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2022: 4-6 MIAC, 11-8 Overall

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SMU-ITA * A YEAR AGO:

Sept. 24-25, 2021 * Whitewater, WI

Day 1 Recap * Day 2 Recap 

SAINT MARY’S * UP NEXT:

Jan. 28, 2023 * Winona, MN

Martin Luther * 12:30 p.m.

SAINT MARY’S CARDINALS SCOUTING REPORT:

• FOR THE RECORD: The Cardinals closed out the 2022 season sitting at 11-8 overall, including a 4-6 mark in conference play that left them one win away from qualifying for the conference tournament.

• DOMINANCE: With their 9-0 win over Martin Luther in their meeting last season, the Cardinals ran their winning streak over the Knights to 16. SMU is 17-1 overall against MLC — and have won the last eight meetings between the two teams by 9-0 counts. … Saint Mary’s posted three straight 8-0 doubles wins in their 9-0 victory over Martin Luther a year ago.

• WINNING BIG: Five of SMU’s 11 wins were 9-0 sweeps, while three victories had been by 8-1 counts. SMU’s 6-3 win over Concordia on March 20, and its 5-4 wins over Macalester and Bethel on March 26-27 rounded out the Cardinals’ 11 victories.

• LEADING THE CHARGE: Zoie Becker (St. James, Minn.) closed out the 2022 season leading the Cardinals with 13 dual-match singles wins. … Natalie Peterson (St. Cloud, Minn.) finished second to Becker with 10 singles wins, one more than Henderson and three in front of Ashley Renwick (Farmington, Minn.). … Renwick had her season-high six-match singles winning streak snapped against Carleton, while Henderson and Becker both put together five-match winning streaks in 2022.

• SINGLED OUT: The Cardinals collected nine singles victories at the 2021 ITA Regional/Midwest Open, led by Renwick, Henderson, and Peyton Buerman (Shawano, Wis.) with two each.

• COLLEGIATE FIRSTS: Buerman and Renwick picked up their first collegiate singles wins at the 2021 ITA Regional/Midwest Open on Sept. 24-25. Buerman outlasted Northwestern’s Taylar Smith 7-6 (7-4), 1-6, 10-6 and Renwick followed suit with a marathon, 6-0, 3-6, 10-4 victory over Caroline Hutchinson of Wartburg.

• GOING THE DISTANCE: Four of the six singles matches in SMU’s 8-1 loss to Saint Benedict on Feb. 26, 2022 were stretched to a third set, including a 1-6, 6-1, 10-2 win by Peterson at No. 1. The other two singles matches vs. the Blazers included a first-set tiebreaker.

• DOUBLING UP: The doubles team of Henderson/Maddie Dosser (South St. Paul, Minn.) led the team with seven wins last season, one more than Peterson/Kennedy Morgan (Green Bay, Wis.). … Dosser/Henderson ended the year 3-0 at No. 2 and 4-3 at No. 3, while Peterson/Morgan were 6-6 — all at No. 1 doubles. … Individually, Dosser and Henderson each had a hand in a team-high 10 doubles-wins, followed by Peterson with nine, and Morgan and Frye with eight each. … SMU used two doubles combinations at No. 1 and five at No. 3, while having six different pairs team up at No. 2.

• HOME SWEET HOME: The Cardinals, who played their first seven matches on their home court, boasted a 6-4 record at home in 2022, while going 5-4 away from the Winona Tennis Center. … SMU has picked up 10 of its last 14 wins at the Winona Tennis Center.

• LUCKY NO. 15: The Cardinals’ 9-0 win over Hamline on April 9, 2022 extended their winning streak over the Pipers to 15 straight matches. SMU has not lost to Hamline since a 5-4 setback on Feb. 11, 2006. Saint Mary’s is 21-1 in its last 22 matches against the Pipers and are 23-7 all-time against Hamline.

• COMING FROM BEHIND: It was a weekend of come-from-behind victories for the Cardinals on April 2-3, 2022, as Saint Mary’s rallied from 4-2 deficits in beating both Macalester and Bethel by identical 5-4 decisions. Zoie Becker (St. James, Minn.), Kailee Johnson (Rochester, Minn.), and Emily Henderson (Jordan, Minn.) posted the decisive singles wins in both victories for the Cardinals.

• NEAR-PERFECT: The Cardinals dropped just 11 games in their nonconference match against Bethany Lutheran on Feb. 26, 2022, posting 8-0 and 8-4 wins in doubles (plus a forfeit victory at No. 3), and adding a pair of 6-0, 6-0 sweeps by Kailee Johnson (Rochester, Minn.) and Peyton Buerman (Shawano, Wis.), while dropping just seven games in the other four singles contests.

• UNBEATABLE: The Cardinals remained unbeaten against Bethany Lutheran all-time with their 9-0 win over the Vikings on Feb. 26. All nine Cardinal wins against the Vikings have been 9-0 sweeps.

• PROGRAM FIRSTS: The Cardinals’ spring trip matches against Calvin, Houghton, Piedmont and Mount Vernon Nazarene were all the first meetings in program history.

• TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS: With their 2-2 showing in Orlando, Fla., the Cardinals improved to 73-22 against nonconference opponents since 2012.