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SAINT MARY'S vs. CONCORDIA / SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2007 / SMU FIELD / WINONA, MINN. / 1:00

	Saint Mary's Cardinals 7-5 MIAC, 12-10 Overall Home / Stats / Roster / Schedule
	Concordia Cobbers 7-7 MIAC, 9-15 Overall Home / Stats / Roster / Schedule

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Cardinal In The Spotlight

Hanna Schmitt

Year: Freshman

Position: Shortstop

Hometown: Rosemount. MN

Major: Business

From Coach Miller: “Hanna is an extremely talented player who continues to improve every day. She has a great attitude, and I’m excited to watch her continue to progress over the next three-and-a-half years.”

**Cobber Notes**
Today's doubleheader is the third of four straight in a four-day span for the Cobbers, who played Macalester on Thursday, at Saint Benedict on Friday and will face Northland (Wis.) in a nonconference DH at home on Sunday. … The Cobbers had their five-game winning streak stopped at the hands of No.1-ranked St. Thomas on Tuesday. and have now dropped five of their last six games. … The Cobbers and Blazers totaled two runs and 13 total hits in their two games combined Friday. It was the first time the Cobbers have been blanked in both games of a conference doubleheader since last year when Saint Mary's turned the same trick, winning 2-0, 2-0. … Cobber shortstop Kelli Niess was named the MIAC Player of the Week. Niess broke a pair of school records last week and in the six games she batted .476, stole six bases, scored five runs and drove in four. … Kelli Niess went 4-for-9 vs. Macalester on Thursday, upping batting average to .407. … . Laura Johnson followed up her two-hit game in the opener by going 2-for-3 with three RBIs in the second game. She is hitting .435 in the team's last eight games.

**Last Action**
The Cardinals proved to be their own worst enemy, committing four errors — directly resulting in four of Gustavus' five runs — in falling to the Gusties 2-0 and 3-2 Thursday. … Concordia, meanwhile, dropped a pair of heartbreaking 1-0 decisions to Saint Benedict on Friday. The Cobbers stranded 10 runners on base. All told in both games against the Blazers, the Cobbers were 1-for-17 (.055) with runners on base. On two occasions in the opener, the Cobbers had a runner on third base with one out and on both occasions, failed to get the runner home.

**Last Meeting**
Cardinal pitchers allowed just five hits and struck out 29 Cobbers in leading SMU to an MIAC sweep a year ago. Jenny Schipp fanned a season-high 15 in tossing a complete-game two-hitter in SMU’s 2-0 Game 1 win. Erin Leone followed up by tossing a complete-game three-hitter, striking out a season-best 14 as the Cardinals completed the sweep with a second straight 2-0 victory.

Cardinal Notes

Danielle
Geske
Has hit safely
in 18 of last
19 games

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 was held to nine hits in Thursday's DH, with Cassie Otte's (Randolph, Minn.) 2-for-3 Game 2 effort the only multiple-hit performance in the two games. … Danielle Geske (Rosemount, Minn.) went 1-for-2 in each game vs. GAC, and has now hit safely in 18 of SMU's last 19 games, boasting hitting streaks of 13 (snapped in Game 1 vs. Hamline last Saturday) and her current five-gamer. … Jenny Giannini (River Grove, Ill.) had her hitting streak snapped at 10, going 0-for-3 in Game 1 vs,. Gustavus. … Megan Wallisch (Loveland, Colo.) pitched her team-leading ninth and 10th complete games vs. Gustavus. The SMU senior, who posted her team-best 11th and 12th wins vs. Bethel on Tuesday, held the high-powered Gustavus attack to just 11 hits and one earned run. The SMU senior, who has pitched 127.2 of the team's 142.0 innings, boasts a team-best 68 strikeouts and has comipiled a 2.09 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 committed four errors vs. GAC Thursday, pushing their season total to 31. … The Cardinals have outscored their opponents in each of the first four innings, but have been outscored in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings. … SMU has not played an extra-inning game all season. … The Cardinals are now a perfect 6-0 when scoring in the first inning, but SMU is still winless (0-4) when their opponent scores in the first.