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Longwood Set For Doubleheader Against Norfolk State

Longwood Set For Doubleheader Against Norfolk State

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Games 13-14: Longwood (6-6, 1-2 Big South) at Norfolk State (2-9, 0-0 MEAC)
Date & Time Game 1: March 14, 2021 • 1 p.m.
Game 2: March 14, 2021 •  4:30 p.m.
Location Norfolk, Va. (Marty L. Miller Field)
Series Notes Longwood (PDF) | Norfolk State
Statistics Longwood (HTML) | Norfolk State | Big South
Video Games 1 & 2: Spartan Sports Network
Live Stats Norfolk State Live Stats
Social Media @LongwoodLancers | @LongwoodBase

Lancer Leadoff
  • Longwood takes on Norfolk State with its series against Presbyterian postponed due to COVID-19 concerns within the Blue Hose program.
  • The Lancers will be the home team in the doubleheader, with the game being in Norfolk.
  • Longwood was in the midst of an eight-game road swing to open March, with their next home game coming against Big South foe Winthrop on March 19.
  • Longwood and Norfolk State met earlier in the week, with the Lancers winning the matchup 7-4 on Tuesday afternoon in Norfolk.
  • Longwood comes into the weekend second in the Big South in hits with 104 combined base knocks as a team.
  • The Lancers rank third in the Big South in runs, totaling 75 on the season. Jack Schnell and Cullan Wadsworth are all tied for the team lead with 11 apiece, and Hunter Gilliam has 10
  • Already ranked third in strikeouts this year, Longwood's pitching staff has ranked at or near the top of the Big South in strikeouts, finishing in the top three of the league four times in head coach Ryan Mau's six seasons at the helm.
Last Time Out By The Numbers
  • Longwood is second in the Big South with 104 base hits and has racked up double digit hits in five of its 12 games this season. The team's season high came against NC Central, when they knocked out 15 hits. In 2020, the team had at least 10 hits eight times in 17 games. In 2019, the team didn't notch 10 hits or more until its 13th game. 
  • The Lancers hold a .255 batting average as a team. The team has posted 63 RBI, third in the league, while scoring 75 runs, also third in the league.
  • Longwood's offense tied for third in the Big South with 150 hits in 2020 while ranking fourth in hits per game with 8.8. The team was also third in RBI with 77.
  • The Lancers rank third in the Big South with a .374 on-base percentage thanks to 51 walks drawn, ranking second in the league. In addition, batters have been hit by a pitch 30 times, tops in the Big South.
  • Michael Peterson has been a huge driver of that, tying for second in the Big South in both walks drawn (11) and hit by pitches (six).
  • Schnell is tied for sixth in the conference with seven walks drawn. Nate Blakeney has drawn six for Longwood.
  • The Lancers are third in the Big South with 75 runs scored thanks to a trio of players who have all scored double digit runs: Jack Schnell, Hunter Gilliam and Cullan Wadsworth.
  • Schnell and Wadsworth are tied for fifth in the league with 11 runs scored. Schnell scored a career best five against NC Central.
  • Gilliam is tied for seventh in the Big South with 10 runs scored.
  • The Lancers rank second in the Big South with 18 stolen bases and are third with four triples.
  • Michael Peterson has showed off his wheels with five stolen bases, good for second in the Big South, for a Longwood squad that has nabbed 18 steals in 23 attempts.
  • Hunter Gilliam is tied for the Big South lead with two triples after hitting an RBI triple at Norfolk State on March 12. He also knocked a triple on opening weekend, one of three different Lancers to do so down at The Citadel. Andrew Gorham and Drayven Kowalski each poked their first triples in a Lancer uniform that weekend.
Scouting Norfolk State 
  • Longwood and Norfolk State meet again for a doubleheader after playing a midweek matchup. The two sides are scheduled to meet one last time when Norfolk State travels to Farmville on April 6.
  • Norfolk State has lost four straight, with the most recent being a loss to Longwood after playing back-to-back three-game series against NC Central over two straight weekends. The Spartans opened the season against Old Dominion.
  • The Spartans won the first series with NC Central, but NC Central swept Norfolk State in a three-game series the following weekend. At the beginning of the season, Old Dominion swept Norfolk State in four straight.
  • On offense, Alsander Womack was the MEAC Preseason Player of the Year for a second straight season, and the senior has already earned a MEAC Player of the Week selection after the team won two of three against NC Central in February.
  • Womack is batting .333 on the season and has hit one of the team's four homers while also driving in seven runs and scoring a team-best 13 times. He also has a team-best 13 hits through 11 games.
  • Cody Donnell leads the team with a .500 batting average on 10 at bats, while Dionte Brown holds a .391 average through eight games played, six starts. Korey Singh is the team's RBI leader with 11, and he has hit a pair of home runs as well.
  • Projected starter Noah Wiggins holds an 8.64 ERA across three appearances, two starts. The freshman right-hander has struck out nine in 8.1 innings while walking 10 and giving up eight runs, all earned. Opponents hit .233 against him.
  • The other projected starter, senior right-hander Danny Hosley, has posted a 4.82 ERA over 9.1 innings. He has struck out nine without giving up a walk, giving up five runs, all earned, on 10 hits.
  • Out of the bullpen, Nolan Manzer holds a 0.00 ERA over two appearances covering 3.1 innings, surrendering a pair of unearned runs while striking out four without allowing a hit. James Deloatch has struck out 11 across three relief appearances in 9.1 innings.

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