The Teams:

Saint Mary's Cardinals: 4-12 MIAC / 12-24 Overall

Concordia Cobbers: 11-5 MIAC / 20-14 Overall

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Last Action:
The Cardinals' Teddy VanRanst (St. Paul, Minn.) and Casey Jacobson (Apple Valley, Minn.) combined to hold the high-powered UW-Platteville offense to just three runs on nine hits, as SMU collected a 7-3 nonconference win over the Pioneers Sunday at Max Molock Field. Concordia, meanwhile, stepped out of conference play on Tuesday, committing five errors that led to nine unearned runs in falling to NCAA Division I North Dakota State 19-4 in Fargo, N.D.

Last Meeting — April 25, 2003:
Staked to a 5-3 lead — thanks to a five-hit, five-run fifth inning — Coach Nick Winecke could only sit back and watch, as Concordia's Jake Krause drew a lead-off walk, Scott Schumacher collected an infield single, and, after a pop-out to second, Kyle Johnson delivered a three-run home run to carry the Cobbers to a 6-5 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference victory in Moorhead, Minn. The Cobbers scored six first-inning runs and rolled to a 13-2 victory in the second game.

 

Saint Mary's Cardinals Around The Horn:
Jake Lechner (Shoreview, Minn.) went 3-for-4 with a pair of RBIs and a run scored to pace the Cardinals' 10-hit offensive attack in Sunday's win over UW-Platteville. … Kyle Ryan (St. Paul, Minn.), Vince Lulic (Mendota Heights, Minn.) and Daniel Geraghty (Chicago, Ill.) chipped in two hits each. … Ryan stole two bases vs. the Pioneers and is now a perfect 17-for-17 in stolen bases this season. Ryan's 17 stolen bases this season tie the single-season record, set in 2008 by Kevin Black. … Ryan, who also leads the team in at-bats (126) and runs (25), has had at least one hit in 23 of the team's 36 games, while reaching base safely in 28 of 36 contests. … Ryan and Andrew Warren (Stillwater, Minn.) are the only two Cardinals to have started all 36 games this season. Ryan has started every game since the team's season opener his freshman year, a span of 134 games. … Joe O'Neill (St. Paul, Minn.) enters today's DH at Concordia hitting a team-best .323, while Curt Swanson (Woodbury, Minn.) is close behind at .316. … Swanson also leads the team in hits (36), RBIs (30), total bases (53) and slugging percentage (.485). … Swanson collected his team-leading 12th multiple-hit game wit his 2-for-5 effort in Game 2 vs. Hamline on April 25, while Ryan Archambault (Faribault, Minn.) recorded his team-high eighth multiple-RBI game with two RBIs in that same April 25 game vs. Hamline. … 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). … 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 win over UW-Platteville Sunday, SMU picked up its 12th win of the season, giving the Cardinals their most wins since 2005, when they finished 16-15. … SMU's 5-4, 11-inning loss to Hamline on April 25 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 (5). … SMU is 10-1 when leading after six innings, but 0-21 when trailing heading into the seventh inning.

Concordia Cobbers Around The Horn:
With their split against St. Thomas last Saturday, the Cobbers and Tommies remained tied for the league lead with identical 11-5 conference marks. CC has four conference games remaining — Wednesday vs. Saint Mary's and Saturday vs. Bethel — while St. Thomas still has doubleheaders against Hamline (Wednesday) and St. Olaf (Saturday). … With wins in their last four conference games, Concordia would earn a share of its first MIAC regular-season title since 1995. … The Cobbers' 5-1 Game 2 win was their 20th of the season, marking CC's first 20-win season since 2006. … Nick Lewis went 0-for-2 in the opener against St. Thomas, snapping his season-best 20-game hitting streak. … Jordan Doschadis enters today's DH vs. SMU hitting .526 (20-for-38), while Dan Wackler (.427) and Jan-Erik Lindberg (.400) are also hitting above .400. CC also boasts four other players — Jake Krause (.394), Nathan Haase (.384), Lewis (.371) and Michael Carlson (.343) — who are hitting above .300. … Wackler also owns team highs in hits (44) and doubles (13), while Krause is the team-leader in total bases (64) and slugging percentage (.646). … Krause and Adam Johnson share the team lead in home runs (5), and Johnson has clubbed a team-high 26 RBIs. … The Cobbers boast six pitchers with have logged 20 or more innings. … Andrew Skow-Anderson leads the team with a 2.13 ERA, while Chris Fellows' 48 2/3 innings, six wins and 44 strikeouts are team highs. … Concordia has outscored its opponents 70-26 in the game's first two innings combined. … CC has played three extra-inning games, and is winless in those three contests — losing 6-5 in 10 innings to Mayville State, 8-7 in 10 innings to Macalester and 5-4 in eight innings to Carleton. … The Cobbers are 18-3 when leading after the sixth inning, but winless (0-9) when trailing heading into the seventh inning.