Longwood Travels To Charlottesville For Midweek Matchup With 12th Ranked Virginia

Lancers finish non-conference play in Charlottesville

Game 47: Longwood (19-27, 9-9 Big South) vs. Virginia (33-10 14-10 ACC)
Date & Time	May 11th \| 6:00 p.m.
Location	Charlottesville, Va.
Notes	Longwood (PDF) \| Big South
Statistics	Longwood (HTML) \| Big South
Live Stats	Virginia
Watch	Accnx
Social Media	@LongwoodLancers \| @LongwoodBase

Lancer Leadoff

Longwood are coming off a five game skid after dropping two losses to Wake Forest and three to USC Upstate
Virginia beat VCU last week in a midweek matchup and the prior weekend lost two of three at Virginia Tech
Virginia enter the contest with the 3rd best batting average in the country with at .320
Hunter Gilliam hit two home-runs for Longwood over the weekend to bring his season total up to 12. That's good for second in the Big South and is nearly double his career total prior to this season (7)
The Cavaliers have nine batters that have appeared in at least 20 games with a BA of .300 or higher. This includes two with batting averages above .350
Jake Gelof leads Virginia's offense with a .375 average and 17 HR, good for 15th in the country. Gelof is also fourth in the country in RBI with 67

Matchup History

Longwood have never beaten Virginia as the Cavaliers have a perfect 10-0 record against Longwood

Schedule Trend

After the midweek matchup with UVA, Longwood continues Big South play with a weekend series at Radford

Players To Watch

Hunter Gilliam quietly had a great weekend against USC Upstate and is riding a five game hitting streak. Gilliam hit two solo home runs over the series and is batting .421 over his last five games.
Hayden Harris is also coming off of a weekend that saw him bat .428 and reach base another three times via base on balls.

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