• 0 x 2: The Saint Mary’s baseball team posted shutout wins in the first game of each of its doubleheaders last week — blanking Carleton 4-0 last Tuesday, and adding a 3-0 victory in Game 1 against Augsburg last Saturday. SMU’s 4-0 victory over Carleton was its first shutout win since April 28, 2019, when they beat Bethel 1-0.
• 1: The Saint Mary’s women’s soccer team’s 1-0 win over Augsburg Sunday was the first win as the Cardinals’ head coach for Nick Rizzo.
• 1: Cassie Sutor (Chicago, Ill.) belted her first collegiate home run — the Cardinals' first of the year — in the third inning of the second game of the Saint Mary's faspitch softball team's doubleheader against Hamline.
• 1: Ryan Wolfe (Wabasha, Minn.) tossed a complete-game one-hit shutout in leading the Cardinal baseball team to a 3-0 Game 1 win over Augsburg last Saturday. Wolfe allowed just two base runners — one on a third-inning single and the other on a seventh-inning SMU error — while striking out nine.
• 1: Mary Loy (Burien, Wash.) scored the Saint Mary’s women’s soccer team’s first goal of the season in the Cardinals’ 1-0 win over Augsburg Sunday. Loy netted the eventual game-winner in the third minute of the 90-minute contest.
• 1: Wally Barros (Santa Maria da Boa Vista, Brazil) netted the Cardinal men’s soccer team’s first goal of the season in the 30th minute of Saint Mary’s 2-1 win over Augsburg last Sunday.
• 1 + 1 = 3: Reilly Fredell (Colorado Springs, Colo.) accounted for two of the Cardinal men’s tennis team’s three singles wins in their conference matches against Saint John’s and Macalester last weekend. Fredell heads into this weekend’s matches having won each of his last three singles contests.
• 1 x 2: The Saint Mary’s men’s and women’s soccer teams each picked up their first wins of the season last Sunday against Augsburg. The Cardinal women posted a 1-0 win over the Auggies, while the SMU men beat Augsburg 2-1.
• 2: Addison Hochevar (Lake Geneva, Wis.) and Luke Gilbertson (Windom, Minn.) picked up the pitching wins for the Saint Mary’s baseball team in last week’s 4-0, 6-2 MIAC sweep of 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.
• 2: After failing to hit a home run in its first 18 games, the Saint Mary’s baseball team belted two round-trippers against Augsburg last Sunday — both collegiate firsts. Jack Arndt (Coon Rapids, Minn.) hit his solo HR in the top of the third, while Tyler O’Brien (Belle Plaine, Minn.) launched his solo HR in the bottom of the sixth to seal the Cardinals the 5-4 win.
• 2: Maggie Frye (Colorado Springs, Colo.) had a hand in two of the Cardinal women’s tennis team’s three wins in last Sunday’s 6-3 loss to Macalester, winning at No. 3 doubles and posting a three-set win at No. 3 singles.
• 2 + 2: The Saint Mary’s fastpitch softball team had a player record two hits in both games of its MIAC doubleheader against Macalester last Sunday. Amber Chow (West St. Paul, Minn.) had a pair of hits in the opener, while Cassie Sutor (Chicago, Ill.) equaled that feat in the nightcap.
• 2 x 2: Justin Weinberg (Eagan, Minn.) and Jack Arndt (Coon Rapids, Minn.) both had two hits in the Cardinal baseball team’s 5-4 win over Augsburg last Sunday.
• 3: Kodey Kiel (Owatonna, Minn.) earned his second save of the year for the Saint Mary’s baseball team last Saturday, striking out three straight batters with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth in the Cardinals’ 5-4 Game 2 victory.
• 3: Matt Boone (Mindoro, Minn.) won the 100 (11.40) and the 200 (22.67), while joining Noah Anderson (St. Paul, Minn.), Garrett Jackson (West Linn, Ore.), and Kyle Lichttenegger (De Pere, Wis.) to win the 4x100 with a time of 41.72 to pace the Saint Mary’s men’s track and field team at last Saturday’s Gustavus Lee Krough Invitational.
• 3: Linnaea Wallis (Dresser, Wis.) recorded her third double-double in four matches last Wednesday, posting 21 kills and 19 digs in the Saint Mary’s volleyball team’s 3-2 win over Bethel.
• 3: Will Matthews (Geneva, Ill.) collected three hits in the Cardinal baseball team’s sweep of Carleton last week. Matthews picked up his team-leading sixth two-hit game in the nightcap.
• 3 + 0 = 1 x 2: Alexis Nguyen () stopped all three shots she faced in the Cardinal women’s soccer team’s 1-0 win over Augsburg last Sunday en route to her first collegiate win and her first collegiate shutout. It was the second straight game in which Nguyen has made three saves.
