By Donny Nadeau
Saint Mary's Sports Information Director
 
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — The Saint Mary's University of Minnesota men's tennis closes out its regular-season schedule on Saturday, traveling to the University of Minnesota's Baseline Tennis Center for an 11 a.m. Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference matchup against Hamline.
 
The Matchup:
• Saint Mary's Cardinals (0-8 MIAC, 6-11 overall) at Hamline Pipers (0-4 MIAC, 8-5 overall)
 
Last Action:
• Saint Mary's—April 16, 2018 * Lakeville, Minn.: The Cardinals picked up a win in one of the three doubles matches against St. Olaf, but the Oles rattled off wins in all six singles matches—including a three-set marathon at No. 4—to deal Saint Mary's an 8-1 conference setback at Lifetime Fitness | Recap
• Hamline—April 17, 2018 * Minneapolis, Minn.: The Pipers dominated North Central (Minn.) in the teams' nonconference match at the U of M Baseline Tennis Center, dropping just one game in their 9-0 victory | Recap
 
Saint Mary's vs. Hamline—Their Last Meeting:
• March 10, 2017 * Winona, Minn.: The Cardinals—propelled by a huge come-from-behind win at No. 1 doubles—dropped the Pipers 6-3 in the teams' conference match at the Winona Tennis Center | Recap
 
Up Next:
• Saint Mary's: Saturday's match against Hamline is the regular-season finale for the Cardinals.
• Hamline: The Pipers hit the road on Sunday, traveling to Moorhead, Minn., for a 1:30 p.m. conference showdown against Concordia.
 
Scouting The Saint Mary's Cardinals:
2018 Roster | 2018 Schedule | 2018 Statistics
• Monday's 8-1 loss to St. Olaf snapped the Cardinals' two-match winning streak. … Saint Mary's match at Hamline on Saturday is the fourth straight road match to close out the regular season. The Cardinals finished the season 3-7 on their home court, while going 3-3 away from the Winona Tennis Center. … Bobby Tiedemann (Euclid, Minn.), Robbie Sobczak (Cloquet, Minn.) and Brenden Amiotte (Rapid City, S.D.) all had their three-match singles winning streaks snapped against St. Olaf Monday. … Tiedemann is the team's dual-match singles wins leader with 10. … Sobczak is second to Tiedemann with eight dual-match singles wins, with Amiotte third with seven. … Tiedemann had his career-high six-match singles winning streak snapped with a 7-6 (3), 6-2 loss at No. 4 against Bethel on Feb. 10. Tiedeman's winning streak covered wins in his last three singles matches a year ago, and the first three this season. … Amiotte (7-11), who is the only Cardinal to have played every match at the same position—playing all 18 contests at No. 1 singles—kicked off his senior season in impressive fashion at the ITA Midwest Regional last October, rebounding from an opening-round loss to win six straight matches in claiming the consolation title, giving him 13 overall singles wins thus far this season. … Tiedemann, Amiotte, and Alex Zuzek (Hastings, Minn.) share the team lead in dual-match doubles wins with 10. … Alex Holm (Red Wing, Minn.) has collected eight doubles wins this season, one more than Brett Giesen (Cato, Wis.) and Sobczak. … Saint Mary's lost just nine games in their six straight-set singles wins vs. Martin Luther on Jan. 26—including 6-0, 6-0 wins by Sobczak at No. 3 and Zuzek at No. 6. … Amiotte/Tiedemann, Sobczak/Holm, and Zuzek/Gabe Graves (Littleton, Colo.) combined to drop just three games in doubles play against Martin Luther on Jan. 26. … The Cardinals have posted three 9-0 victories, sweeping both Martin Luther and North Central, while adding a pair of 8-1 wins—beating Wartburg and Edgewood—and a 6-3 triumph over Lawrence. … The Cardinals did not drop a game—in singles or doubles—in rolling to their 9-0 win over North Central on March 16. … The Cardinals have now swept North Central in each of their last three meetings. … With their wins over Lawrence and St. Norbert on March 24-25, the Cardinals are now to 54-19 in nonconference matches since 2012. … Fueled by their 8-1 win over Edgewood on Feb. 23, the Cardinals improved to 4-0 against the Falcons all-time—sandwiching 9-0 wins around a pair of 8-1 victories. … Saint Mary's season-opening win over Martin Luther on Jan. 26 pushed its record to 12-0 vs. the Knights—including six straight 9-0 victories.
 
Scouting The Hamline Pipers:
2018 Roster | 2018 Schedule | 2018 Statistics
• Saturday's match against Saint Mary's is the Pipers' third straight contest to be played at the U of M Baseline Tennis Center. Over the past week, HU has already faced  Carleton (W, 9-0) and North Central (W, 9-0) at Baseline. … Hamline was unstoppable in its 9-0 nonconference win over North Central (Minn.), losing just one game. HU won all three doubles matches 8-0, while taking five of the six singles matches 6-0, 6-0 and the other ending 6-0, 6-1. … Jake Trondson heads into Saturday's showdown against Saint Mary's leading the Pipers with 10 singles wins—with all 10 wins coming at No. 1. … Matt Seracki is second on the team with seven singles wins, while Gabriel Guarin, Ben Klimek, Brandon Kuether, and Nazeer Robinson all own four singles wins. … Seracki and Trondson have combined to post a team-best 9-3 doubles record at No. 1. The team of Guarin/Klimek is second with four doubles victories. … 
As a team, the Pipers are 44-26 in singles play and own a 24-15 mark in doubles contests. … Hamline has used 12 different doubles combinations through 13 matches.