

After giving up three unearned runs in the first, St. Francis pitcher Lucas Niemeyer settled down and tossed five scoreless innings while his team built an 11-1 lead off relief pitchers DeRemer, Polarek and Labosky.

BSM’s final run came in the top of the seventh inning off Blake Carlson as Labosky singled with one out, stole second base one out later and scored on a base hit by Studsrud.

Labosky, who singled twice, scored two runs and struck out five of the 10 batters he faced while pitching the last two innings.

Kaminski also collected two hits for the Red Knights, including their only extra-base hit of the game with his first-inning double

BSM is slated to return to action Friday with a 4:30 p.m. North Suburban Conference game with North Branch at BSM Field.