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ST. LOUIS -- To compensate for early exits, Jonathan Niese did some extra throwing in his bullpen session. Besides the work, manager Terry Collins thought it was no coincidence the lefty rediscovered his groove in shirt-sleeve weather and paved the way for the New York Mets slump-buster. "I knew he was going to get it going," Collins said after Nieses bounce-back game on a clear, sunny, 76-degree day helped the Mets end their losing streak at six with a 5-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday. "As the weather starts to get warm, youre going to see the Jon Niese were all accustomed to seeing." Daniel Murphy and David Wright combined for five hits and three RBIs against Adam Wainwright. Niese (3-4) allowed two runs on six hits in 7 1-3 innings, his longest outing of the season. He ended his four-game losing streak over five starts since a win at Minnesota on April 12. "Every pitch felt good," Niese said. "Obviously, our game plan was just to keep attacking the hitters. Yeah, it felt good." The Mets avoided a four-game sweep by getting to the Cardinals ace. Wainwright (5-3) was coming off a two-hit shutout in which he no-hit the Rockies for 7 1-3 innings. "They had a great frame of mind," Collins said. "I thought they had great energy. Jon pitching well really helped us, too." Murphy went 4 for 4 to match his career high, doubled twice and walked and totalled 10 hits in the series. Hes 6 for 9 against Wainwright, and swinging well enough that Collins has thought about moving him from the second slot to fifth for RBI potential. "I think we were just able to string together a lot of quality at-bats," Murphy said. "There were a lot of good at-bats other than mine. It was nice to be able to feel you contribute." Wright doubled, singled and drove in two runs, plus started two double plays at third base against cleanup man Allen Craig. "Thats the name of the game sometimes," Craig said. "You hit it hard and it goes right at them." The Cardinals have never swept the Mets in a four-game series at home, almost always playing three-game sets. Pete Kozma and Carlos Beltran had an RBI apiece for the Cardinals, who lost for just the third time in 15 games. Wainwright faltered after allowing one hit with four strikeouts the first time through the order, but after his outing ended at 87 pitches he confessed, "Yeah, I was surprised." He allowed three earned runs in six innings, and is 1-4 with a 7.29 ERA against the Mets for his career. "I made a couple of mistakes over the middle of the plate," Wainwright said. "I dont think its time to start talking about fatigue or anything like that." Niese had permitted 15 runs in 8 1-3 innings in his previous two starts, but kept the Cardinals off-balance. Niese is 3-1 in five starts against the Cardinals. He had three strikeouts and two walks to make him even on the year with 24 strikeouts and walks. Bobby Parnell finished for his fourth save in six chances. Newly signed Mets centre fielder Rick Ankiel appeared to get a late jump on Kozmas apparent routine fly ball and couldnt make a diving catch for an RBI double that put the Cardinals in front in the second. Jordany Valdespin beat out a bunt with two outs in the Mets third and scored on a headfirst slide on Murphys double. Wrights single put the Mets ahead. Murphy and Wright doubled to start the sixth to give Niese a two-run cushion. Wright later scored on Lucas Dudas sacrifice fly. Murphy leads the Mets with 13 multihit games and is a career .360 hitter against the Cardinals. Ankiel was credited with a ground-rule double leading off the seventh on a ball down the third-base line that appeared to glance off an ushers leg before hitting a railing. He was thrown out at second off the carom, and replays showed the usher barely made it out of the way. NOTES: The Mets Matt Harvey (4-0, 1.44) opposes Edwin Jackson (1-5, 6.02) and to start a three-game series in Chicago Friday while Jaime Garcia (4-2, 2.88) opposes Wily Peralta (3-3, 5.40) to begin a three-game series against the Brewers. ... Mets 1B Ike Davis struck out four times while struggling against breaking balls and was 0 for-5. ... 