Friday • 5 p.m.
LWU: Jr. LHP
Steven Farkas (1-5, 5.36 ERA)
RU: Fr. LHP Hunter Williams (0-2, 5.22 ERA)
Sunday • 12 p.m. (Game One)
LWU: TBA
RU: R-Sr. RHP Austin Ross (5-3, 4.33 ERA)
Sunday • (Game Two)
LWU: TBA
RU: Jr. RHP Ryan Sande (0-1, 3.90 ERA)
Leading Off
•Longwood enters the weekend against Radford after hosting a pair of midweek games against VMI and George Mason.
•The series against Radford wraps up a five-game homestand for the Lancers, who are in the middle of a stretch in which they play 12 of 13 at home.
•All 18 of Longwood's games in April will take place in the Commonwealth with the only road games at VMI, VCU, Liberty, and Norfolk State.
Last Time Out
•The Lancers dropped the first of the two midweek games, 12-6, despite outhitting VMI, 11-7.
•Longwood bounced back with a 13-10 victory against George Mason, plating seven runs in the fourth inning to rally back from five runs down.
•On Wednesday Longwood outhit George Mason, 10-6, and set season highs in runs (13), RBI (12), doubles (4), total bases (22), walks (11), and steals (8).
By The Numbers
•On April 4 against George Mason John Gregory put together a career game to earn the win. In a game which George Mason scored 10 runs, Gregory tossed 4.1 scoreless innings with one hit and one walk allowed and struck out nine batters en route to his first career win.
•In two appearances in the games April 3 and April 4 Gregory combined for 5.2 innings, two hits allowed, one run allowed, and 11 strikeouts.
•Senior left-hander Michael Catlin picked up his team-leading second save with 2.2 innings of one-hit, scoreless ball and four K's at Charleston Southern March 30.
•Ryan Shull and Jawan McAllister each went deep in the series at Charleston Southern.
•Shull sent out his first two homers, the first game one and the second game two, while McAllister hit a two-run shot with Shull aboard in game two.
•Jack Schnell and Jawan McAllister each homered in the home win against George Mason on April 4.
•Schnell's first-inning three-run homer gave the Lancers a 3-0 lead and accounted for the freshman's first RBI.
•McAllister picked up his second career jack in the third inning of the game.
Longwood has seven home runs on the season, five in the span of seven days.
•Steven Farkas, who struck out a career-high 12 batters in 6.0 scoreless innings March 9 against Iona, is second in the Big South with 50 strikeouts.
•Former Lancer stars - right-handed pitcher Aaron Myers, outfielder Kyri Washington, and Michael Osinski - each left their marks on the Longwood baseball program with Osinski leading the 2017 team in hitting, Washington leading the Big South in home runs in 2015, and Myers setting the Longwood school records in strikeouts, saves, and innings pitched. Each player has moved on to play professional baseball, where they join former Lancer arm, right-handed pitcher Mark Montgomery.
•Montgomery currently is in the Tigers organization with Triple-A Toledo.
•Myers ended 2017 in the Orioles system, but has since been released.
•Washington and Osinski are each in the Red Sox organization, Washington in Class A Advanced Salem, Osinski in Class A Greenville.
•Junior right-handed relief pitcher Eric Harp picked up his first-career Big South Relief Pitcher of the Week award for his dominance at USC Upstate on March 7.
•Harp, a 6-foot-9 relief ace, tossed 4.0 shutout innings with one hit and one walk with 11 strikeouts. In the final game of the series Harp tossed 3.2 perfect innings, striking out nine of 11 batters faced.
Big South Player of the Week
Date Player
3/10/14 Alex Owens
4/27/15 Kyri Washington
Big South Pitcher of the Week
Date Player
3/10/14 Aaron Myers
3/7/16 Cody Boydstun
3/20/17 Cody Wager
4/17/17 Cody Wager
Big South Relief Pitcher of the Week
Date Player
3/5/18 Eric Harp
Big South Freshman of the Week
Date Player
4/24/17 Antwaun Tucker
5/15/17 Antwaun Tucker
Scouting Radford
•Longwood and Radford are set to meet for a three-game set in Farmville. The Lancers and Highlanders are separated by just one game in the all-time rivalry with the Lancers leading, 16-15.
•The Lancers and Highlanders played at Radford in 2017 with similar conditions, playing a single game March 24 and a doubleheader March 25 to wrap the series.
•After Radford took the first two games of the series, the Lancers busted out to a 7-1 win in game three, outhitting Radford, 14-7.
Zach Potojecki struck out nine batters in 5.1 innings out of the bullpen to earn the win.
•Radford is led in hitting by the second-leading hitter in the Big South, Andrew Szamski, who has a .387 average. A transfer from Concord (W. Va.), Szamski sat out 2017 as a Division I transfer and wasted no time in getting acclimated to the Radford lineup in 2018, picking up Big South Player of the Week honors after the opening weekend of the season.
•Szamski is Radford's only .300 hitter and leads the Big South with three triples. The redshirt-junior outfielder is third in the conference in hits and total bases and also leads the team with 16 extra-base hits.
•Ryan Sande leads Radford with a 3.90 ERA in seven starts and has struck out 17 batters and 18 walks in 30.0 innings.
•Colby Higgerson has collected the only two saves fr the team and hasn't allowed a run in 2.2 innings across three outings.
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