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• 2022: 2-0 MIAC, 10-9 Overall

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2022: 0-0 MIAC, 6-6 Overall

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SMU v. STO * A YEAR AGO:

April 24, 26, 2022 * Series History

L, 8-4; L, 14-6; W, 11-0

SAINT MARY’S LAST ACTION:

April 3, 2022 * St. Paul, MN

St. Scholastica * W, 6-2; W, 8-7

ST. OLAF LAST ACTION:

March 30, 2022 * Davenport, FL

Williams * L, 4-2

SAINT MARY’S UP NEXT:

April 13, 2022 * Arden Hills, MN

Bethel * 2:30

ST. OLAF UP NEXT:

April 10, 2022 * Northfield, MN

Augsburg * 1:00

• FOR THE RECORD: The Cardinals head into their home conference doubleheader against St. Olaf sitting at 10-9 overall, including a perfect 2-0 showing in conference play after last Sunday’s sweep of St. Scholastica

• LAST TIME OUT: The Cardinals banged out three home runs — a two-run shot by Jake Mercado (Belle Plaine, Minn.) in the opener and a pair of solo bombs by Mason Coyle (Madison, Wis.) and Trevon VanEgtern (La Crosse, Wis.) in the nightcap — and cruised to 6-2 and 8-7 victories over St. Scholastica in the teams’ first-ever meeting as MIAC foes Sunday in St. Paul, Minn. 

• HOME SWEET HOME: The Cardinals, who played their first 19 games of the 2022 season on the road, are playing their second straight home doubleheader. The Cardinals were 14-8 at Max Molock Field a year ago.

• LEADING THE CHARGE: VanEgtern leads the Cardinals with a .328 batting average, going 22-for-67 through 19 games, while fellow regulars Brandon Merfeld (La Crosse, Wis.) and Cameron Weber (Holmen, Wis.) are also hitting above .300, sitting at .321 and .304, respectively.

… As a team, the Cardinals are hitting .260 (157-for-603).

• ON THE RUN: The Cardinals have scored 109 runs in 19 games, with Merfeld and Weber leading the way, scoring 20 and 18 runs, respectively. Tanner Bauman (Willmar, Minn. / 13), VanEgtern (11), and Tyler O’Brien (Belle Plaine, Minn. / 10) have also scored 10 or more runs this season.

• HIT PARADE: The Cardinals have eight players who have recorded at least 10 hits this season, led by VanEgtern with 22 and Weber with 21. O’Brien is third on the team with 19 hits, followed by Merfeld (17), Daniel Marxen (Maple Grove, Minn. / 17), Ben Coons (Kimberly, Wis. / 16), Jack Arndt (Coon Rapids, 14), and Bauman (11). … Weber, O’Brien, Merfeld, VanEgtern, Marxen, and Coons have all put together five multiple-hit games this season. … SMU has had eight players record three hits in a game — including Arndt and O’Brien, who has done it a team-leading twice.

• EXTRA, EXTRA: Saint Mary’s has belted out 51 extra-base hits through 19 games, including 35 doubles, four triples, and 12 home runs. … O’Brien leads the team in doubles with seven, followed by Merfeld with and Marxen with six, and Weber with five. … Weber leads the team with two triples, with O’Brien and Coyle accounting for the other two.

• BOMBS AWAY: With their three home runs against St. Scholastica on Sunday, the Cardinals pushed their home run total to 12. Marxen and VanEgtern share the team lead with three HRs, one more than Mercado, while Coyle, Coons, Weber, and Merfeld own the Cardinals’ other four round-trippers. … All seven SMU home run hitters this season have belted their first career HRs this season.

• DRIVING ‘EM HOME: As a team, Saint Mary’s has driven in 96 runs through 19 games, led by Marxen with 16 and VanEgtern with 14. O’Brien and Arndt boast 11 RBIs and Weber has driven in 10. … Arndt delivered a career-high five RBIs in Saint Mary’s 9-7 win over Grove City on Feb. 28, while Marxen — who leads the team with four multiple-RBI games — drove in a career-best four runs in the Cardinals’ season-opening 14-10 win over Concordia the previous afternoon.

