| With their sweep of Macalester on Thursday Saint Mary's improved to 12-5 in conference play and 18-8 overall heading into its four-game weekend against St. Olaf. … Saint Mary's has now won six straight and 11 of its last 12, the lone loss a 3-2, Game 1 loss to Saint John's on April 15. … Luke Gilbertson (Windom, Minn.) tossed a complete-game, six-hit shutout in Game 2 against Macalester Thursday. It was the junior's first collegiate game, and first collegiate shutout. The nine-inning effort was also the longest outing of his Cardinal career. … Saint Mary's seven Game 1 hits against the Scots Thursday came from seven different players. … Saint Mary's stole 15 bases in its DH against Macalester, including four by Zach Drake (Westby, Wis.). … Matthews is hitting a team-best .325 among regulars with 60 or more at-bats, while Taylor Anderson (Waukesha, Wis.) and Justin Weinberg (Eagan, Minn.) are also hitting above .300, sitting at .319 and .310, respectively. … Matthews and Weinberg share the team lead in hits (26), while Matthews is the team-leader in doubles (9) and RBIs (18). … Weinberg has scored a team-leading 22 runs and Anderson owns a team-best .427 on-base percentage. … The Cardinals have gotten at least one RBI from 18 different players. … Matthews and Liam Belleveau (Middleton, Wis.) hit home runs in the Cardinals' 11-1 win over Concordia last on April 17. 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. … Tyler O'Brien (Belle Plaine, Minn.) recorded his first collegiate three-hit game against Concordia on April 17. … Drake's 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 sharing the team lead in wins (4) with Gilbertson. …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. … Wolfe has thrown two of the team's three complete games, with Gilbertson's effort Thursday accounting for the other. … 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. … Addison Hochevar (Lake Geneva, Wis. / 3-1, 2.35 ERA) 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. / 0-0, 3.07 ERA) 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 on April 17, 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. … Saint Mary's 8-7, 10-inning win over Concordia on April 17 was the Cardinals' first extra-inning game of the season. … The Cardinals' 11 runs in their 11-1 victory over Concordia on April 18 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. … Saint Mary's is 9-0 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. |
The Oles face Saint Mary's having not played since April 3, when they pushed their overall winning streak to 7-1 with an 11-3, 16-4 sweep of UW-Superior. … St. Olaf opened its season with three straight wins — beating Hamline twice (5-2, 7-1) and Bethany Lutheran (7-1), before suffering its first loss of the season, a 7-6, eight-inning loss to Bethany Lutheran in the second game of their doubleheader on March 17. The Oles then swept Augsburg (6-0, 8-5), before taking two from UW-Superior. … Joey Glampe owns a team-leading .625 batting average, while TJ Rogers (.414), Andrew Nomoto (.385), Travis McDonald (.375), Bobby Isbell (.360), Matthew Muller (.310) are also hitting above .300 through eight games. … Along with his team-leading .625 batting average, Glampe also leads the Oles in hits (15), home runs (2), RBIs (14), total bases (25), slugging percentage (1.042), and on-base percentage (.654). … Rogers, Nomoto and Muller share the team lead in run scored with 10 each, while Muller has belted a team-best five doubles one more than Rogers. … St. Olaf has hit three home runs in its first eight games, two by Glampe and the other off the bat of Nomoto. … Sam Westermeyer (2-0, 2.25 ERA) has tossed a team-high 12.0 innings to lead the Ole pitching staff. … Westermeyer and Forrest Kobeit (2-0, 1.00 ERA, 8.0 IP) share the team lead with two pitching wins each, while Hunter Barber (1-0, 1.93 ERA, 9.1 IP) and Sam Lavin (1-0, 0.93 ERA) have made a team-high three pitching appearances. … Lavin owns a team-high 13 strikeouts, three more than Westermeyer. … St. Olaf has scored five or more runs in all eight games this season — including a season-high 16 runs in their 16-4 win over UW-Superior on April 3.
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