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Saint Mary's Cardinals (3-5 Overall)

Winona State Warriors (12-2 Overall)

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Last Action:
The Cardinals went 3-5 during their trip to the Sun West Tournament in Orange, Calif.. SMU split its two games against Kenyon (winning 4-3 and losing 5-0), while also beating Hastings (9-1) and Puget Sound (15-8), and falling to Cal State-San Marcos (5-0), Chapman (4-2), Tufts (10-0) and 11th-ranked Linfield (6-0). Winona State, meanwhile, went 2-2 during its four games in St. Cloud, Minn., last weekend. The Warriors sandwiched a 3-1 win over St. Cloud State and a 6-0 triumph over University of Mary between a 1-0 loss to UM-Duluth and a 5-4 loss to St. Cloud State.

Last Meeting:
The Cardinals and Warriors have not met since the 2001 season, when Winona State came away with a pair of one-run wins, 1-0 and 5-4 in eight innings.

Saint Mary's Cardinals Around The Horn:
SMU's stay in California proved to be a bit streaky. After opening with a 5-0 loss to Kenyon, the Cardinals won three straight, then closed out the trip with four straight losses. … SMU scored 28 runs in its three Sun West Tournament wins, but managed just two runs in its five losses. … Kellie Simons (Richfield, Minn.) was the Cardinals' offensive leader at the Sun West Tournament, hitting .458 with team-highs in hits (11), total bases (16) and slugging percentage (.667). … Erin Stenseth (Eau Claire, Wis) and Julianne Bartosz (Mokena, Ill.) also hit over .409 during SMU's stay in California, batting .450 and .409, respectively. Stenseth collected a team-high three doubles and scored a team-leading six runs. … Paige Carter (Rosemount, Minn.) belted her first collegiate home runs in SMU's 9-1 win over Hastings (Neb.) on March 18. Simons and Katy Gannon (Roselle, Ill.) also hit home runs during the team's spring trip. … Carter, Stenseth and Simons all went 4-for-5 in SMU's 15-8 victory over Hastings (Neb.) on March 18. … Simons and Bartosz lead the team with three multiple-hit games each, while Carter and Hanna Schmitt (Rosemount, Minn.) have each compiled two multiple-RBI games. … Schmitt also had her team-leading four-game hitting streak snapped with an 0-for-2 day vs. Chapman on March 20. … Jaci Prondzinski (Ettrick, Wis.) collected two of SMU's three pitching wins, going 2-1 with a 3.71 ERA. Prondzinski threw 22.2 innings, allowing 12 earned runs, while striking out seven. Mallory Betzold (Farmington, Minn.), meanwhile, threw a team-leading 25.0 innings, striking out eight. … The fourth inning was the Cardinals' best — and worst — during its eight-game spring trip, as SMU scored 11 of its 30 runs in the fourth. On the flip side, the Cardinals also surrendered 17 runs in the fourth. … SMU is 2-0 when scoring first, and 1-5 when its opponent scores first. … 

Winona State Warriors Around The Horn:
The Warriors opened the season with a perfect 10-0 run during its season-opening spring trip to Orlando, Fla., then followed that up with a 2-2 record in four games in St. Cloud, Minn., last weekend. … WSU enters today's doubleheader ranked No. 3 in the latest NFCA Division II Top 25. … WSU is coming off a 2009 season in which the Warriors went 50-13 and finished fifth at the NCAA Division II College World Series. … Stacey Struzynski enters today's DH vs. SMU with a microscopic 0.16 ERA. She also leads the team in innings pitched (42.2), wins (6), complete games (6) and strikeouts (66). … Struzynski was named NFCA National Pitcher of the Week, allowing just eight hits — including a pair of one-hitters — and not surrendering a run in her first four starts. She followed that up by tossing no-hitter against No. 16 Bloomsburg (Pa.) on March 9. … Samantha Hildebrandt leads the Warrior offense hitting .500. She is one of eight WSU players hitting above .300 and also leads the team in runs (11), triples (2), home runs (2), total bases (28) and slugging percentage .933. … Annie Stuedemann, who is hitting .450 and has started 13 of the team's 14 games, boasts a team-best 18 hits. … WSU has outscored its opponent in every inning, including 15-4 in the first and 18-0 in the fifth. … Both of WSU's losses have been by one run — a 1-0 loss to UM-Duluth on March 20 and a 5-4 setback vs. St. Cloud State on March 21.