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| 2005-2006 Records: 4-9 MIAC, 8-10 Overall |
| Recent Results: Saint Mary's 52, Augsburg 41 / Details Saint Mary's 43, Macalester 37 / Details Concordia 60, Saint Mary's 41 / Details |
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| Cardinal News and Notes: The Cardinals had their two-game winning streak snapped with Sunday's loss to Concordia. … SMU’s Alyse Coates (West St. Paul, Minn.) posted her first career double-double in the Cardinals’ 52-41 win over Augsburg last Wednesday, as the freshman netted 11 points and pulled down 12 rebounds. … Ashley Luehmann (Lewiston, Minn.), who played just 10 minutes vs. Macalester last Saturday, was held without a point for the first time since Jan. 15, 2003 — a span of 91 straight games with at least one point. … Luehmann currently leads the team in scoring, averaging 12.1 ppg. … The Cardinals’ 43 points vs. the Scots marked their lowest offensive output in a winning effort this season. … Macalester’s 37 points, meanwhile, are the fewest allowed by SMU this year. … Four of the Cardinals’ eight wins have come on their home floor. … The Cardinals have been held to 58 points or less in each of the 10 losses. … SMU has been outscored by just nine points (465-456) in the first half, but the Cardinals have been outscored by 77 (530-453) in the game's final 20 minutes. |
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After all, the Cobbers entered Sunday's game alone atop the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference standings and boasted a 13-4 overall record that included a five-game winning streak.
What the Cardinals didn't realize, however, was that the Cobbers' Melanie Hageman would pick Sunday to have a near-perfect performance.
In fact, were it not for a missed free throw in the second half, the Concordia senior would have been perfect.
Hageman scored a game- and season-high 28 points — connecting on all nine of her field goal attempts — in leading the Cobbers to a 60-41 win over the Cardinals at the SMU Gym.
"(Hageman) had a great game, but when you look at it from a different perspective, we shut down everyone on that team but one, and still came up short," said SMU coach Dan Messmann, whose team had its two-game winning streak snapped with the loss to Concordia. "We had more than our share of chances — we just weren't able to knock down shots when we needed to.
"Defensively, this team has been playing very well," Messmann continued. "We're just not getting the job done offensively. We only made 14 field goals (out of 53 attempts) against Concordia — and were horrendous (10-for-27) from the free throw line, yet we were still in the ball game right to end because of our play on the defensive end."
The Cobbers, behind Hageman's 17 first-half points, jumped out to an 11-point, 33-22, advantage at the intermission, and never let the Cardinals closer than eight in improving to 12-2 in the MIAC and 14-4 overall.
The Cardinals, coming off a pair of wins over Augsburg (52-41) and Macalester (43-37), could never seem to find their shooting touch against the Cobbers, hitting just 14 of 53 field goal attempts (26 percent), while also struggling from the free throw line, were SMU went a dismal 10-for-27.
Alyse Coates (West St. Paul, Minn.) — who posted her first career double-double with 11 points and 12 rebounds against Augsburg last Wednesday — led the Cardinals with 10 points, while Jessica Weisbrod (Rollingstone, Minn.) pulled down a season-high 12 rebounds.
"We did not play poorly — Concordia is a talented, methodical team," said Messmann. "The key for us right now is to keep improving, and I think we are doing that."