Longwood Hosts In-State Foe George Mason

Lancers And Patriots Set For Midweek Matchup

Game 9: Longwood (2-6) vs. George Mason (2-5)
Date	March 1, 2017
Time	1:30 p.m.
Location	Farmville, Va. (Buddy Bolding Stadium)
Season Statistics	Longwood (PDF) \| G eorge Mason (PDF)
Game Notes	Longwood (PDF)
Live Stats	Longwood Live Stats
Social Media	@LongwoodLancers \| @LongwoodBase

Leading Off

Longwood entered the season picked to finish fifth in the Big South. The Lancers had a program-best second-place finish in conference in 2016, highlighted by 32 wins, the record in the Division I record.
Longwood garnered four all-conference selections in 2016, two all-region selections, and two all-state selections
Alex Lewis was named first team all-region (ABCA East) and all-state (VaSID) after his strong 2016 season.
Michael Osinski was also named a top-10 prospect in the Big South by Perfect Game. Osinski was named to the Big South all-tournament team.
Longwood lost senior right-handed pitcher Travis Burnette, a first team all-conference and second team all-state, plus second team all-Big South selection Connar Bastaich due to graduation.
Longwood has replaced all three weekend starting pitchers from last year.

Last Time Out

Longwood fell in a three-game series to UAlbany over the weekend.
Longwood fell 11-3 in game one of Saturday's doubleheader before taking game two 13-6.
UAlbany took the series by a 13-6 final Sunday. Longwood's bullpen allowed just four earned runs in 18.0 innings of work over the weekend.

Scouting George Mason

Longwood meets George Mason for the 17th time Wednesday. This is the second straight season the Lancers and Patriots have met. George Mason won in Fairfax, Va., with George Mason taking the game, 13-6.
The Patriots enter the season off a 12th-place finish in the Atlantic 10.
George Mason enters the week after going winless in four games at the Caravelle Resort Tournament. The Patriots played tough against No. 18 Coastal Carolina in its final game of the tournament, outhitting the Chanticleers 12-8, but falling 9-8 in walk-off fashion.
George Mason took an 8-0 lead in the fourth inning before Coastal Carolina climbed back into the game by scoring nine straight runs over the final five innings of the game.
Junior outfielder Tyler Nelin won A-10 co-player of the week honors for the week starting 2/13 and is hitting .345 with a team-best three home runs and 11 RBI through the first seven games. Nelin went deep with a two-run blast Sunday against Coastal Carolina.
Freshman catcher Logan Driscoll is hitting .357 through the first seven games of the season with a team-best nine runs scored. Driscoll won conference freshman of the week honors for the first week of the season. Driscoll is from Burke, Va., the same hometown as Alex Lewis.

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