Friday • 12 p.m.
LWU: Sr. RHP
Cody Wager (4-3, 3.75 ERA)
AVL: So. RHP Danny Wilson (0-1, 7.15 ERA)
Saturday • 6 p.m.
LWU: So. LHP
Steven Farkas (1-2, 3.05 ERA)
AVL: Fr. LHP Greg Gasparro (3-3, 5.13 ERA)
Sunday • 1 p.m.
LWU: Jr. RHP
Zach Potojecki (2-6, 4.53 ERA)
AVL: Sr. LHP Spencer Orr (2-4, 23.50 ERA)
Leading Off
•Longwood wraps up the season with consecutive weekend series against teams Longwood is chasing for the eighth-spot to qualify for the Big South Tournament.
•Longwood enters the weekend in last place, but with remaining series against UNC Asheville and Campbell. UNC Asheville enters the weekend tied for fifth with Radford, three games ahead of Longwood in the standings.
Last Time Out
•Longwood enters the weekend series at UNC Asheville with momentum after sweeping Lehigh in a non-conference series in the final weekend of home games and winning 13-6 at Norfolk State.
•Every Lancer starter picked up a hit and Longwood got multi-hit games from four Lancers.
Antwaun Tucker picked up his NCAA-leading seventh triple of the season in a 3-for-4 game, scoring a career-high four runs in the victory.
By The Numbers
•Zach Potojecki struck out a career-best 13 batters at Savannah State on 3/3, one shy of the school record for a single game. Potojecki struck out 10 at Gardner-Webb on 4/9 and again struck out 10 against Liberty on 4/30.
•Cody Wager struck out 10 batters at UNC Wilmington 3/11 and was magical again with 10 strikeouts in 8.1 shutout innings vs. Charleston Southern 3/18, taking a no-hitter two outs into the eighth. Wager then struck out a career-high 13 batters in a complete game win against Presbyterian 4/13.
•Longwood leads the conference with 451 punchouts, breaking the previous school D-I record of 440 in 2015.
•Wager and Potojecki are tied for the Big South lead with 72 strikeouts. Potojecki is 16th in the country with 12.07 strikeouts per nine innings.
•Longwood is 5th in the country with 9.8 strikeouts per nine innings as a team.
•Junior outfielder Sammy Miller has been great in the lead-off role, reaching base at a rate of .373 (22-for-59) when leading off an inning. Miller is second in the conference with 21 steals.
•Longwood has placed around the top 30 in several statistical categories in the NCAA.
NCAA • Team Strikeouts Per 9 Inn.
Rank K/9
5. Longwood 9.8
NCAA • Strikeouts Per 9 Inn.
Rank K/9
16. Zach Potojecki 12.07
NCAA • Triples
Rank Triples
1. Antwaun Tucker 7
NCAA • Stolen Bases
Rank Steals
20. Sammy Miller 21
NCAA • Stolen Bases Per Game
Rank Steals Per Game
22. Sammy Miller .49
Scouting UNC Asheville
•Longwood and UNC Asheville meet in Asheville, N.C. for three games with the two teams separated in the standings by three games.
•The Lancers took three games against UNC Asheville for the final weekend of home games in 2016. The Lancers have one five straight against UNC Asheville and have never lost a three-game series against the Bulldogs.
•Sophomore infielder and Friday night pitcher Danny Wilson leads Asheville with a .286 batting average. Asheville doesn't have any hitter batting better than .300 on the season. The Bulldogs are last in the Big South with a .222 batting average.
•Senior outfielder Joe Tietjen leads the team with 18 extra-base hits, hitting .262 with nine doubles, three triples, and six home runs.
•Freshman infielder Brandon Lankford leads the team with 13 doubles, seven home runs, and 34 RBI.
•Senior left-handed starting pitcher Spencer Orr has a 3.50 ERA in a team-high 11 starts with 60 strikeouts in 64.1 innings pitched and a .266 batting average against.
•Senior right-handed pitcher and infielder Justin Woods leads the team with a 2.95 ERA in 18 appearances with two starts and has a team-high five saves.
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