LEXINGTON, S.C. – A four-run second inning for No. 7 Liberty and a four-RBI outing from Flames right fielder Will Shepherd fueled Liberty to a 9-3 victory over No. 3 seed Longwood in the second game of the 2016 Big South Championship Quarterfinals Wednesday at Lexington County Stadium.

Shepherd led the way for Liberty with a 4-for-5 day, finishing a triple shy of the cycle with a home run, two doubles, one single, four RBI, and two runs scored. Liberty (30-27) also got multi-hit games from catcher Josh Latta and lead-off hitter D.J. Artis, who was 2-for-3 with a walk, was hit by pitch, drove in three runs, and scored three runs for the Flames. The loss puts Longwood (31-26) into the loser's bracket and the Lancers will play No. 2 High Point in an elimination game with the defeat.

Liberty's Shane Quarterly (6-4) picked up the win after not allowing a run in 3.2 innings out of the bullpen. The right-hander struck out a pair of batters and held the Lancers to just two hits in the outing.

Luke Simpson (1-4) took the loss, as he allowed five earned runs on five hits in 1.2 innings of work on the mound. Michael Catlin was the first man of five out of the bullpen and kept Longwood in the game. Catlin began his outing in the second inning and pitched into the seventh, tossing 48 pitches. The sophomore left-hander pitched 4.1 scoreless innings before allowing a pair of runs, one earned, in the seventh inning. Catlin retired 13 of the 16 batters he faced, including a stretch of 10 in a row from the end of the third inning through the end of the sixth.

Shortstop Michael Osinski led all Lancers with two RBI, as he went 2-for-5 on the day with both RBI coming on a pair of singles. The multi-hit game lifted Osinski's average to exactly .300, the first time all season Osinski has reached .300.

Joining Osinski with a multi-hit game was Alex Lewis, who went 3-for-5 at the plate, picking up his team-high 24th game with multiple hits and team-leading eighth game with three hits. Lewis singled three times, pushing his hitting streak to 13 games, two shy of the team-high 15 game streak put together earlier in the season by Lewis.

The Lancers cut their deficit to 5-3 with three straight singles, including a bases-loaded RBI single to right field by Osinski. The hit once again brought home senior second baseman C.J. Roth, who led off the inning with a walk, before Lewis and Bastaich followed with a pair of singles of their own.

Despite allowing Longwood to load the bases and add a run, Liberty's Quarterly escaped the inning without allowing further damage. Colton Konvicka nearly put the Lancers ahead with a blast to left field that went just outside the foul line to erase a potential grand slam. The play drew the first ever replay used at the Big South Championship. Initially ruled a foul ball, the call on the field remained foul after a delay of seven minutes during the review.

In the first inning, Longwood squared things up at 1-1 on Osinski's first RBI single that dropped into right field. Roth came home from third to score Longwood's first run of the day after hitting a single on the first pitch of the bottom of the first inning.

Nine Lancers in the lineup picked up a hit and Longwood outhit Liberty 12-10 in the loss. The Lancers stranded 10 base runners as a team and left the bases loaded twice Wednesday.

Longwood faces elimination Thursday at 3 p.m. in its matchup versus No. 2 High Point, which was knocked off by the Flames in the opening game of the tournament. A trip to the Big South Semifinals on Friday is on the line in the game Thursday.

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