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Saint Mary's Cardinals   5-8-1 / 6-12-1Overall		Augsburg Auggies   1-13-0 / 4-17-0 Overall

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Last Action: The Cardinals held the high-scoring Tommies to just two goals on Saturday, but it wasn't enough, as UST completed the two-game sweep of SMU with a 2-1 win Saturday at the SMU Ice Arena. St. Thomas opened the series with a 5-0 victory on Friday in Mendota Heights, Minn. … Augsburg, meanwhile, snapped a season-high seven-game losing streak with a 2-1 win over Hamline Saturday in St. Paul, Minn. The Pipers had defeated Augsburg 5-3 in the teams' first game Friday in Minneapolis, Minn.

A Year Ago: The Auggies collected three of a possible four points vs. SMU a year ago, winning 5-3 on their home ice, then posting a 3-3 tie at the SMU Ice Arena the following day.

Playoff Picture: With four conference games, the Cardinals are tied for sixth with Saint Benedict, just one point behind fifth-place St. Olaf. Gustavus, St. Thomas and Bethel have already clinched playoff berths, leaving Concordia (17 points), St. Olaf (12) and SMU (11) and CSB (11) to battle it out for the remaining to spots. SMU closes out its season with two games vs. Augsburg and Saint Benedict. Concordia has Gustavus this weekend and St. Catherine the following, while St. Olaf finishes with St. Thomas and Augsburg, and CSB has Hamline and Saint Mary's.

Cardinal Notes: With their losses vs. St. Thomas last weekend, SMU dropped to 3-4-1 in its last eight games. … Friday's 5-0 loss to St. Thomas marked the only time in SMU's last five games in which the Cardinals allowed more than two goals. … On the flip side, SMU managed just one goal vs. UST and has been held to one goal or less in 11 of its 12 losses. … Madeline Lenz (White Bear Lake, Minn.), who stopped all 26 shots she faced in recording her first collegiate shutout on Jan. 31 vs. Bethel, stopped 45 shots in SMU's two games vs. St. Thomas last weekend. … SMU's 4-0 win vs. Bethel on Jan. 30 was the Cardinals' first shutout victory of the season and first since Brittany Lemke stopped 26 shots in blanking Hamline 2-0 on Jan. 18, 2008. … SMU's 3-3 tie vs. St. Olaf on Jan. 23 was the Cardinals' fourth overtime game of the season — and the first one to end in a tie. … Katie Cachey (Orland Park, Ill.) and Ingrid Klockars (Wheaton, Ill.) lead the team in goals with four. Cachey and Klockars have both scored three of their four goals on the power play. … Alex Braun (Darwin, Minn.), meanwhile, is the team's assist leader with five. … SMU's six game-winning goals have come from six different players. … Jamie Henneman (Countryside, Ill.) scored SMU's goal in Saturday's 2-1 loss, a power play tally that gives the Cardinals 14 power play goals this season. SMU scored just nine power play goals all season last year.
 
Auggie Notes: Saturday's 2-1 win vs. Hamline snapped the Auggies' seven-game losing streak and was Augsburg's first conference win of the season. … Augsburg's 17 losses have come during 10-game and seven-game losing streaks. The Auggies' three wins, meanwhile, were back-to-back-to-back wins over Finlandia (twice, 5-0 and 4-3 in OT) and Plymouth State (5-3). … Augsburg has been held to one goal or less in 15 of their 17 losses. …  Kali Holst leads the team in goals (9) and points (13), while Tiffany Magnuson is the team-leader in assists with eight. … Toni Menth has been the team's workhorse in goal, appearing in 19 of the Auggies' 21 games. She has posted a 5.31 goals-against-average and an .880 save percentage. … The Auggies have been outscored in all three periods — 32-13 in the first, 44-10 in the second and 36-9 in the third. … Augsburg has won just once in eight hom