The Records:

Saint Mary's Cardinals: 7-5 MIAC / 10-18 Overall

Gustavus Gusties: 12-2 MIAC / 19-7 Overall

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Last Action:
The Cardinals rebounded from a heartbreaking, 3-1, eight-inning loss in Game 1 against Hamline — in which the Pipers earned the win with a two-run, walk-off home run in the bottom of the eighth — with a 6-4 victory in the nightcap to earn the conference split in St. Paul, Minn. Gustavus, meanwhile, collected a 3-2, nine-inning victory in the opening game of its MIAC twinbill against Augsburg, but the Auggies turned the tables in Game 2, scoring twice in the bottom of the seventh to hand GAC just its second conference loss of the season, 4-3, in Minneapolis, Minn.

Last Meeting — April 19, 2009:
SMU rallied from a 4-0 deficit with three runs in the top of the seventh — and the tying run on third with two outs — but came up that one run short, falling 4-3 in the opener in St. Peter, Minn. The Gusties then rode the pitching arm of Erin Truebenbach in Game 2, as Truebenbach limited SMU to one hit in lifting GAC to a sweep-clinching, 4-0 victory.

Saint Mary's Cardinals Around The Horn:
Mallory Betzold (Farmington, Minn.) drove in four of the team's seven runs in their conference split against Hamline Tuesday. Betzold had SMU's lone RBI in the opener, and then went 3-for-4 with three RBIs in the Cardinals' 6-4 Game 2 win. The SMU senior also threw all 14 1/3 innings on the mound, allowing six earned runs, while striking out 10. … Betzold, Erin Stenseth (Eau Claire, Wis.), Katy Gannon (Roselle, Ill.) and Morgan Stock (Amboy, Minn.) all had two hits in Tuesday's 3-1, eight-inning loss to Hamline, while Betzold and Hanna Schmitt (Rosemount, Minn.) each went 3-for-4 in the nightcap. … Angie Diercks (Red Wing, Minn.) went 2-for-3 in Game 2 vs. Hamline — including her first collegiate home run, a solo shot in the fifth inning. … With her three hits vs. Hamline, Stenseth pushed her team-leading batting average to .374, while Kellie Simons (Richfield, Minn. / 352), Joanna Mangan (Chicago, Ill. / .333) and Gannon (.319) are also hitting above .300. … Stenseth also leads the team in runs (18), hits (34), doubles (9) and RBIs (14), while sharing the team lead with Simons in total bases (46) and slugging percentage (.505). … Three of SMU's six home runs this season have been career firsts — Diercks, Stenseth (vs. Augsburg) and Paige Carter (Rosemount, Minn. / vs. Hastings, Neb.). … Gannon and Stenseth now share the team lead with nine multiple-hit games, while Stenseth also boasts a team-leading five multiple-RBI games. … The Cardinals have allowed five or more runs in 15 of their 18 losses. … SMU has scored three of more runs in all 10 of their wins — including a season-high 11 vs. Macalester on April 10, and equaled vs. Augsburg on April 17 — while scoring two runs or less in 14 of their 18 losses. … SMU's 3-1, eight-inning loss to Hamline on Tuesday was the Cardinals' second extra-inning game of the season — with both games being decided in the eighth inning. … The Cardinals are 8-1 when scoring first, but 2-17 when their opponent plates the first run. … The Cardinals put an end to a 20-game winless streak against St. Thomas with a 3-0 win over the Tommies on April 13, dating back to a 1-0 SMU victory during the 2001 season — when current head coach Jen Miller was the team's starting catcher. … SMU also had the honor of snapping a pair of lengthy UST streaks — 71 games without shutout loss dating back to a 2008 loss to UW-Oshkosh in the NCAA national tournament and 165 without a shutout loss to an MIAC school, dating back to a 1-0 loss to Gustavus in 2003. 

Gustavus Gusties Around The Horn:
Tuesday's Game 2 loss to Augsburg snapped the Gusties' 10-game winning streak. … GAC had outscored its opponents 75-11 during its 10-game winning streak, including scoring 10 or more runs four times. … Dani Cattrysse went 3-for-4 with a pair of RBIs in Game 1 vs. Augsburg Tuesday, while Emily Wendorff was 3-for-3 with two RBIs in Game 2. … With those three Game 2 hits, Wendorff pushed her team-leading batting average to .418. She is one of nine GAC players hitting above .300. … Wendorff also leads the team with 33 hits, while Lisa Klass (.386) is the team leader in runs (28), triples (4), total bases (51), slugging percentage (.614), walks (10) and on-base percentage (.452). Klass has also stolen seven bases in seven attempts. … As a team, the Gusties — who are batting .322 — have collected 66 extra-base hits, including 42 doubles, 12 triples and 12 home runs. … Betsie Collins and Callie Nelsen have seen the majority of the work on the mound, with Collins throwing a team-high 69.1 innings. She boasts a 3.37 ERA and an 8-3 record with 88 strikeouts, while Nelsen is 7-2 with a 2.21 ERA and 51 strikeouts in 57 innings. … Gustavus has outscored its opponents 39-10 in the first inning and 41-6 in the second. The Gusties are 17-2 when scoring first and have scored at least one run in the first inning in 15 of their 26 games.