• 3-2 x 2: The Saint Mary’s volleyball team posted a “reverse sweep” against Bethel last Wednesday, as the Cardinals rallied from a 2-0 deficit, rattling off three straight set wins to beat the Royals 3-2. It was the second straight match the Cardinals have won 3-2 — SMU beat St. Catherine 3-2 on March 31.
• 4: Justin Haugo (Springfield, Minn.) pitched four shutout innings of relief, allowing just three hits, to earn his first collegiate pitching win in the Cardinal baseball team’s 5-4 win over Augsburg last Sunday.
• 4: The Saint Mary’s women’s track and field team recorded four first-place finishes at the Gustavus Lee Krough Invitational. Sydney Klausler (Lakeville, Minn.) and Caroline Gearin (Osceola, Wis.) posted first-place individual efforts in the long jump (5.11m) and 400 (59.50), respectively, while Rachel Ohde (Chetek, Wis.) won the high jump (1.60m) and Anna Swanson (Osceola, Wis.) posted the top throw in the javelin (33.75m).
• 4: Eli Szymanski (La Crosse, Wis.) — who shared the team lead with 10 goals in 2019 — accounted for all four shot attempts for the Saint Mary’s men’s soccer team in last Thursday’s 3-0, season-opening loss to St. Thomas.
• 4: The Saint Mary’s women’s tennis team had three players Colleen Lois (Green Bay, Wis.), Natalie Peterson (St. Cloud, Minn.), and Kennedy Morgan (Green Bay, Wis.) — record wins in both singles and doubles in the Cardinals 7-2 win over Saint Benedict last Saturday.
• 4 + 4: The Cardinal fastpitch softball team scored eight of its 16 runs against Hamline last Saturday in the fourth inning — scoring four times in the fourth in each game of their 8-3, 8-3 sweep of the Pipers.
• 5-4 x 2: The Saint Mary’s baseball team beat Augsburg 5-4 in each of their last two meetings last weekend — the first in Game 2 of the teams’ MIAC doubleheader last Saturday and the second in last Sunday’s nine-inning series finale — pushing the Cardinals’ winning streak to five.
• 5-6: Justine Schultz (Winona, Minn.) finished 5-for-6 with four runs scored — including a 3-for-3 effort in Game 1 — in leading the Cardinal fastpitch softball team to an 8-3, 8-3 sweep of Hamline last Saturday.
• 7: Daniel Sessler (Brookfield, Ill.) — making his first collegiate start in goal — stopped seven St. Thomas shots in the Cardinal men’s soccer team’s 3-0 loss to the Tommies last Thursday at Ochrymowycz Field.
• 7-2: The Saint Mary’s women’s and men’s tennis teams both played to 7-2 decisions last Saturday. The Cardinal women knocked off Saint Benedict 7-2, while the SMU men suffered a 7-2 setback at the hands of Saint John’s.
• 8: With their first 8-3 win of the afternoon last Saturday, the Saint Mary’s fastpitch softball team snapped an eight-game losing streak against Hamline, dating back to a 2-0 win on April 18, 2015.
• 8-3 x 2: The Saint Mary’s fastpitch softball team posted a pair of victories over Hamline last Saturday, beating the Pipers 8-3 in both ends of the teams’ conference doubleheader.
• 9: Jonathan Cieminski (Fountain City, Wis.) faced the minimum nine batters in throwing three innings of no-hit ball en route to his first collegiate saves in the Cardinal baseball team’s 6-2, Game 2 win over Carleton last week.
• 10: The Cardinal track and field teams posted a combined 10 first-place finishes and boasted 21 Top 3 performances at the Gustavus Lee Krough Invitational last Saturday.
• 12: Amber Chow (West St. Paul, Minn.) pitched 12 of the 14 innings in winning both games of the Cardinal fastpitch team’s doubleheader sweep of Hamline last Saturday. Chow allowed just one hit in five scoreless innings of relief in SMU’s come-from-behind 8-3 win in the opener, before tossing a complete-game five-hitter in winning Game 2, 8-3.
• 13-11: Zoie Becker (St. James, Minn.) rallied from a set down to pick up her team-leading 10th singles win of the season for the Saint Mary’s women’s tennis team, outlasting Macalester’s Amalin Sorajja 4-6, 6-4, 13-11 last Sunday.
• 26: Saint Mary’s Delaney Wolf (Bismarck, N.D.) became the 26th recipient of the Hockey Humanitarian Award, awarded to the SMU women’s hockey senior as part of the Hobey Baker Presentation last Friday.
• 43: Mandy Schmidt (Mitchell, S.D.) — who dished out a career-high 47 assists against St. Catherine on March 31 — posted 43 assists in the Cardinal volleyball team’s 3-2 win over Bethel last Wednesday.
