The First Pitch:
• Longwood takes on High Point in a three-game series that has been shifted to a doubleheader on Saturday followed by a single game on Sunday due to expected inclement weather.
• Saturday, Pippy's Dog House will be present at Buddy Bolding Stadium.
• The Lancers are tied for fifth in the Big South standings, which are incredibly tight.
• Two games separate third through ninth in the league.
• Longwood is in the midst of a stretch where it plays the top two teams in the league. The Lancers played at Presbyterian, who is second, last weekend before hosting top dog High Point this weekend.
• High Point is 7-2 in Big South play and is the first team to 20+ wins overall in the league.
Previous Series
• Longwood fell 8-2 in a midweek matchup against James Madison.
• It was the first time the two teams had played since 2022.
• JMU plated four runs in the first three innings, and the Dukes pitching staff struck out 14 Lancers on the night.
• JMU added three runs in the fifth and sixth before Longwood finally got on the board.
• The Lancers had base runners in every inning after the fifth, but JMU evaded the big hit that could snowball an inning.
• Longwood got on the board in the eighth inning behind three straight two-out singles, with
Casey Gibbs driving home the run.
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Jae'dan Carter added an RBI single in the ninth, but JMU's staff closed it out.
Around The Bases:
• Longwood is in a stretch that sees it play four home games followed by four road games on a weekly basis for the next few weeks.
• The Lancers are on the road at William & Mary next week before heading to Charleston Southern next weekend.
• With the matchup against High Point, Longwood will play its sixth opponent in the top 100 of the RPI after having also played Penn State, Charlotte, Boston College, Richmond and East Tennessee State.
• Matchups still remain against USC Upstate and Richmond as well.
• Longwood has a win over a top 100 team with a 13-12 walkoff over Boston College this season.
• The Lancers are one of six Big South teams with a win over a Power 4 opponent this year. Only USC Upstate has multiple Power 4 wins, as Longwood, High Point, Presbyterian, Radford and Winthrop have one apiece.
• The Lancers rank fifth in the Big South with a .301 batting average in league play and second in on-base percentage at .439.
• Longwood is third in the Big South in drawn walks plus hit-by-pitch, with a combined 80 free passes either coming on ball four or by wearing the ball, in nine conference games.
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Bentley Yeatts is 13th in the Big South in batting average in conference play (.394).
James Nelson is tied for 14th (.385).
• Nelson is tied for seventh in the Big South with 13 RBI in conference play. His 34 on the season are tied for sixth overall in the Big South.
• On the mound, Guillermo Garcia is fifth in the Big South with 38 strikeouts, and he is third in innings pitched at 45.2.
SERIES HISTORY
All-Time Record vs. HPU 23-24
Under Coach Noe 0-0
Current Streak W 1
First Meeting L 10-7 in 1995
Last Meeting W 12-5 on 4/14/2024
• The two teams first met in 1995 and split a two-game series that year.
• Last season, HPU won the series, although the Lancers took the series finale to avoid the sweep.
Jared Glinski and
Drew Camp combined for six of the team's 15 hits, with Camp also driving in four runs.
Hayden Harris also had three RBI in the 12-5 win.
• Longwood swept the season series in 2023 and also took two of three in 2022.
STATS COMPARISON
LWU HPU
2025 Record 9-24 22-11
Conference 4-5 7-2
Batting Average .247 .321
Opp. Batting Average .330 .273
Hits 254 363
Hits allowed 380 307
Runs 199 321
Opposing runs 333 216
Runs per game 6 9.7
Doubles 60 72
Opposing doubles 71 70
Triples 9 5
Opposing triples 10 2
Home Runs 16 71
Opposing home runs 43 43
RBI 172 298
OBP .374 .436
SLG .369 .582
SB-ATT 94-111 43-62
Opposing SB-ATT 54-68 16-26
Walks drawn 157 193
Walks Allowed 179 141
Strikeouts 307 281
Opposing Strikeouts 232 245
Earned run average 8.93 6.06
Innings pitched 274 285
Earned runs allowed 272 192
FLD% .956 .972
Errors 51 34
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