Friday • 3 p.m.
LWU: Jr. LHP
Steven Farkas (2-7, 5.66 ERA)
PC: Sr. RHP Tanner Chock (2-2, 4.63 ERA)
Saturday • 2 p.m.
LWU: Jr. RHP
Cody Boydstun (2-7, 5.98 ERA)
PC: So. RHP Eric Miles (6-4, 4.67 ERA)
Sunday • 1 p.m.
LWU: So. RHP
Tyler Morgan (2-3, 5.67 ERA)
PC: R-So. RHP Jackson Dean (0-3, 4.40 ERA)
Leading Off
•The Lancers enter their penultimate weekend of conference play seventh in the Big South, tied with UNC Asheville with a 7-14 conference record.
•Longwood enters the weekend one game ahead of Charleston Southern and Presbyterian at the bottom of the conference standings.
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Justin Mitchell has reached in 19 straight games, one shy of the longest streak of his career.
Last Time Out
•The Lancers enter the game off a close loss at home to Richmond, 3-2.
•Longwood trailed 2-0 after the sixth and scored in the seventh to bring the game within run. Longwood put the tying run into scoring position in the seventh, eighth, and ninth innings.
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Zach Potojecki,
John Gregory,
Daniel Brandon, and
Tommy Green each put together scoreless relief appearances and Longwood pitching struck out 12 batters.
By The Numbers
•For his outing against UNC Asheville on April 14 Tyler Morgan was named Big South Pitcher of the Week April 16.
•Morgan tossed a complete game shutout, Longwood's first since Aaron Myers did it against Ohio University in 2014. Morgan struck out 13 batters and allowed just five base runners.
•Morgan is second in the Big South with a .221 batting average against.
•Longwood is on a home run kick as of late with 16 of its 18 home runs on the season coming in the last 25 games.
•Justin Mitchell won Saturday's game two at Liberty on a two-run homer in the ninth, sending the Lancers to an 8-6 victory.
•Longwood has posted 10 quality starts on the season with Cody Boydstun posting three in his first season as a starter.
•All three starting pitchers - Steven Farkas, Boydstun, and Michael Catlin - each picked up quality starts in the weekend series against Iona that began March 9. The three starting pitchers averaged 7.0 innings, one run, and seven strikeouts for the series.
•Farkas and Tyler Morgan each collected quality starts in shutout wins against UNC Asheville.
•Farkas struck out a school-record 14 batters in 7.0 scoreless innings on April 13.
•After Farkas' gem, Morgan struck out 13 batters in a complete game shutout for his first career quality start.
•Senior outfielder Sammy Miller is the team captain and Longwood's lead-off man. Miller reaches at a rate of .370 (30-for-81) when leading off a frame.
•Miller owns a team-best .287 average, is sixth in the Big South with 35 walks drawn, and fifth with 18 steals. He also drew five walks April 4 against George Mason, tied for the program record for walks in a single game.
•Grant Keller capped off the best month of his career with a 6-for-16 series against Liberty.
•Keller hit .392 (20-for-51) in April with four doubles, eight RBI, and a .492 OBP.
•In April Sammy Miller hit .322 (19-for-59) with three doubles, his first two career homers, 13 RBI and 19 runs scored, plus 17 walks.
•Longwood enters the weekend atop the Big South with 73 swipes on the season, one shy of 2017's total.
•The Lancers are the only squad with three players inside the top eight in the conference in stolen bases.
•Sammy Miller is fifth in the Big South with 18 steals.
•Jawan McAllister is seventh with 14 and Antwaun Tucker is ninth with 13.
•Steven Farkas struck out 12 batters in 6.0 scoreless innings March 9 against Iona and then struck out a program-record 14 against UNC Asheville on April 13. Farkas leads the Big South with 83 strikeouts.
•The Lancers are second in the Big South with 417 as a team in 2018.
•Longwood led the Big South with 511 punchouts in 2017, breaking the previous school D-I record of 440.
•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.
•Tyler Morgan picked up the Big South Pitcher of the Week award on April 16, becoming the 10th Lancer to win a weekly award.
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
4/16/18 Tyler Morgan
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 Presbyterian
•Longwood and Presbyterian played a three-game set in Farmville mid-April of 2017. The Lancers took the first game behind a complete-game gem from
Cody Wager, who struck out 13 and held PC to one unearned run on five hits with no walks issued and
Ryan Shull hit a walk-off single in the ninth as the Lancers won game one, 2-1.
•Presbyterian in 2018 is third in the Big South in batting average as a team (.265) and has a pair of hitters at the top of the league in hitting.
•Jonathan White is atop the Big South in average (.360) and hits (68), and is second in the league in total bases (100). White leads the team with 39 RBI and is second on the team with eight home runs.
•A.J. Priaulx is tied for the league lead with 68 hits and is third in the conference in both total bases (99), and average (.356). Priaulx leads the team with 13 doubles and is second on the team with 39 RBI.
•Nick Wise is fifth in the Big South with nine home runs and is also fifth with 95 total bases on the season. His 21 extra-base hits pace the squad.
•Tanner Chock leads the starters with a 4.63 ERA in 58.1 innings across 10 starts.
•Eric Miles has a 4.67 ERA in 52.0 innings across 18 appearances, five starts.
•Ryan Hendrick has posted a 2.37 ERA and 1-3 record in 17 appearances out of the bullpen, posting 19.0 innings on the year.
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