The Saint Mary’s baseball team steps out of conference play for a pair of nine-inning nonconference games, heading to Menomonie, Wis., for a game against UW-Stout, before traveling to La Crosse, Wis., for a matchup against nationally ranked UW-La Crosse the following day. Both games are slated for a 3 p.m. opening pitch.

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SMU-UWS * LAST MEETING:

April 3, 2012 * Menomonie, WI

L, 9-4; W, 9-4 * Series History

SMU-UWL * LAST MEETING:

March 28, 2024 * Winona, MN

L, 9-4 * Series History

SAINT MARY’S * LAST ACTION:

April 20, 2024 * Collegeville, MN

Saint John’s * W, 5-2; L, 13-3 (8)

UW-STOUT * LAST ACTION:

April 20-21, 2024 * Menomonie, WI

UW-Eau Claire * L, 13-7; W, 8-2; W, 14-6; L, 20-9

UW-LA CROSSE * LAST ACTION:

April 20-21, 2024 * La Crosse, WI

UW-Whitewater * W, 6-1, L, 23-1; L, 10-7; L, 10-2

SAINT MARY’S * UP NEXT:

April 27, 2024 * Arden Hills, MN

Bethel * 1:00/3:30

 UW-STOUT * UP NEXT: 

April 25, 2024 * Minneapolis, MN

Augsburg * 5:00

UW-LA CROSSE * UP NEXT: 

April 27-28, 2024 * Stevens Pt., WI

UW-Stevens Point * Noon/2:00

SAINT MARY’S SCOUTING REPORT:

• FOR THE RECORD: The Cardinals head into their nine-inning nonconference games at UW-Stout and UW-La Crosse sitting at 17-11 through 28 games, while boasting a 10-4 mark in conference play.

• LAST TIME OUT: Saint Mary’s got off to a strong start in its MIAC doubleheader against Saint John’s last Saturday in Collegeville, Minn., getting a pitching gem from Addison Hochevar (Lake Geneva, Wis.) in beating the host Johnnies 5-2, only to have SJU turn the tables in the nightcap, erupting for four runs in the seventh and five in the eighth in dropping SMU 13-3.

• ROAD WARRIORS: The Cardinals are in the midst of an eight-game road trip— including conference DHs at Saint John’s, Bethel, and Concordia, and nine-inning nonconference games at UW-La Crosse and UW-Stout … Saint Mary’s is 8-3 on its home turf this season, while sitting at 8-7 away from Max Molock Field.

• GAME 1 DOMINANCE: The Cardinals have played nine doubleheaders this season — and have won Game 1 in all nine of those contests. … SMU has five doubleheader sweeps and three splits. SMU has yet to be swept in a twinbill this seasons. … The Cardinals have swept Illinois College (5-2, 10-5), Saint Joseph’s (4-2, 11-3), Hamline (1-0, 7-2), Carleton (22-2, 9-3), and Augsburg (2-1, 3-2), while splitting with Macalester (W, 9-3, L, 14-4), St. Olaf (W, 12-4, L, 7-4), Gustavus (W, 13-2, L, 4-1), and Saint John’s (W, 5-2, L, 13-3).

• STREAK-SNAPPER; The Cardinals had their season-high six-game winning streak ended with their 14-4, Game 2 loss to Macalester on April 6. … SMU’s 7-0 victory over UW-Superior on March 28 snapped the Cardinals’ season-high three-game losing streak. 

• AT THE PLATE: Tanner Bauman (Willmar, Minn.) heads into SMU’s midweek games leading the Cardinals with a .373 batting average. He is one of five Cardinals who sport batting averages above .300, being joined by Cameron Weber (Holmen, Wis. / .368), Ryan Csida (Kimberly, Wis. / .330), Brinton Anderson (Pulaski, Wis. / .319), and Riley Bauman (Stratford, Wis. / .307), while Daniel Sherman (Richfield, Minn. / .294) is percentage points away from joining the group.

