The First Pitch:
• Longwood opens up a four-game road swing with a midweek trip to William & Mary before a three-game series at Charleston Southern.
• The Lancers have four midweek games left in the regular season along with four Big South weekends.
• This week is unique, as Longwood will play on Tuesday and then Thursday-Saturday on Easter weekend.
• The Big South standings are incredibly tight. Four teams are tied for fourth at 5-7 in Big South play, and Longwood is one game back at 4-8 in conference action.
• The Lancers scored double digit runs in back-to-back games over the weekend.
• William & Mary is tied for second in the CAA standings at 7-5.
Previous Series
• Longwood fell in a slugfest of a three-game series against High Point over the weekend.
• HPU, the preseason Big South favorite, won 9-7, 19-11 and 19-10 over the Lancers as the two teams combined 75 runs in the three-game series.
• The opening game was tight throughout, and the Lancers put the tying run at second in the ninth inning, but a strikeout ended the comeback effort.
• In the second game, three big innings powered HPU, although Longwood rallied to close the gap late in the contest.
• In the series finale, the two offense piled up 37 combined hits while HPU used six home runs to muscle past Longwood.
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Carter Newman batted better than .500 on the weekend to lead Longwood.
Around The Bases:
• Longwood scored at least 10 runs in a game in back-to-back games for the second time this season after scoring 11 runs and then 10 against High Point in the final two games of the series.
• The Lancers also had at least 10 hits twice in the three-game series, the second time the team has managed it after doing so in all three games at UNC Asheville.
• In Big South play, the Lancer offense ranks fourth in batting average at .306, and the team is also fourth in runs with 105.
• Longwood also leads the league in steals with 33 in Big South play, which tracks with the regular season as a whole where the Lancers have 100 stolen bases.
• The 100 stolen bases ranks sixth in the nation.
• In addition, Longwood ranks third in the Big South with a .448 on-base percentage in 12 conference games.
• That is in large part because Longwood leads the conference with 85 walks while ranking second with 28 hit by pitches.
• The Lancers are also third in the league with 29 doubles.
• On the season as a whole, Longwood is fourth with 69 doubles, and
James Nelson has a team-high 15 (second) while
Myles Webb has 10, which is tied for ninth.
• Tre Keels has hit nearly half of Longwood's home runs, with eight, which is tied for eighth in the league.
• Keels also has swiped 25 bases, good for one-quarter of Longwood's total as a team and a mark that ranks 13th natinoally and first in the league.
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Myles Webb (15 SB) is fourth, and
Mac Tufts (13 SB) is fifth.
SERIES HISTORY
All-Time Record vs. W&M 10-21
Under Coach Noe 0-0
Current Streak L 1
First Meeting W 11-6 in 1982
Last Meeting L 20-6 on 3/13/2024
• Longwood and William & Mary meet for the second time in as many seasons after not playing since 2015.
• W&M won with an offensive explosion at Buddy Bolding Stadium in 2024, taking the game 20-6 behind five home runs.
• Three big innings keyed the win.
• Prior to that, Longwood had won back-to-back games in 2014 and 2015.
• Since Longwood transitioned to the Division I level, the longest streak has been eight straight wins by William & Mary from 2007-2010.
STATS COMPARISON
LWU W&M
2025 Record 9-27 13-22
Conference 4-8 7-5
Batting Average .254 .311
Opp. Batting Average .334 .315
Hits 288 374
Hits allowed 426 385
Runs 227 261
Opposing runs 380 363
Runs per game 6.3 7.5
Doubles 69 65
Opposing doubles 86 78
Triples 11 11
Opposing triples 12 2
Home Runs 18 33
Opposing home runs 51 54
RBI 196 243
OBP .384 .394
SLG .381 .466
SB-ATT 100-120 43-56
Opposing SB-ATT 60-75 84-105
Walks drawn 185 131
Walks Allowed 200 228
Strikeouts 332 247
Opposing Strikeouts 259 282
Earned run average 9.42 9.75
Innings pitched 301 288
Earned runs allowed 315 312
FLD% .956 .934
Errors 56 80
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