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2006 Final Records:
3-5-3 MIAC, 10-5-3 Overall
Last Week's Results:
Bethel 2, Saint Mary's 0 / Details
Saint Mary's 1, St. Catherine 0 / Details
Saint Mary's 6, Martin Luther 0 / Details
This and That:
The Cardinals snapped a season-high three-game losing streak — and a six-game winless streak (0-4-2) — with Saturday's 1-0 win over St. Catherine. … SMU's wins vs. St. Catherine and Martin Luther were the first back-to-back shutouts since the Cardinals blanked Bethany Lutheran (6-0) and Northland (5-0) to start the season. … Kelli Krmpoitch (Minneapolis, Minn.) recorded her first collegiate two-goal game in her final collegaite game vs. Martin Luther last Sunday. … Emily Duffey (Richfield, Minn.) also posted her first two-goal effort vs. the Knights. … Lisa Tlougan (Rochester, Minn.) scored her team-leading ninth goal vs. Martin Luther. Tlougan also shared the team lead in points (18) with Keirra Metcalfe (Pickering, Ontario). … Tlougan and Metcalfe were two of five SMU players with 10 or more points. … The Cardinals' 50 goals scored are the most since 1993, when SMU netted 57. It is also the sixth-highest single-season offensive effort in school history. … Marianna Sanchez (Pueblo, Mexico) notched her first career shutout, stopping five shots vs. Martin Luther. … Eight of SMU's 10 wins came on the road. SMU was 2-2-2 on its home field. … After playing to just two ties in its first three seasons under coach Tony Guinn, SMU tied three games in 2006 — the most since 1997, when the Cardinals went 8-7-3. … SMU's 6-0 win vs. Martin Luther extended its nonconference winning streak to 18 straight, dating back to a 1-0 loss to Simpson on Sept. 11, 2004.


Seniors make final collegiate game a memorable
one as Johnson, Krmpotich lead way in 6-0 win

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WINONA, Minn. — it was their last collegiate soccer game, and Saint Mary's University's Kelli Krmpotich (Minneapolis, Minn.) and Jennifer Johnson (Racine, Wis.) made it one to remember.

Krmpotich posted her first career two-goal game, while Johnson netted the second goal of her three-year career in leading the Cardinals to a season-ending 6-0 nonconference win over Martin Luther last Sunday afternoon.

"It was a great way for us to end our season — and an even greater way for our two seniors to end their collegaite careers," said SMU coach Tony Guinn. "Kelli and Jennifer have meant so much to this team and to this program. They have been the foundation that has helped us turn this program around and they are going to be greatly missed."

Not by Martin Luther.

After Emily Duffey (Richfield, Minn.) got the Cardinals on the board in the third minute of the game, SMU's senior duo went to work. Krmpotich sandwiched her two goals around one by Johnson, as SMU pushed that advantage to 4-0 before the game was 11 minutes old.

Duffey added her second of the game to give the Cardinals a 5-0 halftime advantage, and Lisa Tlougan (Rochester, Minn.) closed out the scoring with her team-leading ninth of the season midway through the second half.

"Our goal this weekend was to come away with two wins, and that's exactly what we did," said Guinn, whose team snapped a season-high three-game losing streak — not to mention a six-game winless streak — with a 1-0 win over St. Catherine in their conference finale on Saturday. "We played very well (on Saturday) and we just picked up where we left off today.

"This is a great way for us to end the season — and, hopefully, it's a sign of good things to come next season."