• ON THE RUN: The Cardinals have scored 171 runs through their first 28 games this season …. Weber leads the team with 25 runs scored, two more than Csida and six up on Cam Miller (Kimberly, Wis.). Riley Bauman (18), Mason Coyle (Madison, Wis. / 18), Anderson (12), Tanner Bauman (11), and Will Boeckman (Big Lake, Minn. / 10) have also crossed home plate more than 10 times. … SMU has had a player score three runs in a game nine times this season.

• RUNS A PLENTY: The Cardinals scored 22 runs in beating Carleton 22-2 in the opening game of the Cardinals MIAC sweep of Carleton on April 5. The 22 runs were the most in a game since SMU beat Graceland 23-3 on March 25, 2015.

• HIT PARADE: Weber owns the team lead in hits with 35, with Csida (33) and Riley Bauman (31) also eclipsing the 30-hit mark this season. Coyle (27), Sherman (25), and Anderson (22), meanwhile, have all amassed 20+ hits this season. … Csida has put together a team-leading 12 multiple-hit games — all 12 being two-hit games — while Riley Bauman delivered a single-game season-high four hits against Dominican on March 4. … As a team, SMU has collected 14 hits in a game twice — vs. Carleton on April 5 and against Gustavus on Thursday.

• EXTRA, EXTRA: Sixty of the Cardinals’ 252 hits this season have been for extra bases, including 40 doubles, nine triples, and 11 home runs. … Coyle is the team-leader in doubles with seven, two more than Csida and Riley Bauman, who also leads the team with three triples, one up on Tanner Bauman.

• BOMBS AWAY: Riley Bauman has clubbed five of the team’s 11 home runs — including one in both games against Saint John’s last Saturday. Stephen Golden (Centerville, Minn.) owns a pair of round-trippers, with Coyle, Csida, Boeckman, and Anderson accounting for the other four. … Boeckman belted SMU’s first home run of the season, a two-run shot against Bethany Lutheran on Feb. 25. … Anderson clubbed HR No. 1 of his career against Gustavus on April 17. … Csida launched his first collegiate HR — a lead-off shot against Benedictine on March 8 — while Golden belted his first two home runs as a Cardinal against Carleton on April 5. … Golden’s two HRs in Game 1 against Carleton on April 5 marked the first time SMU has had a player hit two HRs in a game since Ben Buerkle and Jake Barry each hit two round-trippers during the 2017 season. … SMU’s three home runs against Carleton on April 5 were a season high.

• DRIVING ‘EM IN: Weber has delivered a team-best 20 RBIs, followed by Csida (19), Riley Bauman (19), Coyle (18), Anderson (16), Tanner Bauman (10), and Sherman (10). … Anderson has driven in a season-high four runs twice. He is one of four Cardinals with four-RBI games. Sherman accounted for all four RBIs in SMU’s 4-2 win over Saint Joseph’s on March 9, while Riley Bauman and Weber have also posted four-RBI games. … Weber own a team-best six multiple-RBI games, one more than Riley Bauman.

• STREAKING: Weber and Csida have both put together season-high nine-game hitting streaks this season, while Riley Bauman’s current four-game run is the team’s longest active hitting streak. … Weber closed out the 2023 season riding a 15-game hitting streak, and picked up at least one hit in each of SMU’s first four games this season, before going 0-for-6 against Dominican on March 4. … Csida was held off the bases in Game 2 against Gustavus on April 17 snapping a streak of 25 consecutive games in which the freshman had reached base. Csida has reached base safely in 27 of the team’s 28 games.

• OUCH: The Cardinals, who were hit by a pitch 32 times in 35 games in 2023, have already been plunked 40 time this season — with Weber and Csida both getting hit a team-leading nine times, one more than Miller.

• CATCH ME IF YOU CAN: Saint Mary’s is 72-for-89 in stolen base attempts this season, with Weber leading the way, going 25-for-29, followed by Csida (10-for-11), Riley Bauman (8-for-11) and Coyle (7-for-8). … With his first-inning Game 2 steal against St. Olaf on April 13, Weber became the program’s single-season stolen base leader with 24, one more than Will Doll ’16, who set the previous mark of 23 during the 2014 season. … SMU stole a school-record 11 bases in its Game 1 win over Carleton on April 5, with Weber setting a single-game school record with four steals. … With their 72 stolen bases, SMU is 16 steals shy of the single-season school record of 88, set during the 2021 season.

