WINONA, Minn. — The Saint Mary's University of Minnesota women's tennis team returns to Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference play on Saturday, as the Cardinals entertain St. Olaf on Senior Day at the Winona Tennis Center. First serve is slated for noon.
 
The Matchup:
• Saint Mary's Cardinals (3-5 MIAC, 9-5 Overall) vs. St. Olaf Oles (1-3 MIAC, 6-4 Overall), noon
 
GameDay On The Web:
• GameDay Program | Senior Salute
 
Last Action:
• Saint Mary's—April 2, 2017 * Green Bay, Wis.: The Cardinals closed out a busy weekend on Sunday, picking up a pair of nonconference victories. Saint Mary's opened the day with a convincing 9-0 win over Alverno and followed that up with a 7-2 triumph against St. Norbert | Recap
• St. Olaf—March 31, 2017 * St. Joseph, Minn.: The Oles had their season-high four-match winning streak snapped, falling to Saint Benedict 6-3 | Recap
 
Saint Mary's vs. St. Olaf—Their Last Meeting:
• April 9, 2017 * Owatonna, Minn.: St. Olaf entered its Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference match against Saint Mary's unbeaten in conference play. And the Cardinals learned first-hand why. St. Olaf (5-0 MIAC, 7-1 overall) raced out to a 3-0 lead after doubles play and added five, straight-set singles wins in handing Saint Mary's an 8-1 MIAC setback at the Owatonna Tennis Center | Recap
 
Up Next:
• Saint Mary's: The Cardinals step out of conference play on Wednesday, entertaining UW-River Falls in a 3 p.m. nonconference matchup at the Winona Tennis Center.
• St. Olaf: The Oles are right back in action on Sunday, hosting Concordia in a conference matchup at the Carlson Courts in Northfield, Minn. First serve is set for noon.
 
Scouting The Saint Mary's Cardinals:
2017 Roster | 2017 Schedule | 2017 Statistics
• After three straight road matches, Saturday's showdown against St. Olaf is the first of three consecutive home matches for the Cardinals, who are 5-2 on their home court this season. … After opening the season 1-2, the Cardinals have won eight of their last 11. … The Cardinals' loss to Gustavus on March 11 snapped their season-high four-match winning streak. …  The Cardinals have collected 23 of their 40 wins over the past three seasons on their home court. … Saint Mary's 6-3 win over Macalester on March 24 snapped a streak of nine straight matches decided by a 9-0 score. … Haley Jorgensen (Fallon, Nev.) picked up singles wins in all four of the Cardinals' matches last weekend, pushing her winning streak to six in a row. … Jorgensen's six-match winning streak is a season-high, and equals the six-match win streak teammate Megan Vandenberg (De Pere, Wis.) posted a year ago. … Vandenberg and Laura Sonday (West St. Paul, Minn.) posted a double-double in last Sunday's wins over Alverno and St. Norbert. Sonday won both of her singles matches at No. 1, while Vandenberg picked up back-to-back wins at No. 2. The duo then teamed for a pair of doubles victories at No. 1. … Vandenberg and Jorgensen share the team lead with 10 dual-match singles wins each, one more than Sonday, Julia Boeve (St. James, Minn.), and Cassandra Barr (Eau Claire, Wis. … 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. … Emily Strezishar's (East Grand Forks, N.D.) 6-0, 6-0 win at No. 6 singles against North Central (Minn.) on Feb. 10 was her first collegiate singles win. … Vandenberg posted a season- and career-high 17 singles wins in 2016. Her 17 singles wins rank No. 2 all-time, five wins shy of McKenna Edwards' single-season 22-win total in 2012. … Vandenberg is also sitting No. 2 all-time in career singles wins with 53—four back of Bailey Edwards' record 57 career singles wins—while Jorgensen is third with 52. … Marissa Kinzer (Aitkin, Minn.) owns a team-leading 10 dual-match doubles wins, two more than Vandenberg and Sonday. … As a team, the Cardinals are 56-28 in singles matches, while going 27-15 in doubles play. … Thanks to their 9-0 victory over Alverno and 7-2 win against St. Norbert, the Cardinals improved to 41-12 in nonconference action since 2012. … Saint Mary's dropped just seven games in sweeping North Central (Minn.) on Feb. 10, and followed that up by losing just eight games in its 9-0 win over Bethany Lutheran a week later. … 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. … The Cardinals improved to 10-0 in their last 10 meetings with Martin Luther and are 9-0 against Bethany Lutheran.
 
Scouting The St. Olaf Oles:
2017 Roster | 2017 Schedule | 2017 Statistics
• The Oles' 6-3 loss to Saint Benedict on March 31 snapped their season-high four-match winning streak. … St. Olaf posted four wins—all by different scores—in their four-match spring trip to Hilton Head, S.C. The Oles opened the trip with a 6-3 win over The College of Wooster, and followed that up with a 7-2 win over UW-Oshkosh, a 9-0 sweep of Virginia Wesleyan, and an 8-1 triumph against Hollins. … Margaret Zimmermann and Kallis Brandt enter Saturday's matchup against Saint Mary's riding lengthy winning streaks—Zimmermann has won nine straight, while Brandt has won each of her last five. … Zimmermann owns a team-leading nine singles wins—going 9-0 at No. 1—while Brandt is second with eight (8-2). … As a team, St. Olaf is 38-22 in singles play—including 10-0 at No. 1 and 8-2 at No. 3. … Zimmermann is also perfect in doubles action this season, teaming with Erin McDonald to go 9-0 at No. 1. … With their nine wins, Zimmermann/McDonald have combined for more than half of the Oles' 17 doubles victories this season. … Four of St. Olaf's six wins this season have come in neutral-site matches—the Oles are 2-3 at home and 0-2 on the road.