By DONNY NADEAU
Saint Mary's Sports Information Director
 
WINONA, Minn. — The Saint Mary's University of Minnesota women's tennis team returns to conference play on Sunday, as the Cardinals entertain Concordia in a 9 a.m. matchup at the Winona Tennis Center.
 
The Matchups:
• Saint Mary's Cardinals (3-3 MIAC, 6-5 Overall) vs. Concordia Cobbers (0-5 MIAC, 3-11 Overall)
 
Last Action:
• Saint Mary's—March 15-16, 2019 * Winona Tennis Center * Winona, Minn.: The Cardinals picked up a pair of conference wins last weekend, dropping St. Olaf 7-2 on March 15, before adding a 6-3 victory over St. Catherine the following afternoon | STO Recap * SCU Recap
• Concordia—March 16, 2019 * Courts Plus * Fargo, N.D.: The Cobbers proved to be no match for Saint Benedict, as the Bennies dealt Concordia an 8-1 conference setback | Recap
 
Saint Mary's vs. Concordia — Their Last Meeting:
• March 18, 2018 * Courts Plus * Fargo, N.D.: The Cardinals, coming off a sweep of North Central in a nonconference match two days earlier, repeated that 9-0 performance in blanking Concordia in a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference match | Recap
 
Up Next:
• Saint Mary's: The Cardinals step out of conference play for three matches next weekend. Saint Mary's will host Crown in a 6 p.m. contest at the Winona Tennis Center on Friday, before hitting the road for matches at St. Norbert at the Four Seasons Tennis Club in Green Bay, Wis., on Saturday and against Concordia (Wis.) at the Pleasant Valley Tennis Center in Jackson, Wis., the following day.
• Concordia: The Cobbers return to the courts next Sunday, hosting Bethel in a 4 p.m. conference showdown at Courts Plus in Fargo, N.D.
 
Scouting The Saint Mary's Cardinals: 
2019 Roster | 2019 Schedule | 2019 Statistics
• Sunday's match against Concordia is the third of four straight home matches for the Cardinals, who are a perfect 4-0 at the Winona Tennis Center this season. … With their 6-3 win over St. Catherine last Saturday, the Cardinals pushed their winning streak to a season-high four straight. … Three of the Cardinals' four wins during their current winning streak have been 6-3 decisions — the other was a 7-2 win over St. Olaf. … The doubles teams of Laura Sonday (West St. Paul, Minn.)/Colleen Lois (Green Bay, Wis.) and Julia Boeve (St. James, Minn.)/Ashley Frederickson (St. James, Minn.) both picked up a pair of wins in the Cardinals' victories over St. Olaf and St. Catherine last weekend. … Sonday, Lois, and Boeve also won both of their singles matches against the Oles and Wildcats last weekend. … Sonday and Boeve enter Sunday's match against Concordia leading the team with seven dual-match singles wins, two more than Lois and Cassandra Barr (Eau Claire, Wis.). … Sonday — who shared the team lead in singles wins a year ago (16) with Boeve — played her 70th consecutive match at No. 1 singles against St. Catherine last Saturday. … Boeve is currently No. 4 all-time with 53 singles wins — four behind career-leader Megan Vandenberg — while Sonday is sitting in fifth with 51. … Sonday is No. 2 all-time in doubles wins with 49, nine back of career-leader Bailey Edwards. … Boeve — who had dropped just one game in winning her two singles matches to open the season — had her career-high 12-match winning streak snapped with a three-set, 5-7, 6-3, 10-4 loss to Gustavus on Feb. 9. … Kennedy Morgan's (Green Bay, Wis.) win at No. 5 singles against Northwestern on Feb. 1 was her first collegiate singles victory. She became the third Cardinal to pick up collegiate win No. 1 this season, joining Kailee Johnson (Rochester, Minn.) and Madyson Schreiber (Edwardsville, Ill.), who notched their first singles wins against Martin Luther on Jan. 25. …  Sonday and Lois — who went 15-4 as a doubles pair a year ago — have won seven doubles duals together this season. … Fredrickson is second to both Sonday and Lois with five doubles wins through nine matches. … Boeve/Frederickson enter Sunday's match against Concordia having won their last three doubles matches. … With their 6-3 win over Hanover on Feb. 26, the Cardinals are now 52-20 against nonconference opponents since 2012. … With their season-opening win over Martin Luther on Jan. 25, the Cardinals have now opened the season with a 9-0 victory in four straight seasons. … The Cardinals are now 12-0 in their last 12 meetings with Martin Luther. … Sonday earned All-MIAC singles and doubles honors following her junior season a year ago, while Boeve collected her first collegiate First-Team All-MIAC singles honor, and Lois was a First-Team All-MIAC doubles selection in her first year as a Cardinal.
 
Scouting The Concordia Cobbers:
2019 Roster | 2019 Schedule | 2019 Statistics
• Sunday's match against Saint Mary's is the seventh of the Cobbers' last eight matches played on the road. Concordia has collected two of its three wins this season away from home. CC is 1-7 at home, while going 2-4 on the road. … Concordia's loss to Saint Benedict last Saturday marked the second straight match decided by an 8-1 score. CC defeated Adrian 8-1 to close out its spring trip to Orlando, Fla., on March 7. … After dropping eight of its first nine matches, Concordia is 2-3 in its last five. … Brianna Bell enters Sunday's matchup against Saint Mary's as the team's singles wins leader with six, one more than Lisa Neumann and two in front of Josie Beachy. … Concordia is 25-59 in singles play this year — but have not won a singles match in conference play, going 0-30. … CC owns a 5-9 record at Nos. 3, 4, and 6 singles, while going 4-10 at No. 3 and 3-11 at No. 1 and No. 2. … Neumann and Rachel Saxen lead the Cobbers with six doubles wins. The duo are 6-4 as a doubles team — going 0-1 at No. 1 and 6-3 at No. 3 — and have accounted for six of Concordia's 10 doubles victories this season. … The Cobbers are 10-32 in doubles play — 1-13 at No. 1, 3-11 at No. 2, and 6-8 at No. 3 — but have won just one of 15 doubles contests in conference play.