The Records:

Saint Mary's Cardinals: 3-1 MIAC / 6-12 Overall

St. Thomas Tommies: 6-0 MIAC / 19-5 Overall

Last Action:
The Cardinals could not silence UW-La Crosse's mighty bats, as the Eagles belted three home runs en route to 8-0 and 5-1 nonconference victories over SMU Sunday at the SMU Field. St. Thomas, meanwhile, rolled to a pair of lopsided wins at Concordia Saturday, routing the Cobbers 12-2 and 10-1 in Moorhead, Minn.

Last Meeting — April 25, 2009:
St. Thomas silenced the Cardinals' bats in the teams' conference twinbill a year ago in Winona, Minn., as UST pitchers held SMU to just five hits in posting shutout wins of 7-0 and 8-0 at the SMU Field.

Saint Mary's Cardinals Around The Horn:
The Cardinals' 8-0 Game 1 loss to UW-La Crosse Sunday snapped their three-game winning streak. … Speaking of streak-snapping, Erin Stenseth (Eau Claire, Wis.) had her season-high 10-game hitting streak broken when UW-L held the Cardinal freshman hitless in three at-bats in the second game Sunday. … Stenseth finished the week hitting .467 (14-for-30), with four doubles, five runs and seven RBIs. … Joanna Mangan (Chicago, Ill.), who collected her first collegiate four-hit game against Macalester on Saturday, went 7-for-12 (.583) in five games last week and enters today's DH at St. Thomas with a team-best .436 batting average. … With her 14 hits in eight games last week, Stenseth pushed her batting average to .431. She also leads the team in hits (25), runs (11), doubles (7), total bases (32) and slugging percentage (.459). Stenseth also leads the team in multiple-hit games (7) and multiple-RBI games (4). … Stenseth has now hit safely in 15 of the team's 18 games and has reached base safely in 16 of 18. … Hanna Schmitt (Rosemount, Minn.) pushed her team-leading RBI total to 12 with a run-scoring single in the fourth inning of Game 2 vs. UW-La Crosse Sunday. … The Cardinals have allowed five or more runs in 11 of their 12 losses. … SMU has scored three of more runs in all six of their wins — including a season-high 11 runs vs. Macalester Saturday — while scoring two runs or less in 10 of their 12 losses. … Saturday's 11-6, eight-inning win over Macalester was the first extra-inning game of the season for SMU. … The Cardinals are 5-1 when scoring first, but 1-11 when their opponent plates the first run.

St. Thomas Tommies Around The Horn:
With their sweep of Concordia Saturday, the Tommies ran their winning streak to eight straight. UST has won 17 of its last 18 games. The Tommies have also won 14 in a row against conference opponents, dating back to April, 2009.… Four of UST's five losses have come against teams ranked in the NFCA Top 10 — including two one-run losses to Central (Iowa). … Over the last 11 seasons, UST has won the regular-season conference title eight times and finished second three times. The Tommies have also won all six MIAC playoffs crowns. … UST has outscored its opponents 51-13 during its current eight-game win streak. … The Tommies have collected 49 hits in their last four games combined — 27 vs. Augsburg last Thursday and 22 vs. Concordia Saturday. … Alison Wright went 4-for-5 against Concordia Saturday and moved into second place on the MIAC career hits list with 231. … Wright, one of four UST players hitting above .400 — and one of 11 Tommies hitting above .300 — leads the squad with a .486 batting average. Wright also shares the team lead in hits (34) with Erica Wilson. … Wright is batting .733 in her first six MIAC games and enters today's DH vs. SMU having hit safely in 18 straight games. She had a 34-game streak late in 2008 and early in 2009. … Wright has struck out just twice in 80 plate appearances this season. … Wilson and Sydney Marquardt boast a team-best 23 runs scored, while Marquardt also boasts team highs in doubles (11), home runs (3), RBIs (26), total bases (53) and slugging percentage (.768). She has also stolen seven bases in seven attempts. … As a team, the Tommies are hitting .344 and have stolen 42 bases. … Marta Radcliffe picked up both pitching victories vs. Concordia Saturday. The senior did not allow a hit or run in six innings, while walking two and striking out eight. … Radcliffe, one of eight UST players to pitch at least one inning this season, leads the pitching staff in wins (10), complete games (5), saves (1), innings pitched (81.1) and strikeouts (82). She boasts a 1.81 ERA and opponents are hitting .199 against her. … The Tommies have outscored their opponents 156-58. … UST is 11-2 when scoring in the first inning and 13-4 when scoring the game's first run. … The Tommies have not lost (17-0) when leading after the fourth inning.