Longwood University Athletics

Game 33: Longwood (11-21, 4-14 Big South) vs. Radford (15-14, 9-10 Big South)
Date & Time	April 20, 2021 • 6 p.m.
Location	Farmville, Va. (Buddy Bolding Stadium)
Series Notes	Longwood (PDF) | Radford | Big South
Statistics	Longwood (HTML) | Radford | Big South
Live Stats	Longwood Live Stats
Radio	WVHL
Social Media	@LongwoodLancers | @LongwoodBase

Lancer Leadoff

• Longwood wraps up a nine-game homestand with a midweek home game against Radford. The nine-game homestand was the longest homestand of the season.
• The Lancers are playing Radford for the second of five matchups this season. The two sides will play again at the end of April for a three-game weekend series in Farmville.
• Longwood's offense has had at least 10 hits in six of its past eight games.
• The Lancers have had at least 10 hits 13 times on the season, and Longwood has gone 9-4 in those games.
• The Longwood offense ranks third in the Big South in runs (179), hits (273), RBI (161) and home runs (21).
• Eliot Dix has been one of the top hitters in the Big South, ranking in the top 10 in batting average (.362-5th), on-base percentage (.434-9th), slugging percentage (.574-7th) and RBI (30-T-4th).
• Longwood's pitching staff is third in the Big South in strikeouts with 200 and strikeouts per nine innings with 8.88. The staff has finished in the top three of the league four times in head coach Ryan Mau's six prior seasons at the helm.

Last Time Out

• Longwood racked up 11 hits and plated all five runs with two outs, but Presbyterian won 6-5 in extra innings after a late rally. Eliot Dix and Jack Schnell each had two-out, two run doubles for the Lancers.

By The Numbers

• With 10 homers in the past nine games, Longwood has jumped up to third in the Big South in home runs. The Lancers have hit 21, with Eliot Dix, Cullan Wadsworth and Ricky Jimenez leading the team.
• The team hit a season-high three home runs against Norfolk State after hitting two against Gardner-Webb, the first time in 2021 Longwood has hit multiple home runs in back-to-back games.
• Dix's five home runs lead Longwood, and he is part of a seven-way tie for fifth in the Big South.
• Cullan Wadsworth had his first multi-homer game of his Longwood career against Norfolk State, swatting a two-run and a three-run bomb. He is tied for 12th in the Big South with four.
• Ricky Jimenez became the third Lancer with a multi-homer game this season, smashing two home runs on April 17 in game one against Presbyterian. The junior is tied for 12th in the Big South with four homers.
• Ten players have hit a homer for Longwood.
• Longwood is third in the Big South with 273 base hits. The team has posted a season-high 15 hits twice. The first came against NC Central in a 22-14 win, while the second came in a 7-6 loss to Presbyterian.
• In the 13 games that Longwood has had at least 10 hits, the team has gone 9-4. The lone loss came against Oakland on Feb. 28.
• Longwood has posted at least 10 hits in six of their past eight games.
• The Lancers hold a .255 batting average.
• 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 hold a .357 on-base percentage through 32 games, good for fifth in the Big South.
• As a team, Longwood is fourth in the Big South with 121 walks drawn. In addition, the team is third in the league after being hit by a pitch 52 times.
• Michael Peterson has drawn a team-best 15 walks. He and Cullan Wadsworth are tied for ninth in the lead after being hit by seven pitches.
• As a team, Longwood is tied for second in the Big South in strikeouts (255) and strikeouts looking (72) to continue a trend under head coach Ryan Mau. The Lancers have ranked in the top three of the Big South in strikeouts four times in the previous six seasons
• Longwood topped the Big South in strikeouts in per nine innings in 2020 while finishing second in total strikeouts
• The Lancers have consistently ranked near the top of the Big South in strikeouts. In 2019, the Lancers were fourth with 411 K's. In 2018, the Lancers were third with 468 K's. In 2017, Longwood led the Big South with 511 punchouts in 2017, 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.
• Eliot Dix has mashed in the middle of hte lineup for Longwood in 2021. The freshman ranks in the top 10 in the Big South in batting average (.362-5th), on-base percentage (.434-9th), slugging percentage (.574-7th) and RBI (30-T-4th).
• Dix is coming off a four-game series against Presbyterian on 4/16-17 where he hit .412 (7-17) while driving in eight runs. Of his eight RBI, five came with two outs on the board. He had three multi-hit games and three multi-RBI games.
• The left-handed hitting Dix has had a team-best 11 multi-hit games, including a 4-4 effort on opening day. He also has a team-best seven multi-RBI games.

Scouting Radford

• Longwood and Radford are meeting for the second of five scheduled contests this spring. The two sides played a midweek game at Radford on March 23, with Radford winning 11-3.
• Longwood will host the Highlanders later for a three-game weekend series on April 30 and May 1.
• Radford is coming off of a series win against Winthrop after taking the final two games of the series 11-1 and 6-4 over the weekend. Winthrop won the opening game 9-7 on Friday before Radford swept the doubleheader.
• Radford has won one other series this season, sweeping High Point in their conference series of the season. Otherwise, the team has lost five of six to USC Upstate, split a pair of games with Presbyterian, beaten UNC Asheville once in three tries and dropped a midweek game to Gardner-Webb. A second series against Presbyterian was postponed.
• Offensively, Radford is led by Sean Cheely's .302 batting average. Cheely has a team-best 35 hits, 10 doubles and three triples while tying for the team lead in homers (three) and RBI (18).
• Ten players have at least 10 RBI for Radford, with no player hitting in more than 18. Likewise, nine players have started at least 20 of the team's 29 games.
• Dadvid Bryant has hit three homers while holding a .281 average with a team-best .421 on-base percentage. Straton Podaras has scored a team-leading 22 runs while batting .255.
• On the mound, Greg Duncan (4-0, 3.64 ERA), Ryan Bywaters (2-2, 4.10 ERA) and Vinnie Venturi (1-4, 6.21 ERA) have all logged more than six starts. Hunter Williams (1-2, 3.62 ERA) started the team's last midweek game and took the loss after surrendering four runs in two innings to Gardner-Webb.
• Out of the bullpen, Alex Perkins (1-1, 2.05 ERA, 5 SV) and Bruce Hudson (3-2, 2.62 ERA) have both made a team-leading 12 appearances. Perkins has struck out 27 in 22.0 innings while only giving up six runs on 19 hits and eight walks. Meanwhile, Hudson has fanned 30 in 27.1 innings while giving up 13 runs on 26 hits and 14 walks.
• Derek Domecq (1-0, 5.54 ERA) has also made 10 appearances out of the bullpen, totaling eight strikeouts in 13.0 innings.

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