SAINT MARY'S CARDINALS 

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• 2022: 0-1 MIAC * 4-2 Overall

UW-SUPERIOR YELLOWJACKETS

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• 2022: 0-0 UMAC * 0-2 Overall

LORAS DUHAWKS

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• 2022: 0-0 A-R-C * 1-3 Overall

SMU v. UW-SUPERIOR:

Feb. 9, 2020

W, 6-3 * Series History

SMU v. LORAS:

March 6, 2021

W, 7-2 * Series History

SAINT MARY’S LAST ACTION

Feb. 4, 2022 * Ripon * W, 8-1

Feb. 4, 2022 * Lawrence * W, 7-2

Feb. 5, 2022 * St. Norbert * W, 8-1

SAINT MARY’S UP NEXT:

Feb. 26, 2022 * Saint John’s * 3:30

Feb. 26, 2022 * Bethany Lutheran * 6:00

Winona T.C. * Winona, MN

UW-SUPERIOR LAST ACTION:

Feb. 12, 2022 * Bethel * L, 7-2

UW-SUPERIOR UP NEXT:

Feb. 19, 2022 * Loras * Winona, MN * Noon

LORAS LAST ACTION:

March 8, 2020 * Dominican * W, 6-3

LORAS UP NEXT:

Feb. 26, 2022 * Millikin * Cedar Rapids, IA

• FOR THE RECORD: The Cardinals enter this weekend’s nonconference matches against UW-Superior and Loras sitting at 4-2 overall, while dropping its lone conference match thus this season.

• LAST TIME OUT: Saint Mary’s collected three straight wins during its weekend trip to Green Bay on Feb. 4-5, sandwiching 8-1 wins over Ripon and St. Norbert around a 7-2 victory over Lawrence.

• HOME SWEET HOME: Saint Mary’s is 2-1 on its home court this season — beating both Northwestern (Minn.) and Martin Luther, and falling to conference-power Carleton. Saint Mary’s three matches in Green Bay, Wis., on Feb. 4-5 were the Cardinals’ first road matches of the season.

• WEEKLY HONORS: Josh Janssen (Green Bay, Wis.) was named MIAC Athlete of the Week on Feb. 7, after posting a perfect 3-0 record in both singles and doubles during the Cardinals’ three nonconference victories over Ripon, Lawrence, and St. Norbert on Feb. 4-5.

• UNBEATEN: The Cardinals enter their nonconference contests having never lost to either UW-Superior or Loras. SMU is a perfect 2-0 in its two meetings with UW-Superior — winning 6-3 and 5-4 each of the previous two years — while sporting a 5-0 mark against Loras.

• PERFECT RUN: Josh Janssen (Green Bay, Wis.) and E.J. Hietala (Duluth, Minn.) were each perfect in SMU’s three wins over Ripon, Lawrence, and St. Norbert on Feb. 4-5, winning all three of their singles and doubles matches.

• SINGLED OUT: With their wins on Feb. 4-5, Janssen and Hietala extended their dual-match singles win totals to five, one more than Brandon Raabolle (Andover, Minn.), while Brandon Kurilla (Hastings, Minn.) and Tucker Stene () each have three singles victories. 

• CAREER FIRSTS: Matt Besek (Winona, Minn.) collected his first collegiate singles victory with a 6-3, 6-4 win at No. 6 against Lawrence on Feb. 5. Besek is the third Cardinal to record collegiate win No. 1, joining Tanner Tschumper (Foley, Minn.) and Brendon Raabolle (Andover, Minn.) — who each picked up their first collegiate singles wins at the ITA Regional/Midwest Open on Oct. 1. Tschumper kicked off his collegiate career with a 6-1, 5-7, 10-7 victory over Hamline’s Britton Von Ruden, while Raabolle dropped Northwestern’s Eli Henderson, 6-3, 4-6, 10-8 victory. Tschumper and Raabolle joined Evan Huemoeller (Owatonna, Minn.), Hietala, and Reilly Fredell (Colorado Springs, Colo.), who all notched their first Cardinal wins in 2021.

