WINONA, Minn. — The Saint Mary's University of Minnesota baseball team returns to Max Molock Field on Saturday, hosting Macalester in a 1 p.m. Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader at Max Molock Field.
 
The Matchup:
• Saint Mary's Cardinals (6-6 MIAC | 18-12-1 Overall) at Macalester Scots (4-8 MIAC | 14-11 overall), 2:30 p.m.
 
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Last Action:
• Saint Mary's: The Cardinals took part in a pair of dramatic-ending games against Augsburg on Thursday at Max Molock Field. The Auggies used a grand slam home run in the top of the ninth inning—and withstood a three-run Cardinal home run in the bottom of the ninth—to win Game 1 of the teams' conference doubleheader 6-5, while Willie Doll (Amherst, Wis.) belted a two-run, walk-off home run in the bottom of the seventh in winning the nightcap 7-5 | Recap
• Macalester: The Scots picked up a pair of key conference road wins on Friday in St. Peter, Minn., beating Gustavus 9-4 in the opener, then scoring four times in the top of the 11^th inning to beat the Gusties 10-6 in the nightcap | Recap
 
Saint Mary's vs. Macalester—Their Last Meeting:
• April 18, 2015 * Winona, Minn.: After scoring just three runs in its Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference split against Gustavus a week ago, Saint Mary's kicked its offense into high gear against Macalester. The Cardinals erupted for 23 runs and 29 hits—including three home runs and 11 extra-base hits—in sweeping past the Scots 7-5 and 16-3 at Max Molock Field | Recap
  
Up Next:
• Saint Mary's: The Cardinals return to action on Tuesday, playing host to Carleton in a 2:30 p.m. conference doubleheader at Max Molock Field.
• Macalester: The Scots are right back on Nicholson Field in St. Paul, Minn., on Tuesday, entertaining Bethel in a 2:30 p.m. MIAC twinbill.
 
Scouting The Saint Mary's Cardinals:
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• With their Game 2 win over Augsburg Thursday, the Cardinals have now won three of their last four games. … Saint Mary's has scored seven runs in each of its last three wins—7-4 and 7-5 victories vs. St. Olaf last Saturday and Thursday's 7-5 triumph over Augsburg. … The Cardinals have won Game 1 in their  four of their last five doubleheaders—and seven times in their 10 twinbills this season. … Willie Doll (Amherst, Wis.) went 6-for-8 with two home runs—including a game-winning, two-run, walk-off two-run shot in the bottom of the seventh inning—against Augsburg Thursday. … Doll's walk-off home run vs. the Auggies marked the second time in the Cardinals' last two Game 2s that the senior has belted a game-winning home run in their last at-bat. Doll hit a three-run, game-winner against St. Olaf last Saturday. … Doll has now gone 14-for-22 (.636) in his last seven games. … Doll's two home-run game against Augsburg was the first of his collegiate career. … Doll accounted for two of the Cardinals' five home runs against Augsburg Thursday—Jake Barry (Tinley Park, Ill.), Cale Pieczynski (Plover, Wis.), and Jake Mencacci (Wheaton, Ill.) also hit round-trippers for the Cardinals. … Doll's 4-for-5 Game 1 performance against Augsburg was the second time this season—and the fifth time in his career—that he has had four hits in a game. … With his six hits against Augsburg, Doll—who owns a team-high 17 multiple-hit games—pushed his team-leading batting average to .415. … Doll also leads the Cardinals in at-bats (118), hits (49), total bases (68), and slugging percentage (.576). … Ben Buerkle (Roseville, Minn.), who had his season-high 14-game hitting streak snapped in Game 2 against Hamline on April 12, is second to Doll in batting average (.387), hits (41), runs (33), doubles (12), walks (26), and on-base percentage (.504). … Buerkle has reached base safely in all 31 contests this season. … Buerkle—who hit safely in 34 of 36 games a year ago—has had a hit in 28 of the Cardinals' 31 games this season, and has now collected at least one hit in 99 of the 106 games he's played in. … Buerkle has been held off the base paths just twice in 106 career contests. … Bob Kinne (St. Paul, Minn.) delivered his team-leading third triple of the season against UW-Oshkosh on April 15. … Kinne, who leads the team with 29 RBIs and seven multiple-RBI games, recorded his second five-RBI effort of the season in Game 1 against Gustavus on April 6. The junior also achieved the feat against Concordia on Feb. 23. … Cale Pieczynski (Plover, Minn.)—who went 5-for-6 in the Saint Mary's 10-inning Game 2 loss to Hamline on April 12. It was the first five-hit game of his collegiate career. … Tyler Lursen (Maple Grove, Minn.) belted a pair of home runs and drove in seven runs in the Cardinals' split against Saint John's on April 10. … Lursen's ninth-inning Game 2 grand slam vs. the Johnnies was the first of his collegiate career. … Barry and Doll own a team-best four home runs, while Lursen (2), Kinne (2), Pieczynski (2), Mencacci (1), and Buerkle (1) have hit the Cardinals' other eight round-trippers. … Kinne's home run against Concordia on Feb. 23 and Mencacci's HR vs. Augsburg on Thursday were the first of their collegiate career. … Doll—who closed out the season with a team- and conference-leading 21 stolen bases a year ago, collected a pair of steals against Augsburg, giving him 17 for the season and 75 for his four-year career. … Steph Scatassa (Westchester, Ill.) and Nathan Mathwig (Woodbury, Minn.) each picked up their team-leading fourth pitching wins of the season against St. Olaf last Saturday. Scatassa went the first six innings in winning Game 1, while Mathwig pitched three innings of scoreless, two-hit relief in Saint Mary's come-from-behind win in Game 2. … Scatassa (4-1, 2.72 ERA) has logged a team-high 46.1 innings), while Jacob Dawson (Oakdale, Minn. / 38.0 IP), Ben Johnson (Brooklyn Park, Minn. / 33.0 IP), Austin Jacobs (Cannon Falls, Minn. / 30.0 IP), and Mathwig (23.0 IP) have also thrown more than 20 innings this season. … Scatassa has made a team-high nine starts, two more than Johnson, while Ryan Fejt (Westchester, Ill. / 2-1, 8.04 ERA) and Mathwig (4-0, 0.78 ERA) have made 13 and 12 appearances, respectively. … Scatassa is also the team's strikeout leader with 39. … Mathwig collected his team-leading fifth save against Hamline on April 12. … Eli Morrison (Minneapolis, Minn. / 1-1, 2.38 ERA) and Jesse Barron (Minnetonka, Minn. / 1-1, 4.38 ERA) have both notched their first collegiate pitching wins this season—Morrison's coming in a start against Houghton on Feb. 27 (4 IP, 0 R, 4 H) and Barron's coming in relief vs. Elmira on Feb. 25 (2.2 IP, 1 R, 3 H). … Jacobs (2-3, 5.70 ERA) recorded his first collegiate save with a perfect ninth inning in the Cardinals' 7-6 win over Cornell on March 18. … Johnson's seven-hit, seven-strikeout performance against Houghton on Feb. 27 is the team's only complete game this season and was the fifth of his collegiate career. … The Cardinals, who scored a school-record 274 runs in 2015, have plated 187 runs in 31 contests this season—including six games of 10 or more runs. … The Cardinals have outscored their opponents 30-20 in the first inning and 23-12 in the second. … Saint Mary's is 14-4 when scoring the game's first run. … Saint Mary's is unbeaten (14-0-1) when leading after the sixth inning. … Saint Mary's has been held to two runs or less in seven of its 12 losses this season. … The Cardinals' 10-7 Game 1 win over Gustavus on April 6 snapped their season-high five-game losing streak. … After not playing an extra-inning game all season, the Cardinals have now gone into extra innings in three of their last six games—falling to Augsburg 6-5 in nine innings in Game 1 Thursday, losing to Hamline 7-6 in 10 innings in Game 2 of their MIAC doubleheader on April 12, before battling UW-Oshkosh to a 10-inning, 11-11 draw on April 15. … The Cardinals' 11-11, 10-inning tie against the Titans last Friday marked the second time in as many meetings that Saint Mary's and UW-Oshkosh have gone to extra innings. Saint Mary's beat UW-Oshkosh 1-0 in 14 innings in their last meeting on March 25, 2012. … The Cardinals went through a five-game stretch this season in which four games were against nationally ranked teams—No. 18 UW-La Crosse and No. 21 St. Thomas—while the other contest was vs. NCAA Division I University of Minnesota. … Saint Mary's 9-1 loss to the University of Minnesota on March 30 marked the first time the Cardinals and Gophers had squared off in program history. … 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. … 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.
 
