| The Cardinals picked up their second doubleheader sweep of the week on Saturday, beating Augsburg 3-0 and 5-4 at Parada Stadium on Saturday. The Cardinals had entered Saturday's DH on the heels of a 4-0, 6-2 sweep of Carleton on Tuesday/Thursday. … The Cardinals have now posted a shutout in the opener of each of its last two doubleheaders. SMU's 4-0 win over Carleton last Tuesday was their first shutout since blanking Bethel 1-0 on April 28, 2019. … Ryan Wolfe (Wabasha, Minn.) was the hero of Game 1 against Augsburg Saturday, tossing a complete-game, one-hit shutout. Wolfe faced just 22 batters — one over the minimum, and allowed one a third-inning single. … Kodey Kiel (Owatonna, Minn.) earned his second save of the year, striking out three straight batters with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth in Saturday's 5-4 Game 2 victory. … Andy Tepp (Stevens Point, Wis.) went 2-for-3 with two runs scored in the opener against Augsburg Saturday, while Will Matthews (Geneva, Ill.) had a pair of hits in the nightcap. … Three Cardinal regulars with 30 or more at-bats are hitting .300 of better this season, led by Matthews' .377 batting average. Taylor Anderson (Waukesha, Wis. / .326) and Justin Weinberg (Eagan, Minn. / .308) are the other two. … Saint Mary's owns 25 extra-base hits — all doubles — among their 120 hits this season. Matthews leads the way with six doubles, followed by Anderson and Tyler O'Brien (Belle Plaine, Minn.) with four. … Matthews leads the Cardinals with 12 RBIs, two more than Weinberg and four in front of Anderson. … The Cardinals have gotten at least one RBI from 16 different players. … Zach Drake (Westby, Wis.) 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 seven 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. … Wolfe (Wabasha, Minn. / 3-2, 3.86 ERA) has thrown a team-leading 28.0 innings to pace the Cardinal pitching staff, while Addison Hochevar (Lake Geneva, Wis. / 3-0, 1.84 ERA, 16.2 IP), Jordan Zabel ( / 2-1 3.26 ERA, 19.1 IP), Jonathan Cieminski (Fountain City, Wis. 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 — who recorded his first collegiate save in the nightcap against Carleton last Tuesday, facing the minimum nine batters in three innings of relief — 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 win |
The Auggies head into the final game of their three-game series against Saint Mary's owning a 3-12 overall record, including a 1-6 showing in conference play. … The Auggies head into Sunday's final game of their three-game series against Saint Mary's having dropped three straight. … 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 are hitting just .205 as a team and do not have a player hitting above .300. … Michael Weiss leads the team with a .293 batting average, while also leading the team in hits with 12, one more than Connor Stolk and Kyle Hoppe. … Steven Salz has belted a team-best four 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 (1-1, 4.09 ERA) with 22.0 IP and Mathew Nicklay (0-2, 7.17) with 21.1 IP. … Nicklay has made a team-high five starts, one more than Dylan Irving (0-3, 13.50 ERA). … Jervlo and Nicklay own the staff's two complete games. … The Auggie staff has struck out 72 batters. … Augsburg has been outscored in every inning but the sixth this season, including 18-8 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 12 losses — including surrendering a season-high 19 runs in falling to Macalester 19-16 on April 2.
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