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| 2007 Records: 10-5 MIAC, 15-10 Overall |
| Recent Results: Saint Mary's 8, Bethel 0 / Details Saint Mary's 7, Bethel 2 / Details Gustavus 2, Saint Mary's 0 / Details Gustavus 3, Saint Mary's 2 / Details Saint Mary's 4, Concordia 3 / Details Saint Mary's 7, Concordia 2 / Details Saint Mary's 15, Augsburg 5 / Details |
| Upcoming Games: Tues., April 24: SMU at Augsburg (Game 2), 7:00 Wed., April 25: SMU at Macalester, 4:00 Thurs., April 26: SMU at UW-La Crosse, 4:00 Sat.,, April 28: Carleton at SMU, 1:00 Mon., April 30: SMU at St. Olaf, 4:00 Tues., May 1: SMU at UW-River Falls, 4:00 |
| Cardinal News and Notes: The Cardinals have now gone 13-6 in their last 19 games. … With their two wins vs. Concordia Saturday, the Cardinals have now won 15 of the last 16 games vs. the Cobbers. … The Cardinals, with their 15-5 Game 1 win vs. Augsburg, have also won 25 in a row against the Auggies, dating back to a 5-4, 6-4 Auggie sweep in 1994. … Thursday's back-to-back losses to Gustavus meant SMU has gone 0-4 against the two teams (St. Thomas and GAC) ahead of them in the conference standings. … The Cardinals have now lost their last four meetings vs. Gustavus. … SMU's 15 runs vs. Augsburg were a season high, marking just the second time this season the Cardinals have scored 10 or more runs. SMU's nine-run 6th inning was also a season high. … The Cardinals collected 14 hits vs. the Auggies — all singles. … Nikki Jung (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.) belted her team-leading third and fourth home runs vs. the Cobbers, hitting a solo shot in Game 1 and a two-run shot in the second game. Jung's first two HRs of the season were grand slams. …Danielle Geske (Rosemount, Minn.) was held off the base paths in Game 2 vs. Concordia, marking just the second time in SMU's last 22 games that she has not had at least one hit. She has put together hitting streaks of 13 (snapped in Game 1 vs. Hamline last Saturday) and six (snapped in Game 2 vs. the Cobbers). … Megan Wallisch (Loveland, Colo.) pitched her team-leading ninth and 10th complete games vs. Gustavus, then added complete-game No. 11 in Game 1 vs. the Cobbers. Against Concordia, Wallisch allowed just one earned run in 13 innings. The SMU senior took a one-hit shutout into the sixth inning of Game 1, before giving up two hits and three runs (none earned). … Wallisch, who has pitched 135.1 of the team's 163.0 innings, boasts a team-best 83 strikeouts and has comipiled a 1.86 ERA. … Jennifer Thesing's (Lewiston, Minn.) start as the designated player in Game 2 vs. Gustavus snapped a string of 21 straight games in which SMU used the same starting lineup. …The Cardinals has outscored its opponents in every inning … SMU has not played an extra-inning game all season. … The Cardinals are now a perfect 7-0 when scoring in the first inning, but SMU is still winless (0-4) when their opponent scores in the first. |
mastery of Auggies to 25 straight with 15-5 victory
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Geske Hit .500 (8-for-16) 2B, 3B, 4 BB 4 runs, 4 RBIs in 7 games |
* On Tuesday, SMU beat Bethel twice, 8-0 and 7-2, improving to 27-1 in their last 28 meetings vs. the Royals — including wins in the teams' last six meetings.
* On Thursday, the Cardinals came out on the short end of 2-0 and 3-2 decisions against Gustavus, extending SMU's winless streak vs. the Gusties to four straight.
* On Saturday, Concordia did something it hadn't been able to do against SMU in the last 16 innings against the Cardinals — score a run. The Cobbers' five runs, however, weren't enough, as SMU swept the doubleheader, 4-3, 7-2, and has now beaten Concordia four straight times and in 15 of their last 16 meetings.
* On Sunday, SMU closed out the week with yet another streak extension, picking up its 25th straight against Augsburg — dating back to the Auggies' 5-4, 6-4 sweep on April 13, 1994 — with a 15-5 victory.
And, while the Auggies could not stop the Cardinals Sunday afternoon, Mother Nature could — as a constant downpour forced the postponement of the second game of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader.
"We had finally gotten our offense kicked into high gear, it's too bad we couldn't keep playing," said SMU coach Jen Miller, whose team's 15-run outburst was a season high. "Offensively, we needed a game like that — a game where everyone made good contact."
Heading into the sixth inning, however, the Cardinals' offense was almost nonexistent.
SMU plated an unearned run in the first, then got an RBI sacrifice fly from Tara Close (North St. Paul, Minn.) in the third, and an RBI single from Nikki Jung (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.) in the fifth. Augsburg, meanwhile, plated one run in the fourth and two more in the fifth to pull even at 3-3.
Then came the sixth inning.
And what a sixth inning it was.
The Cardinals sent 14 batters to the plate, parlaying eight singles, a fielder's choice, a hit batter and a walk into nine runs and a commanding 12-3 lead.
After giving back three runs in the bottom of the sixth, SMU put the game out of reach with a three-run seventh, taking advantage of a pair of Auggie errors to score three unearned runs.
"We let (Augsburg) stick around and stick around, and then all of the sudden, it's a 3-3 game," said Miller, whose team collected 14 hits — all singles. "But then everything seemed to click all at once. We just kept stringing hits together in that sixth inning. It was nice to see us break out like that.
"After losing those two to Gustavus, every game has become that much more important," said Miller, whose team entered Saturday's play tied with Concordia and Saint Benedict for third place in the conference standings — but with three striaght wins, SMU is now alone in third place, one game in front of Saint Benedict with seven conference games remaining. "We need to out and take care of business every day from here on out.
"We did that against Concordia, and we did that again (Sunday against Augsburg)."