• 1: Kennedy Kraus (Kasson, Minn.) scored her first collegiate goal — off an assist from her sister Rose Krause — at 1:58 of the second period in the Cardinal women’s hockey team’s 2-1 win over Augsburg last Thursday.
• 1 x 2: Nolan Dawson (Rocky View County, Alberta) and Nick Kiemel (Colorado Springs, Colo.) each netted their first collegiate goals for the Cardinal men’s hockey team last weekend — and both goals were SMU’s first of the game. Dawson scored his in last Friday’s 4-3 loss to St. Thomas, while Kiemel netted his against Bethel the following evening.
• 1: The Cardinal women’s hockey team picked up their first win of the season with last Thursday’s 2-1 victory over Augsburg — snapping their season-opening five-game winless streak (0-3-2).
• 1: E.J. Hietala (Duluth, Minn.) collected his first collegiate singles win in the Cardinal men’s tennis team’s 7-2 victory over Loras last Saturday.
• 2: Haley Williams (Littleton, Colo.) and Lexi Brooks (Searcy, Ark.) drove in Saint Mary’s two Game 2 runs against Luther last Sunday. Williams plated Saint Mary's first run of the season with a one-out sacrifice fly in the fourth, and Brooks drove in the second with a bases-loaded RBI single.
• 2: Caroline Gearin (Osceola, Wis.) collected a pair of first-place performances in her first collegiate meet for the Saint Mary’s women’s track and field team, clocking a time of 1:00.67 to take home first-place in the 400 and adding a winning vault of 3.20 meters in the pole vault at last Saturday’s COVID Classic.
• 2-0: Josh Janssen (Green Bay, Wis.) picked up singles wins in both of the Cardinal men’s tennis team’s matches last weekend. Janssen won 6-4, 6-4 at No. 3 singles against Bethel last Friday, and followed that up with a 6-4, 7-5 victory at No. 3 against Loras the following day.
• 2 x 1: The Saint Mary’s women’s tennis team had two players — Emily Henderson (Jordan, Minn.) and Natalie Peterson (St. Cloud, Minn.) — pick up their first collegiate singles wins in last Saturday’s 7-2 win over Loras.
• 2 x 2: Amy Kulaga (Riverside, Ill.) and Cassie Sutor (Chicago, Ill.) each recorded two-hit games in Game 2 of the Cardinal fastpitch softball team’s season-opening nonconference doubleheader against Luther.
• 2 + 3 = 1 x 2: Brady Lindauer (Cary, Ill.) scored two goals and had a hand in all three Cardinal goals in the SMU men’s hockey team’s nonconference loss at St. Scholastica last Tuesday. Cary’s two-goal and three-point game were both career highs.
• 3: Matt Boone (Mindoro, Minn.) delivered three first-place finishes to pace the Cardinal men’s track and field team at last Saturday’s COVID Classic. The senior clocked a 6.69 in winning the prelims of the 55, before stopping the clock in 6.61 in winning the finals. Boone then added a time of 22.92 to edge out teammate Garrett Jackson (West Linn, Ore.) in the 200
• 3: Bud Winter (St. Louis, Mo.) scored three goals for the Cardinal men’s hockey team last weekend — one in last Friday’s 4-3 loss to St. Thomas and two against Bethel in Saturday’s 6-5 win — to extended his consecutive points streak to three straight games. Winter has now recorded two, two-goal games and has posted four multiple-point games — including two-point efforts in each of his last two games.
• 4: Ryan Stoynich (Calgary, Alberta) scored his team-leading fourth goal of the season in the SMU men’s hockey team’s loss to St. Scholastica last Tuesday.
• 5: The SMU men’s hockey team has had a different player net the game-winning goal in each of its five wins this season — the latest being Tommy Stang (Mendota Heights, Minn.), who scored less than two minutes into overtime in last Saturday’s 6-5 win over Bethel.
• 6-0, 6-0: Zoie Becker (St. James, Minn.) capped a perfect 2-0 singles weekend with a 6-0, 6-0 win at No. 5 singles in the Cardinal women’s tennis team’s 7-2 win over Loras last Saturday. The sophomore won 7-6, 6-4 in her season-opening match against Bethel the previous day
• 6: The Cardinal men’s hockey team’s six goals in their 6-5 overtime win over Bethel last Saturday were a season-high and the most in a game since netting seven against Hamline on Feb. 8.
• 7: The Saint Mary’s men’s hockey team scored the game’s first goal in both contests last weekend, and have scored first in seven of its eight games this season.
• 8-1, 7-2 x 2: The Saint Mary’s men’s and women’s tennis teams opened the season with the exact same outcomes in their seasons’ first two matches. Both teams dropped an 8-1 decision to Bethel last Friday, before bouncing back with 7-2 wins over Loras the following afternoon.
• 15: The Saint Mary’s track and field teams collected 15 first-place finishes at the indoor season-ending COVID Classic last Saturday in the Gostomski Fieldhouse
• 34 + 38: Ary Ziakas (Palatine, Ill.) stopped 34 of the 35 Augsburg shots she faced in the Cardinal women’s hockey team’s 2-1 win last Thursday, and followed that up with a season-high, 38-save effort — including 20 stops in the third period alone — in the Cardinals’ 4-1 loss to Bethel two days later.
• 36 x 2: The Saint Mary’s men’s hockey team posted a season-high 36 shots on goal in both games last weekend. The Cardinals have now recorded 30 or more shots on goal in each of their last three contests.
• 50: Amber Miller’s (Kasson, Minn.) first-period shorthanded goal in the Cardinal women’s hockey team’s 4-1 loss to Bethel last Saturday was Saint Mary’s first shortie since Natalie Ryan netted one against St. Olaf on Feb. 16, 2018 — a span of 50 games.
• 69: Al Rogers (North Haven, Conn.) kicked out 34 of the 38 St. Thomas shots he faced last Friday in the Cardinal men’s hockey team’s 4-3 loss to the Tommies. Rogers has now stopped 69 UST shots Saint Mary’s two meetings with the Tommies this season, having also recorded a season-high 35 saves vs. UST on Feb. 27.
