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| 2006-2007 Records: 4-5-1-1 MIAC, 4-11-2 Overall |
| Last Week's Results Saint Mary's 2, Hamline 1 / Details Hamline 6, Saint Mary's 1 / Details |
| Upcoming Games: Fri., Feb. 2: St. Catherine at SMU, 7:05 Sat. Feb. 3: SMU at St. Catherine, 7:00 |
| Cardinal News and Notes: The Cardinals' loss to Hamline Saturday snapped their two-game winning streak. … SMU's win vs. Concordia on Jan. 20 and Friday's victory over Hamline marked the first time this season the Cardinals have put together back-to-back victories. … Amy Madden (East Grand Rapids, Mich.) netted two of the Cardinals' three goals vs. the Pipers last weekend. … Despite being held without a point vs. the Pipers, Melissa Mondo (Vadnais Heights, Minn.) still leads the team in goals (10) and points (16) …Mondo now boasts 45 career goals, three back of Christy Hicks for No. 3 all-time. … Her 84 career points are also No. 4 all-time. … Laura Mueller (St. Paul, Minn.), who scored one of SMU's two goals Friday, leads the team in assists (7) and is second to Mondo in points with 12. … After opening the season 0-5-2 on the road, the Cardinals have now won back-to-back road contests. … The Cardinals have not won a game this year in which their opponent has scored first (0-11-0). … Hamline's six goals Saturday equalled the most given up by the Cardinals this season. … The Cardinals have been held to two goals or less in 10 of their 11 games. … SMU has been outscored in every period — including 19-6 in the second period. |
2-1 win with disappointing 6-1 loss against Pipers
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Madden 2 goals vs. Hamline |
Heading into last Saturday's Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference game against Hamline, the Cardinals had scored six goals in their last two games — both wins.
In their previous seven games, however, the Cardinals managed just eight goals — and they lost all seven games.
Saturday evening, the game of offensive hide-and-seek continued, as SMU managed just one goal — and the Pipers rolled to a 6-1 victory over the Cardinals at the SMU Ice Arena.
"In my 11 years of coaching I have never seen a team go from one extreme to the other the way this team does," said SMU coach Terry Mannor, whose team had gotten goals from Amy Madden (East Grand Rapids, Mich.) and Laura Mueller (St. Paul, Minn.) en route to Friday's 2-1 victory over the Pipers. "We did it last weekend (in a 6-3 loss, 4-0 win vs. Concordia) and we did it again this weekend.
"We are just on such a rollercoaster ride right now — I don't know what to expect from one game to the next."
After holding Hamline to just one second-period goal on Friday, the Cardinals could not shut down the Pipers' high-powered offensive attack for a second straight game, as Hamline broke open a one-goal game with three second-period goals.
"We didn't play that poorly in the first period, but we did not play well at all in the second," said Mannor, whose team has struggled in the second period all season, getting outscored 19-6 in the game's middle stanza. "(Hamline) is a good team, they move the puck well and they've got some players that can really shoot.
"But they aren't five goals better than we are — we just did not come ready to play (Saturday)."
The Pipers pushed their lead to 5-0 four minutes into the third period, before Madden broke the ice for the Cardinals, netting her second goal of the weekend and sixth of the season, but that was all the offense SMU would muster.
"I'm at a loss for words," said Mannor. "We've got to find a way to get some consistency — we've got to get off this rollercoaster."