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Saint Mary's Cardinals   6-6 MIAC, 14-10 Overall		Augsburg Auggies    4-8 MIAC, 6-24 Overall

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Last Action: The Cardinals gave up run in the top of the seventh inning, as Hamline broke a 3-3 tie and handed SMU a 4-3 setback in the first game of their Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader at the SMU Field Tuesday. The Pipers then completed the sweep, outlasting the Cardinals 5-2 in the nightcap. … Augsburg, meanwhile, gave No. 2-ranked St. Thomas all it could handle Tuesday, falling to the Tommies 4-1 and 3-2 in Minneapolis, Minn.

Last Meeting: Katy Gannon (Roselle, Ill.) went 6-for-8 with five runs scored, a double, home run and three RBIs, while Danielle Geske (Rosemount, Minn.) belted her team-leading sixth home run and drove in four runs, as the Cardinals posted a key 5-1, 9-4 sweep of Augsburg in Minneapolis, Minn., a year ago.

Saint Mary's Cardinal Notes: Despite their two losses to Hamline, the Cardinals' MIAC Tournament hopes remained a bit cloudy. With 10 conference games left, including two each vs. the conference's top two teams — Gustavus (Sunday) and St. Thomas (on April 26) — SMU is currently sitting at 6-6 and in sixth in the conference standings, two losses behind St. Catherine (8-4) and Bethel (6-4).  … Cassie Otte (Randolph, Minn.) collected two of SMU's three Game 1 hits vs. Hamline Tuesday, while Mallory Betzold (Farmington, Minn.) was 2-for-2 to fuel the Cardinals' five-hit Game 2 attack. … Four of SMU's five runs vs. the Pipers came in the sixth inning. …  SMU's 7-2, Game 1 loss vs. Concordia last Saturday was the Cardinals' first extra-inning game of the season and the longest extra-inning game since the 2006 season, when SMU played two nine-inning games, one 10-inning contest and one 11-inning marathon. … The Cobbers' seven runs in Game 2 Saturday marked the most allowed by SMU in a win since the Cardinals beat Buena Vista 17-9 on March 8, 2008. … Joanna Mangan (Chicago, Ill.) recorded her first collegiate four-hit gamein Game 2 vs. Concordia. It was the fourth four-hit game of the season for an SMU player. … Otte now leads the team with 15 multiple-hit games, including six three-hit games. … Otte also leads the team in average (.473), at-bats (91), runs (28), hits (43), total bases (46) and stolen bases (15). … Katy Gannon (Roselle, Ill.) is the team's RBI leader (23), while also leading the team in home runs (4) and slugging percentage (.585). Gannon also boasts a team-best eight extra-base hits and five multiple-RBI games. … Gannon was held hitless in Game 1 vs. Saint Benedict on April 4, snapping her season-, team- and career-high 14-game hitting streak. … Jessica Sharpe (Ottawa, Ill.) belted her first collegiate home run vs. the Cobbers Tuesday, launching a solo shot in the opener. …  and marking the first time this season she failed to collect at least one hit.  Gannon has hit safely in 19 of the team's 22 games. …SMU's pitching staff enters today's DH boasting a 3.14 earned-run-average. … Betzold has thrown a team-leading 95.1 innings, posting a 3.23 earned-run-average and a 9-8 record, while also striking out a team-best 40. … SMU's 27 runs vs. Mount Mary on March 20 marked the second time this season the Cardinals have plated 20 or more runs. SMU opened the season with a 29-0 rout of North Central (Minn.) on March 14. … SMU's 27- and 29-run outbursts were the second- and third-most runs scored in school history, behind the 43 runs the Cardinals plated in a 43-2 win over St. Catherine on April 24, 1997. … The Cardinals have scored 10 or more runs eight times this season. … The Cardinals have outscored their first 24 opponents 178-84 — including 33-5 in the second inning and 48-18 in the third. SMU has given up 25 runs combined from the sixth inning on — including six in Game 1 vs. Concordia last Saturday (one in the seventh and five in the ninth) and one in Game 2 (one in the sixth). … SMU is 7-0 when scoring in the first inning and 10-0 when scoring the game's first run. … Five of SMU's 14 wins have come via shutout, while the Cardinals are 11-0 when holding their opponent to two runs or less … On the flip side, SMU has been held under three runs in eight of its 10 losses.

Augsburg Auggie Notes: Tuesday's Game 1 loss to St. Thomas snapped the Auggies' four-game winning streak. … After opening the season with losses in 18 of their first 20 games, Augsburg is 7-5 in its last 12. … Tiffany Magnuson boasts a team-best .407 batting average, while also leading the team in at-bats (86), runs (23), hits (35), doubles (5), triples (5), total bases (50), slugging percentage (.581), on-base percentage (.514) and stolen bases (16). … Magnuson, who enters today's games riding a team-high nine-game hitting streak, also boasts 11 multiple-hit games, while Kylee Persing has collected six multiple-RBI games, including a four-RBI effort in the Auggies' 11-8 Game 2 loss to St. Catherine on April 2. … Magnuson has not been thrown out trying to steal, going a perfect 16-for-16. As a team,, the Auggies have swiped 55 bases in 64 attempts.  … Jessa Hinz and Kylee Persing have accounted for Augsburg's two home runs. … Sarah Green and Melissa Larsen have been the Auggies' workhorses, throwing 76.2 and 75.2 innings, respectively. Green carries a 4.11 ERA into today's DH, while Larsen boasts a 5.64 ERA with a team-leading three wins. … Eight different pitchers have thrown at least one-third of an inning for the Auggies this season. … The Auggies have been outscored in every inning by the sixth, including 40-2 in the second and 42-7 in the fourth. Augsburg holds a 22-9 edge in the sixth inning. … Augsburg is 0-17 when being held to two runs or less.