Longwood Travels to Winston-Salem for Non-Conference Test in Wake Forest

Lancers look to beat an ACC opponent for the first time this season

Game 42-43: Longwood (19-22, 9-6 Big South) vs. Wake Forest (29-13 10-11 ACC)
Date & Time	April 30th\| 1:00 p.m
Location	Winston-Salem, N.C
Notes	Longwood (PDF) \| Big South
Statistics	Longwood (HTML) \| Big South
ACC Network +	Saturday Sunday
Live Stats	Saturday Sunday
Listen	Saturday Sunday
Social Media	@LongwoodLancers \| @LongwoodBase

Lancer Leadoff

Longwood is coming off a 2-2 week where they lost two to Campbell over the weekend and won against Norfolk State and the series finale against the Camels
Wake Forest in the past week were swept at Notre Dame and went 1-1 against Big South opponents High Point and Gardner-Webb
Longwood are 0-3 against the ACC this year
Wake Forest are 1-1 against the Big South in 2022
Michael Tolson is currently second in the Big South in saves with four.
Michael Peterson leads the Big South in stolen bases with 20.
The Lancers currently have the third most hits in the conference as well as third most RBI.
Longwood defensively have turned 36 double plays which is the 14th most in the country.
Wake Forest have 76 home runs which is the seventh most in the country

Matchup History

This weekend matchup is the first time the two sides have met in their respected histories.

Schedule Trend

After the two-game weekend series Longwood have no midweeks planned next week before they host USC Upstate to continue Big South play next weekend

Players To Watch

Michael Tolson is coming off what might've been the best appearance of his career. Tolson went four innings against a potent Campbell offense and surrendered just one walk while earning his conference leading fourth save. Tolson was the Big South relief pitcher of the week for April 18th
Dylan Wilkinson in his last two games has six hits four runs and three RBI. Wilkinson had the best weekend against Big South rival Campbell and brought his batting average from .253 up to .287 in a matter of two games

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