1B umpire Tim Timmons missed a half-inning early in the game, returning before the bottom of the fourth. No reason was given for the absence. ... Since 2000, the Mets are 16-31 against the Cardinals in St. Louis. ... Mets starters had been 1-7 with a 5.72 ERA the previous 13 games. ... Seth Maness, who got the win Wednesday after allowing Ankiels tying two-run homer in the seventh, is the Cardinals only player since 1900 to earn three victories in relief in his first five career appearances. Jason Simontacchi won his first three relief appearances in 2003 after beginning his career in the rotation. 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In taking its goal tally to 99 in all competitions already this season, City delivered another demonstration of its lethal firepower at Etihad Stadium to set up a fourth-round match at home to another second-tier team -- Watford. COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- The Texas A&M Aggies recorded their second consecutive shutout in a 1-0 win over the Little Rock Trojans at Ellis Field Friday evening.Emily Bates got a Trojan horse past the gates in the 49th minute for the lone goal. The mercurial sophomore controlled possession to the right of the penalty box after a defender knocked the ball away from Jordan Hill. Bates dribbled across the top of the box before sending a left-footed rocket from just right of the arc. Little Rock goalkeeper Sara Small had no chance to make a save on the bender that found the left upper 90 for Bates first goal of the season.Playing without the services of center backs Ashlynn Harryman and McKayla Paulson and defensive midfielder Stephanie Malherbe, the Maroon and White kept a clean sheet, allowing just one shot-on-goal in the match. A defensive corps that included Grace Wright, Kendall Ritchie, Margaret Schmidt, Grace Piper, Callyn Walton, Grace Cory and Kate Hajdu throughout the night, allowed just six shots on the evening to help goalkeeper Danielle Rice record the shutout.Rice earned her second shutout of the season and the fifth of her career. Rice made the big play when it counted. In the 53rd minute, Little Rocks Caitlyn Eddy unleashed a missile from 20 yards. Her shot was heading just south of the crossbar, but Rice was able to make a leaping punch to knock the ball off the crossbar and to the safety of a clear six-yard box.Haley Pounds made Small work to keep the score at 1-0. In the 55th minute she pounded a free kick from 25 yards that found its way through the wall and caused Small to hit the deck for the save. In the 60th minute, Pounds hit a left footer from near the location of Bates goal, but the Trojans keeper was able to get her mitts on the ball that bent to the center of the goal.Texas A&M (3-2-0) owned advantages in shots (13-6) and shots-on-goal (6-2), but the pesky Trojans managed a 5-1 edge in corner kicks.The first half was a defensive sttruggle, with the teams combining for five shots.ddddddddddddThe Aggies held the edge in shots (4-1) with Bates getting the only shot-on-goal with a header in the 24th minute.The contest got chippy in the second half with Little Rock (3-3-0) drawing nine fouls and two yellow cards while Texas A&M did not incur a whistle in the second stanza.The Aggies return to action Sunday when they host the Illinois Fighting Illini in a 6 pm contest at Ellis Field.TEXAS A&M QUOTESHead Coach G Guerrieri On the message at half time and the adjustments going into the second half... Effort - plain and simple. If you want a great example of effort, look at Emily Bates. Emily won the game for us. She played like Emily Bates can. In the first half, we were kind of on cruise control. Little Rock came in with a good game plan. They were organized and they were tough. It took a world class goal to score and thats what Emily did for us.On the defense and the shutout... I think anytime you build up 180 minutes of scoreless ball it is a good sign. We are going to have to come out and play really well on Sunday because Illinois is a much different team than we played tonight. They are going to bring a lot of challenges and ask a lot of questions of us. We better be ready to bring the same energy that we had in the second half to the whole game on Sunday.Sophomore forward Emily Bates On her thoughts when she got chance for shot on goal... The first half was pretty frustrating for us offensively, so I just wanted to get anything on frame that would make the goalkeeper do some work.On halftime adjustments and what coaches told the team... The message was to bring the energy. We were slow and lackadaisical in the first half. We pushed another person forward because they were putting so many defenders behind the ball. I think that really helped us offensively. ' ' '