• 0: Amber Chow (West St. Paul, Minn.) tossed a complete-game, four-hit shutout in leading the Cardinal fastpitch softball team to a 6-0 Game 2 win and a sweep of their nonconference doubleheader against Augsburg last Sunday. Chow walked one and struck out four.
• 0.00: Eight relievers pitched 13 1/3 innings in the Cardinal baseball team’s 2-1 week last week, allowing just 11 hits and no earned runs, while striking out 19 batters. For the season, the Saint Mary’s pitching staff boasts a microscopic 1.02 ERA.
• 1: Sarrianna Hoffer (Wausau, Wis.) picked up her first collegiate dual-match singles win on Sunday, recording a 7-6 (4), 6-1 win at No. 6 singles against St. Thomas last Sunday.
• 1 x 1: Reilly Fredell (Colorado Springs, Colo.) recorded his first collegiate dual-match singles win — in his first collegiate singles appearance — picking up a 6-1, 6-3 win at No. 6 singles in the Cardinal men’s tennis team’s 6-3 win over Hamline.
• 1-1 x 3: For the third weekend in a row, the Cardinal men’s tennis team posted a 1-1 record last week, beating Hamline 6-3 last Friday, before falling to St. Thomas 8-1 two days later.
• 2: With their 5-3 win and 4-2 loss to Augsburg last Tuesday, the Cardinal baseball team has now played four games decided by two runs or less this season. Saint Mary’s beat Luther 2-1 and 4-2 on March 14.
• 2: For the second straight week, Saint Mary’s boasted a pair of MIAC Athletes of the Week last week. Ary Ziakas (Palatine, Ill.) of the Cardinal women’s hockey team earned her second AOW of the season, while women’s tennis’ Zoie Becker (St. James, Minn.) landed her first AOW honor.
• 2 x 1: Jordan Zabel (Elgin, Minn.) made his first collegiate pitching start for the Cardinal baseball in Game 2 against Augsburg last Tuesday, allowing no runs and just one hit in 4.2 innings in a no-decision. Addison Hochevar (Lake Geneva, Wis.), meanwhile, collected his first career pitching win as a Cardinal, throwing four innings of scoreless, two-hit relief in Tuesday’s Game 1 win over Augsburg.
• 2 x 2: The Saint Mary’s men’s hockey team scored two goals in each of its games last week, falling to St. Olaf 3-2 last Tuesday and dropping a 5-2 decision to Saint John’s two days later.
• 2 x 3: Will Matthews (Geneva, Ill.), Andy Tepp (Stevens Point, Wis.), and Cameron Weber (Holmen, Wis.) all had two hits in leading the Cardinal offense in last Saturday’s 6-1 win over Luther.
• 3: Taylor Anderson (Waukesha, Wis.) drew a single-game, career-high three walks in the Saint Mary’s baseball team’s 6-1 win over Luther last Saturday. Anderson leads the team with five walks through six games.
• 3: The Saint Mary’s women’s tennis team played three Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference matches in three days last weekend, squaring off against both Hamline (W, 8-1) and St. Olaf (L, 5-4) on the Cardinals’ home courts last Friday and Saturday, before falling to St. Thomas (L, 8-1) on the road on Sunday.
• 3: Hallie Schmeling (Onalaska, Wis.) launched a bases-loaded, three-run triple in the fourth inning to help lead the Cardinal fastpitch softball team to a 6-0 win over Augsburg in the nightcap of their nonconference doubleheader last Sunday.
• 3 = 1: Trevor Smiley (Minnetonka, Minn.) needed three straight to record the Cardinal men’s tennis team’s lone win in last Sunday’s 8-1 conference loss at St. Thomas. Smiley dropped the first set of his No. 4 singles match 6-2, but rallied for a 7-6 (2) win in the second set and outlasted UST’s Tristan Fjestad 10-8 in the third for the marathon win.
