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Longwood Travels To Buies Creek To Take On Big South Leaders In Campbell

Longwood readies for tough task against the Fighting Camels

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Game 39-41: Longwood (18-20, 8-4 Big South) vs. Campbell (22-13 11-1 Big South) 
Date & Time April 22nd-24th 2022 | 6:00 p.m, 3 p.m, 2 p.m.
Location Buies Creek, N.C
Notes Longwood (PDF)  |  Big South
Statistics Longwood (HTML) |  Big South
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Live Stats Campbell
Social Media @LongwoodLancers | @LongwoodBase

Lancer Leadoff
  • Longwood are coming off a non-conference victory over Norfolk State at the midweek
  • Campbell lost to North Carolina, Chapel Hill in their midweek contest
  • Campbell as a team have 61 homeruns, more than double the next closest team in the Big South and the total is good for 11th in the country
  • Longwood have turned 35 double plays this season, 10 more than last season, first in the Big South and seventh in the country.
  • Against common non-conference opponents NC State, UNC Greensboro, Charlotte, Duke and North Carolina, Campbell is 2-3 while Longwood is 1-6.
  • Friday's contest between pitching ace's Andrew Potojecki and Thomas Harrington will be a contest between two pitchers in the top 12 in wins. Harrington has eight which leads the country and Potojecki has six which is 12th in the nation.
  • Both Longwood and Campbell have two players in the top 10 in the conference in batting average. Dix and Schnell for Longwood and Neto and Pierson for Campbell • Hunter Gilliam has been leading the conference in home runs and RBI since week one and the trend continues going into the weekend..
MATCHUP HISTORY
  • Longwood is currently 8-23 against Campbell and on a seven game losing streak.
  • The Lancers have won just three of their last 25 meetings against the Camels and one of their last 12
PROBABLE PITCHERS
  • Andrew Potojecki continues to be the Friday starter for Longwood. Potojecki has a 3.76 ERA with a 1.35 WHIP and a 6-2 record on the year. Potojecki has a career high and team high 55 innings pitched and has struck out 35 batters this season
  • Freshman southpaw Kevin Warunek will get another chance as the Saturday starter. Warunek picked up his first loss of the season last week, but still has a 3-1 record and a 4.24 ERA to go along with 40 innings pitched for the Freshman.
  • Andrew Melnyk will wrap up the weekend for the Lancers after picking up the win last weekend against Presbyterian. Melnyk has a 7.23 ERA but two of his last four outings have resulted in quality starts.
PLAYERS TO WATCH
  • Gregory Ryan is coming off of a week where he had an on base percentage of .632 and a slugging percentage of .833. Ryan also recorded five hits and five RBI last week and looks to continue the hot streak this week
  • Logan Berrier made one appearance on Sunday against Presbyterian and was lights out. Berrier went three innings and struck out three Blue Hose batters, while he surrendered just one hit
  • Jack Schnell currently has a team high seven game hit streak which is good for the third longest on the team this season. Schnell is batting .341 on the season and has a team leading 12 doubles and is second on the team in RBI with 29
Schedule Trend
  • Following the weekend series against Campbell Longwood has a week off of conference play starting with a midweek matchup with George Mason on Tuesday


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Players Mentioned

Logan Berrier

#0 Logan Berrier

RHP
6' 1"
Freshman
R/R
Hunter Gilliam

#4 Hunter Gilliam

1B
6' 2"
Sophomore
R/R
Andrew Melnyk

#6 Andrew Melnyk

LHP
6' 6"
Sophomore
L/L
Andrew Potojecki

#17 Andrew Potojecki

RHP
6' 0"
Freshman
R/R
Jack Schnell

#32 Jack Schnell

OF
5' 10"
Junior
L/L
Gregory Ryan, Jr.

#24 Gregory Ryan, Jr.

INF
6' 2"
Redshirt Junior
R/R
Kevin Warunek

#38 Kevin Warunek

LHP
6' 4"
Freshman
L/L

Players Mentioned

Logan Berrier

#0 Logan Berrier

6' 1"
Freshman
R/R
RHP
Hunter Gilliam

#4 Hunter Gilliam

6' 2"
Sophomore
R/R
1B
Andrew Melnyk

#6 Andrew Melnyk

6' 6"
Sophomore
L/L
LHP
Andrew Potojecki

#17 Andrew Potojecki

6' 0"
Freshman
R/R
RHP
Jack Schnell

#32 Jack Schnell

5' 10"
Junior
L/L
OF
Gregory Ryan, Jr.

#24 Gregory Ryan, Jr.

6' 2"
Redshirt Junior
R/R
INF
Kevin Warunek

#38 Kevin Warunek

6' 4"
Freshman
L/L
LHP