WINONA, Minn. — The Saint Mary's University baseball team closes out the home portion of its schedule Wednesday, honoring its eight graduating seniors during their 2:30 p.m. MIAC DH vs. Bethel at Max Molock Field.



The Matchup:
Saint Mary's Cardinals (2-14 MIAC, 9-25 Overall) vs.
Bethel Royals (7-9, 18-16 Overall)

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Last Action:
Threes were not kind to the Cardinals on Saturday, as SMU scored three runs in both of its MIAC games vs. league-leading Macalester, while the Scots used three three-run innings to sweep past the Cardinals, 5-3 and 7-3. … Bethel, meanwhile, is coming off a conference split on Tuesday in Arden Hills, Minn. The Royals beat Concordia 10-9 in the opener, then dropped a 10-0 decision in the nightcap.

A Year Ago — April 13, 2010:
The Royals scored in four of their six at-bats en route to an 11-4 Game 1 victory, then scored the game's first five runs in rolling to a 5-2 victory in the nightcap in Arden Hills, Minn.

Up Next:
The Cardinals close out their regular-season schedule on Sunday, traveling to St. Paul, Minn., for a 1 p.m. conference doubleheader against St. Thomas. … Bethel, meanwhile, returns home on Saturday, hosting Hamline in a 1 p.m. MIAC twinbill in Arden Hills, Minn.

Saint Mary's Cardinals Around The Horn:
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Chris Bogie (St. Paul, Minn.) was unstoppable — literally — in last Saturday's opener against league-leading Macalester, as the senior went 4-for-4 and drove in all three of the Cardinals' runs in the 5-3 loss. … Bogie's four hits and three RBIs were both single-game career highs. … Cody Pfennig (La Crosse, Wis.) followed Bogie's lead in the nightcap, going 3-for-3. And, like Bogie, Pfennig's three hits were a single-game career high. … Joe O'Neill (St. Paul, Minn.) and Luke Larson (Bloomington, Minn.) each had two hits in Game 1 vs. Macalester Saturday, while Larson recorded his second straight two-hit game and Andrew Warren (Stillwater, Minn.) added a pair of hits. … Pfennig, Larson and Warren, accounted for seven of the team's eight Game 2 hits vs. Macalester Saturday. … Curt Swanson (Woodbury, Minn.) was held hitless in the second game vs. Macalester Saturday. It was just the fifth time in 32 games that the SMU junior has not had at least one hit in a game. Swanson did have a walk in Saturday's Game 2, and has now reached base safely 30 times in 32 games. … Swanson owns a team-best 14 multiple-hit games, while John Schlemmer (De Pere, Wis.) is the team-leader with seven multiple-RBI games. … Swanson enters Wednesday's doubleheader vs. Bethel hitting a team-leading .359, while also boasting team-highs in at-bats (117), hits (42), home runs (2), and total bases (54). … Schlemmer leads the Cardinals in RBIs (23) and slugging percentage (.477). … Schlemmer is one of eight Cardinals with 10 or more RBIs. … Vince Lulic (Mendota Heights, Minn.) holds the team lead in doubles with 10, while Schlemmer and Jake Lechner (Shoreview, Minn.) own the team lead in triples with three. … Warren's eighth-inning, two-out, game-winning home run against UW-Stout last Friday was his second of the season, tying him with Swanson for the team lead. … Pfennig and Warren share the team lead in runs with 23, while Pfennig has also drawn a team-best 12 walks. … Bogie tossed his third straight complete game vs. Macalester on Saturday, allowing seven runs on seven this, while striking out four batters to push his team-leading strikeout total to 24. … Bogie has now thrown a team-leading four complete games — including a nine-inning 4-2 win over Marian on March 12. … Andrew Ruf (Chippewa Falls, Wis.) leads the team in innings pitched (48.0) and shares the team lead in wins (2) with Bogie and appearances (9) with John Henderson (Bloomington, Minn.). … SMU is 7-0 when leading after the sixth inning, while last Friday's 6-5, eight-inning win over UW-Stout marked the second time in 25 games the Cardinals have won when tied or trailing heading into the seventh inning. … Last Friday's 6-5 win over UW-Stout snapped the Cardinals' eight-game losing streak. The win also marked the first time in three tries that the Cardinals were victorious in an extra-inning game.

Bethel Royals Around The Horn:
2011 Schedule | 2011 Roster | 2011 Overall Statistics
Bethel's 10-9 win over Concordia Tuesday snapped their six-game losing streak. … Bethel's 10 runs in that 10-9 win over Concordia Tuesday marked the seventh time the Royals have scored 10 or more runs in a game. Bethel is 9-1 in those 10 games. … The Royals' 10-0 loss to the Cobbers in the second game Tuesday is Bethel's second 10-0 loss in its last four games, having also been blanked 10-0 by UW-La Crosse in Game 1 last Sunday. … Bethel scored five runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to tie the Cobbers heading into the seventh inning. CC scored twice in the top of the seventh, only to have Bethel answer with three runs in the bottom of the seventh to ice the Game 1 win. … Jay Slick was 3-for-4 with three runs and two RBIs in the opener vs. Concordia Tuesday, while adding a 2-for-4 effort to account for two of Bethel's six Game 2 hits. … Travis Piepho enters Wednesday's games at Saint Mary's hitting a team-leading .400, while also leading the squad in at-bats (110) and hits (44). … Slick has scored a team-best 29 runs, one more than Piepho. … Erik Anderson has been an extra-base hitting machine, collecting 11 doubles, one triple and two home runs among his 40 hits. … Anderson also leads the team in RBIs (35) and slugging percentage (.567). … Chris Dent has made a whopping 18 pitching appearances this season, compiling a 5-3 record and a 2.70 ERA. … Matt Johnson (3-1 5-79 ERA) has thrown a team-leading 37.0 innings and is one of seven Royal pitchers who have logged 20 or more innings this season. … Bethel boasts eight pitchers with 14 or more strikeouts, led by Matt Rowley with 25. … Bethel is 17-1 when leading after the sixth inning, but winless (0-13) when trailing heading into the seventh inning. … The Royals are 13-3 when scoring the game's first run.