FARMVILLE, Va. -- Longwood welcomes league-leading Winthrop for a crucial Big South series Friday and Saturday.
Senior day is set for Saturday prior to the 1 p.m., start of the doubleheader. Longwood will honors its for seniors --
Maggie Chapin,
Sophia Knock,
Morgan Strickland and
Kate Westmiller.
SHORT HOPS
▪ The third-place Lancers and Eagles are separated by only two games in the standings at 7-5 and 9-3, respectively, with six games remaining on the conference regular-season slate.
▪ Longwood leads the all-time series with Winthrop, 31-15, but have dropped the last five in the series. The Lancers' last victory over the Eagles came April 14, 2024, a 10-6 win at Bank of the James Park, part of a series sweep that weekend.
▪ Longwood right-hander Maggie Chapin was named Big South Pitcher of the Week on Monday. She pitched to a 2-0 record with a 2.00 ERA with a pair of complete-game victories over Radford last week. Chapin limited the Highlanders to just four hits and four walks with eight strikeouts in a 1-0 win on Friday for her first shutout of the season. The Shawnee, Kan., native followed it surrendering eight hits, four earned runs and five walks with three strikeouts as Longwood walked off Radford, 6-5, to win the series on Saturday. The weekly honor was the second of the season for Chapin. She earned Big South Co-Pitcher of the Week honors on March 10.
BY THE NUMBERS
5 ▪ Longwood played five teams that advanced to the 2025 NCAA tournament in Southeastern Louisiana, Virginia, Virginia Tech, USC Upstate and Florida.
18 ▪ 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.
6 ▪ 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.
4 ▪ Lauren Faulkner scored four runs in the March 23 win at N.C. Central. It was the first time a Lancer did it since Megan Baltzell (March 28, 2015 vs Presbyterian).
CHAPIN NO-HITTER
Senior right-hander Maggie Chapin fired her first career no-hitter as the Lancers beat USC Upstate, 10-1, in five innings March 29. Chapin struck out five, walked four and hit one batter, using 100 pitches for the Lancers' first no-hitter since Sydney Backstrom did it to Gardner-Webb, 7-0, on May 1, 2022 in Farmville. Chapin kept USC Upstate off balance all day, setting the Spartans down in order in the first and third innings.
Longwood has recorded 12 seven-inning no-hitters in program history.
CHAPIN IN NCAA RANKINGS
Longwood right-handed pitcher Maggie Chapin ranks fifth in NCAA Division I with 17 complete games. Chapin is also 10th in the country in innings pitched (149 1/3), 11th in strikeouts (161) and 46th in wins (13) through games of April 15.
IN THE ANNALS
Maggie Chapin is currently fifth all-time at Longwood in career strikeouts with 449. She is now ninth all-time for strikeouts in a single season at Longwood with 161, after passing Sydney Gay (147 in 2017) and Briana Wells (154 in 2010).
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. The ceremony is set for Friday, April 17, at the Joan Perry Brock Center.
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 April 15. She is 14th in all of the NCAA in games started with 90, while being 14th in Division I. She is 27th in career innings pitched at 525 2/3 in all Divisions and 24th in Division I. Chapin is 27th in the country in all Divisions in pitching appearances at 121 and 26th in Division I. She is also 46th overall in strikeouts per seven innings at 5.98 while ranking 33rd in the category in Division I. Finally, she is 34th in career strikeouts at 449 in all Divisions and 27th in Division I.
LAYING THEM DOWN
Longwood ranks 12th in the NCAA and leads the Big South Conference in sacrifice bunts with 35. South Florida leads the country in the category with 51. Sophia Pisacano is 11th in the country in sac bunts per game at 0.25, which also leads the Big South. Sarah Terrell ranks 98th nationally and is second in the conference at 0.16.
WE LIKE FREE BASES
Longwood ranks 44th in the NCAA in walks drawn this season with 163 in 48 games. UCLA leads the category with 229 walks.
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 152 wins in five-plus seasons with the Lancers.
