• 0: Izzy Griffin (West St. Paul, Minn.) — making her first collegiate start in the pitcher’s circle — tossed a five-hit, complete-game shutout in leading the Saint Mary’s fastpitch softball team to a 2-0 win in the second game of its MIAC doubleheader against Carleton last Saturday.
• 1: Riley Hall (Dallas Center, Iowa) launched her first collegiate home run in the Cardinal fastpitch softball team’s 4-3 Game 1 win over Hamline last Monday. The senior then clubbed her second of the season in Game 1 against St. Catherine four days later.
• 1 + 1: Eric Stomberg (St. Paul, Minn.) and Dylan Westcott (Holmen, Wis.) combined to limit St. Scholastica to just two hits in five innings of shutout relief in the Cardinal baseball team’s sweep of the Saints last Monday. Westcott limited CSS to one hit in three innings in SMU’s 6-2 Game 1 win, while Stomberg surrendered just one hit in two innings in the nightcap, a 9-2 Cardinal win.
• 1 x 2: Reese Berg and Alex Crusan each recorded their first two collegiate hits in the Cardinal baseball team’s 9-8 Game 2 loss to St. Olaf last Saturday. Berg finished 2-for-4 with an RBI, while Crusan was 2-for-2 with a pair of runs scored.
• 2: Aiden Gatz (Elburn, Ill.) cleared 4.10 meters to place second in the pole vault in leading the SMU men’s track and field team at last Friday’s University of Dubuque Good Friday Invitational.,
• 2: Abbie Stigler (Menomonie, Wis.) launched her second home run of the season as part of a 2-for-2 Game 2 effort in the SMU fastpitch softball team’s 2-0 win over Carleton last Saturday.
• 2 x 2: The SMU baseball and fastpitch softball teams both hit two home runs in their conference doubleheaders last Monday. Riley Bauman (Stratford, Wis.) and Mason Coyle (Madison, Wis.) delivered HRs for the Cardinal baseball team, while Riley Hall (Dallas Center, Iowa) and Naleya Bork (De Pere, Wis.) went yard for the Cardinal fastpitch softball team.
• 3: Naleya Bork (De Pere, Wis.) launched her team-leading third home run of the season — a two-run, seventh-inning shot — in the SMU fastpitch softball team’s 6-5, Game 2 loss to Hamline last Monday.
• 3: Trevon VanEgtern (La Crosse, Wis.) collected his first three-hit game of the season last Friday, going 3-for-5 in SMU’s Game 2 loss to Saint John’s.
• 3-3: Allison Ciero (Glen Ellyn, Ill.) delivered her team-leading sixth multiple-hit game, going 3-for-3 with 3 RBIs and a run scored in the SMU fastpitch softball team’s 7-2 Game 2 win over St. Catherine last Friday.
• 3.10: Caroline Gearin (Osceola, Wis.) posted a mark of 3.10 meters to finish third in the pole vault — the Cardinal women’s track and field team’s top finish in last Friday’s University of Dubuque Good Friday Invitational.
• 4: Daniel Marxen (Maple Grove, Minn.) delivered four hits in seven at-bats in the Cardinal baseball team’s sweep of St. Scholastica last Monday — including a 3-for-4 effort in SMU’s 9-2, Game 2 victory.
• 4: Riley Bauman (Stratford, Wis.) drove in a career-high four runs with a pair of sacrifice flies and a two-run double in the SMU baseball team’s 9-8 Game 2 loss to St. Olaf last Saturday. Bauman’s four-RBI effort was the Cardinals’ first of the season.
• 4 x 2: Samantha Kubes (New Prague, Minn.) picked up a pair of fourth-place finishes for the SMU women’s track and field team at last Friday’s University of Dubuque Good Friday Invitational, placing fourth in both the hammer throw (47.25m) and shot put (11.51m),
• 5: Heather Nordlund (Byron, Minn.) collected five hits in seven at-bats in the SMU fastpitch softball team’s split with Hamline in the teams’ conference-opener last Monday. Nordlund went 3-for-3 in Game 1, before adding a 2-for-4 showing in the nightcap.
• 6: Six of the SMU fastpitch softball team’s eight hits in Game 1 against Carleton last Saturday were doubles. Naleya Bork (De Pere, Wis.) led the way with a pair of doubles, while Peyton Berg (Chatfield, Minn.), Allison Ciero (Glen Ellyn, Ill.), Abbie Stigler (Menomonie, Wis.), and Mackenzie Carey (Prescott, Wis.) had the other four.
• 9: The SMU baseball team matched its single-game season-high with nine runs in its 9-2, Game 2 win over St. Scholastica last Monday. It was the third time this season the Cardinals had plated nine runs in a game.
• 10: The Saint Mary’s and Hamline fastpitch softball teams combined to score 10 first-inning runs in their MIAC doubleheader last Friday. HU plated four runs in the first game, while SMU erupted for six runs in the opening frame in the nightcap.
• 10: Addison Hochevar (Lake Geneva, Wis.) struck out a career-high 10 batters in the SMU baseball team’s 1-0 Game 1 loss to St. Olaf last Saturday. The junior left-hander allowed just one run on five hits in tossing his first career complete game.
• 17: The SMU track and field teams combined for 17 Top 10 finishes in last Friday’s University of Dubuque Good Friday Invitational. Caroline Gearin (Osceola, Wis.) and Samantha Kubes (New Prague, Minn.) each posted two Top 5 efforts to lead the way for the Cardinals.
