The Records:

Saint Mary's Cardinals: 9-9 MIAC / 12-22 Overall

St. Catherine Wildcats: 4-14 MIAC / 7-24 Overall

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Last Action:
The Cardinals' playoff push took a serious hit on Sunday, as SMU dropped both games in a conference doubleheader against Saint Benedict. The Blazers got a walk-off home run off the bat of Shannon Eveland in the bottom of the eighth inning of CSB's 3-2 Game 1 win, then got a walk-off, RBI single by Elle Borba in the bottom of the eighth inning in a 7-6 CSB win in Game 2. St. Catherine, meanwhile, stepped out of conference play on Sunday, dropping back-to-back games to UW-Stout, 5-0 and 5-4, in Menomonie, Wis.

 

Last Meeting — April 18, 2009:
The Cardinals erupted for five runs in the top of the fifth inning and rode the three-hit pitching of Jaci Prondzinski (Ettrick, Wis.) in handing the Wildcats an 8-0, five-inning setback. Unfortunately for SMU, the Cardinals' performance wasn't quite that impressive in the opener, as St. Catherine used a pair of big innings — a two-run third and a three-run fifth en route to a 6-3 victory in St. Paul, Minn.

MIAC Playoff Picture:
SMU?enters today's DH?with four conference games remaining and sitting in seventh place, two losses behind Augsburg (11-7), Bethel (9-7) and Saint Benedict (9-7). Augsburg finishes with games vs. St. Olaf and Bethel, while CSB?faces St. Thomas (15-1), Gustavus (14-2) and Bethel. SMU?must win its last four — vs. St. Catherine and Carleton — and hope Augsburg loses at least two of its last four, while Bethel and Saint Benedict must lose at least three. SMU holds the head-to-head tiebreaker vs. Augsburg, but Bethel and CSB each swept the Cardinals to own the head-to-head tiebreaker.

Saint Mary's Cardinals Around The Horn:
Katy Gannon (Roselle, Ill.) — who went 5-for-6 with a three-run home run, 4 RBIs and four runs scored in SMU's sweep of Concordia last Saturday — was held to just two hits in eight at-bats against Saint Benedict, but still closed out the week hitting a team-best .400 (10-for-25) in SMU's eight games last week. … Gannon's three-run, fifth-inning home run against Concordia last Saturday was her team-leading third of the season. … Angie Diercks (Red Wing, Minn.) enjoyed one of the best weeks of her collegiate career last week, hitting .389 (7-for-18) with two doubles, a home run, three RBIs and four runs scored. The home run ­— a solo shot vs. Hamline on April 20 — was the first of her four-year collegiate career. … The Cardinals scored 17 of their 22 runs vs Concordia last Saturday in two innings — six in the fifth in Game 1 and 11 in the sixth in Game 2. SMU's 11 sixth-inning runs — in which SMU sent 16 batters to the plate — were a single-inning season high. … Paige Carter (Rosemount, Minn.) launched her second home run of the season in Game 2 against Saint Benedict on Sunday, while Morgan Stock (Amboy, Minn.) belted her first collegiate HR in the second game vs. the Blazers Sunday — a two-run shot to left-center in the fourth. … With her seven hits over the weekend — three against Concordia and four against Saint Benedict — Kellie Simons (Richfield, Minn.) moved her team-leading batting average to .366. She is one of five SMU players hitting .300 or better. Simons als leads the team in hits (41), triples (2), total bases (61) and slugging percentage (.546). … Erin Stenseth (Eau Claire, Wis.) has a team-leading 116 at-bats, while Gannon has scored a team-high 24 runs. … Gannon also leads the squad with 12 multiple-hit games, while Stenseth, Simons and Mallory Betzold (Farmington) have each compiled five multiple-RBI games. … Four of SMU's 10 home runs this season have been career firsts — Stock (vs. Saint Benedict), Diercks (vs. Hamline), Stenseth (vs. Augsburg) and Carter (vs. Hastings, Neb.). … The Cardinals have allowed five or more runs in 16 of their 22 losses. … SMU has scored three of more runs in all 12 of its wins — including a season-high 12 runs vs. Concordia in Game 2 Saturday. … With their 10-3 and 12-4 wins Saturday, SMU has now scored 10 or more runs five times this season. … SMU's 3-2 and 7-6 losses to Saint Benedict Sunday were SMU's third and fourth extra-inning games of the season — with all four games being decided in the eighth inning. … The Cardinals are 9-3 when scoring first, but just 3-19 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. 

St. Catherine Wildcats Around The Horn:
With their two losses to UW-Stout on Sunday, the Wildcats have now dropped four of their last five games. SCU is also just 2-8 in its last 10. … Sunday's DH vs. UW-Stout were the first nonconference games since April 1 for the Wildcats. … Sunday's 5-0 Game 1 loss to the Blue Devils marked the 10th time this season SCU has been shut out. … The Wildcats managed just two hits — one by Kelsey Luedtke and one by Jenna Clark — in Game 1 vs. UW-Stout, while Clark and Kelsey Adair each had two hits in Game 2. … With her two Game 2 hits, Clark pushed her team-leading batting average to .284. She also leads the team in at-bats (81), hits (23), RBIs (11), and total bases (28). … Luedtke has scored a team-best 12 runs and also leads the team with 12 walks. … Kayla Bergerson, who has thrown a team-leading 103.2 innings, has been the winning pitcher in all seven St. Catherine victories. … St. Catherine has played five extra-inning games, going 2-3, including a 3-2, 10-inning win over Bethany Lutheran on March 31.