The First Pitch:
• Longwood heads to Richmond to take on the Spiders in the first of two meetings between the two teams this season before hosting UMass Lowell on Wednesday.
• The Lancers will play a return game against Richmond in Farmville in April, making it the third straight season and fourth time in five years the two have matched up in a midweek home-and-home. The only time in that stretch they didn't was in 2022.
• The Lancers will start
Sam DiLella on the mound, and DiLella will be making his third appearance of the season after coming on in relief against both Penn State and Wright State.
• Richmond sends graduate right-hander Gerry Peacock to the bump for his third appearance of the season.
Previous Series
• The Lancers went 1-2 at the DMV Classic over the weekend, with a 6-4 win over Towson before losses against George Mason and Georgetown.
• In the win, Guillermo Garcia, Jr. got the win while the defense stayed clean behind him, and
Wyatt Bunch recorded the save.
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Bentley Yeatts hit his first collegiate home runs, and
James Nelson drove in three runs in the win as well.
• In the matchup against a streaking George Mason side, the Patriots used early runs to power past Longwood 18-0 in seven innings.
• Georgetown did the same thing on Sunday afternoon with four runs in the first inning that led to a 10-0 win in seven innings.
Around The Bases:
• Longwood went 2-2 last week, with wins over Towson and Boston College (who took two of three from Virginia over the weekend to open ACC play).
• The Lancers will play two midweek games for the first and only time this season before heading out to play at East Tennessee State.
• This season, the Lancers have put up at least 10 hits seven times in 15 games.
• The team is 3-4 when doing so.
• Longwood has also scored at least 10 runs in three games and is 2-1 in such contests.
• The Lancers also are 14th nationally with 39 stolen bases, which ranks second in the Big South behind Gardner-Webb, who has 40.
• Longwood leads the Big South in steals per game at 2.60.
• Tre Keels is 10th nationally, and second in the league, with 13 stolen bases, and he is one behind the league leader, Lawson Knight, who has 14.
• Keels is a perfect 13-13 on steal attempts this season.
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Mac Tufts is ninth in the Big South with six steals.
• The Lancers have had nine players steal multiple bases this season.
• The Lancers are an impressive 39-44 (.886 success percentage).
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James Nelson, meanwhile, ranks seventh in the Big South in batting average at .408.
• He is fourth in the league with seven doubles and leads the Lancers in doubles.
• His slugging percentage of .714 ranks seventh in the Big South.
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Mac Tufts was the Big South Freshman of the Week, the conference announced on March 2, after he batted .500 (8-16) the prior week. He had four doubles as well.
SERIES HISTORY
All-Time Record vs. Richmond 6-18
Under Coach Noe 0-0
Current Streak W1
First Meeting L 10-0, 1980
Last Meeting W 17-5, 4/16/2024
All-Time Record vs. UMass Lowell 0-0
Under Coach Noe 0-0
Current Streak
First Meeting
Last Meeting
STATS COMPARISON
LWU UR UML
2025 Record 4-11 14-2 4-9
Conference 0-0 0-0 0-0
Batting Average .245 .335 .299
Opp. Batting Average .337 .232 .353
Hits 114 172 135
Hits allowed 175 112 160
Runs 85 130 86
Opposing runs 156 59 121
Runs per game 5.7 8.1 6.6
Doubles 31 40 36
Opposing doubles 33 14 32
Triples 4 5 2
Opposing triples 3 1 2
Home Runs 5 16 13
Opposing home runs 21 14 15
RBI 66 115 80
OBP .353 .421 .400
SLG .361 .526 .473
SB-ATT 39-44 35-39 9-14
Opposing SB-ATT 30-39 11-17 27-31
Walks drawn 59 62 56
Walks Allowed 79 54 49
Strikeouts 134 93 110
Opposing Strikeouts 104 107 93
Earned run average 8.57 3.64 9.62
Innings pitched 125 131 105.2
Earned runs allowed 119 53 113
FLD% .949 .980 .972
Errors 28 11 12
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