• ON THE MOUND: Saint Mary’s has used 15 different pitchers this season, with Addison Hochevar (Lake Geneva, Wis. / 4-3, 4.66 ERA) and Eric Stomberg (St. Paul, Minn. / 5-1, 2.76 ERA) leading the way with 38 2/3 and 32 2/3 innings pitched, respectively. Dylan Westcott (Holmen, Wis. / 3-1, 2.03 ERA, 31.0 IP), Andrew Fischer (La Crosse, Wis. / 1-2, 3.62 ERA, 27 1/3 IP), and TJ Bergland ( / 1-2, 7.15 ERA, 22 2/3 IP) have also logged more than 20 innings. … Fischer has made a team-leading 10 pitching appearances, one more than Westcott, while Hochevar leads the staff with eight starts, two in front of Stomberg. … Fischer and Hochevar own SMU’s two complete games.

• SAVING THE DAY: Fischer picked up his team-leading fourth save of the season against Saint John’s last Saturday, tossing a scoreless seventh in SMU’s 5-2 victory. … Westcott and Mason Windschitl (Excelsior, Minn.) each own one save. … Windschitl’s save against Augsburg on April 9 was the first of his collegiate career.

• FANNING THE FLAMES: The SMU pitching staff has combined to strike out 140 batters in 28 games this season, led by Fischer with 27, Stomberg with 26, and Hochevar with 21. … Fischer has struck out a single-game season-high seven batters twice this season — against Luther on Feb. 26 and vs. Saint Joseph’s on March 9.

• MIAC HONORS: Hochevar was named MIAC Pitcher of the Week on April 1, after putting together his third career complete game, a one-hit gem in beating Hamline 1-0 on March 30, while Weber collected his first weekly honor, earning MIAC Player of the Week accolades on April 8 – thanks to hitting .471 and stealing nine bases in SMU’s four games that week.

• THROWING UP ZEROS: The Cardinals’ 7-0 win over UW-Superior on March 28 and their 1-0 victory over Hamline two days later marked the first time SMU has posted back-to-back shutouts since blanking Augsburg (1-0) and Bethel (1-0) in late April, 2019.

• COMEBACK KIDS: The Cardinals put together three, five-run innings to beat Illinois Chicago (twice) and Marian during their eight-game spring trip. SMU scored five runs in the fifth inning of 5-2 and 10-5 wins over Illinois Chicago on March 3, before racking up five runs in the bottom of the ninth inning of a 7-6, walk-off win over Marian two days later.

• GETTING SOME (VERY) EARLY SWINGS: SMU’s season-opener against Bethany Lutheran on Feb. 25 and its game against Luther the followed day marked the earliest games played on Max Molock Field in program history. Saint Mary’s has never played a game in February on its home field.

• CRUNCHING THE NUMBERS: As a team, the Cardinals are hitting .293 (252-for-861), including 60 extra-base hits, while scoring 171 runs and boasting 141 RBIs. SMU’s pitching staff, meanwhile, boasts a 5.45 ERA. … Saint Mary’s has scored at least three runs in 25 of its 28 games this season, including 10+ runs five times — in wins over Illinois College (10-5), Saint Joseph’s (11-3), Carleton (22-2), St. Olaf (12-4), and Gustavus (13-2). On the flip side, SMU has surrendered 10 or more runs six times this season, going 0-6 in those five contests. … Saint Mary’s owns a 10-1 record when scoring at least six runs. … The Cardinals are 15-1 when holding their opponent to less than six runs, and are 15-1 when leading or tied after the sixth inning. … Saint Mary’s is 12-4 when scoring the game’s first run.

