WINONA, Minn. — The Saint Mary's University baseball, coming off a pair of Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference losses to nationally ranked St. Thomas at Max Molock Field on Tuesday, step out of conference play on Sunday, hosting UW-Platteville for a nine-inning, nonconference contest at Max Molock Field. First pitch is slated for 1 p.m.
The Teams:
Saint Mary's Cardinals: 11-24 Overall
UW-Platteville Pioneers: 19-15 Overall
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Last Action:
The Cardinals got a one-hit pitching performance from
Brett Ferschweiler (Rochester, Minn.) in Game 1 against St. Thomas Tuesday, but three costly errors allowed UST to score three runs in a
3-0 victory. The Tommies banged out 21 hits in the nightcap, beating SMU
14-1 to complete the MIAC sweep at Max Molock Field. UW-Platteville, meanwhile, dropped a 5-2 decision to Coe on Saturday. UW-P had entered the weekend coming off a conference split against UW-La Crosse on Wednesday, winning the opener 5-4 in 10 innings, while managing just one hit in a 6-1 loss in Game 2 in La Crosse, Wis.
Last Meeting —
March 22, 2003:
SMU used a pair of lead-off walks to spark a pair of two-run innings as the Cardinals beat UW-Platteville
5-1 in the first game of their nonconference doubleheader in Irving, Texas. The Cardinals weren't about to wait for any free passes in the second game, as SMU opened three of the five innings they scored in with a hit, and rode the three-hit, complete-game pitching of Aric Kittleson to an
8-0 victory.
Saint Mary's Cardinals Around The Horn:
Brett Ferschweiler (Rochester, Minn.) turned in a career-best pitching performance in SMU's opener against St. Thomas Tuesday, limiting the high-powered Tommies to just one hit — a sixth-inning, one-out single. Ferschweiler retired the first 13 batters he faced en route to his first collegiate one-hitter, but three errors kept him from earning his fourth win of the season. … Ferschweiler finished with four strikeouts in recording his second straight, and team-leading fourth, complete game. The senior right-hander also leads the team in ERA (4.40), wins (3), innings pitched (43.0) and strikeouts (27). …
Vince Lulic (Mendota Heights, Minn.) collected two of SMU's five hits vs. the Tommies Tuesday, going 1-for-1 with a walk in Game 1 and 1-for-3 in the nightcap. … Daniel Geraghty (Chicago, Ill.) picked up SMU's other hit vs. UST in the opener, while
Curt Swanson (Woodbury, Minn.) and
Chris Bogie (St. Paul, Minn.) had the Cardinals' other two Game 2 hits. … Bogie's second-inning single drove in the Cardinals' lone run vs. St. Thomas Tuesday. … Swanson enters today's doubleheader hitting a team-leading .327. He is one of four SMU players hitting above .300. … Swanson also leas the team in hits (36), home runs (3), total bases (53) and slugging percentage (.482). … Swanson collected his team-leading 12th multiple-hit game with his 2-for-5 effort in Game 2 vs. Hamline last Sunday, while
Ryan Archambault (Faribault, Minn.) recorded his team-high eighth multiple-RBI game with two RBIs in Game 2 vs. the Pipers Sunday. …
Kyle Ryan (St. Paul, Minn.), who leads the team in at-bats (123), runs (24) and stolen bases (15-for-15), has had at least one hit in 22 of the team's 35 games, while reaching base safely in 27 of 35 contests. … Ryan and
Andrew Warren (Stillwater, Minn.) are the only two Cardinals to have started all 35 games this season. Ryan has started every game since the team's season opener his freshman year, a span of 133 consecutive starts. … The Cardinals erupted for a season-high seven third-inning runs in beating Gustavus 10-3 in the first game of their MIAC doubleheader on April 10. … With their Game 1 win over Saint John's on April 21, SMU picked up its 11th win of the season, giving the Cardinals their most wins since 2005, when they finished 16-15. … Last Sunday's 11-inning loss to Hamline was the fourth extra-inning game of the season for the Cardinals — and the longest game since beating St. Olaf 3-2 on April 23, 2003. … The Cardinals have won more games (7) when their opponent scores first than they have when they score the game's first run (4). … SMU is 9-1 when leading after six innings, but 0-21 when trailing heading into the seventh inning.
UW-Platteville Pioneers Around The Horn:
UW-Platteville entered its Saturday doubleheader at Coe having won five of its last six. During that stretch, the Pioneers scored 11 runs three times and 21 runs in one other game. On the flip side, however, UWP also surrendered 10 runs in three of those six games — including an 11-10, 11-inning win over UW-Stout on April 24 and another 11-10 win over the Blue Devils the following day. … In their first 33 games, UW-Platteville has scored 10 or more runs 15 times and has surpassed 20 runs on four occasions. … The Pioneers clubbed a school-record 15 home runs while defeating Carroll 32-8 and 23-15 on April 2. … UWP has won five games on walk-off hits, including two by Aaron Hopson against Loras in a doubleheader on April 1. Hopson and Derrick Rice have clubbed walk-off home runs this season, while Hopson, Wade Axelson, and Steve Bomkamp have walk-off singles. … UW-Platteville set a school record with a 15-run fifth inning last Saturday against UW-Stout, erasing an 8-5 deficit en route to their 11-10, 11-inning Game 1 win. … Eleven different players have hit home runs this season for the Pioneers.
