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2022: 3-3 MIAC * 10-7 Overall

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2022: 2-0 MIAC * 7-13 Overall

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SMU-STO * A YEAR AGO:

April 15, 2021 * Winona, MN

L, 6-0; L, 12-4 * Series History

SAINT MARY’S * LAST ACTION:

April 9, 2022 * Winona, MN

Carleton * L, 3-2 (9); L, 6-2

ST. OLAF * LAST ACTION:

April 9, 2022 * Moorhead, MN

Concordia * W, 8-2; W, 13-1 (5)

SAINT MARY’S UP NEXT:

April 13, 2022 * Duluth, WI

St. Scholastica * 3:30

ST. OLAF UP NEXT: 

April 13, 2022 * Northfield, MN

Hamline * 3:30

• FOR THE RECORD: Saint Mary’s heads into its conference doubleheader against St. Olaf sitting at 10-7 overall, while boasting a 3-3 mark through the first six games of the conference season.

• LAST ACTION: The Cardinals came up empty in their conference twinbill against Carleton on Saturday at the Saint Mary’s Field, falling to the Knights 3-2 in nine innings in the opener, before dropping a 6-2 decision in the nightcap.

• STREAKING: After going 2-4 in their first six spring-trip games, the Cardinals rattled off five straight wins to close out their 11-game stay in Clermont, Fla. Saint Mary’s extended that winning streak to six games with their 10-7 win over St. Catherine in Game 1 on April 2, before having their run halted with a 9-1 Game 2 loss.

• AT THE PLATE: As a team, the Cardinals are hitting .333 through 17 games, and has seven regulars who are hitting .300 or better this season, led by Riley Hall (Dallas Station, Iowa / .538) and Sophie Cave (Maplewood, Minn. / .377). Erin Sullivan (Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. / .349), Allison Ciero (Glen Ellyn, Ill. / .344), Cassie Sutor (Chicago, Ill. / .327), Sarah Kraus (Onalaska, Wis. / .313), and Mackenzie Carey (Prescott, Wis. / .300) are the others.

• RUNNING WILD: The Cardinals have scored 111 runs in 17 games, led by Ciero, who has scored 18 times. Hall is second with 16 runs scored, one more than Cave. … Hall and Ciero have both scored three times in a game this season — Hall against St. Catherine last Saturday and Ciero vs. Concordia the following afternoon.

• HIT PARADE: Saint Mary’s boasts eight players who have collected 10 or more hits through 17 games, led by Hall with 28, Ciero with 21 and Cave with 20. … Saint Mary’s has amassed 40 multiple-hit games, led by Hall with 10, and Ciero and Cave with six each. … Sutor owns the team’s top single-game performance, collecting a career-high four hits against Rosemount on March 5. … Both Hall and Ciero recorded their first collegiate three-hit games during SMU’s 11-game spring trip. …

• EXTRA, EXTRA: The Cardinals have amassed 56 extra-base hits — 43 doubles, nine triples and four home runs. Cave is the team-leader with eight doubles, three more than Hall, Sullivan, and Kraus, while Ciero and Hall lead the team in triples with three and two, respectively.

• GOING DEEP: Cave, Sullivan, Sarah Kraus (Onalaska, Wis.), and Ally Wagner (Altoona, Wis.) have belted Saint Mary’s four home runs this season. Wagner hit her first collegiate HR in the second game of last Saturday’s doubleheader against St. Catherine, while Cave and Kraus launched their first home runs in a Cardinal uniform during SMU’s 11-game spring trip. Kraus cracked a two-run shot against Rosemont on March 3, and Cave launched a three-run bomb against Finlandia on March 4.

• DRIVING ‘EM IN: Hall has delivered a team-best 19 RBIs, followed by Ciero with 14, Cave with 11, and Sullivan with 10. … Saint Mary’s has posted 24 multiple-RBI performances this season, led by Hall with five and Ciero with four. … Carey drove in a game- and career-high four runs in SMU’s season-opening win over Neumann on Feb. 26.

• TOUGH TO STOP: Hall had her season- and career-high nine-game hitting streak snapped in SMU’s 9-1 Game 2 loss to St. Catherine on April 2. Hall has posted at least one hit in 15 of the 17 games she’s played this season. … Kraus is currently riding SMU’s longest active hit streak and six straight games.

• CAN’T CATCH ME: Saint Mary’s has already stolen 47 bases this season, led by Ciero with 12 steals on 13 attempts and Hall with nine stolen bases on 11 tries. … SMU — which swiped just 26 bases in 36 games a year ago — has gotten at least one stolen base from 13 different players. 

• IN THE CIRCLE: Kraus and Amelia Spilde (Brooklyn, Wis.) have been the workhorses in the pitcher’s circle, with Kraus logging a team-high 58 2/3 innings, followed by Spilde with 29.0 innings of work. Kraus boasts a 2.62 ERA and 5-4 record in 12 appearances. She has tossed four complete games — including a career-high nine innings in Saturday’s 3-2 loss to Carleton — and teamed with Spilde for the team’s lone shutout. … Spilde is 3-1 with a 3.14 ERA in 10 appearances, including five starts.

