WINONA, Minn. – The Saint Mary's University volleyball team honors its four graduating seniors, who are playing their final regular-season home match Tuesday evening when the Cardinals play host to Northwestern (Minn.) in a 7 p.m. nonconference contest.

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Last Action: The Cardinals are coming off a thrilling, come-from-behind 3-2 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference victory over St. Catherine on Wednesday at the SMU Gym. Northwestern, meanwhile, pushed its Upper Midwest Athletic Conference record to 9-0 with a 3-1 win over UM-Morris Friday evening in St. Paul, Minn.

Last Meeting: September 19, 2009: The Cardinals and Eagles have already met once this season. Northwestern handed SMU a 27-25 setback in the opening set of their pool play match at the Simpson Invitational, only to have the Cardinals rebound with wins in the next two sets en route to a 3-2 (25-27, 25-15, 26-24, 21-25, 15-10) victory.

Cardinal Notes: The Cardinals are coming off their third straight five-set match, having already gone five in a 3-2 win vs. Saint Benedict (Oct. 8) and a 3-2 loss to Concordia (Oct. 10) prior to Wednesday's win over St. Catherine. … SMU posted season highs in digs (85) and kills (79) en route to their 18th win of the season. The Cardinals' 79 kills are the most since recording 83 kills in a five-set, 3-2 win over Saint Benedict on Sept. 24, 2004. … Jessica Mate (St. Charles, Ill.) who earned MIAC Hitter of the Week honors after collecting a season-best 19 kills in both of SMU's matchs vs. CSB and Concordia, collected a career-best 24 kills and hit .444 in SMU's win over St. Catherine. … Brittany Cherwinka (Faribault, Minn.) recorded her second 60-plus assist performance in her last three matches, dishing out a career-high 65 assists vs. the Wildcats Wednesday. The senior setter, who is just 55 assists away from 2,000 for her three-year SMU career, has now recorded 181 assists in SMU's last three matches combined. … Courtney Runge (St. James, Minn.) posted a season- and career-high 21 digs vs. St. Catherine, moving the senior within 22 digs of 1,000 for her career. … Erika Hurley (Chatfield, Minn.) finished with a career-high 20 digs vs. the Wildcats. … Runge and Sarah Gardner (Rochester, Minn.) have each eclipsed the century mark in both kills and digs, with Runge boasting 232 kills and 284 digs, while Gardner has totaled a team-leading 280 kills and 132 digs. … Tara Rasmussen (Kasson, Minn.) leads the team in digs with 370 and is one of six Cardinals with 100 or more digs. …  With Wednesday's win, SMU improved to 5-2 in five-set matches. SMU is also 8-3 in three-setters and 5-1 in four-set matches. … The Cardinals enter tonight's match having won eight of their last nine matches and 10 of their last 12. … Tonight's match is the final nonconference match — and last home match — for the Cardinals, who close out the regular season with four conference road matches.

Northwestern Eagle Notes: With their win over UM-Morris Friday, the Eagles collected their second straight win. Since dropping a 3-2 decision to Saint Mary's on Sept. 19 at the Simpson Tournament, Northwestern has won 12 of its last 13 matches. … Northwestern's win over UM-Morris Friday was the Eagles' 24th straight conference victory. Since the beginning of the 2007 season, Northwestern is 36-1 in UMAC matches. … Each of Northwestern's last three losses have gone the maximum five sets. … Ten of Northwestern's 15 wins have been sweeps. … Greta King and Chelsea Koth each had 10 kills to lead the Eagle offense against UM-Morris on Friday. … Koth now leads the team with 275 kills and is one of five Eagles with 100 or more kills. … Hillary Slagter and Leah Kostek have shared the setting duties for the Eagles, with Slagter dishing out 471 assists, while Kostek is close behind with 432. … Kelsey Korporal leads the team in digs with 318. She is one of three Eagles with 200 or more digs, and one of six with at least 100 digs.