• 0-0: The Saint Mary’s men’s soccer team’s 0-0 tie against Concordia last Saturday was its first 0-0 outcome since battling Saint John’s to a scoreless draw on April 21, 2021.
• 2: Alexis Nguyen (West Corvina, Calif.) collected the second conference weekly honor of her collegiate career last Monday, being named MIAC Defensive Player of the Year for the week of Sept. 19-25.
• 2 x 2: Brooklyn McKinney (Thornton, Colo.) recorded her second goal of the season — with Dakota Leonard (Lincolnshire, Ill.) earning her second assist of year on the play — to lead the Cardinal women’s soccer team to a 1-0 win over Gustavus last Tuesday.
• 2+2: Haddy Falkman (Waconia, Minn.) collected her second collegiate two-goal game and Lauren Ashe (Beaverton, Colo.) posted her first career two-assist game, as the duo led the Saint Mary’s women’s soccer team to a 2-1 conference win over Concordia last Saturday.
• 2-0-1: With their two wins last week — a 1-0 victory over Gustavus and a 2-1 win over Concordia — the Cardinal women’s soccer team pushed its unbeaten streak to three (2-0-1).
• 3: The Saint Mary’s men’s tennis team picked up three singles victories at last weekend’s ITA Regional/Midwest Open, with E.J. Hietala (Duluth, Minn.) posting a pair of victories, while Evan Huemoeller (Owatonna, Minn.) collecting the other singles win.
• 3: The Cardinal men’s soccer team’s 0-0 stalemate against Concordia last Saturday was its third tie of the season. The three ties are the most since the 2015 season, when Saint Mary’s finished the year with three ties en route to a 6-9-3 overall record.
• 4: With their 2-1 win over Concordia last Saturday, the Saint Mary’s women’s soccer team has now beaten Concordia in each of the team’s last four meetings — with all four outcomes decided by one goal. Each of SMU’s last seven meetings with the Cobbers has been settled by one goal or less, with the Cardinals going 4-2-1 in those seven contests.
• 10: Mandy Schmidt (Mitchell, S.D.) dished out 10 assists in the Cardinal volleyball team’s 3-0 loss to St. Catherine last Saturday, giving the senior setter 1,179 career assists — ranking her 11th all-time. Rachel Monterastelli ’10 is next up on the all-time assist list, sitting in 10th at 1,471.
• 11+11: Ciarra McNally (Lewiston, Minn.) picked up her team-leading 10th double-double in the SMU volleyball team’s 3-0 loss to St. Catherine last Saturday, collecting 11 kills and 11 digs.
• 12: Alexis Nguyen (West Corvina, Calif.) stopped all eight shots she faced to pick up her third shutout of the season — and 12th of her collegiate career — in the SMU women’s soccer team’s 1-0 conference victory over Gustavus last Tuesday.
• 12 x 2: Daniel Sessler (Brookfield, Ill.) equaled his career high with 12 saves in both of the Cardinal men’s soccer team’s games last week — stopping 12 of 14 shots in SMU’s 2-0 loss to No. 7 Gustavus last Wednesday, before equaling that feat wit 12 saves in SMU’s 0-0 stalemate against Concordia three days later. Sessler has now made 12 saves in a game four times in his collegiate career.
• 13-12: Abbie Stigler (Menomonee Falls, Wis.) collected her third double-double of the season last Friday in the SMU volleyball team’s 3-0 loss to St. Scholastica, recording 13 kills and adding 12 digs.
• 25:50.37: Caroline Gearin (Osceola, Wis.) delivered her best time of the season, stopping the clock in 25:50.37, to lead the way for the SMU women at last Friday’s UW-Eau Claire Blugold Invitational.
• 26:43.61: Granton Schneider (Moorhead, Minn.) led the charge for the Cardinal men at last Friday’s UW-Eau Claire Blugold Invitational, posting an eight-kilometer time of 26:43.61.
