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| 2006 Records: 0-2-0 MIAC, 3-4-0 Overall |
| Recent Results: Hamline 3, Saint Mary's 2 / Details Carleton 2, Saint Mary's 1 / Details |
| Upcoming Events: Fri., Sept. 22: SMU at Macalester, 7:30 p.m. Tues., Sept. 26: SMU at Gustavus, 4 p.m. Sat., Sept. 30: Concordia at SMU, 2 p.m. |
| This and That: Senior Mike Schmitt (Woodridge, Ill.) collected his team-leading sixth goal of the season in last Wednesday's loss to Hamline. … Schmitt’s six goals are just four shy of the career-best 10 he netted a year ago. … Schmitt also leads the team in assists (3) and points (15). … Schmitt's 23 career goals rank him No. 2 — 13 behind Jerad Rasmussen, who was inducted into the SMU Sports Hall of Fame on Saturday. Schmitt's 53 career points are also fourth all-time. … Todd Stachura (Suamico, Wis.) scored his first collegiate goal vs. Hamline. … The Cardinals have now gotten scoring from 13 different players, including collegiate “first goals” from 11 players. … SMU’s two goals vs. Hamline and one vs. Carleton give the Cardinals 21 goals this season — two more than they scored all of last year and the most since SMU netted 27 in 2002. … SMU has socred two or more goals in five of its seven games. … The Cardinals’ losses to Hamline and Carleton dropped their home record to 1-3-0. … Saturday's game vs. Carleton was SMU’s fourth straight home game — and the last at Ochrymowycz Field until a Sept. 30 showdown vs. Concordia. … Fourteen of SMU’s 20 goals have come in the second half. |
way SMU had hoped with back-to-back 1-goal losses
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And for the second straight time, that one-goal decision did not go in the Cardinals' favor.
Coach Chris Dembiec did not have any trouble finding some silver linings in last Saturday's latest one-goal setback — a 2-1 decision to Carleton at Ochrymowycz Field — but he's getting tired of moral victories.
And so are the Cardinals.
"It's not that we are playing that poorly, it's just that we are digging ourselves some pretty deep holes, and we have to expend so much energy trying to dig ourselves out, we just don't have anything left in the end," said Dembiec, whose team opened conference play last Wednesday with a 3-2 loss to Hamline. "We have got to start managing the game better. We like to play a possession-style game, and with the high amount of pressure that (Carleton) put on us, it took us right out of our game."
Carleton got on the board first, as Paul Pedtke scored 15 minutes into the first half. Bobby Phillips pushed that Knight lead to 2-0 at the 71-minute mark, before James Kuhnle (Burlington, Wis.) got SMU on the board with three minutes remaining in regulation.
Kuhnle's goal, however, proved to be too little, too late, as Carleton held on for their first MIAC win in two tries.
"We lacked focus (vs. Carleton)," said Dembiec. "We just did not control the game the way we need to — we gave away far too many balls. We just seemed to be a step slow out there. Give Carleton credit, their pressure really gave us fits, but we've got to do a better job of taking care of the ball.
"We came out on the short end of so many 50-50 balls, and you can't do that and expect to be successful in this league," Dembiec added. "We did some nice things out there, but moral victories can only take you so far — we've got to push our game to the next level, that's the bottom line."