• PITCHING FIRSTS: Spilde, Kraus, and Hall all picked up their first collegiate pitching wins during SMU’s spring trip. Spilde tossed three innings of two-hit, shutout ball in SMU’s 14-0 win over Neumann on Feb. 26, while Kraus allowed four runs (two earned) on seven hits in a complete-game 10-4 win over Cabrini the following day. Hall allowed two runs on three hits in 3 2/3 innings of relief against Finlandia on March 4. … Wagner collected her first collegiate save in SMU’s 10-7, Game 1 win over St. Catherine last Saturday, tossing a scoreless seventh. Kraus, meanwhile, struck out three of the five batters she faced in collecting her first collegiate save in last Sunday’s 9-5 Game 2 win over Concordia.

• FANNING THE FLAMES: Cardinal pitchers have combined to strike out 85 batters through 17 games, led by Kraus with 46 and Spilde with 18. … Kraus struck out a single-game career-high nine batters in SMU’s 6-2 win over Concordia in Game 1 last Sunday. … 

• THIS AND THAT: Saint Mary’s has outscored its opponents 111-84 and holds a scoring advantage in every inning but the second and third, where the Cardinals have been outscored 19-9 and 18-16. … SMU has been held to five runs or less in all seven of its losses, while owning a 10-0 mark when scoring at least six runs. … Saint Mary’s has scored first just six times — going 6-0 — while sporting a 4-7 mark when its opponent plates the game’s first run. … Saint Mary’s has scored four or more runs in an inning nine times — including a season-high seven-run sixth inning in its 12-3 win over Rosemont on March 3.

• FOR THE RECORD: The Oles head into Sunday’s matchup against Saint Mary’s sitting at 7-13 overall, while picking up victories in its only two conference games this season.

• LAST TIME OUT: Jaeyln Orth struck out a career-high 13 batters in leading the Oles to an 8-2 win in Game 1 of St. Olaf’s conference doubleheader against Concordia Saturday in Moorhead, Minn., while STO banged out 13 hits and used a nine-run second inning in rolling to a five-inning 13-1 win in the nightcap.

• STREAKING: After trading wins and losses through the first six games of the season, St. Olaf sandwiched a pair of five-game losing streaks around a 5-4 win over Westminster (Mo.) on March 26, before winning its last three contests.

• ROAD WARRIORS: Sunday’s matchup against Saint Mary’s marks the first two home games for the Oles, who have played their first 20 games this season away from Mabel Shirley Field in Northfield, Minn.

• AT THE PLATE: As a team, St. Olaf is hitting .273 through 20 games, with Andrea Conway (.383) and Shreya Ashok (.373) the only two Oles hitting above .300.

• RUNNING WILD: St. Olaf, which has scored 81 runs — including getting one run from 17 of its 19 players — and boasts three players who have scored 10 or more runs through 20 games. Anne Fossum has crossed home plate a team-leading 12 times, followed closely by Tarah DeCroock (11) and Ashok (10> … 

• HIT PARADE: Ashok has accumulated a team-leading 22 hits, four more than Conway. DeCroock (16), Katie Weisheit (16), Kaleigh Santmyer (15), Abby Grismer (13), Fossum (12), and Maya Patty (10) have also recorded at least 10 hits this season. … Grismer and Ashok share the team lead with five multiple-hit games, one more than Peschel, Conway, and Weisheit. … Conway, Ashok, and DeCroock have all recorded three hits in a game this season.

• EXTRA, EXTRA: The Oles have banged out 29 extra-base hits through 20 games, including 21 doubles, two triples and six home runs. … Weisheit has hit a team-high six doubles, two more thanAshok, while Ashok and Fossum own St. Olaf’s two triples.

• TOUCH ‘EM ALL: Fossum has belted three of the team’s six home runs, with DeCroock, Emma Simons, and Hannah Peschel accounting for the other three.

• DRIVING THEM IN: Santmyer has recorded a team-best 10 RBIs, with Weisheit and Conway sitting second with eight RBIs each. … Peschel leads the Oles with three multiple-RBI games, one more than Grismer, Conway, Patty, and Santmyer. … DeCroock recorded a season-high four RBIs against Grinnell on Feb. 26.

• STREAKING ALONG: Ashok and Conway both enter Sunday’s doubleheader against Saint Mary’s riding lengthy hitting streaks – Ashok has hit safely in each of her last eight games, while Conway boasts a six-game hit streak.

• IN THE CIRCLE: St. Olaf has used five different pitchers this year, with four of them logging more than 18 innings through 20 games. Orth (3-6, 2.93 ERA) leads the staff with 40 2/3 IP, followed by Carly Dammann (1-2, 3.95 ERA) with 33 2/3 IP, Grismer (0-4, 3.82 ERA) with 29 1/3 IP, and Peschel (2-0, 2.29 ERA) with 18 1/3 IP. … Orth has made a team-high 10 appearances, two more than Dammann, Grismer, and Peschel.

• FINISHING WHAT SHE STARTED: Orth and Dammann have each tossed a team-best two complete games, with Grismer and Peschel each chipping in one complete game.

• FANNING THE FLAMES: St. Olaf pitchers have struck out 98 batters, led by Orth with 36 — including her career-high 13-strikeout performance against Concordia on Saturday. Dammann has fanned 27 batters and Grismer has struck out 21.