NAPERVILLE, Ill.  — The Saint Mary's University of Minnesota volleyball team steps out of conference play this weekend, heading to North Central to take part in the Tiffany Robinson Memorial Tournament.
 
The Tournament Field:
Saint Mary's Cardinals (12-7 Overall), North Central Cardinals (14-4 Overall), North Park Vikings (8-13 Overall),University of Chicago Maroons (18-7 Overall), Wartburg Knights (17-5 Overall)
 
The Tournament Schedule:
Friday, October 10, 2014 | Court 1
University of Chicago vs. Saint Mary's, 4 p.m. | North Central vs. Saint Mary's, 6 p.m. | University of Chicago vs. Wartburg, 8 p.m.
Saturday, October 11, 2014 | Court 1
North Central vs. Wartburg, 11 a.m. | North Central vs. North Park, 1 p.m.
Saturday, October 11, 2014 | Court 2
North Park vs. Saint Mary's, 11 a.m. | Saint Mary's vs. Wartburg, 1 p.m.
 
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Saint Mary's Last Action:
October 8, 2014: As good as the Cardinals were Wednesday night, Carleton was just a bit better—outlasting Saint Mary's 15-12 in the fifth and final set for a dramatic 3-2 conference victory in Northfield, Minn. | Recap
 
Saint Mary's vs. University of Chicago—Their Last Meeting:
• September 5, 2008: Thanks to their tournament-opening, 3-1 win over Marian at the Jefferson's Sugar Loaf Classic, the Cardinals pushed their season-opening winning streak to six straight matches. The last time an SMU team opened the season with a perfect 6-0 mark was 1977. The last time an SMU team opened the season with a perfect 7-0 mark … never. With a win over the University of Chicago in their second match of the two-day tournament at the Gostomski Fieldhouse, this year's team would be the first. Unfortunately for the Cardinals, they ran into a great white shark during their wade through the Sugar Loaf Classic water, as the Maroons put an end to SMU's winning ways with a 3-0 victory | Recap
 
Saint Mary's vs. North Central—Their Last Meeting:
• October 12, 2014: Unfazed by a heartbreaking 3-2 setback to Wheaton (Ill.) earlier in the day, the Cardinals took out their frustrations on North Central, sweeping the tournament hosts 3-0 at the Tiffany Robinson Memorial Tournament in Naperville, Ill. | Recap
 
Saint Mary's vs. North Park—Their Last Meeting:
• August 29, 2014: The lineup may have been different, but Saint Mary's performance sure wasn't. The Cardinals, who opened the season with a dominating 3-0 win over the University of Dubuque in their first match of the Ground Round Sugar Loaf Classic, were equally as dominant in Match No. 2. Led by 11 kills from Macki Fadness (Eau Claire, Wis.), Saint Mary's breezed past North Park, holding the Vikings to a combined 31 points en route to a 3-0 (25-9, 25-12, 25-10) victory to end the first day of the two-day tournament with a 2-0 record.t | Recap
 
Saint Mary's vs. Wartburg—Their Last Meeting:
• August 30, 2014: Through the first three matches of the Ground Round Sugar Loaf Classic, the Cardinal Express steamrolled through North Park, the University of Dubuque and Illinois Wesleyan. Then came Wartburg — and a Cardinal derailment. Wartburg, behind a match-high 12 kills from Bailey Wilson, cooled off the red-shot Saint Mary's University of Minnesota volleyball team, blanking the Cardinals 3-0 (25-13, 25-20, 25-21) | Recap
 
Saint Mary's Up Next:
The Cardinals return to conference play on Wednesday, traveling to Hamline's Hutton Arena in St. Paul, Minn., for a 7 p.m. MIAC match against the Pipers.
 
Scouting The Saint Mary's Cardinals:
2014 Roster | 2014 Schedule | 2014 Statistics
The Cardinals enter this weekend's tournament matches in the midst of an 11-match road swing. Saint Mary's does not return home again until Oct. 22, when they host St. Catherine in the first of four consecutive home matches to close out the regular season. … The Cardinals head to Naperville, Ill., having won seven of their last nine—and are 25-6 in regular-season tournaments over the past two seasons. … Wednesday's loss to Carleton was the Cardinals' second straight five-set match—Saint Mary's beat Concordia 3-2 last Saturday. … Saint Mary's 3-0 loss to No. 17 Saint Benedict on Oct. 3 snapped its season-high six-match winning streak. … Saint Mary's boasted four players with 10 or more kills Wednesday against Carleton, led by Mary Nordick (Plymouth, Minn.) and Kenzie Lind (Rushford, Minn.( with 13 each. … Lex Krogstad (Chicago, Ill.) posted her second straight 20-plus dig performance vs. the Knights Wednesday, finishing with 22. … Krogstad's 22-dig showing vs. Concordia—two digs shy of her season high—marked the sixth time this season the junior has notched 20 or more kills. … Krogstad now leads the team with 298 digs and is one of five Cardinals with 100 or more digs. … Alex Peterson (Harmony,  Minn.) enters tournament play this weekend as the team leader in kills with 154, five more than Lind and seven in front of Macki Fadness (Eau Claire, Wis.). Nordick (125) and Molly Grover (Zumbrota, Minn. / 120) have also eclipsed the 100-kill plateau. … Peterson tallied a season- and career-high 23 kills against UW-La Crosse on Sept. 10. … Tayler MacVey (Dodge Center, Minn.) has accumulated a team-leading and career-high 377 assists through 19 matches, while Brittney Hanson (Janesville, Iowa) is close behind with 340. … Hanson's 26 assists vs. Carelton Wednesday were a career high. … Morgan Thomas (Palos Park, Ill.) recorded a career-high 20 digs against UW-La Crosse on Sept. 10. … Eight of Saint Mary's 12 wins this season have been 3-0 sweeps. … The Cardinals' schedule includes matches against six teams that have been ranked in the AVCA Top 25—St. Thomas, Colorado College, Clarkson, Saint Benedict and Augsburg. … Krogstad heads into this weekend's Tiffany Robinson Memorial Tournament having earned all-tournament honors in all three of the Cardinals' regular-season tournaments this season. … Saint Mary's is  5-1 on their home court—the lone loss a 3-0 setback vs. Wartburg at the season-opening Ground Round Sugar Loaf Classic.