• STREAKING ALONG: Arndt, O’Brien, and Coons have all put together season-high eight-game hitting streaks this season, but VanEgtern and Merfeld own the longest active hit streaks at four games each. … 

• ON THE MOUND: Saint Mary’s has used 12 different pitchers through its first 19 games — and boasts six hurlers who have logged more than 10 innings. Luke Gilbertson (Windom, Minn.) leads the Cardinal staff with 29 1/3 innings pitched, followed closely by Jordan Zabel (Elgin, Minn.) with 26 1/3 IP and Addison Hochevar (Lake Geneva, Wis.) with 23 2/3 IP. … Andrew Fischer (La Crosse, Wis. / 2-0, 7.13 ERA), Justin Haugo (Springfield, Minn. / 0-1, 5.19 ERA) and Dylan Westcott (Holmen, Wis. / 0-1, 6.43 ERA) have all made a team-leading six pitching appearances, while Hochevar (1-2, 5.32 ERA) and Gilbertson (2-2, 5.60 ERA) lead the team with five starts. 

• COMPLETING WHAT THEY STARTED: Gilbertson and Jordan Zabel (Elgin, Minn. / 2-3, 4.4 ERA) tossed back-to-back complete games in SMU’s spring trip-ending split against Northwestern on March 5. Gilbertson allowed four runs on seven hits in a 6-4 win, while Zabel surrendered five runs on six hits in suffering the 5-1, Game 2 loss. The complete game was the first of Zabel’s career, while Gilbertson owns four career complete games.

• PITCHING FIRSTS: Timmy Smith picked up his first collegiate pitching win and Westcott earned his first save as a Cardinal in SMU’s 14-10 win over Concordia on Feb. 27. Smith allowed three runs – only one of which was earned — on five hits in four innings of relief, while Wescott worked a scoreless ninth. Westcott picked up save No. 2 the following day, working a one-run ninth in SMU’s 9-7 win over Grove City. … Fischer set Wheaton down in order in the bottom of the seventh to preserve SMU’s 3-2 win and in his first save in a Cardinal uniform.

• SAVING THE DAY: Westcott has recorded four of the Cardinals’ six pitching saves, with Fischer collecting the other two. 

• FANNING THE FLAMES: The SMU pitching staff has struck out 123 batters through 19 games, led by Hochevar with 25, followed by Zabel (20), Gilbertson (19), Smith (15), Fischer (14), and Haugo (12). … Hochevar struck out a season-high eight batters in SMU’s 3-2 win over Wheaton on March 22.

• WALKING OFF: Saint Mary’s and Luther both claimed 7-6, walk-off victories in their nonconference doubleheader split on March 13. Luther got a two-run scoring double to cap a three-run seventh inning in winning the opener, while VanEgtern laced a run-scoring single in the bottom of the 11th to give Saint Mary’s the win in Game 2.

• THIS AND THAT: The Cardinals have scored six or more runs in eight of their 10 wins — including a season-high 16-run showing in dropping Rose-Hulman 16-7 on March 3. On the flip side, Saint Mary’s has been held to five runs or less in seven of its nine losses. … Saint Mary’s has scored in the first inning in just four of its 19 games. … Saint Mary’s has scored four or more runs in an inning five times — posting five, four-run innings, as well as a season-high eight-run second inning in its 16-7 win over Rose-Hulman on March 3. … Saint Mary’s 7-6, 11-inning win over Luther on March 13 was its first extra-inning game of the season.

?• A YEAR TO REMEMBER: The Cardinals captured their first-ever MIAC Playoff title — beating St. Thomas 6-3 in the championship game. … Saint Mary’s made its first NCAA National Tournament appearance in 28 years, opening with a 15-13 win over Aurora, before falling to both Northwestern (Minn.) 3-1 and Johns Hopkins 7-2.

• A LONG TIME COMING: Saint Mary’s appearance in the NCAA Regional last season marked the first time since 1993. Saint Mary’s finished 4-2 in regional play that year, falling to UW-Oshkosh 6-0 in the opener, before bouncing back with wins over UW-Whitewater (5-3), Concordia (12-7), and UW-Oshkosh (4-2), before falling to the Titans 5-2 in the championship game.

