SAINT MARY'S VS. COE, TRINITY / FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 2007 / PANAMA CITY BEACH, FLA.

Saint Mary's Cardinals
0-0 MIAC, 0-0 Overall
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Coe Kohawks
0-0 IIAC, 5-1 Overall
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Trinity Tigers
0-0 SCAC, 4-4 Overall
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Tiger Notes
Trinity has made back-to-back NCAA Division III regional appearances and have appeared in the regionals five of the last seven years. … The Tigers are also two-time defending Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference champions and have won six of the last eight SCAC crowns. … Trinity's losses to St. Mary's (Texas) snapped the Tigers' four-game winning streak. It also dropped Trinity to 0-4 vs. non-NCAA Division III teams. … Senior pitcher Erin Mulvey, an all-SCAC First-Teamer and an NFCA All-Region selection, has struck out 26 batters in 23 innings this year. She has a 3.96 ERA and a 2-2 record. … Jamie Williams has been the Tigers' offensive leader, hitting .565 (13-for-23) with 12 runs scored, three doubles, two triples and three RBIs.

Kohawk Notes
Coe enters the Lead-Off Classic having won five of their first six games — the Kohawks' lone loss a 6-1, Game 2 decision to West Florida on March 3. … The Kohawks —who boast seven straight winning seasons, two Iowa Athletic Conference Championships (2000, 2005) and six NCAA Division III regional berths — are ranked No. 22 in the NFCA preseason poll.


Last Action
Today's games are the first of the season for SMU, which closed out the 2006 season 19-3 in the MIAC and 25-15-1 overall. … Coe opened its season with wins in five of tis first six games at the Pensacola (Fla.) Tournament. … Trinity, meanwhile, enters today's game with a 4-4 record, having dropped its last two games to … ironically, St. Mary's … falling to the NCAA Division II team from Texas, 11-3 and 8-0.

Last Meetings
The Kohawks beat SMU 1-0 in eight innings during the final day of the Coe Tournament on March 26, 2006. SMU pitcher Jenny Schipp held Coe scoreless for seven innings, but the Cardinals could not give their senior hurler any offensive support, as the game went into extra innings deadlocked at 0-0. The Kohawks plated the game's only run in the top of the eighth on a pair of passed balls, and SMU went down in order in the bottom of the inning to seal their fate. … SMU and Trinity have squared off just once — an 8-0 Cardinal victory on March 14, 2004 at the Sun West Tournament in Orange, Calif.

Cardinal Notes

Erin
Leone
8-0, 1.14 ERA
in 2006
The Cardinals have won 20 or more games in 13 straight seasons. … Nine of SMU's 25 wins last season came by shutout. … The Cardinals' Jenny Schipp (Oakdale, Minn.) Jenni Gutterman (Shoreview, Minn.) and Nikki Jung (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.) were first-team All-Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference selections, while the Cardinal trio were also named to the Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division III All-Midwest Region Second Team. … Schipp closed out her senior season with 155 strikeouts — including 10 or more in a game seven times — and ended her stellar SMU career with a school-record 545 strikeouts. … Schipp was also the school's all-time leader in appearances (99), starts (78), complete games (52), shutouts (22) and innings pitched (516.2). … Gutterman hit safely in 35 of SMU's 41 games. … Gutterman ended her senior year as the Cardinals' offensive leader in virtually every offensive category — including batting average (.418), at-bats (146), runs (38), hits (61), doubles (12), triples (5), total bases (89), slugging percentage (.610) on-base percentage (.445) and stolen bases (23). … Pitcher Erin Leone (Farmington, Minn.) closed out her freshman year with a perfect 8-0 record and a team-leading 1.14 ERA. … The Cardinals outscored their opponents in every inning but the second (11-8) and eighth (6-3). … SMU finished 11-2 when scoring in the first inning and 21-3 when scoring first.