| The Cardinals picked up their second doubleheader sweep of the season last week, beating Carleton 4-0 in the opener on Tuesday, before completing their halted game with a 6-2 Game 2 win on Thursday. … The Cardinals 4-0 win over Carleton in Game 1 last Tuesday was their first shutout since blanking Bethel 1-0 on April 28, 2019. … Addison Hochevar (Lake Geneva, Wis.) and Luke Gilbertson (Windom, Minn.) picked up the pitching wins against Carleton — Hochevar pitched four innings of one-hit relief in Game 1, while Gilbertson allowed two runs on three hits in six innings in Game 2. … Jonathan Cieminski (Fountain City, Wis.) recorded his first collegiate save in the nightcap against Carleton, facing the minimum nine batters in three innings of relief. … Will Matthews (Geneva, Ill.) collected three hits in SMU's DH vs. Carleton, while Ben Coons () and Justin Weinberg (Eagan, Minn.) each had two hits. … Three Cardinal regulars with 30 or more at-bats are hitting .300 of better this season, led by Matthews' .391 batting average. Weinberg (.348) and Taylor Anderson (Waukesha, Wis. / .300) are the other two. … Saint Mary's owns 21 extra-base hits — all doubles — among their 109 hits this season. Matthews leads the way with six doubles, followed by Tyler O'Brien (Belle Plaine, Minn.) with four. … Matthews leads the Cardinals with 12 RBIs, four more than Weinberg. … The Cardinals have gotten at least one RBI from 16 different players. … Drake had five hits in seven at-bats against Crown on March 29 — including a perfect 3-for-3, four-run, 3-RBI effort in Game 2. … Drake's four runs scored in the nightcap were a single-game career-high and marked the first time since Joe Seegers against Rose-Hulman on March 1, 2018 that a Cardinal has scored four runs in a game. … Matthews has posted a team-high six multiple-hit games, while Weinberg owns two of the team's four three-hit performances. … Jack Arndt (Coon Rapids, Minn.) recorded a two-out double in the bottom of the seventh — his first collegiate hit — to break up St. Thomas' Game 2 no-hit bid on April 3. … Anderson drew a single-game career-high three walks against Luther on March 20. … Ryan Wolfe (Wabasha, Minn. / 2-2 5.14 ERA) has thrown a team-leading 21.0 innings to pace the Cardinal pitching staff, while Hochevar (3-0, 1.84 ERA, 14.2 IP), Jordan Zabel ( / 1-1 3.86 ERA, 14.0 IP), Cieminski (0-0, 3.29 ERA, 13.2 IP), Gilbertson (2-0, 4.63 ERA, 11.2 IP), and Jake Mercado (Belle Plaine, Minn. / 0-1, 8.44 ERA, 10.2 IP) have also thrown 10 or more innings this season. … Hochevar leads the staff in wins (3), while Cieminski is the team-leader in both appearances (6) and strikeouts (18). … Hochevar earned his first win as a Cardinal, throwing four scoreless innings in relief, allowing two hits and striking out eight in Saint Mary's 5-3 Game 1 win over Augsburg on March 16. Zabel, meanwhile, collected his first collegiate pitching win against Gustavus on March 26, tossing three innings of shutout, one-hit relief. … Wolfe tossed a complete-game four-hitter in SMU's 2-1 Game 1 win over Luther on March 14. It was his fourth career complete game. … Saint Mary's scored a season-high 10 runs twice in its March 29 nonconference split against Crown. SMU won the opener 10-4, before falling 12-10 in the nightcap. … The Cardinals scored in 11 of the 13 innings they batted in against Crown on March 29 — including scoring at least one run in all six innings of their 10-4, Game 1 win. … The Cardinals have outscored their opponents 19-5 in the seventh inning. … With their 12-10, Game 2 loss to Crown on March 29, the Cardinal have played five games this season decided by two runs or less. … The Cardinals' 10 runs in both games of their doubleheader against Crown on March 29 were a season-high. … The Cardinals' DH vs. Luther on March 14 was their first home game in 683 days, dating back to a conference DH vs. Gustavus on May 1, 2019. … Saint Mary's 4-2, Game 2 loss to Augsburg on March 16 snapped its season-opening four-game winning streak and its seven-game winning streak overall — the Cardinals had ended their pandemic-shortened 2020 season with three straight wins. |
The Auggies head into their three-game series against Saint Mary's owning a 3-10 overall record, including a 1-4 showing in conference play. … The Auggies battled Macalester to a conference split in their last action on April 3, beating the Scots 8-3, before falling in the second game 12-1. … Augsburg was lead St. Olaf in the teams' mid-week doubleheader on Tuesday, when the game was halted due to COVID-19 protocols. … Augsburg's 8-3 win over Macalester in Game 1 on April 3 snapped its three-game losing streak. After opening the season with a nonconference split against Saint Mary's at US Bank Stadium, the Auggies dropped five straight, before beating Crown 3-2 in the second game of the teams' nonconference DH on March 27. … The Auggies enter the weekend hitting just .212 as a team, and boast just one player — Connor Stoik (.314) — hitting above .300. … Along with his team-leading batting average, Stoik also leads the team in hits (11), triples (1), total bases (15), walks (9) and on-base percentage (.500). … Steven Salz leads the Auggies with three doubles and has hit the Auggies' lone home run, while Ty Gage is the team's RBI leader with 11. … Stoik is 3-for-4 in stolen base attempts and has accounted for three of the team's five steals this season. … Augsburg boasts four pitchers who have logged 10 or more innings this season — led by Austin Jervlo (1-0, 3.94 ERA) with 16.0 IP and Mathew Nicklay (0-1, 8.79) with 14.1 IP. … Nicklay has made a team-high four starts, one more than Dylan Irving (0-3, 13.50 ERA). … Jervlo owns the team's lone complete game — going all seven innings in Augsburg's 8-3 win over Macalester on April 3. … The Auggie staff has struck out 63 batters. … Augsburg has been outscored in every inning but the sixth this season, including 17-7 in the first and 20-3 in the second. … Augsburg has held its opponents to two runs or less in two of its three wins this season. On the flip side, the Auggies have allowed six or more runs in eight of their 10 losses — including surrendering a season-high 19 runs in falling to Macalester 19-16 on April 2.
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