UW-STOUT SCOUTING REPORT:

• FOR THE RECORD: The Blue Devils head into their nine-inning nonconference game against Saint Mary’s sitting at 11-17 overall, while owning a 6-14 mark through the first 20 games of their WIAC slate

• LAST TIME OUT: It was a 2-2 weekend for UW-Stout against UW-Eau Claire last weekend, as the Blue Devils picked up an 8-2 Game 2 win last Saturday and added a 14-6 Game 1 win on Sunday. UW-Eau Claire bookended 13-7 and 20-9 wins around UW-Stout’s two victories for the back-to-back conference splits.

• HOME SWEET HOME: UW-Stout’s game against Saint Mary’s concludes a run in which the Blue Devils have played 15 of their last 17 contests at home — the lone road games in that stretch were a pair of games at No. 10 UW-La Crosse on April 18. … The Blue Devils have collected six of their 11 wins this season on their home diamond. UW-Stout, which is 6-8 at home, while going 5-9 on the road.

• LEADING THE CHARGE: Justin Sedin heads into the Blue Devils’ matchup against Saint Mary’s claiming a team-leading .429 batting average. Sedin is one of three UW-Stout players with batting averages hovering above .300, being joined by Jacoby Endreas (.345) and Riley Boushack (.300).

• ON THE RUN: UW-Stout has scored 166 runs in 28 games, led by Sedin with 26 runs scored. Leyten Bowers (24) and Endreas (21) have also eclipsed the 20+ runs scored mark, while Boushack (19) and Nolan Harke (14) give UW-Stout five players with 10 or more runs scored. … Sedin and Bowers have both scored a season-best three runs in a game this season.

• HIT PARADE: Sedin has clubbed a team-best 48 hits en route to his team-leading .429 batting average. UW-Stout has two other players — Endreas (30) and Boushack (30) — who have reached the 30-hit mark, while Bowers (23), Harke (22), and Jack Redwine (21) are members of the 20-hit club. … Sedin has amassed a team-high 11 multiple-hit games, four more than both Boushack and Endreas. … UW-Stout has two players — Sedin and Redwine — who own a four-hit game this season.

• EXTRA, EXTRA: Eighty-five of the Blue Devils’ 274 hits have gone for extra bases, including 52 doubles, one triple, and 32 home runs. … Sedin leads the team with seven doubles, four up on Redwine, while also owning the team’s lone triple — a three-bagger against UW-Eau Claire on Sunday. … Sedin, Redwine, and Endreas have all hit two doubles in a game this season.

• BOMBS AWAY: UW-Stout has gotten at least one home run from 10 different players, led by Endreas with 11. Sedin has delivered seven round-trippers, followed by Bowers with four, and Redwine, Boushack, and Jack Schirpke with two each. Harke, A.J. Kargel, Justin Schnell, and Kyler Hove own UW-Stout’s other four HRs.

• DRIVING ‘EM HOME: Sedin and Endreas have been RBI machines for the Blue Devils this season, driving in 32 and 28 runs, respectively. Redwine (17), Schnell (14), Boushack (11), Bowers (10), and Harke (10) have also reached double figures in RBIs. … Sedin and Endreas lead the team with eight multiple-RBI games, with Sedin owning two of the team’s three four-RBI games. Schnell owns the other four-RBI-effort.

• STREAKING ALONG: Endreas and Redwine have both put together hitting streaks of at least 10 games this season. Endreas hit safely in 10 games earlier this year, while Redwine heads into UW-Stout’s showdown with Saint Mary’s riding a season-high 11-game hit streak. … Boushack has reached base safely in each of the Blue Devils’ last 16 games, while Parker Hagebock has reached safely in 13 consecutive games.

• ON THE MOUND: UW-Stout has used 17 different pitchers this season, with three logging more than 30 innings. Lucas Lendosky (3-2, 4.82 ERA) leads the staff with 37 1/3 innings pitched, followed by Drew Buss (3-2, 6.68 ERA) with 32 1/3 IP and Tucker Beving (0-5, 8.27 ERA) with 32.0 IP. … Lendosky and Luke Costley (0-1, 5.79 ERA, 18 2/3 IP) share the team lead with eight appearances, while Beving has made a team-high seven starts. … Buss owns the Blue Devils’ long complete game — a nine-inning four-hitter over UW-Eau Claire in an 8-2 win last Saturday. 