Scouting The Macalester Scots:
2016 Roster | 2016 Schedule | 2016 Statistics
• The Scots' 9-4 Game 1 win over Gustavus Friday snapped their three-game losing streak. … Macalester's doubleheader at Saint Mary's is its second road DH in as many days—the Scots played at Gustavus on Friday. … The Scots, who are 3-6 at home this season, play their final doubleheader of the season at Nicholson Field on Tuesday, before closing out the year with four straight road dates. … Macalester is hitting .328 as a team and boasts eight players who are hitting .300 or better—led by Nick McMullen (.436) and Ben Castagnetti (.423). … McMullen—the only Scot to have played in all 25 games—leads or shares the team in at-bats (94), run (20), hits (41), doubles (9), RBIs (29), total bases (64), and slugging percentage (.681). … Macalester has hit 12 triples and 16 home runs this season—Nick Sia (.308), Colin Brantner (.382), and Alex Baretta (.304) share the team lead with two triples each, while McMullen and Quentin Stuart (.333) have both hit a team-high four home runs. … The Scots have stolen 29 bases in 38 attempts, with McMullen leading the way with nine steals in 10 chances. … Macalester boasts three players with 10 or more multiple-hit games—McMullen (15),  Castagnetti (10), and Brantner (10). … Brantner owns the team lead with seven multiple-RBI games, one more than McMullen … McMullen, Stuart, and Sia have put together season-high seven-game hitting streak—with Sia's seven-game run the Scot's longest active hitting streak. … The Scots have four pitchers who have logged 20 or more innings this season, led by Dylan Edwards-Gaherty (27.2 IP) and Cole Chang (27.0 IP). … Joseph Aulisi (2-1, 9.82 ERA), Chang (2-1, 5.33 ERA), and Edwards-Gaherty (2-0, 5.54 ERA) share the team lead with two pitching wins each. … Chang, Edwards-Gaherty, and Sam Thomas (1-4, 6.41 ERA) have all made a team-leading five starts, while Joe Trier (0-2, 6.55 ERA) leads the Scots with seven appearances. … Thomas owns the Scots' lone complete game, and Trier has accounted for two of the team's three saves. … Macalester pitchers have fanned 127 batters, led by Thomas with 27. … Macalester has scored 10 or more runs five times, including a season-high 16 runs in wins over the University of Dubuque (16-1) and Augsburg (16-14). On the flip side, the Scots have surrendered 10 or more runs three times—two coming in 11-1 and 21-3 losses to St. Thomas on April 16.