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| 2007 Records: 5-3 MIAC, 9-7 Overall |
| Recent Results: Saint Mary's 2, Saint Benedict 1 / Details Saint Mary's 4, Saint Benedict 3 / Details Saint Mary's 4, UW-Eau Claire 2 / Details UW-Eau Claire 7, Saint Mary's 6 / Details Saint Mary's 4, Hamline 1 / Details Hamline 2, Saint Mary's 1 / Details |
| Upcoming Games: Tues., April 17: Bethel at SMU, 4:00 Thurs., April 19: SMU at Gustavus,, 4:00 Sat., April 21: Concordia at SMU, 1:00 |
| Cardinal News and Notes: The Cardinals couldn't hold a seventh-inning lead in back-to-back Game 2s last weekend, falling to UW-Eau Claire (7-6) and Hamline (2-1). … SMU's Game 2 loss to Hamline Saturday marked the first time in the Cardinals' last 12 games that they have lost to a non-ranked team (SMU lost twice to top-ranked St. Thomas and once to No. 5 UW-Eau Claire during that span). … The Cardinals' 7-6 loss to the Blugolds Friday snapped their season-high five-game winning streak. … The Blugolds' seven runs mark just the fifth time this season SMU has allowed six or more runs. … Melissa Mondo (Vadnais Heights, Minn.) and Danielle Geske (Rosemount, Minn.) were both held hitless in Game 1 vs. Hamline, snapping their respective 13-game hitting streaks. … Jenny Giannini's (River Grove, Ill.) eight-game streak is currently SMU's longest consecutive hit streak. … Mondo did walk a season-high three times in Game 1 vs. Hamline and has now reached base safely in 16 of SMU's 18 games. … Mondo went 4-for-7 against the Blugolds, marking her team-leading eighth and ninth multiple-hit games. … Megan Wallisch (Loveland, Colo.) threw four straight complete-games in going 2-2 vs. UW-Eau Claire and Hamline. The SMU senior, who has pitched 96.1 of the team's 117.1 innings, equalled her season high with nine strikeouts in Game 1 vs. Hamline. … SMU has started the same nine players in all 18 games. … The Cardinals scored nearly as many runs in the seventh inning in Game 1 vs. Hamline (4) as they had in their previous 16 games combined (5). … SMU is unbeaten when scoring in the first inning, and 11-1 when scoring the game's first run. … |
back-to-back splits against UW-Eau Claire, Hamline
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Wallisch 1.30 ERA, 5 CG, 32 Ks in last 6 games |
After all, the Cardinals did win the opener, 4-2, to earn the split.
Against a nationally ranked team.
When the Cardinals surrendered a run with two out in the bottom of the seventh in dropping a 2-1, Game 2 decision to Hamline a day later, however, Miller wasn't so understanding.
"Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice … ."
"We gave away the second game, just like we did (Friday against UW-Eau Claire)," said Miller, whose team erupted for four runs in the top of the seventh inning to earn a 4-1 victory in the opener against Hamline, but surrendered an unearned run in the bottom of the seventh of Game 2 in settling for the split. "We gave them an extra out (in the seventh) and they made us pay for it.
"Offensively, we didn't hit the ball quite as well as we did (against Eau Claire), but we got some timely hits when we needed them in the first game," Miller added. "It really was the same story as Friday — we were solid offensively and on the mound, but we were a little shaky in the field."
And, for the second straight day, that shakiness came back to haunt the Cardinals.
After getting two-run singles from Nikki Jung (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.) and Jenny Giannini (River Grove, Ill.) to win Game 1, the Cardinals spotted Hamline a 1-0, fourth-inning lead in the nightcap, before getting an RBI single from Cassie Otte (Randolph, Minn.) in the fifth to knot the game at 1-1.
And then came the seventh.
An SMU error allowed the Pipers' leadoff runner to reach in the seventh, and, after a sacrifice bunt and a ground out to the pitcher, Jourdan Ulrich delivered an RBI bunt single to lift the PIpers to the 2-1 win.
"I was a little disappointed with the way we lost on Friday, because we were in position to take two games from a nationally ranked team," said Miller. "But (the Hamline split) hurts a lot more. We had a chance to pick up two key MIAC wins and didn't get the job done. We can't afford to be giving away (conference) wins, and that's what we did (Saturday)."