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| Last Week's Results: Winona State 5, Saint Mary's 1 / Details Carleton at Saint Mary's, ppd |
| Upcoming Events: Tues., April 4: Carleton at SMU, 2:30 p.m. Wed., April 5: Saint John's at SMU, 2:30 p.m. Sat., April 8: SMU at St. Olaf, 1 p.m. |
| Cardinal News and Notes: With their weekend double-rainout against Carleton, the Cardinals have now had seven games postponned or cancelled due to rain. … Kevin Black (Mahtomedi, Minn.) accounted for SMU’s lone hit vs. Winona State, a lead-off, first-inning single. … Black has now hit safely in three straight games and has at least one hit in eight of the Cardinals’ 12 games. He also leads the team with four multiple-hit games. … Nick Winecke (St. Paul, Minn.) drove in the Cardinals’ run vs. WSU with a sixth-inning sacrifice fly. … David Reiter (Elgin, Minn.), bothered by shoulder problems all spring, made his first start of the season Thursday, giving up two runs on five hits in four innings. … The Cardinals’ loss to Winona State was their third straight and sixth in their last seven games. … Thursday’s loss marked the sixth time this season that SMU has been held to two runs or less — SMU is 0-6 in those games. … Winona State scored all five of its runs in the third (2) and fifth (3) innings — and the Cardinals have now been outscred 26-11 in those two innings combined. … SMU has not won a game in which its opponent has scored more than two runs (0-10). … Mike Mitchell (Mound, Minn.) tossed SMU's first complete-game of the season, throwing a five-hitter with three strikeouts in the Cardinals' 5-2 win over Wartburg last Saturday. … SMU has outscored its opponents 9-1 in the seventh inning. … The Cardinals are 1-4 when scoring first, and 1-6 when their opponent scores first. |
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It wasn't an inning that cost the Cardinals last Thursday afternoon in their nonconference game against cross-town rival Winona State — it was an out.
Make that two outs.
The Warriors scored four of their five runs — two in the third and two in the fifth — with two outs, as WSU dropped the Cardinals 5-1 in a game shortened to seven innings due to rain.
Speaking of rain — the Cardinals' Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference opener against Carleton on Saturday was rained out.
So was the makeup game on Sunday.
Hopefully — fingers crossed — the Cardinals and Knights will be able to take the field on Monday.
"It's the nature of the beast," said SMU coach Nick Whaley of the rainouts. "When you play baseball in the spring, you are at the mercy of the weather. And so far this year, the weather has won."
It was the Warriors, not Mother Nature, who were a thorn in the Cardinals' side last Thursday.
"Winona State is such a good hitting club, you can't give them anything," said Whaley. "We had the opportunity (to get the third out) in both innings but didn't make the plays. You can't give a team like Winona State extra outs — and that's just what we did."
It didn't help that the Cardinals were held to just one hit — a Kevin Black (Mahtomedi, Minn.) single — either.
"We got good pitching, we just didn't give our pitchers any offensive support," said Whaley, who got four solid innings (two earned runs on five hits) from David Reiter (Elgin, Minn.) — who was making his first appearance of the season after battling shoulder problems through most of the early spring. "David pitched great, he did everything we could ask of him — we just didn't give him any help."
After striking out the first two batters he faced in the third, Winona State finally got to Reiter, getting an infield single from Josh Maggert, a double from Joe Magee and a two-run triple from Reggie Stevens.
It was more of the same in the fifth, as SMU reliever Mike Mitchell (Mound, Minn.) gave up a one-out, RBI double to Maggert, then got Magee to ground out to first. But before he could record the final out, he hit Stevens and surrendered a two-run double to Brian Menard.
"We've got to find a way to get our offense on track," said Whaley, whose team's lone run in the sixth came without the benefit of a hit, as Robbie Johnson (Lake Elmo, Minn.) walked, moved to second when Brady Knudsen (Racine, Wis.) was hit by a pitch, advanced to third when Dan Cosgrove (South St. Paul, Minn.) walked to load the bases, and scored on a sacrifice fly by Nick Winecke (St. Paul, Minn.). "Winona State is a good ball club, but you aren't going to be anybody getting just one hit.
"We played a solid game, we've just got to do a better job of putting the ball in the play."