The First Pitch:
• Longwood plays its final three games of the season when it hosts Radford at Buddy Bolding Stadium.
• Pippy's Dog House will be present on Thursday night.
• The Lancers are playing their first weekend series since the first few days in May, when the team played against USC Upstate on the road.
• It is the team's first home game since a three-game series against Winthrop, April 25-27.
• The Lancers have scored at least six runs in 29 games this season, and the team has gone 11-18 in such contests. The team has broken double figures 10 times.
• Longwood takes on a Radford side coming off a weekend sweep of Winthrop. Radford's midweek game against Queens was cancelled.
Previous Game
• Longwood fell 8-4 on the road at UNC Greensboro in the team's final midweek game of the season on Tuesday.
• The game was the fifth and final game of a five-game road swing, Longwood's longest road swing of the season.
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James Nelson had a great day for the Lancers, driving in all four runs for the team. It was his team-leading 13th game with multiple RBI.
• Nelson staked Longwood to a 3-0 lead in the top of the first with a three-run home run, but UNCG took the lead for good in the middle innings.
• It was Nelson's seventh home run of the season. He is tied for second on the team in home runs.
• The Spartans ran the lead to 8-3 before Nelson cut it to 8-4 with an RBI single in the eighth inning.
Around The Bases:
• Longwood returns home to host Radford to close the season after ending the year on the road at Radford in 2024.
• In Big South play, Longwood ranks fifth in the league in on base percentage (.411), and the Lancers are fourth in the league in drawn walks (120).
• The Lancers are also fourth in league play in slugging percentage (.479). The team leads the Big South in triples in Big South games with eight, and fifth in doubles and sixth in home runs.
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Myles Webb ranks fifth in slugging percentage across 21 league games at .762. He is tied for sixth with 30 RBI in that same slate, and all seven of his homers this season are in Big South contests.
• Webb also leads the Big South with 12 stolen bases in conference action, and he is third on the season overall with 22.
• Tre Keels leads the Big South on the whole with 33 stolen bases, and he has stolen nine in conference play.
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Jae'dan Carter leads the team with 44 walks, which is third in the Big South and 39th nationally. He is currently second in team history, but he is one shy of Justin Mitchell's record of 45, set in 2018.
• In Big South play, Carter boasts a .510 on base percentage that is good for seventh in the league.
• Carter is third in the Big South with those 43 walks.
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Mac Tufts is also one HBP shy of tying the team record, set by Brian Bassett at 21 in 1995.
• Tuft's 20 HBP is tied for fourth in the Big South.
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James Nelson has 15 doubles, and he is two away from tying for 10th in a single season in program history. His 15 doubles are tied for ninth in the Big South.
SERIES HISTORY
All-Time Record vs. Radford 25-25
Under Coach Noe 0-0
Current Streak W1
First Meeting W 11-1 in 1985
Last Meeting W 12-11 (11 inn.) 5/17/2024
• Longwood took the series last season on the road, winning the first and third games of the series.
• In the series finale, Longwood won 12-11 in 11 innings.
James Nelson drove in the go-ahead run in the top of the 11th with an RBI double, and
Dominick D'Ercole earned the win on teh mound.
• Radford won the middle game 6-4 after the Lancers took the opener 7-6. The three games were decided by a total of four runs.
• Guillermo Garcia, Jr. got the win in the opener by throwing the final 2.2 innings.
STATS COMPARISON
LWU RAD
2025 Record 11-38 27-23
Conference 5-16 13-8
Batting Average .254 .293
Opp. Batting Average .333 .304
Hits 397 520
Hits allowed 575 537
Runs 310 364
Opposing runs 537 404
Runs per game 6.3 7.3
Doubles 88 102
Opposing doubles 116 119
Triples 14 16
Opposing triples 14 11
Home Runs 34 40
Opposing home runs 75 76
RBI 270 329
OBP .379 .379
SLG .393 .436
SB-ATT 132-159 86-107
Opposing SB-ATT 83-102 95-126
Walks drawn 244 183
Walks Allowed 284 243
Strikeouts 460 379
Opposing Strikeouts 358 355
Earned run average 9.83 7.55
Innings pitched 408.1 441
Earned runs allowed 446 370
FLD% .951 .966
Errors 85 64
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