• 3-3: Justin Weinberg (Eagan, Minn.) recorded his team-leading second three-hit game in the Cardinal baseball team’s 4-2 Game 2 loss to Augsburg last Tuesday, going 3-for-3.
• 4 = 10: The Saint Mary’s fastpitch softball team scored 10 runs in the fourth inning of its nonconference doubleheader against Augsburg last Sunday, posting a seven-run fourth in the Cardinals’ 10-5 win, before adding three runs in the fourth of SMU’S 6-0 win in the nightcap.
• 4 x 1: The Saint Mary’s men’s hockey team’s four goals last week came from four different players. Sam Hanson (Eau Claire, Wis.) and Tommy Stang (Mendota Heights, Minn.) found the back of the net in last Tuesday’s 3-2 setback at St. Olaf, while Trevor Schroder (Des Moines, Iowa) and Tyson Liverance (Burford, Ontario) netted SMU’s two goals in its season-ending 5-2 loss to Saint John’s last Thursday.
• 4-4: Mackenzie Carey (Prescott, Wis.) collected her first collegiate four-hit games in the Cardinal fastpitch softball team’s 10-5 Game 1 win over Augsburg last Sunday, going a perfect 4-for-4 with a pair of runs scored and an RBI.
• 5: After dropping his first match of the season, Trevor Smiley (Minnetonka, Minn.) has put together a team-high five-match singles winning streak — including back-to-back wins over Hamline and St. Thomas last weekend.
• 6: All six of the singles matches in the Cardinal women’s tennis team’s heartbreaking 5-4 loss to St. Olaf last Saturday were decided in straight sets. Natalie Peterson (St. Cloud, Minn.), Zoie Becker (St. James, Minn.), and Emily Henderson (Jordan, Minn.) recorded SMU’s singles wins — dropping just 15 games between them.
• 6: Emily Henderson (Jordan, Minn.) had her career-high six-match singles winning streak snapped last Sunday against St. Thomas. After opening the season with a loss to Bethel, the sophomore had strung together six consecutive victories — all in straight sets — before Sunday’s loss to the Tommies.
• 6-3 x 2: With their win over Hamline last Friday, the Saint Mary’s men’s tennis team’s last two wins have been 6-3 decisions. The Cardinals also beat Wartburg 6-3 on March 13.
• 7: The Cardinal men’s hockey team’s 3-2 loss to St. Olaf last Tuesday marked the seventh time in SMU’s 11 games this season that the outcome was decided by one goal — including three that went into overtime.
• 7: Zoie Becker (St. James, Minn.) picked up singles wins against both Hamline and St. Olaf last Friday and Saturday to push her season-opening winning streak to a career-high seven straight. The sophomore’s streak was snapped, however, with a straight-set loss to St. Thomas last Sunday.
• 10: The Saint Mary’s fastpitch softball team scored 10 runs in beating Augsburg 10-5 in the first game of their nonconference doubleheader last Sunday. The 10 runs marked the second time in eight games in which the Cardinals have scored 10 or more runs — SMU plated a season-high 12 runs in falling to St. Scholastica 14-12 on March 14.
• 12: Bud Winter (St. Louis, Mo.) and Ryan Stoynich (Calgary, Alberta) closed out the year as the Cardinal men’s hockey team’s offensive leaders with 12 points each. Winter also led the team with six goals, while Stoynich owned a team-best nine assists.
• 13: Pitchers Jordan Zabel (Elgin, Minn.) and Addison Hochevar (Lake Geneva, Wis.) combined for 13 strikeouts in the Cardinal baseball team’s nonconference split against Augsburg last Tuesday. Hochevar struck out eight in four innings in getting the win in Game 1, while Zabel fanned five in 4.2 innings in a no-decision in the nightcap.
• 36: Playing in his final game in a Saint Mary’s jersey, Al Rogers (New Haven, Conn.) made a season-high 36 saves in the Cardinal men’s hockey team’s 5-2, season-ending loss to Saint John’s last Thursday.
