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Saint Mary's Cardinals (3-2 Overall)

Loras Duhawks (1-3 Overall)

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Last Action:
The Cardinals matched NCAA Division II Winona State hit-for-hit and run-for-run for seven-and-a-half innings, but WSU's Seth Mc belted a two-run, eighth-inning home run, snapping a 1-1 tie and lifting the Warriors to a 3-1 nonconference win over SMU Thursday. The Duhawks kicked off their season in Auburndale, Fla., going 1-2 with five games cancelled due to rain. Loras then dropped its second straight on Wednesday, falling to Clarke 13-5 in Peosta, Iowa.

Last Meeting:
Today's DH vs. Loras is the first meeting between the Cardinals and the Duhawks since the 1992 season, when SMU came away with an 11-2 victory.

Saint Mary's Cardinals Around The Horn:
Gary Seifert (Prescott, Wis.) allowed just one run on two hits through six innings against Winona State Thursday. … As a team, SMU held WSU, ranked No. 3 in the latest NCAA Division II Central Region Poll, to just four hits. The Cardinals, meanwhile, was held to just three hits — coming off the bats of Chris Bogie (St. Paul, Minn.), Jake Lechner (Roseville, Minn.) and Andrew Warren (Stillwater, Minn.). … SMU faced nine different Winona State pitchers Thursday. … Brett Ferschweiler (Rochester, Minn.) and David Dahlstrom (Rochester, Minn.) combined on a seven-hit shutout vs. Indiana University Northwest in SMU's 7-0 Game 1 win on Monday. … SMU's 7-0 win was the second straight seven-hit shutout in the opening game of a doubleheader for the Cardinals, who got a complete-game seven-hitter from Andrew Ruf (Chippewa Falls, Wis.) in a 1-0 Game 1 win over Mayville State on March 10. … Casey Jacobson (Apple Valley, Minn.) earned the pitching win in Game 2 vs. Indiana University, tossing four innings of one-hit relief. … SMU pitchers struck out 21 RedHawk batters during Monday's doubleheader sweep, and have now fanned 30 batters through four games. … SMU's 10 hits vs. Indiana University came from seven different players — including three hits from Zach Olberding (Maplewood, Minn.) and two from Lechner. … Lechner has scored a team-high three runs, while also sharing the team lead in hits (4) with Bogie. … As a team, the Cardinals are a perfect 15-for-15 in stolen bases. … Of SMU's 15 runs scored through five games, only one — John Swenson's (Eagan, Minn.) Game 1, first-inning RBI triple — has been scored via a hit. SMU's lone run vs. Winona State Thursday came via a wild pitch. … After needing six games to pick up their first win of the season a year ago, SMU won its first game in 2010. The 1-0 victory over Mayville State was SMU's first season-opening win since the Cardinals kicked off the 2005 season with a 3-2 win over Valley City State.

Loras Duhawks Around The Horn:
The Duhawks are coming off their first Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference title in 57 years, as Loras went 15-7 in league play en route to a 25-10 overall mark. … John Schroeder led the Duhawk offense down south, hitting .455 (5-for-11) with a team-best four runs scored an a .545 slugging percentage. … Mike Canebello also hit over .400 in Florida, going 5-for-12 (.417) — with all five hits coming in Loras' 9-7 win over Ripon — while B.J. Juergens, who also put together a five-hit effort against Ripon, led the team in doubles (6) and RBIs (6). … Loras returns virtually its entire pitching staff, anchored by juniors Kyler Laurie, Cole Boge, Kevin Moriarty, and sophomore Austin Safranski. Those four combined for a 22-6 record for the Duhawks a year ago. …  Safranski threw a team-leading 7.1 innings in Florida, scattering six hits, while allowing two earned runs and striking out six. He earned the team's lone win with 6.1 innings of five-hit ball vs. Saint Joseph's College of Maine, while compiling a 2.45 earned-run average.