Longwood University Athletics

Game 5: Longwood (1-3) at NC State (3-0)
Date	Tuesday, Feb. 18
Time	3 p.m.
Location	Raleigh, N.C.
Game Notes	Longwood (PDF) | NC State
Season Stats	Longwood (HTML) | NC State (PDF)
Live Stats	Live Stats
TV (Saturday)	ACCNX
Social Media	@LongwoodBASE | @LongwoodLancers

Lancer Leadoff

• Longwood heads out for its first road test of the season with a trip to NC State. 
• The Lancers and NC State haven't played since a three-game series in 2015. NC State swept a tight series.
• Longwood put up 15 hits twice in four games to open the season.
• Longwood has its first three weekend series at home, the first time it has done so under Coach Mau and first time since 2013 when it hosted Fairfield, Buffalo and Canisius on consecutive weekends.
• Under head coach Ryan Mau, the Lancers have consistently ranked near the top of the Big South in strikeouts. After opening weekend in 2020, Longwood is third in the Big South with 36 strikeouts. In 2019, the Lancers were fourth with 411 and third with 468 K's in 2018.In 2017, Longwood led the Big South with 511 punchouts, breaking the school's D-I record of 440.  That season, Longwood was also third in the nation with 9.9 strikeouts per nine innings. The Lancers were fifth in the Big South in 2016 with 404 K's and third in 2015 with 440 K's.

By The Numbers

• Longwood picked up a pair of triples on opening weekend, with Cullan Wadsworth and Antwaun Tucker each nabbing three-baggers on opening day. 
• Longwood hadn't had two triples in a game since April 14, 2018 against UNC Asheville.
• For Tucker, the triple is the 13th of his Longwood career. He is now tied for fourth all time with Rhett Pfitzner '97. Scott Hueston '97 is the all-time triples leader with 20.
• Jack Schnell picked up where he left off in 2019 after closing his sophomore season on a tear. The junior leads Longwood with a .462 batting average and five RBI to go with two doubles and three walks. 
• As a sophomore, Schnell hit .373 (4-11) over the final 22 games of 2019. In that stretch, the left-handed slugger hit both of his home runs, including a late two-run blast that put Longwood up 7-6 at High Point on 4/15 before High Point rallied to walk off the Lancers.
• Schnell broke out with a huge performance against Charleston Southern on April 6. The sophomore went 4-5 at the plate for the day. In game two of the doubleheader, he either scored or drove in five of the team's seven runs (four RBI, one run scored) while finishing a home run short of the cycle.
• Schnell hit .625 against CSU (5-8) and hit safely in all three games.
• Longwood is second in the Big South with seven steals on the season. The Lancers are also second in steal efficiency after going 7 for 9 on stolen base attempts.
• Antwaun Tucker is tied for first in the Big South and leads Longwood with three stolen bases and is one of four players with a stolen bag. 
• Tucker has only been caught stealing nine times in his Longwood career. The senior is 52-61 on steal attempts as a Lancer.

Last Time Out

• Longwood tied a season high with 15 hits and piled up 11 runs to down Purdue Fort Wayne 11-8. It was the second time in four games Longwood had put up 11 hits.
• Ricky Jimenez led the way by going 4 for 5 at the plate with three runs scored, two doubles and two RBI. The junior was one of five players with multiple hits in the game for Longwood
• Jack Schnell, Andrew Gorham, Hunter Gilliam and Michael Peterson each had two hits, with Schnell knocking in a team-best three runs. Peterson scored three times while also stealing a pair of bases.
• John Gregory earned the win in 3.2 innings of relief, and Nick Fuchs picked up the second save of his Longwood career by striking out six across 3.1 innings.

Scouting NC State

• Longwood and NC State will meet for the first time since a three-game series in 2015. In that series, NC State swept Longwood 3-2, 6-1, 6-3. NC State also won the first ever matchup between the two teams 18-4 in 2006.
• In 2019, NC State climbed as high as number one in the rankings in the middle of the season. The Wolfpack lost in the ACC Championship semifinal to Georgia Tech before entering the NCAA regional as the second seed at the Greenville regional. Campbell and East Carolina knocked NC State out of the regional.
• NC State opened 2020 with a three-game sweep of James Madison on opening weekend. The Wolfpack won 4-0, 9-6 and 11-2 to sweep the Dukes. The nonconference sweep was NC State's sixth straight nonconference series sweep dating back to 2018 and the teams 16th straight nonconference series win, dating back to 2012. 
• Sophomore infielder Devonte Brown had a career high 4 RBI in the series finale to secure the sweep, and he is second on the team with 5 RBI while posting a .583 batting average. 
• Jonny Butler leads NC State with 6 RBI while posting a .538 average, and he is tied with Brown with a team-best 7 hits. Butler also has one of the team's two home runs. 
• Eight players have recorded an RBI for NC State through the first three games.
• David Harrison, NC State's projected starter, has yet to pitch in 2020. In 2019 as a sophomore, Harrison appeared primarily as a reliever with 18 relief appearances and three starts. He had his longest outing of 3.1 innings against Notre Dame on April 26, and he struck out a season high five against Radford on May 5. In 12 of his 21 appearances, Harrison recorded at least four outs.

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