SAINT MARY'S at ST. THOMAS / MONDAY, FEB. 26, 2007 / ST THOMAS ICE ARENA / 7:05 P.M.

Saint Mary's Cardinals
4-10-1 MIAC / 7-16-1 Overall
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11-4-0 MIAC / 15-9-0 Overall
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Tommie Notes
The Tommies enter today’s game riding a season-high eight-game winning streak. … With their sweep of Hamline, the Tommies locked up their 25th consecutive winning season and qualified for the MIAC playoffs for the 22nd time in the 22-year history of the format.  UST has outscored its opponents 58-10 during its current winning streak. … After opening the season 5-8-0 in its first 13 games, UST is 9-1-0 in its last 10. … Nick Pernula, who scored two goals vs. SMU Friday, leads the team in goals (22) and points (43), while Nick Harris, who also had a pair of goals vs. the Cardinals, boasts a team-best 22 assists and is second in points (39). … UST boasts three players with 30 or more points and six with 10 or more. … UST has lost just three times — 5-3 at UW-Stevens Point, 9-3 at Bethel and 7-3 at Elmira — in 11 road games. … St. Thomas was the first current Division III institution to win 900 career hockey games. The Tommies are now 969-566-67 in the 83-year history of the program. The next most men's hockey wins among the 68 other Division III hockey programs is 948 by Middlebury (82 seasons). The next most all-time victories among MIAC programs is Gustavus at 725 (71 seasons).



Friday Night
The Tommies erupted for four first-period goals and held off a late SMU charge to beat the Cardinals 6-4 in the first game of their two-game series at the SMU Ice Arena.

A Year Ago
The Tommies escaped with a pair of one-goal wins over SMU in the teams' regular-season meetings a year ago, winning 2-1 in the Friday meeting, before posting a 3-2 triumph in the rematch.

Cardinal Notes

Andy
Roberts
1 G, 1 A vs.
St. Thomas
After winning a season-high three straight in late January, SMU has now dropped six in a row. … The Cardinals' four goals Friday mark the second-most SMU has scored in a losing effort this year (second only to the five scored in a 6-5 loss to Eau Claire on Nov. 4, 2006). … SMU's last six meetings vs. St. Thomas have been decided by two goals or less. … The Cardinals have scored more than two goals just five times in their 15 losses this season. …  Jesse Polk (Hastings, Minn.), Matt Staehely (Shorewood, Ill.), Andy Roberts (Rochester, Minn.) and David Gross (Grasston, Minn.) accounted for SMU's four goals vs. St. Thomas. … The Cardinals have not had a multiple-goal scorer in their last six games, dating back to Staehely's hat trick in a 5-4 OT win over Hamline on Jan. 26. …  Adam Gill (Rochester, Minn.) currently leads the team in goals (12) and is second in points with 21, four behind team-leader Anthony Bohn (Spring Hill, Fla.) . … Bohn also leads the team in assists (17), and he and Gill are two of seven SMU players with at least 10 points this season. … With Friday's loss to the Tommies, the Cardinals are now 3-13-0 when their opponent scores first. … Five of SMU's seven wins have come at home — the Cardinals are 2-9-0 away from the SMU Ice Arena. … The Cardinals have scored just 23 goals in their 11 road games, while netting twice that many (48) on their home ice.