| Saint Mary's enters its doubleheader against Macalester sitting at 10-5 in conference as part of a 16-8 overall record. … The Cardinals will take a four-game winning streak into their matchup with Macalester. SMU has won nine of its last 10 — including three straight victories against Concordia last weekend. … SMU had its season-high five-game winning streak snapped with last Thursday's 3-2, Game 1 loss to Saint John's. … Justin Weinberg (Eagan, Minn.) and Tyler O'Brien (Belle Plaine, Minn.) each had three-hit games against Concordia last Saturday — Weinberg's was his team-leading third of the season, while O'Brien's was the first of his collegiate career. … Will Matthews (Geneva, Ill.) and Liam Belleveau (Middleton, Wis.) hit home run in the Cardinals' 11-1 win over Concordia last Sunday. It was Matthews' fourth of his career, while Belleveau's was his first. Belleveau becomes the third Cardinal to hit collegiate HR No. 1, joining Jack Arndt (Coon Rapids, Minn.) and O'Brien, who each belted their first collegiate home runs — the Cardinals' first two round-trippers of the season — in SMU's 5-4 win over Augsburg on April 11. … Matthews is hitting a team-best .342 among regulars with 50 or more at-bats, while Weinberg and Taylor Anderson (Waukesha, Wis.) are also hitting above .300, sitting at .325 and .313, respectively. … Matthews and Weinberg share the team lead in hits (25), while Matthews is the team-leader in doubles (9) and RBIs (37). … Weinberg has scored a team-leading 21 runs and Anderson owns a team-best .429 on-base percentage. … The Cardinals have gotten at least one RBI from 18 different players. … Zach Drake's (Westby, Wis.) four runs scored in the nightcap against Crown on March 29 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 eight multiple-hit games, one more than Weinberg. … Arndt 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. / 4-2, 3.55 ERA) has thrown a team-leading 33.0 innings to pace the Cardinal pitching staff, while also leading the team in wins (4) and strikeouts with 22. … Wolfe tossed a complete-game, one-hit shutout against Augsburg on April 10. Wolfe faced just 22 batters — one over the minimum, and allowed one a third-inning single. It was his third career shutout and fifth career complete game. … Justin Haugo (Springfield, Minn.) collected his first collegiate pitching win against Augsburg on April 11, tossing four innings of shutout relief in the Cardinals' 5-4 victory. … Luke Gilbertson (Windom, Minn.) posted the longest outing of his career, pitching 8.1 innings to pick up the win in Game 2 vs. Saint John's last Thursday. Kodey Kiel (Owatonna, Minn.) got the game's final two outs for his team-leading third save. … Addison Hochevar (Lake Geneva, Wis.) 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. Jordan Zabel (Elgin, Minn.), meanwhile, collected his first collegiate pitching win against Gustavus on March 26, tossing three innings of shutout, one-hit relief. … Jonathan Cieminski (Fountain City, Wis.) recorded his first collegiate save in the nightcap against Carleton on April 6, facing the minimum nine batters in three innings of relief. … With their 8-7, 10-inning win over Concordia last Saturday, Saint Mary's has now played 10 games decided by two runs or less — including six one-run contests. SMU is 5-1 in one-run games, with last Thursday's 3-2 decision against SJU being the only loss. … Last Saturday's 8-7, 10-inning win over Concordia was the Cardinals' first extra-inning game of the season. … The Cardinals' 11 runs against Concordia in last Sunday's 11-1 victory were a season high and marked the fourth time this season SMU has plated 10 or more runs. … 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 20-7 in the seventh inning. … Saint Mary's is 7-0 when holding its opponent to two runs or less. … 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. |
Macalester comes into its doubleheader against Saint Mary's boasting a 5-8 overall and conference record, including a pair of wins in the final two games of its three-game MIAC series against Hamline last weekend. The Scots dropped a 5-2 decision to the Pipers in the first game of their series last Saturday, before earning a split with a 7-5 victory, before adding a 9-8 in Sunday's final game of the three-game series. … Kenny Rodriguez owns a team-best .370 batting average, with Michael Moreno (.351) and Lian Lincoln (.333) also hitting above .300. … The Scots boast five players with 10 or more hits through 12 games — Moreno (13), Lincoln (12), Matt Odom (12), Rodriguez (10), Joe Margolis (10), and Jack Sahargun (10). … Rodriguez and Margolis share the team lead in runs scored with 10, while Moreno is the team-leader in RBIs (11), total bases (23), slugging percentage (.622), and on-base percentage (.468). … The Scots have banged out 37 extra-base hits — including 27 doubles, one triple, and nine home runs. … Andrew Polk (1-1, 5.00 ERA) has tossed a team-leading 18.0 innings, while Ty Benz (2-1, 5.02 ERA) is closed behind with 14.1 IP. … Alec Deegan (1-1, 20.48 ERA) and Jake Greenberg (0-0, 0.00 ERA) have made a team-high four pitching appearances, while Polk and Deegan share the top spot with 12 strikeouts each. … Polk has tossed Macalester's lone complete game, a nine-inning, four-hit gem in Macalester's 5-2 win over Bethel on April 11. … Macalester has scored seven or more runs in four of its five wins — incuding a season-high 19-run outburst in outscoring Augsburg 19-16 on April 2.
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