Last Action: The Cardinals snapped a season-high three-game losing streak with an 11-7 Game 1 win vs. Bethel Wednesday, but the Royals got revenge in the nightcap, blanking SMU 18-0. … St. Thomas, meanwhile, had its four-game winning streak snapped with a 3-0 loss to Gustavus Wednesday. UST won the second game 11-2.

A Year Ago: St. Thomas scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to scratch out a 9-8 victory over SMU in the opener, then scored all 13 of its runs in the bottom of fifth en route to a 13-5 win and a sweep of the Cardinals in the teams' MIAC doubleheader.

David Krieger 9-game hitting streak

The Cardinals snapped a three-game losing streak with their 11-7 Game 1 win over the Royals on Wednesday. … SMU’s 11 runs vs. the Royals were the most scored by the Cardinals in a single game this season. … The Cardinals’ 18 runs against in Game 2, however, were also a season high, and the most allowed by SMU since the Cardinals were beaten 22-11 by Ferrum College on March 27, 1997. … David Krieger (Mendota Heights, Minn.) has had one hit in each of the nine games he’s played — his nine-game hitting streak is a season high for SMU. … Matt RInk (Rochester, Minn.), who has reached base safely in all 19 SMU games this season, boasts a seven-game hitting streak and also leads the team in virtually every offensive category — hits (29), triples (4), home runs (3), RBIs (23), total bases (49), slugging percentage (.742), and on-base percentage (.506). … Nick Winecke (St. Paul, Minn.) and Brady Knudsen (Racine, Wis.) homered for SMU vs. Bethel Wednesday, it was Winecke’s third HR of the year, while Knudsen’s was his first collegiate round-tripper. … Matt Popek (Eagan, Minn.) tossed his first collegiate complete game, scattering 12 hits in SMU’s Game 1 win over Bethel. … The Cardinals are unbeaten when holding their opponents to five runs or less and are 10-1 when scoring more than six runs.

St. Thomas has made the NCAA playoffs in nine of coach Dennis Denning’s first 10 seasons, capped by second-place NCAA finishes in both 1999 and 2000, and the 2001 NCAA championship. … St. Thomas was shut out by Gustavus, 3-0, in Game 1 Wednesday. The Tommies had gone 115 games vs. non-Division I schools without being shut out since an April 2002 shutout loss at Gustavus. … St. Thomas is 66-6 vs. MIAC foes in baseball and softball in the last two seasons (38-1 softball, 28-5 baseball). … The 2004 Toms became the first team to win both the MIAC regular-season and postseason baseball titles in the five-year history of the format. UST has won the postseason tourney four of the five years it’s been held. … Jordan Roering had two homers and double in Wednesday’s 11-2 win over Gustavus and in 10 MIAC games is batting .394 with 13 hits, 12 runs and eight RBIs. … Peter Brown is 2-0 with an 0.00 ERA in two MIAC starts and has allowed just two walks and five hits in 10 innings in combined road shutouts over Macalester and St. John’s.