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| 2006 Records: 2-12 MIAC, 6-22 Overall |
| Last Week's Results: Saint Mary's 2, Macalester 0 / Details Macalester 9, Saint Mary's 4 / Details Gustavus 4, Saint Mary's 1 / Details Gustavus 17, Saint Mary's 11 / Details |
| Upcoming Events: Tues., April 25: Bethel at SMU, 2:30 p.m. Sat., April 29: SMU at Hamline, 1 p.m. |
| Cardinal News and Notes: The Cardinals' 2-0 win over Macalester last Wednesday marked SMU's first shutout win since a 4-0, season-opening victory over Penn State-Altoona on April 11, 2004. … The 2-0 win was also SMU's first shutout vs. an MIAC opponent since a 7-0 blanking of Carleton on April 26, 2003. … David Reiter (Elgin, Minn.) tossed a complete-game three-hitter in beating the Scots — it was the SMU senior's first-ever complete game and first-ever shutout. … Dan Cosgrove (South St. Paul, Minn.) had his string of eight straight at-bats with a hit snapped with a second-inning ground out in Game 2 vs. Macalester last Wednesday. … Cosgrove leads the Cardinals in virtually every offensive category — including batting average (.345), hits (30), triples (2), RBIs (18), total bases (42), slugging percentage (.483), and walks (14), … Saturday's Game 2 loss to GAC marked the second time this season SMU has scored 11 runs — and lost. … The Cardinals' 17 runs allowed and four home runs in Game 2 vs. Gustavus were both season highs. … SMU fell to 1-13 when scoring two or fewer runs with Saturday's Game 1 loss to GAC. … The Cardinals are 0-5 in one-run games and 0-2 when scoring 10 or more runs. … SMU has been outscored 47-17 in the first two innings combined. … SMU has outscored its opponents 21-10 in the seventh inning, but are still just 2-21 when trailing after six innings. |
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And, unfortunately for the Cardinals, the Gusties not only scored early, but they also scored often, as GAC put together a pair of two-run innings in the fourth and fifth to beat SMU 4-1 in the first game of the teams' Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader, then erupted for six runs in the fifth and five more in the sixth — erasing a 9-5 SMU lead — en route to a 17-11 Game 2 victory.
"It was like a launching pad out there," said SMU coach Nick Whaley, whose team gave up five home runs on the day — including four in the Game 2 loss. "I thought the first game was a pretty good ball game all the way around, but the second game, that just turned into a slugfest.
"Both teams were scoring runs at will, it was just a matter of who would score last."
The Gusties jumped out to a 5-1 lead in the second game with three runs in the first inning and two more in the second, but the Cardinals battled back, erupting for a season-high six runs in the third inning to grab a 7-5 advantage. SMU padded its lead to 9-5 with two more runs in the fourth, but then it was the Gusties' turn to bust loose — posting a six-run inning of their own in the fifth, then adding a five-run sixth to seal the deal.
"It's been kind of an up-and-down week," said Whaley, whose team got a three-hit complete-game pitching performance from David Reiter (Elgin, Minn.) in a 2-0 Game 1 win over Macalester last Wednesday, but then dropped Game 2 9-4. "This wasn't one of our best performances of the year, but I was happy with the way we kept battling back in that second game.
"The ball was just flying off the bat," continued Whaley, whose team did get a home run from Nick Winecke (St. Paul, Minn.) and a pair of doubles from Brady Knudsen (Racine, Wis.) in the second game, but it wasn't enough to offset the Gusties' long-ball barrage. "To put together 15 hits and score 11 runs – and lose — is a bit disappointing, but the guys played hard. Offensively, this was a good day, but the other two facets of the game — pitching and defense — weren't quite so good.
"You can't give up 17 runs and expect to win too many ball games."