• SAVING THE DAY: Tim Kohls (0-1, 9.00 ERA, 8.0 IP) owns two of the staff’s five saves, with Costley, Connor Hemme (1-1, 3.60 ERA, 10.0 IP), and Quintin Gonzalez (1-1, 5.79 ERA, 18 2/3IP) have recorded the other three.

• FANNING THE FLAMES: As a staff, UW-Stout pitchers have combined to strike out 190 batters, led by Lendosky with 36 strikeouts and Buss with 33. Buss is third on the team with 27 Ks. … Buss struck out a single-game season-high nine batters against UW-Eau Claire last Saturday.

• CRUNCHING THE NUMBERS: As a team, UW-Stout is hitting .288, going 274-for-951, with 52 doubles, one triple, 32 home runs, 166 runs scored and owning 154 RBIs. The Blue Devil pitching staff, meanwhile, owns a combined 7.15 ERA, with opponents hitting .309. … UW-Stout has scored 10 or more runs four times this season, including a season-best 14-run effort in beating UW-Eau Claire 14-6 last Sunday. On the flip side, the Blue Devils have allowed 10+ runs 10 times, with UW-Eau Claire plating a season-high 20 runs in last Sunday’s 20-9 win. … UW-Stout has scored in 26 of its 28 gams this season. … Along with their 14 runs against UW-Eau Claire, the Blue Devils also set season-highs in hits (17) and RBIs against the Blugolds.

UW-LA CROSSE SCOUTING REPORT:

• FOR THE RECORD: The Eagles head into their mid-week nine-inning matchup against Saint Mary’s boasting a 21-9 overall record, while sitting at 10-6 through the first 16 games of their WIAC schedule

• LAST TIME OUT: UW-La Crosse got off on the right foot in their four-game conference series against sixth-ranked UW-Whitewater last weekend, beating the Warhawks 6-1 in the opener last Saturday. From there, however, the Eagles surrendered a combined 43 runs over the next three games in falling 23-1, 10-7 and 10-2.

• STREAK SNAPPER: UW-La Crosse’s 23-1 loss to UW-Whitewater last Saturday snapped the Eagles’ four-game winning streak. … After opening the season 2-4 in their first six games, the Eagles rattled off wins in 19 of their next 21 games before falling three times to UW-Whitewater last weekend.

• HOME SWEET HOME: The Eagles’ matchup against Saint Mary’s is the ninth home game in the UW-L’s last 11 contests. … UW-La Crosse is 8-5 on its home diamond this year, while going 13-4 away from Copeland Park.  

• IN THE POLLS: UW-La Crosse heads into its mid-week showdown against the Cardinals sitting No. 12 in the latest ABCA Coaches Poll. … The Eagles are also ranked No. 13 in the most recent D3baseball.com Top 25.

• LEADING THE CHARGE: The Eagles head into their showdown with Saint Mary’s boasting seven players who are hitting above .300, led by Chris VandenHeuvel, who has gone 50-for-122 en route to his team-leading .410 batting average. Nate Witte (.347), Mac Born (.336), Anthony Vivian (.330), George Seaman (.328), Jack Olver (.323), and Logan Pye (.317) have also compiled averages north of .300.

• ON THE RUN: UW-La Crosse has scored 270 runs in 30 games, led by VandenHeuvel, who has crossed home plate 37 times. Vivian and Seaman have each scored 32 times, while Witte (30) is the fourth Eagle with at least 30 runs scored. … Olver (28), Jack Moran (26), and Born (24) give the Eagles seven players with 20+ runs scored. … VandenHeuvel has scored a single-game season-high four runs twice this season, while Witte has achieved the feat once.