• MAKING HISTORY: The Cardinals’ win over Aurora in their NCAA Regional opener on May 28 was their program-record 30th of the season. SMU surpassed the previous single-season record of 28 with its 6-3 win over St. Thomas in the MIAC Playoff title game on May 22. … Saint Mary’s has won 20 or more games five times under current head coach Nick Winecke.

• FOR THE RECORD: The Oles head into their conference doubleheader against Saint Mary’s sitting at 6-6 overall, but have yet to record a conference game, having DHs v. Augsburg and Macalester both postponed due to weather.

• LAST TIME OUT: St. Olaf has not played since March 30, when they closed out their nine-game spring trip with a 4-2 loss to Williams. Williams scored solo runs in the bottom of the fourth and fifth, breaking a 2-2 tie and leading the Ephs to the two-run victory.

• ROAD WARRIORS: Saturday’s DH at Saint Mary’s marks the 13th and 14th straight road games for the Oles, who will finally open their home slate on Sunday against Augsburg. 

• STREAKING ALONG: It’s been an early-season rollercoaster ride for the Oles, who opened the year with two losses, followed that up with four straight wins, lost the next three, won back-to-back games, and closed out their spring trip with a loss to Williams.

• AT THE PLATE: St. Olaf enters its conference matchup against Saint Mary’s hitting .239 as a team, and boasts three players who are hitting above .300, led by Joey Glampe, who is batting .344 with 11 hits in 32 at-bats. Sam Lavin (.333) and Brian Nevin (.318) are also hitting above .300.

• RUNNING WILD: Lavin and Matthew Muller share the team lead with eight runs scored, one more than both Glampe and Evan Hammonds. … Hammonds scored a season-high three runs in the Oles’ win over Keuka on March 24.

• HIT PARADE: Glampe and Lavin are the teams’ hits leaders with 11 and 10, respectively, followed by Matthew Muller and Andrew Nomoto with nine, and Hammonds with eight. … Lavin and Glampe lead the team with three multiple-hit games, while Hammonds, Nomoto, Glampe, Lucas Ammons, and Sean Goldman have recorded season-high three-hit games this season. … 

• EXTRA, EXTRA: St. Olaf has smacked 21 extra-base hits among its 89 hits this season, including 15 doubles, three triples and three home runs. … Muller has belted a team-high four doubles, one more than Glampe, while Matthew Kulesa and Avery von Hermann each have two. Lavin has accounted for two of St. Olaf’s three triples, with Muller hitting the other.

• GOING DEEP: Giampa owns two of the Oles’ three home runs, with Lavin accounting for the other one.

• DRIVING ‘EM IN: Glampe has driven in a team best 12 runs, four more than Lavin. The two also lead the team in multiple-RBI games with three each. … Glampe drove in a season-high four runs in the Oles’ win over Keuka on March 24.

• STREAKING ALONG: The Oles have not had a player with a hitting streak longer than five games this season, with Lavin’s four-game run St. Olaf’s longest active hit streak. … Harald Borg has reach base safely in each of St. Olaf’s last six games.

• ON THE MOUND: St. Olaf has used 13 different pitchers this season, with three logging more than 10 innings through the Oles’ first 12 games. Hunter Barber (1-1, 5.87 ERA) leads the staff with 15 1/3 IP, followed by Jacob Fickenscher (1-2, 3.21 ERA) with 14.0 IP and Lavin (0-0, 2.70 ERA) with 10.0 IP. … Will Wamre (0-1, 6.23 ERA) has made a team-high five pitching appearances, while Barbers lead the staff with three starts.

• FANNING THE FLAMES: The Oles’ pitching staff has struck out 89 batters through 12 games, led by Fickenscher with 12, and Barber, Lavin, and Sam Westermeyer (1-1, 5.00 IP) with 10 each.

• BY THE NUMBERS: St. Olaf has scored eight or more runs in three of its six wins — including a season-high 16 runs in beating Keuka 16-2 on March 24. On the flip side, the Oles have allowed eight or more runs just twice. … Seven of the Oles’ 12 games have been decided by two runs or less — including wins over Hamilton (2-1; 3-1) and Franklin (4-3), and losses to Wartburg (4-3), Augustana (3-1), Franklin (9-8), and Williams (4-2)