SAINT MARY'S VS. MACALESTER / MONDAY, DEC. 4, 2006 / SMU GYM / 8 P.M.

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0-2 MIAC / 2-3 Overall
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Cardinal In The Spotlight

Jacqui Ripoli

Year: Senior

Pos.: Guard

Hometown: Belvidere, Ill.

Major: Criminal Justice

From Coach Stimmel: “Jacqui is a great person to have in our program. Even though she hasn’t seen a lot of playing time, she works hard, pushes the other players in practice and is fun to work with.”



Game Notes
Danielle Dehning scored nine points as the Cardinals posted a 43-37 win over the Scots in the teams' regular-season meeting a year ago. … The Cardinals dropped their second straight conference game on Saturday, scoring just 18 first-half points in falling to Saint Benedict 77-54. … Macalester, meanwhile, also enters today’s game having lost its first two MIAC contests, falling to St. Catherine 70-43 Saturday. … The Cardinals have won the last seven meetings between the two teams, dating back to late in the 2001-02 season.

Cardinal Notes

Kelly Tanke
Leads team
with 8.8 ppg
average
SMU's losses to St. Thomas and Saint Benedict marked the first time all season that the Cardinals have lost back-to-back games. … Kelly Tanke (La Crosse, Wis.) netted a team-best 11 points in SMU’s loss to St. Thomas. … SMU was held without a double-figure scorer vs. Saint Benedict. … Tanke is the Cardinals’ scoring leader (8.8 ppg), while Jess Weisbrod (Rollingstone, Minn.) boasts a team best 5.4 rebounds-per-game. … The Tommies’ 86 points were the most allowed by SMU this season — and the most since surrendering 86 points in an 86-60 loss to Gustavus on Jan. 10, 2004. … The Cardinals were held to four second-half field goals vs. the Tommies, while managing just eight field goals and 18 points in the first half of their loss to Saint Benedict. … UST forced a season-high 35 SMU turnovers, marking the second time in four games that the Cardinals have turned the ball over 30 or more times in a game. … SMU's 54 points vs. Saint Benedict were the most since the Cardinals opened the season with a 56-43 win over Willamette.

Scot Notes
Elise Pagel set a Macalester freshman scoring record last winter with a 15.5 ppg. average and was the team’s leader in all but two games. With the addition of a solid recruiting class, she is not being asked to score as much, but still needs to break out a slump which has her shooting at a 17% clip while scoring just 6.3 per game.… Freshmen Ann Baltzer and Danielle Johnson are off to good starts in their collegiate careers. Baltzer leads Macalester with averages of 13.5 points and 8.5 rebounds per game, while shooting 59 percent from the field. Johnson averages 10.3 points and 4.5 rebounds, and has accounted for seven of the team’s eight three-pointers. Johnson leads the team with 16 steals in four games. … All-MIAC and all-region cross country standout Callie PaStarr contributes 8.0 ppg. and leads the team with 14 assists. … The Scots will rely on defense to stay in games. Last week at Gustavus, the Scots trailed 12-11 at halftime.