• HIT PARADE: The Eagles have four players — VandenHeuvel (50), Olver (42), Seaman (41), and Witte (41) — who have eclipsed the 40-hit mark, with Born one hit shy of the 40-hit club. … Seaman and Witte have each posted a five-hit game this season — Seaman against Washington (Mo.) University on March 23 and Witte vs. UW-Oshkosh on April 14. … VandenHeuvel has collected a team-high 15 multiple-hit games, two more than Seaman and Olver, and three up on Witte. As a team, UW-L has recorded 102 multiple-hit games.

• EXTRA, EXTRA: UW-La Crosse has delivered 121 extra-base hits among its 353 hits this season — including 68 doubles, six triples, and a whopping 44 home runs. … Olver and VandenHeuvel have reached double figures in doubles, Olver leading the way with 14, four more than VandenHeuvel, while VandenHeuvel and Brady Burrill share the team lead with two triples each. … UW-L banged out a season-high six doubles against UW-Stout on April 18.

• BOMBS AWAY: UW-L has gotten at least one home run from 11 different players — with Seaman, Born, and VandenHeuvel combining for 25 of the Eagles’ 44 round-trippers. Seaman leads the team with nine HRs, followed closely by VandenHeuvel and Born with eight each. … Seaman launched a single-game season-high three home runs against UW-Oshkosh on Apirl13. … The Eagles have amassed four home runs in a game five times this season.

• DRIVING ‘EM HOME: Seaman sits atop the team’s RBI heap with 43. He is one of eight Eagles with 10 or more runs batted in this season, being joined by Born (39), VandenHeuvel (37), Witte (24), Vivian (22), Olver (19), Moran (15), and Pye (13). … Born delivered a season-high seven RBIs against Washington (Mo.) University on March 23, a feat Seaman matches against UW-Oshkosh on April 13. … Seaman leads the team with 11 multiple-RBI games, one more than both Born and VandenHeuvel.

• STREAKING ALONG: Seaman and Olver have both put together hitting streaks of 10 or more games this season — Olver collecting hits in 10 straight games, while Seaman owned a 14-game hit streak. No Eagle has an active hit streak longer than three games. … Pye has reached base safely in 13 consecutive contests.

• ON THE MOUND: UW-La Crosse has used 15 different pitchers, with five of them logging more than 25 innings on the bump. Isaiah Katz (5-3, 4.11 ERA) leads the staff in innings pitched at 46.0, followed by Tyler Schmitt (1-2, 6.63 ERA) with 36 2/3 IP and Owen Anderson (3-1, 8.44 ERA) with 32.0 IP. … Tucker Bouche (1-0, 4.61 ERA, 31 2/3 IP) has made a team-high 11 appearances — all in relief — while Katz has made a staff-leading eight starts. … Katz owns two of the Eagles’ three complete games, with Schmitt owning the other.

• SAVING THE DAY: Eagles pitchers have recorded seven saves this season — three by Caleb Mati (3-0, 3.86 ERA, 18 2/3 IP), two by Schmitt, and one each from Bouche and Owen Deprez (3-0, 5.09 ERA, 23.0 IP).

• FANNING THE FLAMES: UW-L’s staff has combined to strike out 275 batters in 30 games, led by Schmitt with 50 strikeouts. Katz is second on the team with 39 Ks, followed by Deprez with 35 and Anderson with 31 … Schmitt fanned a season-high 14 batters against UW-Oshkosh on April 13.

• CRUNCHING THE NUMBERS: As a team, UW-La Crosse is hitting .327, going 353-for-1079, with 68 doubles, six triples, four home runs, 270 runs scored, while owning 244 RBIs. UW-L pitchers, meanwhile, have combined for a 6.53 ERA and opponents are hitting .297. … The Eagles have scored 10 or more runs 14 times through 30 games — winning all 14. UW-L plated a season-high 17runs in beating UW-Oshkosh 17-X on April 14. On the flip side, UW-L has given up 10+ runs nine times, including a season-high 23 runs in falling to XXXX. … UW-L is 12-1 when scoring first, and 10-3 when plating at least one run in the first inning. … The Eagles are unbeaten (17-0) when leading after the sixth inning. The Eagles have trailed heading into the seventh inning in all nine of their losses this season.