WINONA, Minn. — The Saint Mary's University of Minnesota baseball team returns to Max Molock Field on Tuesday, hosting Carleton in a 2:30. Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader.
 
The Matchup:
• Saint Mary's Cardinals (8-6 MIAC | 20-12-1 Overall) vs. Carleton Knights (6-6 MIAC | 10-21 overall), 2:30 p.m.
 
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Last Action:
• Saint Mary's: The Cardinals picked up a pair of key conference wins last Saturday at Max Molock Field, erupting for 13 runs in a 13-7 Game 1 win, before riding the riding arm of Austin Jacobs (Cannon Falls, Minn.) to a 6-4 win in the nightcap | Recap
• Carleton: The Knights are coming off a split in their MIAC doubleheader against nationally ranked St. Thomas last Saturday. Carleton dropped the first game, 6-1, but rallied for a 12-5 victory in the nightcap | Recap
 
Saint Mary's vs. Carleton—Their Last Meeting:
• April 25, 2015 * Northfield, Minn.: The Cardinals erupted for 11 first-inning runs and never looked back in cruising to a 17-3 win over Carleton in Game 1 of the teams' Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader at Mel Taub Field. And Saint Mary's did not miss a beat in the nightcap, adding another 13 runs—while surrendering just three for the second consecutive game—in completing the sweep with a 13-3 victory that was shortened to seven innings by the 10-run rule | Recap
  
Up Next:
• Saint Mary's: The Cardinals step out of conference play for the final time on Wednesday, traveling across town for a nine-inning nonconference game against Winona State. First pitch is set for 7 p.m.
• Carleton: The Knights are back on the road on Saturday, heading to St. Peter, Minn., for a 2:30 p.m. MIAC doubleheader against Gustavus.
 
Scouting The Saint Mary's Cardinals:
2016 Roster | 2016 Statistics | 2016 Schedule
• Tuesday's doubleheader against Carleton is the third straight home twinbill for the Cardinals. … With their sweep of Macalester last Saturday, the Cardinals have now won five of their last six. … Last Saturday's back-to-back wins over Macalester marked the second MIAC—and third overall—sweep this season. … The Cardinals have won Game 1 in five of their last six doubleheaders—and eight times in their 11 twinbills this season. … Last Saturday's 6-4 Game 2 win over Macalester was the Cardinals' 20^th win of the season—marking the third time under coach Nick Winecke that Saint Mary's has won 20 or more games. … 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—while also finishing 22-20 in 2012. … Willie Doll (Amherst, Wis.) continued to feast on opposing pitchers against Macalester last Saturday—going 5-for-7, including 4-for-4 in the first game. … Doll, who 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 last Thursday—has now gone 20-for-30 (.666) in his last nine games. … Doll missed hitting for the cycle in Game 1 against Macalester by a home run—the senior had a two singles, a double, and a triple, while also walking once, scoring four times and stealing a pair of bases. … Doll's four-hit game against Macalester was his third of the season and sixth of his collegiate career, while his four runs scored equaled his collegiate best. … Doll's walk-off home run against Augsburg last Thursday marked the second time this season the senior has belted a game-winning home run in their last at-bat. Doll hit a three-run, game-winner against St. Olaf on April 16. … Doll's two home-run game against Augsburg last 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. … The Cardinals hit four triples against Macalester last Saturday. … With his five hits against St. Olaf, Doll—who owns a team-high 18 multiple-hit games—pushed his team-leading batting average to .432. … Doll also leads the Cardinals in at-bats (125), hits (54), total bases (78), and slugging percentage (.624). … 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 (.398) and hits (45), while leading the team in runs (36), doubles (12), walks (29), and on-base percentage (.517). … Buerkle has reached base safely in all 33 contests this season. … Buerkle—who hit safely in 34 of 36 games a year ago—has had a hit in 30 of the Cardinals' 33 games this season, and has now collected at least one hit in 101 of the 108 games he's played in. … Buerkle has been held off the base paths just twice in 108 career contests. … Buerkle delivered his team-leading fourth triple of the season against Macalester last Saturday. … Bob Kinne (St. Paul, Minn.), who leads the team with 32 RBIs and eight 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), Buerkle (1), and Jake Mencacci (Wheaton, Ill. / 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 four steals against Macalester last Thursday, giving him 21 for the season and 79 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), Austin Jacobs (Cannon Falls, Minn. / 38.0 IP), Ben Johnson (Brooklyn Park, Minn. / 36.0 IP), and Mathwig (25.0 IP) have also thrown more than 20 innings this season. … Scatassa has made a team-high nine starts, one more than Johnson, while Ryan Fejt (Westchester, Ill. / 2-1, 7.56 ERA) and Mathwig (4-0, 1.08 ERA) have made 14 and 13 appearances, respectively. … Scatassa is also the team's strikeout leader with 39. … Mathwig collected his team-leading fifth save against Hamline on April 12. … Jacobs (3-3, 5.45 ERA) went the first eight innings in the Cardinals' Game 2 win over Macalester last Saturday—it was the longest start of his collegiate career. … Jacobs recorded his first collegiate save with a perfect ninth inning in the Cardinals' 7-6 win over Cornell on March 18. … 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). … 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 206 runs in 33 contests this season—including seven games of 10 or more runs. … The Cardinals have outscored their opponents 31-21 in the first inning and 30-12 in the second. … Saint Mary's is 16-4 when scoring the game's first run. … Saint Mary's is unbeaten (16-0-1) 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 in their first 25 games, the Cardinals played extra innings three times in a five game stretch—falling to Hamline 7-6 in 10 innings on April 12, tying UW-Oshkosh 11-11 in 10 innings on April 15, and falling to Augsburg 6-5 in nine innings on April 21. … 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.
 
