SAINT MARY'S at UW-RIVER FALLS / WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 2007 / RIVER FALLS, WIS. / 5:00

Saint Mary's Cardinals
17-5 MIAC, 22-11 Overall
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11-5 WIAC, 28-10 Overall
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Falcons Notes
Today's DH is the final regular-season games for the Falcons, who open WIAC Tournament play on Friday, taking on UW-Superior at 11 a.m. The double elimination tourney will be played at Gelein Field in Eau Claire and is hosted by UW-Eau Claire. … UWRF finished third in the final WIAC standings after being picked for a seventh-place finish in the sports information director’s pre-season poll. … UWRF can break the school record for wins in a season with a victory against the Cardinals. The 1993 Falcons won 28 games and finished the year 28-16. … Falcon pitcher Ashley Bertrand (343) needs four strike outs to set a Falcon career strike out record. Amy Brooke (2000-03) has the record with 347. … Emily Howlett has hit a school-record 15 doubles this season, eclipsing Jenny Vick's record of 13 set in 1994.


Last Action
The Cardinals closed out their MIAC season on a winning note, banging out 29 hits in sweeping St. Olaf 6-2 and 8-5 on Tuesday… UW-River Falls, meanwhile, erupted for 14 runs in beating UW-Whitewater 14-7 in Game 2 of their conference doubleheader on Sunday. The Warhawks handed UW-RF a 9-3 setback in the opener.

Last Meeting
A year ago, the Cardinals failed to win at least one game of a doubleheader for just the second time all season (the first coming against the nation's top-ranked team, St. Thomas, on April 8), as UW-River Falls escaped with a 3-1 Game 1 victory, and a 2-2 tie in Game 2 — a game that was halted after five innings due to darkness.

Cardinal Notes

Jenny
Giannini
Reigning MIAC Player
of the Week
The Cardinals' sweep of St. Olaf extended their winning streak vs. the Oles to 23 straight, dating back to a 3-1, Game 1 loss in 1996. … SMU has outscored the Oles 205-33 during their 21-game win streak. …  The Cardinals' Game 2 win vs. Carleton last Saturday earned SMU a berth in the MIAC Tournament. The Cardinals enter this weekend's tournament as the No. 3 seed and will square off against Gustavus in a 3 p.m. opening-round game. The Gusties swept the teams' regular-season meetings this year, and beat the Cardinals twice in last year's MIAC Tournament. … The Cardinals have already locked up their 14th straight 20-win season. … Melissa Mondo (Vadnais Heights, Minn.) posted the Cardinals' fourth, four-hit game, going a perfect 4-for-4 with a 3-run double and a home run in Game 1 vs. St. Olaf. … Tara Close (North St. Paul, Minn.) was 3-for-4 vs. the Oles in Game 1, as she and Mondo accounted for seven of SMU's 12 Game 1 hits. … In Game 2, the Cardinals got two hits from six different players en route to their 17 total hits. … Cassie Otte (Randolph, Minn.) had a hit in both games vs. St. Olaf, extending her hitting streak to 12 straight — one short of the team's season high. …  Jenny Giannini (River Grove, Ill.) picked up her team-leading 10th double and was a perfect 3-for-3 in Game 1 vs. Carleton Saturday. Giannini finished the week with 10 hits in 14 at-bats (.714), including three doubles and a .929 slugging percentage, earning the SMU junior her first-ever MIAC Player of the Week honor. … Erin Leone (Farmington, Minn.) started Game 2 vs. St. Olaf, snapping a string of 20 straight starts — and decisions — by senior Megan Wallisch (Loveland, Colo.). … The Cardinals erupted for four seventh-inning runs to secure their Game 1 win vs. St. Olaf and have now scored 18 seventh-inning runs in their last seven games combined. SMU has now outscored their opponents 27-15 in the seventh. …  SMU has not played an extra-inning game all season. … The Cardinals are now a perfect 11-0 when scoring in the first inning, and SMU picked up its first win when its opponent scores in the first (1-5) with their Game 2 win vs. St. Olaf.