SAINT MARY'S VS. GETTYSBURG / FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 2007 / TAMPA, FLA. / 11 A.M.

Saint Mary's Cardinals
0-0 MIAC, 1-3 Overall
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0-0 Centennial Conf., 8-2 Overall
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Bullet Notes
The Bullets opened their season with six straight wins and enter today's games having won eight of their first 10 games. … Gettysburg has already faced a St. Mary's team, beating St. Mary's (Md.) 8-2 and 9-8 in eight innings on March 4. … Anchoring the Bullets' offense is senior captain Joe Bonyai. Bonyai, an All-CC first team selection in 2005 and 2006, returns to the line-up after leading the Bullets in batting average (.397), RBIs (31), triples (3), runs (27), slugging percentage (.486) and on-base percentage (.451) last season. He also set a Gettysburg single-season record with 58 hits in 2006. … During John Campo's 20 years as Gettysburg's coach, the Bullets have racked up 346 wins, an average of more than 17 a year. That record includes five seasons of 20 victories or more, four Middle Atlantic Conference division titles, one Middle Atlantic Conference championship, two trips to the Eastern College Athletic Conference tournament and one trip to the NCAA Division III tournament.



Last Action
The Cardinals snapped a season-opening, three-game losing streak with a 2-1 victory vs. Dickinson State at the HHH Metrodome last Wednesday. … Gettysburg, meanwhile, was done in by six errors in an 8-4 loss to Arcadia in non-conference action on Thursday morning. The Bullets scored two run in both the first and second innings before the Arcadia pitching stuff shut them down.

Last Meeting:
Today's doubleheader will be the first time the Cardinals and the Bullets have ever met.

Cardinal Notes

Mike
Mitchell
Complete-game
3-hitter vs.
Dickinson St.
The Cardinals' Game 2 win vs. Dickinson State snapped their season-opening three-game losing streak. … Mike Mitchell (Mound, Minn.) tossed a complete-game three-hitter in SMU's 2-1 win vs. the Blue Hawks. … Robbie Johnson (Lake Elmo, Minn.), Brady Knudsen (Racine, Wis.), Kyle Ryan (St. Paul, Minn.) and Nick Winecke (St. Paul, Minn.) all had two hits vs. Dickinson State. … Winecke also belted the team's first triple of the season and drove in a pair of runs in the first game vs. the Blue Hawks. … Winecke was held hitless in Game 2 vs. Dickinson State, snapping the SMU senior's six-game hitting streak. Knudsen, meanwhile, has had at least one hit in all four of SMU's games this season to extend his hit streak to six in a row. … Winecke has had two or more hits in two of SMU's four games. … SMU has scored just seven runs this season and has not scored more than three runs in a game this year. … Half of the 24 runs SMU's opponents have scored have come in the fourth inning. … The Cardinals' opponents have scored first in all four games this season.