Saint Mary's University Athletics

Saint Mary’s Cardinal Notes: With Friday’s 5-4 loss to Augsburg, the Cardinals have now lost their last three Friday night games. … Friday’s loss also marked the third straight setback for the Cardinals, who have not lost three in a row since opening the season with three straight setbacks. … Cassie Stoner (Kenosha, Wis.) scored the Cardinals’ lone goal vs. Augsburg Friday. It was her first of the season and fourth of her career. … Stevie Fiek (Rochester, Minn.) collected her team-leading 10th assist of the season on Stoner’s goal. … Fiek’s 10 assists are the most by a Cardinal since Laura Mueller led the team with 13 during the 2006-07 season. … Nicole Olson (New Brighton, Minn.) leads the team with 10 goals and is also the team-leader in points with 15. … Like Fiek, Olson’s 10 goals are the most since the 2006-07 season, when Melissa Mondo led the team with 15. … SMU boasts three players with 10 or more points — Olson (15), Fiek (14) and Cachey (11). … Kaye Collier (Hibbing, Minn.), who has stopped 36 or more shots three times in her collegiate career — including a career-best 39 saves vs. Lake Forest on Nov. 1 — enters today’s game with a team-leading 1.90 goals-against-average and a .929 save percentage. … With their 2-1 and 4-3 losses to St. Thomas last weekend, the Cardinals have now played 11 one-goal games this season — including three in their last five contests. SMU is 3-7-1 in those 11 games. … SMU’s six goals vs. Marian on Jan. 9 equaled its season high and are the most in a game since the Cardinals beat Hamline 8-0 on Feb. 25, 2004. … The Cardinals have outscored their opponents 16-9 in the first period and 15-11 in the second, but have been outscored 17-10 in the game’s final 20 minutes. … The Cardinals have scored first in 12 of their 18 games, going 8-3-1 in those 11 games. On the flip side, SMU is winless when its opponent scores first (0-6-0).

Augsburg Auggie Notes: Augsburg snapped a season-high eight-game losing streak with Friday’s win over SMU. … Augsburg has allowed four of more goals in 11 of its 18 games. On the flip side, the Auggies have been held to one goal or less in 11 of its 15 losses. … Augsburg has played two overtime games this season — both against Saint Benedict — with both games ending in a tie. Augsburg and CSB battled to 2-2 and 3-3 deadlocks on Dec. 4-5, 2009. … Jess Olson and Sara Toft accounted for three of the team’s four goals Friday. Toft scored twice, while Olson scored once. … Olson now leads the team in goals (5) and shares the team lead in points (8) with Kali Holst, who had a goal and her team-leading fifth assist vs. the Cardinals Friday. … Toni Menth, who has now started 16 of the team’s 18 games in goal, stopped 40 of 41 shots Friday night, lowing her goals-against-average to 4.04 and improving her save percentage to .904. … Augsburg’s 26 goals have come from 13 different players. … Augsburg has scored nearly as many goals in the third period (12) as it has in the first two periods combined (14). … The Auggies have surrendered 33 goals in the game’s final 20 minutes. … Friday’s game was the first time in six chances this season the Auggies have won when scoring first (1-5-0).