Scouting The Carleton Knights:
2016 Roster | 2016 Schedule | 2016 Statistics
• Tuesday's showdown against Saint Mary's is the second of four straight road doubleheaders for the Knights, who do not return to Mel Taube Field until May 4, when they host Augsburg. … Carleton's 12-5 win over St. Thomas in the nightcap of their MIAC doubleheader last Saturday snapped the Knights' six-game losing streak. … After going 3-14 in through the of March, Carleton has gone 7-7 in its last 14 contests—including 6-6 in MIAC play. … The 12 Game 2 runs vs. UST also marked the Knights' highest offensive output since plating a season-high 21 in a 21-10 win over Colby on March 22. … Carleton—which banged out a season-high 17 hits—had five players with two or more hits in Game 2 against St. Thomas last Saturday, led by Willie Freimuth with his first collegiate four-hit game. … Carleton heads into its conference doubleheader against Saint Mary's boasting three players hitting above .300—Hayden Tsutsui (.478), Griffin Bolte (.438), and Freimugh (.319). … Tsutsui also leads the team in runs (29), hits (43), doubles 911), triples (2), home runs (5), RBIs (21), total bases (73), slugging percentage (.811), walks (17), and on-base percentage (.568). … Tsutsui is one of eight Knights with 10 or more RBIs this season. … Carleton has stolen 13 bases in 20 attempts this season, with Tsutsui and Logan Crowl leading the team with four steals each. … Carleton has eight pitchers who have logged 10 or more innings this season, led by workhorses Jack Violetta (40.1 IP) and Austin Heuer (37.0 IP). … Heuer (3-2, 7.78 ERA) and Gar Crowell (3-1, 3.60 ERA) share the team lead in wins with three each, while Violetta (2-4, 5.36 ERA) has made a team-high seven starts, one more than Crowell and two more than Heuer. … Violetta has accounted for three of the team's four complete games, while Cody Bohlman (0-1, 9.00) is the team's saves leader with two. … Violetta has fanned a team-high 36 batters, and is one of five Carleton pitchers with 10 or more strikeouts. … Carleton has been outscored in each of the first six innings—including 54-25 in the second and 40-11 in the fourth. The Knights hold a 50-42 scoring edge after the sixth inning. … Carleton is 3-0 when holding its opponents to two runs or less, and 8-3 when limiting the opposition to less than six runs. On the flip side, the Knights have surrendered six or more runs in 18 of their 21 losses—including 10 or more runs 13 times. … The Knights have played three extra-inning games this season—beating DePauw 5-3 in eight innings and Macalester 9-7 in nine, and losing to Saint John's 5-3 in 14.