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Saint Mary's Cardinals (0-0 Overall)

Mayville State (N.D.) Comets (0-0 Overall)

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Last Action: Today's DH is the season opener for both SMU and Mayville State.

Last Meeting: Today's DH is also the first-ever meeting between the Cardinals and the Comets.

Saint Mary's Cardinal Notes: In a season filled with highs and lows, the Cardinals closed out their 2009 season with the highest of highs, rallying from a 4-2, seventh-inning deficit with three two-out runs to knock off seventh-ranked St. Thomas. … Coach Nick Winecke earned collegiate coaching win No. 1 with a 7-5 victory over Monmouth College on March 13, 2009. Winecke's first MIAC win came with a 6-3, Game 2 victory over Bethel on April 18. … Zach Olberding (Maplewood, Minn.) closed out the 2009 season as the team's batting leader with a team-best .394 batting average. … Kyle Ryan (St. Paul, Minn.) boasted a team-leading 122 at-bats — it was the fifth-most single-season at-bats in SMU history. Ryan also led the team in runs (19), hits (41) and stolen bases (14). … Ryan and Olberding shared the team lead with 12 multiple-hit games, while Olberding and Tyler Kruse led the team in multiple-RBI games with five each. … With his two-run home run in the sixth inning of Game 1 vs. Bethel on April 18, Jack Dwyer (Minneapolis, Minn.) became the fifth SMU player to hit his first collegiate home run last season. Kruse (vs. Gustavus), Ryan Archambault (Faribault, Minn. / vs. Augsburg), Olberding (vs. Monmouth), and Curt Swanson (Woodbury, Minn. / vs. Monmouth) are the other four. All nine of SMU's home runs were hit by players with a combined total of zero home runs prior to last season. …  The Cardinals' 10-0, 16-0 nonconference sweep of Finlandia on April 23 was a historic performance on a number of different levels: SMU's 16 Game 2 runs were the most since the Cardinals plated 17 in a 17-4 win over Carleton on April 15, 2007; The last time SMU shut out an opponent was a 6-0 victory over Framingham State on March 17, 2007; The last time the Cardinals won back-to-back games via shutout was 2003, when SMU beat UW-Platteville 8-0 on March 22, then blanked Carleton 6-0 the following day; The last time SMU swept a doubleheader without giving up a run was April 24, 2001, when the Cardinals put up a pair of 5-0 wins vs. Carleton; Finlandia's two hits in Game 1 were the fewest allowed by Cardinal pitchers since David Baker and David Dahlstrom (Rochester, Minn.) combined on a one-hit shutout in a 6-0 win vs. Framingham State on March 17, 2007; The six hits allowed by SMU in the DH vs. Finlandia were the fewest since holding Carleton to three hits in both ends of a conference twinbill on April 29, 2001. …  SMU finished its doubleheader vs. Finlandia with 33 hits — including a season-high 20 in Game 2. It was the most hits in a game since SMU banged out 22 in a 15-5 win over Carleton a year ago. … SMU scored five or more runs in all eight of its wins.

Mayville State Comets: The Comets, an NAIA school, are coming off a 16-23 season a year ago, including a 4-10 mark in the Dakota Athletic Conference. … The Comets went 1-2 in the Dakota Athletic Conference Tournament, sandwiching 8-6 and 10-0 losses to Dakota State around a 16-4 win over Minot State. … Mayville State returns its top three offensive performers from a year ago in Patrick McCray, Jake McLain and Taylor Fuhs. McCray hit a team-best .396, while McLain hit at a .364 clip and Fuhs finished at .351. … McLain also led the team in at-bats (118), hits (36), runs (43), doubles (11), home runs (7) and RBIs (25). … McCray shared the team-lead in home runs (7), while also leading the team in triples (2) and slugging percentage (.679), while finishing second to McLain in RBIs (23). … Dan Silvia, Matthew Mueller and Zachary Schafer return as the team's workhorses on the mound, having each appeared in 13, 11 and 11 games, respectively. … Gnadt posted a 2-1 record with one save and a 1.69 earned-run-average. … The Comets faced another MIAC foe a year ago, splitting their nonconference doubleheader vs. Augsburg with a 3-0 loss and a 4-3 win.