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| 2007 Records: 0-4 MIAC, 4-11 Overall |
| Recent Results: St. Olaf 21, Saint Mary's 1 / Details St. Olaf 7, Saint Mary's 1 / Details Augsburg 4, Saint Mary's 3 (8) / Details Augsburg 3, Saint Mary's 2 / Details St. Thomas 11, Saint Mary's 9 / Details St. Thomas 12, Saint Mary's 4 / Details |
| Upcoming Games: Mon., April 16: SMU at Carleton, 2:30 Wed., April 18: SMU at Macalester, 2:30 Sat., April 21: Gustavus at SMU, 1:00 |
| Cardinal News and Notes: The Cardinals' losses to St. Thomas Saturday extended a pair of losing streaks. SMU has now lost a season-high eight straight, and has dropped the last 13 straight vs. the Tommies. The Cardinals' last win vs. UST came in 2001, when Scott Morrison belted the second of his two home runs with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning to lift SMU to a 6-5 victory. … St. Olaf's 21 runs and 24 hits in Game 1 last Monday were the most allowed by the Cardinals this season. The Oles' 21 runs were also the most allowed since Winona State plated 23 vs. SMU in a 23-3 victory on March 31, 2004. … UST's 12 and 11 runs scored marked the fourth and fifth times this season SMU has 10 allowed or more runs in a game. … The Cardinals' nine runs scored in Game 1 vs. UST were a team high. … SMU held the lead going into the bottom of the seventh inning in both losses at Augsburg Friday — the Auggies scored once in the seventh and once in the eighth to win Game 1, then scored twice in the bottom of the seventh to win the rematch. … After going 2-for-3 with three runs scored in Game 1 vs. St. Thomas, Nick Winecke (St. Paul, Minn.) was held off the base paths in Game 2 (going 0-for-3), marking just the second time in SMU's 19 games that the SMU senior has failed to reach base. … The Cardinals gave up six second-inning runs vs. St. Olaf and have now been outscored 22-3 in the second inning. SMU has also been outscored 22-5 in the fifth inning and 15-5 in the seventh. … SMU surrendered nine fifth-inning runs vs. UST — marking the second-most runs allowed in an inning by the Cardinals this season (Wartburg plated 10 in its season-opening 16-1 win over SMU). … Augsburg held SMU to a season-low two hits in the Auggies 3-2, Game 2 win Friday. … The Cardinals are winless (0-11) when either team scores in the first inning. |
Cardinals drop three straight MIAC doubleheaders
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Schmidt .364, 2B, 6 RBIs in last 6 games |
Since then, the Tommies have owned SMU, carrying an 11-game winning streak vs. the Cardinals into last Saturday's Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader at Loughrey Field on the Winona State University campus.
After four innings, it didn't look like the Cardinals would need any late-game heroics to put an end to UST's dominance, as SMU opened Game 1 with back-to-back two-run innings, then added three more in the fourth to take what appeared to be a commanding 7-2 advantage.
Then came the fifth inning — and there went the Cardinals' dreams of a streak-snapping victory.
UST erupted for nine runs in the top of the fifth inning, and the Cardinals never recovered, falling 11-9 in the opener and then dropping a 12-4 decision in the nightcap.
"We haven't done a very good job of hanging on to leads of late," said SMU coach Nick Whaley, whose team saw a one-run seventh inning lead disappear in dropping a 4-3, eight-inning decision in Game 1 vs. Augsburg on Friday, then gave up a pair of runs in the bottom of the seventh inning in dropping the nightcap to the Auggies, 3-2. "We put ourselves in position to win twice (on Friday) and couldn't get the job done, and then we couldn't hold a 7-2 lead (in Game 1) today. That's frustrating.
"We're playing well enough to win, we just can't seem to find a way to get the job done."
The Cardinals scored a pair of unearned runs in the bottom of the first in the opener, then added two more runs in the second on a two-run double by Brady Knudsen (Racine, Wis.). Brandon Haugh (Easton, Minn.) pushed the Cardinals' lead to 7-2 with a three-run double to right in the fourth.
That, however, was the last time the Cardinals would lead, as UST used eight hits and a pair of SMU errors to score its nine fifth-inning runs — and the Tommies never looked back.
"It was bounce-back day for us," said Whaley. "We knew how important it was for us to bounce back from two disappointing losses (on Friday), and we did that. We had to bounce back from a tough, tough inning, and we did that (scoring two runs in the bottom of the sixth to cut UST's Game 1 lead to 11-9).
"And in the second game, we had to bounce back again — and we did," continued Whaley, whose team fell behind 6-1 in the second game, only to plate three sixth-inning runs to cut the lead to 6-4. "We did so many good things — things that you don't see when the final scores are 11-9 and 12-4.
"It just would be nice if we could catch a break or two and turn these solid performances into a win or two."