Saturday • 4:15 p.m.
LWU: Jr. RHP
Cody Boydstun (2-6, 6.95 ERA)
GWU: Sr. RHP Bradley Hallman (5-2, 3.65 ERA)
Sunday • 12 p.m. (Game One)
LWU: So. RHP
Tyler Morgan (3-3, 5.22 ERA)
GWU: TBA
Sunday • (Game Two)
LWU: Sr. RHP
Zach Potojecki (1-2, 12.38 ERA)
GWU: TBA
Leading Off
•The series has been altered twice with postponements Thursday and Friday, going from a Thursday through Saturday series to now a single game Saturday and doubleheader Sunday. Senior Day will take place before the start of Sunday's action.
•The Lancers enter their final weekend of conference play seventh in the Big South, tied with Charleston Southern and Presbyterian with an 8-16 conference record.
•Since the Lancers lost the season series to each Charleston Southern and Presbyterian both teams hold a tiebreaker on Longwood in the standings.
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Justin Mitchell has reached in 22 straight games, the longest of his career.
Last Time Out
•Longwood was to play JMU Tuesday, but the game was canceled due to inclement weather.
•In 2018 Longwood has had three cancellations and six series altered due to weather, including this weekend.
•The last time out Longwood put together a complete performance at Presbyterian, besting the Blue Hose 9-3.
Eric Crain hit his first homer and was one of four Lancers with multi-hit games.
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's is one of just three shutouts and one of seven complete games in the Big South this year.
•Longwood is on a home run kick as of late with 18 of its 20 home runs on the season coming in the last 30 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 11 quality starts on the season with Cody Boydstun posting fivein 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 .384 (33-for-86) when leading off a frame.
•Miller owns a team-best .291 average, is seventh in the Big South with 38 walks drawn, and fourth with 19 steals. Miller drew five walks April 4 against George Mason, tied for the program record for walks in a single game.
•Steven Farkas and Cody Boydstun join Winthrop's Zach Peek and Nate Pawelczyk as the only teammates each inside the top five in the Big South in innings pitched.
•Farkas is fourth in the league with 74.1 IP and Boydstun is fifth with 68.2 IP.
•Longwood enters the week atop the Big South with 79 swipes on the season, five more than the 2017 total.
•Sammy Miller is fourth in the Big South with 19 steals.
•Antwaun Tucker is sixth with 17 and Jawan McAllister is ninth with 14.
•Tucker stole four bases at Presbyterian on May 13, setting a new career high in steals.
•The Lancers are second in the Big South with 438 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 Gardner-Webb
•Longwood and Gardner-Webb played a three-game set in Boiling Springs, N.C., mid-April of 2017. The Lancers lost the first two games 4-2 and 4-3 in 10 innings before Gardner-Webb took the final game of the series by a 7-2 final.
•As a team Gardner-Webb is second in the conference with a .278 batting average and is second in the league in slugging (.421), hits (475), home runs (49), and total bases (718).
•Corey Howard paces the team with a .359 batting average, which leads the Big South. Howard is tied for fourth in the conference with 14 doubles, one behind the three-way tie for the conference lead.
•Chris Clary is second on the squad with a .336 average and is also second on the team with eight home runs, behind Chandler Redmond's 14.
•Mickey Dugan (.324) and Mason Fox (.311) are also each hitting above .300 on the season.
•Redmond is second in the Big South with his 14 home runs and is second in the conference with 50 RBI.
•Bradley Hallman has the best ERA among team qualifiers with a 3.65 ERA in 86.1 innings, most in the league. Hallman has posted a 5-2 record in 14 appearances, 13 starts, and has struck out 61.
•Jarrett Thompson is tied for first in the Big South with seven saves, while Wil Sellers is second on the team with five.
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