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SB: GameDay at Augsburg

3/21/2021 6:55:00 AM

By: DONNY NADEAU, Saint Mary's Sports Information Director | dnadeau@smumn.edu
  SAINT MARY'S CARDINALS (1-5 Overall)
at AUGSBURG AUGGIES (3-5 Overall)
 
 THE VITALS
Date / Time Sun., March 21 | 3 p.m.
Location
 		 Edor Nelson Field
Minneapolis, Minn.
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Rosters Saint Mary's | AUG
Schedules Saint Mary's | AUG
Statistics Saint Mary's | AUG
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  ON THE FIELD
Last Meeting
 		 March 24, 2019
W, 4-1/L, 7-5
SMU Last Action
 		 March 14 * CSS
L, 14-12/L, 6-1
AUG Last Action
 		 March 16 * UM-M
W, 5-4/W, 7-2
SMU Up Next March 24 * v. UW-RF
AUG Up Next March 27 * at CSS
SMU v. AUG Series History
  SAINT MARY'S CARDINALS SCOUTING REPORT
Sunday's doubleheader against Augsburg will be the seventh and eighth straight road games for the Cardinals, who open the home portion of their season on April 24 against UW-River Falls. … The Cardinals scored a season-high 12 runs in their 14-12 Game 1 loss to St. Scholastica last Sunday. … Marissa Kleckler (Oregon, Wis.) and Amber Chow (West St. Paul, Minn.) each picked up four hits in the Cardinals' two games against St. Scholastica last Saturday — including a three-hit Game 1 performances from both. … Justine Schultz (Winona, Minn.) and Lexi Brooks (Searcy, Ark.) each had two hits in the opener against St. Scholastica last Sunday, and both scored three times. … Lizzy Baird (Wells, Minn.) went 2-for-2 in the nightcap against St. Scholastica last Sunday. She was the only Cardinal with more than one hit. … Brooks enters Sunday's showdown against Augsburg hitting a team-leading .600 and shares the team lead in hits (6) with Erin Sullivan (Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.). … Brooks, Kulaga, and Paige Gudmundson (Plainview, Minn.) share the team lead with four runs scored. … Brooks leads the team in RBIs with six and boasts a team-high .900 slugging percentage. … The Cardinals have recorded 13 extra-base hits among their 49 hits this season — including 11 doubles and two triples. … Saint Mary's has amassed 11 multiple-hit games, including three-hit games by Chow, Kleckler, and Gudmundson. … Sullivan is currently riding a team-best five-game hitting streak, while Sullivan, Schultz, and Amy Kulaga (Riverside, Ill.) have all reached base safely in each of the Cardinals' last five games. … Sullivan has now hit safely in 10 of the Cardinals' last 11 games. … Saint Mary's 10-7, Game 2 win over Northwestern on March 11 was the first collegiate coaching victory for Cardinals' interim head coach Sam Borawski.
  AUGSBURG AUGGIES SCOUTING REPORT
The Auggies enter Sunday's nonconference doubleheader against Saint Mary's sporting a 3-5 overall record — including back-to-back wins over UM-Morris in their last action on March 16. After losing their first four games, Augsburg is 3-1 in its last four. … Three of Augsburg's last four games have been decided by one run — a 2-1 win over Northland and a 5-4 5-4 victory over UM-Morris, along with a 5-4 loss to Northland. … Katie Manecke and Olivia Dynneson are the Auggies' offensive leaders, batting .400 and .368, respectively. … Dynneson owns a team-leading seven hits, one more than both Manecke and Sabriva Passmore, and shares the team lead in runs scored (4) with Manecke. … Dynneson has belted three of the Auggies' five doubles and Passmore has accounted for two of the team's three triples. … Sara Deming has driven in a team-high six runs, two more than both Mackenzie Evenson and Olivia O'Connor. … Manecke and Dynneson both enter Sunday's doubleheader against Saint Mary's riding four-game hitting streaks. … Passmore has logged a team-best 22.2 innings in the pitcher's circle this season, going 2-2 with a 3.71 ERA. Bella Kallas (1-1, 2.74 ERA) and O'Connor (0-2, 7.88) have thrown 15.1 and 13.1 innings, respectively. … Kallas and Passmore have each thrown two complete games, one more than O'Connor. … The Auggies have been outscored 44-20 through eight games — including 27-7 after the fourth inning. … The Auggies have yet to score a fifth-inning run this season. … Augsburg is 2-0 when scoring in the first inning and 2-1 when scoring the game's first run. … Augsburg has allowed six or more runs in four of its five losses.
 
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