SAINT MARY'S at AUGSBURG / TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2007 / MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. / 7:00

Saint Mary's Cardinals
10-5 MIAC, 15-10 Overall
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Augsburg Auggies
2-15 MIAC, 3-30 Overall
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Auggie Notes
This year's SMU-Augsburg DH is the first meeting between Auggie first-year head coach Tim Gormley and his alma mater, Saint Mary's. Gormley, who spent three years as an assistant under John Tschida at Saint Mary's (1996-98), is just the third coach in the Augsburg softball program's 33-year history. …  After opening their season with a 10-2, five-inning victory over Cornell, the Auggies dropped 17 straight, before snapping that slide with another 10-2 win vs. the Scots on April 10. Since then, however, the Auggies have gone 1-13 in their last 14, with their lone win a 3-2 triumph over Bethel on April 13. … Augsburg has surrendered nine or more runs in 13 of its 30 losses and has been shut out seven times. … The Auggies have allowed 40 or more runs in four innings, including 48 in the game's opening frame — where they have been outscored 48-17 — and 50 in the third. … Offensively, the third inning has been the Auggies' most productive (20) runs, while they have plated 12 in the second, fourth, fifth and sixth innings. … Tiffany Magnuson has been the Auggies' offensive leader, boasting a .354 batting average with team-bests in runs (17), hits (35) doubles (8), on-base percentage (.402) and stolen bases (15). … Magnuson has posted 10 multiple-hit games, while Kati Tweeten, who leads the team with 12 RBIs, has put together a pair of multiple-RBI games.


Last Action
The Cardinals scored nine runs in the sixth inning to snap a 3-3 tie and lead SMU to a 15-5 victory over the Auggies in the first game of their scheduled MIAC doubleheader on Sunday. Game 2 was rained out and moved to today.

Cardinal Notes

Cassie
Otte
.352 BA,
31 hits,
23 runs, 8 SB
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 compiled 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.