Saturday (Game One) • 1 p.m.
LWU: Sr. RHP
Cody Wager (4-3, 3.86 ERA)
LEH: Sr. RHP Connor Donovan (4-2, 1.98 ERA)
Saturday (Game Two)
LWU: So. LHP
Steven Farkas (0-2, 3.16 ERA)
LEH: Fr. RHP Jason Reynolds (3-4, 3.50 ERA)
Sunday • 1 p.m.
LWU: TBA
LEH: Fr. RHP Levi Stoudt (4-5, 2.03 ERA)
Leading Off
•Longwood is in a stretch of five consecutive non-conference games before the final two weekends at conference foes to wrap up the season.
•Longwood enters the weekend in last place, but with remaining series against UNC Asheville and Campbell, who enter the weekend seventh and eighth in the conference as all three teams, plus Radford, fight for a top-eight spot to qualify for the conference Tournament.
•The weekend marks the final home games for the 2017 senior class. Longwood will honor
James Barry,
Brandon Harvell,
Alex Lewis,
Devin Gould,
Cody Wager,
Tyler Wirsu,
Luke Simpson and team manager Rashaun Chambers before Sunday's game.
Last Time Out
•The Lancers enter off a 15-13 loss against Norfolk State. Longwood rallied from a 9-0 hole and put the tying run on base in the ninth inning.
By The Numbers
•Longwood leads the conference in punchouts with 413.
Senior right-hander Cody Wager leads the Big South with 68 strikeouts and junior righty Zach Potojecki is second with 67.
•Potojecki is 13th in the country with 12.31 strikeouts per nine innings, while Wager is 45th with 10.93.
•Longwood is 5th in the country with 9.9 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 .377 (20-for-53) when leading off an inning. Miller is third in the conference with 17 steals.
•Longwood junior left-hander Michael Catlin has put together a solid campaign. Catlin has a team-low 3.12 ERA, has a batting average against of .219, and has allowed 32 hits and 18 runs, 14 earned, in 40.1 innings of work across 20 appearances.
•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   9.9
NCAA • Strikeouts Per 9 Inn.
Rank                         K/9
13. Zach Potojecki   12.31
NCAA • Triples
Rank                 Triples
15. Antwaun Tucker   5
NCAA • Stolen Bases Per Game
Rank  Steals Per Game
41. Sammy Miller   .44
Scouting Lehigh
•Longwood and Lehigh meet for the first time on the diamond when the two teams play this weekend.
•Longwood head coach
Ryan Mau coached against Lehigh as an assistant coach at Navy as a rival Patriot League school.
•Lehigh will miss the Patriot League tournament for the first time in four seasons after an 8-12, last-place finish in the six-team league. The Mountain Hawks wrap up their season in Farmville, missing the tournament, alongside Lehigh Valley rival, Lafayette.
•Senior outfielder Jacen Nalesnik leads the Patriot League with a .624 slugging percentage and is the top home run hitter in conference with 13 and leads the league with 113 total bases. Nalesnik also has 13 doubles, is hitting .326, and leads the team with 35 RBI. Lehigh leads the Patriot League with 52 home runs.
•Senior outfielder Anthony Rinaldi leads the team with a .349 batting average.
•Freshman right-handed pitcher Levi Stoudt, set to pitch Sunday, leads the Patriot League with a 2.03 ERA and has made the most starts in the Patriot League.Â
•Saturday starter Jason Reynolds is fourth in the conference with a 3.50 ERA.
•Lehigh is second in the Patriot League with a 4.49 team ERA.
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