Games 17-21: Louisville Slugger Invitational
Date	March 10-12, 2017
Teams	Longwood, Eastern Michigan, UCLA, San Diego State, Cal State Fullerton, Harvard
Location	Long Beach, Calif. I Fullerton, Calif.
Game Notes	Longwood | Long Beach State | Eastern Michigan | Cal State Fullerton
Season Statistics	Longwood (HTML) | Eastern Michigan (HTML) | UCLA (PDF/HTML) | San Diego State (HTML) I Cal State Fullerton (HTML) I Harvard (HTML)
Live Stats	Long Beach State Live Stats (Games vs. EMU, UCLA and HAR) Cal State Fullerton Live Stats (Games vs. SDSU, CSF)
Video	Big West.TV (Cal State Fullerton Game Only)
Social Media	@LongwoodLancers | @LongwoodSB

Leading Off
• Longwood returns to the road, heading to the Golden State for the Louisville Slug­ger Invitational held at Long Beach State and Cal State Fullerton.
• Senior Elizabeth McCarthy was tabbed as one of 30 candidates throughout the nation for the 2017 Senior CLASS Award. One of the most prestigious awards throughout collegiate athletics, the honors seniors who have notable achievements in four areas of excellence: community, classroom, character and competition.
• McCarthy also enters the weekend just 25 strikeouts from Longwood's all-time strikeout record.

By The Numbers
• A season after winning its third Big South championship in a four year span, Long­wood looks to three-peat as the confer­ence regular season and tournament champions in 2017.
• Longwood has assembled yet another difficult slate for the 2017 season. The Lancers will play 21 games against teams that finished last season among the top- 100 of the RPI rankings and 10 games against teams that advanced to the 2016 NCAA Regionals. Longwood's out-of-con­ference opponents amassed more than 600 wins a season ago and combined for a .579 win percentage.
• For the second straight season, Long­wood was tabbed to win the Big South. Despite capturing three Big South Cham­pionships in its four previous seasons, the Lancers have only been tabbed to win the conference on one occasion.
• Senior southpaw Elizabeth McCarthy earned back-to-back Big South Pitcher of the Year honors. McCarthy, along with sophomore sensation Sydney Gay, lead a Longwood pitching staff that ranked among the top-25 in the NCAA a season ago with a 2.29-team ERA.
• Longwood returns seven players that have earned Big South accolades throughout their career, including Justina Augustine, Karleigh Donovan, Sydney Gay, Krista Kelly, Elizabeth McCarthy, Kelsey Sweeney, Glenn Walters.
• Longwood softball head coach Kathy Riley enters her 20th season leading the program. Longwood's all-time winningest coach, Riley has amassed more than 600 wins at Longwood and picked up her 700th career victory earlier this season at the UNCG Invitational.
• Senior Elizabeth McCarthy was named one of 30 candidates across the NCAA in Division I collegiate softball for the 2017 Senior CLASS Award, one of the most prestigious awards across collegiate ath­letics.
• In her 23 seasons of coaching, Kathy Ri­ley has posted 21 consecutive seasons above the .500 mark. Her only two sea­sons below .500 were Riley's first two seasons at Mount Olive.
• Longwood softball signed six standout student-athletes in the early signing peri­od, including Sydney Backstrom, Danielle Calloway, Mallory Odell, Leah Powell, Tay­lor Robinson and Arleigh Wood.

Last Time Out
• Longwood dropped their home-opening series to Hofstra over the weekend, sal­vaging a win in Sunday's 2-0 defeat of the Pride.
• Justina Augustine, Destiny Martinez and Karleigh Donovan all extended their reached base streaks over the weekend, headlined by Augustine's eight-game stretch.
• After dropping both games of the double­header on Saturday, Longwood bounced back behind a strong performance in the circle by Sydney Gay, who went seven full inings while striking out seven and allowing just two hits.
• Walks and errors proved costly in the dou­bleheader Saturday as the Lancers com­mitted four errors and walked six batters.
• Sunday's home win was the first of the 2017 slate after the Lancers went 19-3 at Lancer Field last season, sweeping five of the eight total home series including all five games of the Longwood Spring Fling over Hartford and Monmouth.