SPARTANBURG, S.C. --Â Coming off of an 11-1 midweek win at Norfolk State, the Longwood softball team travels to Wofford Friday and Saturday for its first-ever meetings with the Terriers in a three-game set at Hope Field. In just its third season of competition, Wofford is 16-4 on the year and has won 14 of its last 17 games overall.
SHORT HOPS
â–ª Maggie Hiatt has hit safely in six of the last seven games, batting .421 (8-for-19) with four homers and 10 RBIs. She has two multiple-hit games in the stretch, including her third career two-homer game against Youngstown State on March 5.
 ▪ Right-hander Maggie Chapin was named Co-Big South Pitcher of the Week Tuesday. Chapin went 3-0 with a 1.85 ERA in four games with three complete games. Over 22 2/3 innings, she struck out 30 and walked 12, surrendering seven runs (six earned). She posted her league-leading ninth, 10th and 11th complete games. The weekly honor is the fourth of her career.
â–ª Freshman center fielder Ava Abromavage posted her second consecutive three-hit game in Wednesday's win at Norfolk State, going 3-for-5 with two RBIs. She was 3-for-3 with two doubles and two more driven in on Sunday in an 8-4 victory over Lafayette at home.
BY THE NUMBERS
5 ▪ Longwood will play five teams that advanced to the 2025 NCAA tournament, including Southeastern Louisiana, Virginia, Virginia Tech, USC Upstate and Florida.
18Â â–ª Longwood beat Mount St. Mary's, 18-10, in five innings, on March 1. It was the most runs the Lancers scored since a 20-4 defeat of St. Francis (Pa.) on Feb. 21, 2013.
6Â â–ª Head coach Dr. Megan Brown has six wins against teams that were either ranked at the time or are part of the Power 4 conferences in her time at Longwood.
20Â â–ª Longwood has played to a 590-423Â (.582) record since becoming Division I eligible in 2007. The Lancers are in their 20th season in Division I in 2026.
LANCERS PICKED THIRD IN BIG SOUTH PRESEASON POLL
 Longwood was selected to finish third in the 2026 Big South preseason poll, the league announced on Jan. 21.
The Lancers received one first-place vote and 30 points in the voting. Radford headed the poll with five first-place votes and 47 points, while USC Upstate was second with the remaining first-place nod and 41 points.
Rounding out the poll was Winthrop in fourth with 29 points, Charleston Southern in fifth with 23, Gardner-Webb in sixth with 14 and Presbyterian with 12.
CHAPIN, KNOCK NAMED PRESEASON ALL-BIG SOUTH
Seniors Maggie Chapin and Sophia Knock were also selected to the preseason all-Big South team.
Chapin went 9-13 with a 4.51 ERA in 107 innings and 26 games in the circle in 2025. Knock batted .226 in 53 games with 10 doubles, six home runs and 20 RBIs. Both have earned all-Big South honors with Knock being named preseason Player of the Year prior to the 2025 season.
It marks the second straight season both players were named to the preseason all-Big South team.
BALTZELL TO THE HALL
Arguably the top offensive player in the history of Longwood softball, Megan Baltzell was announced as part of the six-member 2025 Longwood Athletics Hall of Fame class on Oct. 7. Baltzell's name is synonymous with excellence in the Longwood softball program, and the two-time Big South Player of the Year is a member of the Big South All-Decade Team. She was an NFCA Second Team All-American in 2013, and her named is littered throughout the Longwood softball record books. She was a three-time All-Big South First Team selection in her three years in the Big South, as well. She was also recently named to D1Softball.com's All-Quarter Century Team in the non-Power 4 power hitter category.
A prodigious power hitter, Baltzell's 76 home runs are the most in program history, and she also sits first in hits, RBIs, runs scored, doubles, walks, on-base percentage and slugging percentage. She also holds the top- two spots for home runs in a season (30 in 2013, 27 in 2015), RBIs (78 in 2013, 72 in 2015), and walks (66 in 2015, 44 in 2014).
Baltzell, a 2015 Longwood graduate, helped the Lancers win their first two Big South titles, in 2013 and 2015, and she earned NFCA All-Region honors three times (first team in 2013, second team in 2014 and 2015).
She will be the first softball player at Longwood enshrined in the hall of fame.
CHAPIN TIED FOR NCAA LEAD
Senior right-hander Maggie Chapin is currently tied for the NCAA Division I lead in complete games with 11 through games of March 11. Chapin is tied with lefty Maya Johnson from Belmont and righty Makayla Stephens of Georgia State. Â
CHAPIN AMONG ACTIVE CAREER NCAA LEADERS
Senior right-hander Maggie Chapin currently ranks among the NCAA's active career leaders in several statistical categories through games of March 11. She is 15th in all of the NCAA in games started with 80, while being 14th in Division I. She is 30th in career innings pitched at 462 in all Divisions and 27th in Division I. Chapin is 31st in the country in all Divisions in pitching appearances at 108 and 29th in Divison I. She is also 36th overall in strikeouts per seven innings at 5.85 while ranking 29th in the category in Division I. Finally, she is 43rd in career strikeouts at 386 in all Divisions and 36th in Division I.
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LAYING THEM DOWN
Longwood ranks ninth in the NCAA and leads the Big South Conference in sacrifice bunts with 20. South Florida leads the country in the category with 27. Sophia Pisacano is 15th in the country is sac bunts per game at 0.3, which also leads the Big South.
CLIMBING THE CHARTS
Head coach Dr. Megan Brown moved alone into second place on the all-time wins list at Longwood with the Feb. 27 five-inning 10-1 victory over Youngstown State, passing Loretta Coughlin. Brown now has 143 wins in five-plus seasons with the Lancers.
