Games 42-44: Longwood (16-25, 5-7 Big South) vs. Charleston Southern (23-30, 7-8 Big South)
Date	April 21-22, 2017
Location	Farmville, Va. I Lancer Field
Game Notes	Longwood (PDF) | Charleston Southern (PDF)
Season Statistics	Longwood (HTML) | Charleston Southern (HTML)
Live Stats	Longwood Live Stats
Video Stream	Big South Network
Social Media	@LongwoodLancers | @LongwoodSB

Leading Off
• Longwood completes its home regular season schedule with a weekend series against Charleston Southern. The games have been moved to a Friday doublehead­er and Saturday single game.
• Saturday's will mark the final regular sea­son game for seniors Justina Augustine, Jenna Carnes and Elizabeth McCarthy. Those three seniors have been part of two 40-win seasons and two Big South Cham­pionship teams.
• Senior Elizabeth McCarthy was named Big South Pitcher of the Week last Monday after tossing 10 shutout innings over the weekend against Gardner-Webb, includ­ing a no-hitter Saturday.
• McCarthy enters the weekend eighth-place all-time on the Big South's career strikeout list. She has 605 for her career, which is a Longwood school record. In ad­dition, the southpaw is third all-time on Longwood's all-time win charts.

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 Karleigh Donovan, Sydney Gay, Justina Augustine, Krista Kelly, Elizabeth McCarthy, Kelsey Sweeney and 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
• East Carolina used a couple of big fifth innings to earn a pair of wins in a double­header sweep over the Longwood softball team Wednesday night at Lancer Field.
• The Pirates sent 10 batters to the plate in a seven-run inning en route to an 8-0 win in five innings, before scoring five runs in the fifth inning of game two in a 7-4 win.
• Senior southpaw Elizabeth McCarthy (16-24) took the loss in game one, as she pitched seven innings across the two games and gave up eight runs, six earned, on eight hits and three walks. Ranked eighth-place among the Big South strike­out leaders, McCarthy added three strike­outs in the pair of games.
• Jordan Clark was the lone Lancer to re­cord multiple hits throughout the day, with both of those hits coming in the first game. Five different Lancers – Justina Augustine, Kaylynn Batten, Krista Kelly, Jessica Smith and Destiny Martinez – had one hit apiece in the doubleheader.

Scouting the Buccaneers
• Longwood will face its second straight power-hitting team over the weekend when Charleston Southern comes to town. Charleston Southern ranks among the top-five in the nation with 59 home runs, more than double the next closest Big South team.
• The Buccaneers come into the weekend 7-8 in Big South competition and fourth-place in the Big South standings.
• Charleston Southern has three players batting above the .300 mark, including Jade Gandara (.370), Stevi Johnson (.363) and speedster Amanda Matsumoto (.313).
• In the circle, three different Buccaneers eat the majority of the innings with Chey­enne Gandara posting a 3.02 ERA in 120.2 innings on the season.

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