| The Cardinals enter their doubleheader against Hamline on the heels of an impressive 11-0 win over St. Olaf on Monday. With the win, SMU improved to 13-7 in conference play, while sporting a 19-10 overall mark. … Last Saturday's 8-4, Game 1 loss to St. Olaf snapped the Cardinals' season-high six-game winning streak. Saint Mary's is 12-3 over its last 15 games. … Justin Weinberg (Eagan, Minn.) went 4-for-5 with three RBIs and a pair of runs scored in the Cardinals' 11-0 win over St. Olaf Monday. Eight of the 10 Cardinals with at least one at-bat vs. the Oles Monday had at least one hit. … Andy Tepp (Stevens Point, Wis.) had five hits in SMU's two games against St. Olaf on Saturday, and added another hit Monday. … Will Matthews (Geneva, Ill.) is hitting a team-best .348 among regulars with 70 or more at-bats, while Weinberg and Taylor Anderson (Waukesha, Wis.) are also hitting above .300, sitting at .347 and .304, respectively. … Weinberg leads the team in runs (27) and hits (34), while Matthews is the team-leader in doubles (10), RBIs (21), total bases (45), and slugging percentage (.489). … Anderson has induced a team-best 17 walks and boasts a team-high .427 on-base percentage. … Weinberg's four-hit showing against St. Olaf Monday — the Cardinals' first four-hit game of the season — pulled the senior into a tie with Matthews for the team lead with 10 multiple-hit games. … Tepp leads the team with six multiple-RBI games. … Matthews and Liam Belleveau (Middleton, Wis.) hit home runs in the Cardinals' 11-1 win over Concordia 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 Tyler O'Brien (Belle Plaine, Minn.), 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. … O'Brien 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. … Trevon VanEgtern (La Crosse, Wis.) drove in a career-high four runs in SMU's 14-6, Game 2 loss to the Oles last Saturday. … 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. … Saint Mary's stole 15 bases in its DH against Macalester, including four by Zach Drake (Westby, Wis.) … Jake Mercado (Belle Plaine, Minn. / 2-1, 4.39 ERA) picked up the pitching win against St. Olaf Monday, tossing six innings of scoreless, six-hit ball.Ryan Wolfe (Wabasha, Minn. / 4-3, 4.38 ERA) has thrown a team-leading 37.0 innings to pace the Cardinal pitching staff, while sharing the team lead in wins (4) with Luke Gilbertson (Windom, Minn. / 4-0, 2.48 ERA). …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. … Luke Gilbertson (Windom, Minn.) tossed a complete-game, six-hit shutout in Game 2 against Macalester last 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. … Wolfe has thrown two of the team's three complete games, with Gilbertson's effort last Thursday against Macalester 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, 4.08 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 its 3-2 decision against SJU on April 15 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 11-0 victory over St. Olaf Monday equaled their 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 10-0 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 Pipers head into their doubleheader against Saint Mary's sitting at 5-6 in conference play and 10-14 overall. … HU picked up a pair of wins in its three-game series against Augsburg over the weekend, sandwiching 2-1 and 6-0 wins around a 5-4 Game 2 loss on Saturday. … Hamline has won four of its last five, the lone loss last Saturday's 5-4 setback against Augsburg. … Cullen Buck is the Pipers' offensive leader, hitting .370. Buck is the only Piper player with a batting average above .300. … Buck also leads the team in at-bats (92), runs (23), hits (34), total bases (44) and on-base percentage (.458). … Mac Entow, who is second to Buck with a .282 batting average, owns the team lead in home runs (4) and RBIs (18). … Colin Schuetz has collected seven extra-base hits — three doubles, a triple, and three home runs — among his 14 hits this season. … As a team, Hamline has belted 46 extra-base hits — including 28 doubles, four triples, and 14 home runs. … The Piper pitching staff boasts five hurlers who have logged more than 15 innings through 15 games, led by Zach Branson (3-3, 3.43 ERA, 42.0 IP), Will Tzavaras (2-2, 6.21 ERA, 29.0 IP), and Braden Schneider (1-1, 5.56 ERA, 22.2 IP). … Jake Millard (0-2, 18.00 ERA) has made a team-high 11 appearances, one more than Tzavaras. … Branson has thrown all three of the Pipers' complete games, owns one of the team's two saves, and has struck out a team-leading 35 batters. … Hamline scored a season-high 19 runs in its 19-2, Game 2 win over UW-Superior on April 21. It's the only time this season the Pipers have plated 10 or more runs.
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