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| 2006-2007 Records: 3-12 MIAC, 5-13 Overall |
| Last Week's Results: Saint Benedict 65, Saint Mary's 49 / Details Macalester 64, Saint Mary's 47 / Details Hamline 57, Saint Mary's 56 / Details |
| Upcoming Games: Wed., Jan. 31: SMU at St. Olaf, 7:45 p.m. Sat., Feb. 3: SMU at Gustavus, 3 p.m. |
| Cardinal News and Notes: Saturday's loss to Hamline was the Cardinals’ third straight and fifth in their last six games. … SMU managed just 14 points in the first half against Macalester last Wednesday, marking the second-lowest output in a half and the eighth time this season that the Cardinals have scored 20 or fewer points in a half. … SMU has held its opponents to 65 points or less in each of their last eight games — going 2-6. … The Cardinals have been held to 56 points or less in all 13 of their losses. … Jessica Weisbrod (Rollingstone, Minn.) netted 15 points vs. Hamline. It was the fifth straight game in which she has scored in double figures, and the ninth time in SMU’s last 10 games. … Weisbrod notched double-double No. 3 on the season last Monday vs. Saint Benedict, netting 14 points and adding 11 rebounds. It was Weisbrod's fifth double-double of her career. … Kelly Tanke (La Crosse, Wis.) notched a team-leading 18 points vs. Hamline, marking the 14th time in SMU's 18 games that she or Weisbrod have led the team in scoring. … Tanke has scored 31 of the team's 58 3-pinters. … SMU's two games this week are on the road (at St. Olaf and at Gustavus), where the Cardinals are 1-8 — SMU has not won a road game since opening the season with a 56-43 win over Willamette at the Bon Appetite Classic in Portland, Ore. |
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Weisbrod Team-leading 12.1 ppg, 7.2 rpg |
That was all that stood between the Saint Mary's University women's basketball team and a streak-snapping victory over Hamline last Saturday.
In those last four seconds, the Pipers not only got off a shot, but also pulled down the rebound and Shelby Hyllengren made the put-back, giving the Pipers a 57-56 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference win — and sending the Cardinals to their third straight loss.
"If the game were four seconds shorter, we'd be celebrating right now," said SMU coach Shawn Stimmel, whose team picked up a 59-50 win over St. Thomas on Jan. 20, but then dropped back-to-back-to-back games to Saint Benedict, Macalester and Hamline in a six-day span. "We did not play all that well — we played OK, but not great — and came up short, it's that simple."
Kelly Tanke (La Crosse, Wis.) and Jessica Weisbrod (Rollingstone, Minn.) were a potent 1-2 punch for the Cardinals in the second half, as the two accounted for SMU's last 20 points — including a Weisbrod three-point play that gave Saint Mary's its first lead of the second half, 52-51.
Tanke knocked down the final two of her team-high 18 points to give the Cardinals a 56-55 lead with four seconds remaining, but SMU was unable to haul in the rebound off a Hamline miss, and Hyllengren laid the ball in at the buzzer to seal the Piper win.
"It's always tough to lose, but it hurts even more to lose like that," said Stimmel, whose team trailed 30-25 at the half. "I was very happy with the way we kept battling in that second half. We never let up and we kept working. Once Kelly made that shot (to give SMU the lead), it looked like the ladies were going to be rewarded for that hard work.
"Unfortunately, a win just wasn't in the cards."