WINONA, Minn. — The Saint Mary's University of Minnesota baseball team is back in action Tuesday, hosting UW-La Crosse in a nonconference doubleheader at Max Molock Field. Opening pitch is slated for 2 p.m.
 
The Matchup:
• Saint Mary's Cardinals (12-3 Overall) vs. UW-La Crosse Eagles (6-4 overall), 1 p.m.
 
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Last Action:
• Saint Mary's: The Cardinals picked up three straight nonconference wins last weekend at the Wheaton Tournament in Carol Stream, Ill. Saint Mary's opened with a 12-2 win over Aurora and a 10-5 victory vs. host Wheaton last Friday, before adding a 7-6 win against Cornell a day later | Aurora Recap * Wheaton Recap * Cornell Recap
• UW-La Crosse: The Eagles are coming off a 6-4 showing during their 10-game spring trip to Auburndale, Fla.—including wins in four of  their last six contests.
 
Saint Mary's vs. UW-La Crosse—Their Last Meeting:
• March 31, 2011 * La Crosse, Wis.: It didn't take Saint Mary's University baseball coach Nick Winecke to point out the deciding factors in Thursday's nonconference game against UW-La Crosse. Walks and strikeouts. The Eagles' walks and the Cardinals' strikeouts. UW-La Crosse took advantage of eight walks, while three Eagle pitchers combined to strike out 10 SMU batters, as UW-L handed the Cardinals an 8-2 setback | Recap
 
Up Next:
• Saint Mary's: The Cardinals are back in action Wednesday, heading to Siebert Field in Minneapolis, Minn., for a nine-inning nonconference game against NCAA Division I University of Minnesota.
• UW-La Crosse: The Eagles head to Duluth, Minn., on April 2-3 for three games against St. Scholastica. UW-L and CSS will play a nonconference doubleheader on April 2, before squaring off again in a single, nine-inning contest a day later.
 
Scouting The Saint Mary's Cardinals:
2016 Roster | 2016 Statistics | 2016 Schedule
•  Saint Mary's heads into Tuesday's nonconference twinbill having won three straight and four of its last five. … Saint Mary's—which won Game 1 in 11 of its 16 doubleheaders last season—has won the first game in both of its DHs this season, beating Mount Union 6-3 and St. Scholastica 3-1. … After dropping its season-opener to Augustana, the Cardinals put together an eight-game winning streak—their longest since winning nine in a row in April, 2001. … Tyler Lursen (Maple Grove, Minn.) went 5-for-9 (.556) in Saint Mary's three games at the Wheaton Tournament on March 18-19, while Ben Buerkle (Roseville, Minn.), Jake Barry (Tinley Park, Ill.), and Will Doll (Amherst, Wis.) all also had five hits in the Cardinals' three tournament games. … Buerkle boasts a team-leading .417 batting average, with Kinne (.385) and Doll (.357) close behind. … Buerkle, Kinne, and Doll share the team lead in hits with 20 each through 15 games, while Buerkle also leads the team in runs (17), doubles (6), triples (2), slugging percentage (.625), walks (17) and on-base percentage (.561). … Barry belted his team-leading third home run against Aurora on March 18. …  Kinne has accounted for the Cardinals' other round-tripper this season, belting his first collegiate HR vs. Concordia on Feb. 23. … Doll—who closed out the season with a team- and conference-leading 21 stolen bases a year ago, has stolen nine bases through 15 games this season, giving him a school-record 67 for his four-year career. … Buerkle has had a hit in 13 of the Cardinals' 15 games this season—including a season-high eight-game hitting streak—and has reached base safely in all 15 games. … Buerkle, who had a hit in 34 of 36 games last season, has now collected at least one hit in 84 of the 91 games he's played in, and has been held off the base paths just twice in those 91 career games. … Doll owns a team-high seven multiple-hit games, one more than Joe Seegers (Oconomowoc, Wis.), while Buerkle, Barry, and Kinne share the team lead with three multiple-RBI games. … Kinne drove in a career-high five runs in the Cardinals' win over Concordia on Feb. 23. … Nathan Mathwig (Woodbury, Minn.) collected his team-leading third pitching win of the season against Cornell on March 19. … Mathwig, who also owns two of the team's five saves, has not allowed a run in 11.2 innings—going 3-0 with a 0.00 ERA. … Steph Scatassa (Westchester, Ill.) has logged a team-high 21.2 innings, compiling a 2-0 record and a 2.91 ERA. … Scatassa and Ben Johnson (Brooklyn Park, Ill. / 2-2, 5.48 ERA) have each made a team-leading four starts and are the team's strikeout leaders with 19 and 17 Ks, respectively. … Austin Jacobs (Cannon Falls, Minn.) recorded his first collegiate saves with a perfect ninth inning in the Cardinals' 7-6 win over Cornell on March 19. … Johnson's seven-hit, seven-strikeout performance against Houghton on Feb. 27 was his first complete game of the season and fifth of his collegiate career. … The Cardinals, who scored a school-record 274 runs in 2015, have plated 108 runs in 15 contests this season—including five games of 10 or more runs. … The Cardinals have outscored their opponents 108-72—including 16-5 in the first inning, 18-7 in the second, and 25-11 in the fifth. … Saint Mary's is 10-0 when scoring the game's first run. … Saint Mary's is unbeaten (10-0) when leading after the sixth inning. … The Cardinals have not lost (10-0) when scoring six or more runs. … Saint Mary's has been held to two runs or less in two of its three losses this season. … Saint Mary's March 12 twinbill against St. Scholastica marked the earliest outdoor games played at Max Molock Field in more than 20 years. … The Cardinals closed out 2015 boasting a 24-12 overall record—the most wins in a season since the Cardinals went 24-11 in 1995. … The Cardinals have now won 20 or more games twice under coach Nick Winecke—Saint Mary's finished 22-20 in 2012. … The Cardinals' 7-5 win over Wheaton on March 20, 2015 was coach Winecke's 100^th collegiate coaching victory.
 
