MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — The Saint Mary's University of Minnesota women's tennis team hits the road for the first time this season on Sunday, traveling to the University of Minnesota's Baseline Tennis Center for a 4:30 p.m. Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference match against St. Thomas.
The Matchup:
• Saint Mary's Cardinals (0-1 MIAC, 1-1 Overall) at St. Thomas (0-0 MIAC, 2-0 Overall), 4:30 p.m.
Last Action:
• Saint Mary's: The Cardinals opened play with a pair of matches decided by 9-0 scores last weekend at the Winona Tennis Center, as Saint Mary's swept Martin Luther last Friday in the teams' season-opener, before being swept by conference power Carleton in the teams' MIAC opener two days later |
MLC Recap *
Carleton Recap
• St. Thomas—September 18, 2016 * Mankato, Minn.: The Tommies collected a pair of three-set singles wins and two nailbiting doubles victories in rolling to a 9-0 nonconference win over Minnesota State-Mankato |
Recap
Saint Mary's vs. St. Thomas—A Year Ago:
• March 5, 2016 * Winona, Minn.: Despite their best efforts, the Cardinals could not match the Tommie firepower, as UST handed Saint Mary's a 9-0 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference setback at the Winona Tennis Center |
Recap
Up Next:
• Saint Mary's: The Cardinals return home to the Winona Tennis Center on Friday, entertaining North Central in an 11 a.m. nonconference match.
• St. Thomas: The Tommies are now off until Feb. 17, when they return to the University of Minnesota Baseline Tennis Center in Minneapolis, Minn., for a 6:30 p.m. conference showdown against Bethel.
Scouting The Saint Mary's Cardinals:
2017 Roster |
2017 Schedule |
2017 Final Statistics
• With their win over Martin Luther on Jan. 27, the Cardinals have now opened the season with a 9-0 victory in back-to-back seasons. … Saint Mary's 9-0 win over Martin Luther on Jan. 27 was its 37
th win in its 49 nonconference games since 2012. … The Cardinals improved to 10-0 in their last 10 meetings with Martin Luther—with seven of the 10 coming via 9-0 sweeps. … The Cardinals did not drop a set in sweeping their six singles matches against MLC. …
Cassandra Barr (Eau Claire, Wis.),
Sheyenne Bauer (Cannon Falls, Minn.), Julie Boeve (St. James, Minn.),
Haley Jorgensen (Fallon, Nev.),
Laura Sonday (West St. Paul, Minn.), and
Megan Vandenberg (De Pere, Wis.) all collected singles wins vs. MLC on Jan. 20. … Barr's 6-2, 6-2 loss at No. 5 singles against Carleton on Jan. 29, snapped the freshman's five-match singles winning streak. Barr kicked off her collegiate career in impressive fashion at the 2016 Gustavus Invitational, going a perfect 4-0 in singles play. … Vandenberg, who owned a season-high six match winning streak a year ago, posted a season- and career-high 17 singles wins in 2016. … Vandenberg's 17 singles wins rank No. 2 all-time, five wins shy of McKenna Edwards' 22-win total in 2012. … Vandenberg is also sitting No. 2 all-time in career singles wins with 43, while Jorgensen is third with 41. … Sonday/Vandenberg, Jorgensen/
Marissa Kinzer (), and
Summer Lardy/
Ashley Syed () picked up Saint Mary's three doubles wins against Martin Luther on Jan. 27. … The Cardinals have collected 19 of their 32 wins over the past three seasons on their home court.
Scouting The St. Thomas Tommies:
2017 Roster |
2017 Schedule |
2017 Statistics
• The Tommies head into Sunday's match against Saint Mary's having not played since picking up a pair of 9-0 wins over UW-River Falls and Minnesota State-Mankato during their brief, two-match fall season. … Sunday's match against Saint Mary's is the first of back-to-back home matches for the Tommies, who will then play 11 of their next 12 matches on the road. … St. Thomas—which shared the MIAC regular-season title and lost to Gustavus in the MIAC Playoff semifinals—returns four of its six All-MIAC performers from a year ago—Paige Becher, Jenna Zimmerman, Lauren Keller, and Caitlin Bakke. … Zimmerman—who went 18-1 in singles and 15-4 in doubles last season—collected singles wins in the Tommies' two matches against UW-River Falls and Minnesota State-Mankato last fall. … Zimmerman owns a 40-2 singles record in her two years as a Tommie. … Becher finished 15-2 in singles and 15-3 in doubles a year ago, while Bakke was 11-1 in singles and 12-2 in doubles. … Becher, Jessie O'Brien, Taylor McLeod, and Jenna Czarnecki all went 2-0 in UST's two fall matches, while Bakke and Savannah Johnson accounted for UST's other two singles wins. … Paige McLeod and Taylor McLeod went 2-0 against UW-River Falls and Minnesota State-Mankato, with four other doubles combinations picking up the other doubles victories.