• GOING THE DISTANCE:Six of the Cardinals’ 18 singles matches against Ripon, Lawrence, and St. Norbert on Feb. 4-5 went to a third set. The Cardinals were 5-1 in those six three-setters.

 en route to victories over Ripon (8-1), Lawrence (7-2), and St. Norbert (8-1). … Of the Cardinals’ 11 singles matches during the opening day of the ITA Regional/Midwest Open on Oct. 1-2, four were extended to a third set.

• DOUBLING UP: The doubles teams of Janssen/Kurilla and Hietala/Peter Quinn (Lake Elmo, Minn.) are both 4-2 in dual-match play this season, while Besek/Raabolle have posted a 2-1 record in their three matches as a doubles pair.

• WEEKLY HONOR: Janssen collected his first collegiate MIAC Athlete of the Week honor on Feb. 7, after his perfect 6-0 showing in SMU’s wins over Ripon, Lawrence, and St. Norbert on Feb. 4-5.

• TOTAL DOMINATION: With their 7-2 win over Martin Luther on Jan. 29, the Cardinals pushed their winning streak to 19 straight against the Knights. SMU has never lost to Martin Luther in program history.

• TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS: With their sweep of Ripon, Lawrence, and St. Norbert on Feb. 4-5, the Cardinals are now 5-0 in nonconference play this season and 71-26 vs. non-MIAC foes since 2012. 

• FOR THE RECORD: The Yellowjackets head into their matches against Saint Mary’s and Loras this weekend still searching for their first win of the season, dropping each of its first two contests.

• LAST TIME OUT: UW-Superior dropped all three doubles matches and managed just singles wins at No. 1 and No. 3 in falling to Bethel 7-2 in Rogers, Minn.

• MIAC FOES: Saint Mary’s is the third straight opponent from the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference for the Yellowjackets, who have already faced Macalester (L, 6-3) and Bethel (7-2). UW-Superior still has two more matches against MAC foes on its schedule — facing Concordia on April 3 and St. Olaf on April 9. 

• SINGLES LEADER: Michael James and Andre Luiz have accounted for UW-Superior’s four singles wins this season — James going 2-0 at No. 1 and Luiz owning a 2-0 mark at No. 3. … Luiz collected a singles win at the ITA Midwest Regional last October for his third singles win this season, while Jace Gilbertson also posted an ITA singles win.

• DOUBLING UP: The team of Luiz and Gergo Potz Nagy own the Yellowjackets’ lone doubles victory this season, winning 8-2 at No. 1 against Macalester on Feb. 5. … Luiz/Potz Nagy also picked up a doubles win at the ITA Midwest Regional last October.

• AS A TEAM: The Yellowjackets are 4-8 in singles play this year, going 2-0 at Nos. 1 and 3, while sitting at 0-2 at Nos. 2, 4, 5, and 6. … Janes, Luiz, and Potz Nagy have played at Nos 1, 2, and 3, respectively, while UW-Superior has had two different players compete at Nos. 4, 5, and 6, this season. … In doubles play, UW-Superior is 1-5, going 1-1 at No. 1 and 0-2 at both No. 2 and No. 3.

• FOR THE RECORD: Loras enters is nonconference matches against Saint Mary’s and UW-Superior on Saturday sitting at 1-3 overall. The Duhawks do not kick off American Rivers Conference play until Feb. 26, when they head to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to take on Coe.

• LAST TIME OUT: The Duhawks dropped their first two matches of the spring season on Feb. 5, falling to Northwestern (IA) 7-2 and Cornell 6-3.

• SINGLES LEADERS: Eian Coad, Kareen Kassas, and Joe Schneider all share the team lead with two dual-match singles wins, while Riley Collins, Sean Gelski, and Tommy Linkenheld owns the Duhawks’ other three victories. … Kassas enters Saturday’s matches against Saint Mary’s and UW-Superior having won his last two singles contests.

• DOUBLING UP: The doubles team of Kevin Blomquist/Tomas Kampmier have accounted for two of Loras’ four doubles victories, while Konnor Barth/Nolan Teubel and Gelski/Nolan Teubel own the other two.

• AS A TEAM: Loras is 21-30 in singles play — including a perfect 4-0 at No. 6. The Duhawks are 2-2 at No. 5, while going 1-3 at Nos. 2, 3, and 4. The Duhawks are winless (0-4) at No. 1 singles. … In doubles play, Loras has won just four of 12 matches, going 2-2 at No. 1 and 3-3 at Nos. 2 and 3.