MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — The Saint Mary's University women's basketball team, looking to rebound from Wednesday's 55-52 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference loss to St. Olaf, head to Augsburg on Friday for their final game of the season. Tip-off vs. the Auggies is set for 5:45 p.m.
The Records:
Saint Mary's Cardinals (4-17 MIAC / 5-19 Overall)
Augsburg Auggies (3-18 MIAC / 3-21 Overall)
Last Action: The Cardinals traded jabs with St. Olaf for the game's first 35 minutes, but over the final five minutes, their shooting touch turned ice-cold, as SMU missed its final seven field goal attempts in falling to the Oles
55-52 Wednesday in Northfield, Minn. Augsburg, meanwhile, whittled a 10-point halftime deficit down to one, but faltered down the stretch in falling to Bethel
83-73 Wednesday in Minneapolis, Minn.
Last Meeting — J
anuary 18, 2010: Shannon Renne drained 6 of 10 3-point attempts against the Cardinals en route to a game-high 26 points, as she led the Auggies to their second straight 78-point performance — and their second straight win, a
78-65 MIAC decision at the SMU Gym.
Saint Mary's Cardinal Notes: Jessica Thone (Woodbury, Minn.) finished as the team's scoring leader Wednesday vs. St. Olaf, as the freshman tossed in a game-high 15 points. … Thone, who has now led the team in scoring in back-to-back games, has accounted for three of the Cardinals' five 20-point performances this season (27, 22 and 21 points).
Jess Miller (Carver, Minn.) (27 points) and
Cherie Kulig (Independence, Wis.) (24 points) are the other two. … Miller, who extended her consecutive starts string to 74 Wednesday against St. Olaf, chipped in 13 points against the Oles Wednesday. Miller has now scored in double figures in 18 of the team's 24 games. Miller has also scored 20 or more points three times this season — including a career-best 29 points on Dec. 7 against Gustavus. … The Cardinals have recorded two double-doubles this season — Thone scored 13 points and added 11 rebounds vs. Bethel on Jan. 23 en route to her first collegiate double-double, while
Jamie Stefely (Lisle, Ill.) put together a 16-point, 16-rebound effort vs. Hamline on Jan. 6. … Miller enters today's game boasting a team-best 13.8 ppg scoring average. She also ranks sixth in the MIAC in scoring, averaging 14.8 ppg in 20 conference games … Thone leads the team in 3-pointers (42), while Kulig boasts a team-high 75 assists. … SMU's 58-49 win over Carleton on Feb. 3 snapped a couple of streaks for the Cardinals, who not only put an end to their season-high seven-game losing streak, but also snapped an 11-year winless drought at Carleton, where SMU had not won since a 77-73 win on Feb. 21, 1998. … The Cardinals' 80-70 loss vs. Carleton in their first meeting on Jan. 4 was the first OT game of the season and just the second in the last three seasons for SMU. The Cardinals beat Bethel 73-69 in double overtime a year ago.
Augsburg Auggie Notes: Wednesday's loss to Bethel extended the Auggies' losing streak to 10 straight. Augsburg has not one since beating SMU in the teams' first meeting on Jan. 18. … Augsburg's 73 points vs. the Royals Wednesday's marked the Auggies' highest offensive output since posting back-to-back 78-point efforts against Carleton and Saint Mary's on Jan. 16 and Jan. 18. … Serenae Levine scored a team-high 17 points for the Auggies vs. Bethel on Wednesday. She was one of four Augsburg players in double figures against the Royals. Brittany Dyshaw (16 points), Lexi Thompson (11 points) and Shannon Renne (10 points) were the other three. … Renne enter's today's game vs. Saint Mary's as the team's scoring leader (11.3 ppg). … Two of the Auggies' three wins have come on their home floor. Augsburg is 1-13 away from Si Melby Hall.
