SAINT MARY'S vs. CONCORDIA / WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 2007 / MAX MOLOCK FIELD / 1 P.M.

Saint Mary's Cardinals
4-14 MIAC, 8-21 Overall
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7-9 MIAC, 11-19 Overall
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In the Cardinal Spotlight

Kyle Ryan

Year: Freshman

Position: Second Base

Hometown: St. Paul, Minn.

Major: Undecided

From Coach Whaley: "Kyle has definitely helped solidfy our middle infield, helping us turn more double plays this year (19) than in any year since I’ve been here. Offensively, he’s give us solid at-bats and come up with some big hits for us.”

Cobber Notes
With their sweep of Macalester, the Cobbers have now won four straight and six of their past eight. Concordia’s 11 wins mark the 28th consecutive season that Concordia has won at least 10 games in a season. … Concordia posted its best offensive day of the season on Saturday against Carleton, scored 25 runs, knocking out 23 hits and boasting 12 extra-base hits in sweeping the Knights, 11-8 and 14-7. … Kyle Johnson, who enters today’s DH hitting .389, is threatening to become the fifth Cobber player to hit .400 in a season. … Johnson currently leads the team in hits (35), RBIs (20), total bases (53), slugging % (.589) and on-base % (.444). … The Cobbers have five pitchers to have pitched 20 or more innings, led by Kevin Engebretson (41.2).



Last Action
The Cardinals couldn’t hold a seventh-inning lead for the second time in four games Saturday. Last Tuesday, SMU jumped out to a 10-2 lead, only to have Bethel scored 11 unanswered runs to take a 13-10 lead into the seventh inning. SMU scored four times in the top of the seventh to regain the lead, 14-13, but again the Royals battled back, getting a solo home run and an RBI double to seal the 15-14 win. Saturday, SMU was deadlocked 3-3 vs. Hamline in the seventh, only to give up a one-out double, a walk and a three-run home run in falling to the Pipers, 6-3. SMU had snapped a four-game losing streak with a 4-3 victory in the opener. … Concordia, meanwhile, received a walkoff single from junior Drew Zimemrman in the bottom of the eighth inning of Game 2 Monday vs. Macalester to post a 3-2 win and record their second consecutive home conference sweep. The Cobbers defeated the Scots 8-3 in the opener.

Last Meeting
The Cardinals out-hit the Cobbers, got a complete-game pitching performance from David Reiter battled back from a 6-2 deficit to tie the game in the top of the seventh inning — and still came up on the short end of an 8-7 decision a year ago. The Cobbers then completed the season-ending MIAC sweep with a 6-2 win. …

Cardinal Notes

Nick
Winecke
Team-leading
.372 BA, 26 R
11 2Bs, 17 BB
The Cardinals snapped a four-game losing streak with their Game 1 victory over Hamline Saturday. … Saturday's second-game loss to the Pipers — in which Hamline scored three runs in the top of the seventh inning to break a 3-3 tie — marked the sixth time this season SMU has led or been tied in the seventh, and lost. … Hamline's three, Game 1 runs were the fewest allowed by SMU since Augsburg plated three in a 3-2 Auggie win on April 13. … SMU's four runs vs. the Pipers in the opener were the fewest in a Cardinal win since beating Framingham State 4-3 in the first game of a doubleheader sweep on March 17. … SMU's 14 runs in its 15-14, Game 2 loss vs. Bethel on Tuesday were the most in a losing effort since a 17-14 setback vs. Winona State in 1984. … Cardinal pitchers surrendered six home runs vs. Bethel — including four in the Game 2 slugfest. … Brandon Haugh (Easton, Minn.) posted the Cardinals' first five-hit game of the season, going a perfect 5-for-5 with a pair of doubles, three RBIs and three runs scored in the Game 2 loss vs. Bethel. … Pete Bissen (Fairmont, Minn.) launched his first collegiate home run vs. Bethel. … Thirteen of SMU's 14 runs in Game 2 vs. the Royals came in three innings — a five-run third, a four-run fourth and a four-run seventh. … Brady Knudsen (Racine, Wis.) went 5-for-7 with four runs scored vs. the Royals. The SMU junior has scored 14 runs in SMU's last 10 games. … Nick Winecke (St. Paul, Minn.) — who had at least one hit in all four games last week, and has now reached base safely in 27 of SMU's 29 games — is the team-leader in average (.372), runs (26), doubles (11), triples (1), slugging percentage (.558) and walks (17). … Knudsen, meanwhile, is the team leader in hits (36), RBIs (19) and total bases (49. … Both Winecke and Knudsen enter Wednesday's finale riding five-game hitting streaks. … Knudsen leads the team with 10 multiple-hit games, while Haugh is the team-leader in multiple-RBI games with six. … The Cardinals are now 6-3 when leading after six innings and 1-17 when trailing after six. SMU has given up 24 seventh-inning runs. … SMU has been outscored 32-4 in the second inning.