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Saint Mary's Cardinals   0-0 MIAC / 4-8 Overall		Augsburg Auggies   0-0 MIAC, 6-9 Overall

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Last Action: The Cardinals had their three-game winning streak snapped Thursday, as Viterbo handed SMU a pair of losses, 7-2 and 10-8, at Max Molock Field. … Augsburg, meanwhile, has been off since last Saturday, when the Auggies completed their 10-game spring trip to Arizona with an 8-4 win and 15-6 loss to William Patterson.

Last Meeting: The Auggies collected a pair of victories over SMU a year ago. Augsburg slipped past the Cardinals 5-3 in the opener, then held off a seventh-inning SMU rally — in which the Cardinals scored six times — to complete the sweep with a 13-12 victory.

Saint Mary's Cardinal Notes: Thursday's games vs. Viterbo Thursday marked the first time since March 25, 2000 that the Cardinals hosted a nonconference game at Max Molock Field. SMU played its entire 2008 season on the road while “The Max” was renovated. … SMU got seven hits from seven different players in its Game 1 loss to Viterbo, while Tyler Kruse (Minneapolis, Minn.) went 3-for-4 with three RBIs and Kyle Ryan (St. Paul, Minn.) went 2-for-3 in the Game 2 loss. … SMU's 7-2 Game 2 loss snapped the Cardinals' three-game winning streak. … The Cardinals' two runs in the opener vs. the V-Hawks marked the only time in their last five games that SMU failed to score six or more runs. … The Cardinals' eight Game 2 runs were the second-most scored this season — SMU plated 11 in an 11-10 win over SUNY-New Paltz on March 15. … Those 11 runs vs. SUNY-New Paltz were the most since plating 15 in a 15-5 Game 2 win over Carleton on April 14, 2008. … SMU's 7-5, Game 2 win over Monmouth College on March 13 was not only the team's first win of the season, but it was also the first win for first-year head coach Nick Winecke. … Ryan Archambault (Faribault, Minn.) drilled his first collegiate home run — a solo shot over the left-field fence — in Thursday's Game 2 loss vs. Viterbo. … Zach Olberding (Maplewood, Minn.) and Curt Swenson (Woodbury, Minn.) lead the team in HRs with two each. Neither had a hit a collegiate home run before this season. … David Dahlstrom (Rochester, Minn.) picked up his first collegiate pitching win, tossing the last two innings of relief in the Cardinals' March 15 Game 1 win vs. SUNY-New Paltz. … Olberding leads the team with a .400 batting average, while also boasting a team-best .633 slugging percentage and a .455 on-base percentage. … Kyle Ryan (St. Paul, Minn.) is hitting .366 and leads the team in at-bats (41), runs (6), hits (15), and stolen bases (8). … Tyler Kruse (Minneapolis, Minn.), who hit a bases-clearing three-run double in Game 2 vs. Viterbo, boasts a team-best five extra-base hits. … Half of SMU's 54 hits have been for extra bases, including 19 doubles, three triples and five home runs. … Ryan had at least one hit in each game vs. Viterbo, extending his hitting streak to a team-best eight games, while Olberding and Andrew Warren (Stillwater, Minn.) have each hit safely in seven straight. … Ryan and Warren share the team lead with five multiple-hit games. … Andy Pass (Shoreview, Minn.) tossed a complete-game five-hitter in SMU's 6-2 win over SUNY-New Paltz on March 15. It was the first collegiate complete-game for the senior lefthander. … The Cardinals have stolen 19 bases on 23 attempts this season, while SMU catchers have thrown out 10 of 24 potential base stealers.

Augsburg Auggie Notes: Augsburg finished its 10-game spring trip with a 4-6 record, splitting with Concordia-WI (L, 8-3, W, 18-2), before falling twice to UW-La Crosse (11-2, 12-6). The Auggies then swept Knox (20-4, 14-9), were swept by Dickinson State (17-12, 16-3) and split vs. William Patterson (W, 8-4, L, 15-6). … Joe Pierce enters today's conference opener as the team's offensive leader, boasting a .419 batting average, while also leading the team in hits (18) and slugging percentage (.558). Pierce has also collected a team-leading six multiple-hit games. … Craig Harvey — who enters today's game riding a team-best 11-game hitting streak — boasts team-highs in runs (14), doubles (6), RBIs (15) and total bases (25), while Brent Kolbow, who is hitting .386, leads the team in walks (14), on-base percentage (.537) and stolen bases (six). … As a team, the Auggies are hitting .325, with 32 extra-base hits — including eight triples. … Augsburg's pitching staff is led by Kristofer Ozja (2.49 ERA, 21.2 IP, 20 Ks). … As a staff, the Auggies possess a 6.83 ERA, while their opponents are hitting .325 off them. … The Auggies have been outscored in every inning but the third — when Augsburg boasts a 22-7 scoring advantage. … Ten of the Auggies' 15 games have been decided by five runs or more. … Augsburg is 4-3 when scoring first and 2-6 when its opponent plates the game's first run.