Scouting The UW-La Crosse Eagles:
2016 Roster | 2016 Schedule | 2016 Statistics
• Tuesday's two games against Saint Mary's are two of just five road games over the next 13 contests for the Eagles. … The Eagles picked up wins in four of their last six spring-trip games. … UW-La Crosse scored 100 runs in its 10 games in Florida—including 10 or more runs in five of its six wins. … UW-La Crosse is hitting .366 as a team through its first 10 games of the season—and boasts six regulars who are hitting .300 or better. … Taylor Kohlwey has been the offensive leader for the Eagles, hitting a team-best .514, while also leading the squad in at-bats (37), runs (16), hits (19), triples (4), total bases (30), slugging percentage (.811), and on-base percentage (.558). … Kohlwey is one of five Eagles who have collected 10 or more hits this season. … UW-La Crosse has banged out 36 extra-base hits this season—including 23 doubles, 10 triples and three home runs. … Justin Anderson (.444) owns two of the Eagles' three home runs, with Carter Hoffman (.429) clubbing the other. … Hoffman and Kohlwey share the team lead with six multiple-hit games, while Anderson has compiled a team-high five multiple-RBI contests. … Troy Kenkel and Jameson Lavery were the workhorses for the UW-L pitching staff, with Kenkel tossing 13.0 innings in two starts, while Lavery hurled 12.0 innings in his two spring-trip starts. … Lavery has not allowed a run, going 2-0 with a 0.00 ERA, while Kenkel is 1-1 with a 2.77 ERA and the team's lone complete game. … Travis Stahulak (1-0, 0.00 ERA), Nick Pierick (1-0, 5.06 ERA), and Logan Mallek (1-0, 5.87) own the Eagles' other three pitching wins. … UW-L boasts four pitchers—Lavery (18), Kenkel (11), Mallek (11), and Stahulak (10)—with 10 or more strikeouts. … The Eagles have outscored their opponents in each of the game's first six innings—including 25-3 in the first inning. UW-L has been outscored 22-14 after the sixth inning. … UW-La Crosse has been held to five runs or less in all four of its losses. On the flip side, the Eagles have scored six runs or more in all six of their wins. … UW-L is a perfect 6-0 when leading after the sixth inning.