CLINTON, S.C. -- The
Longwood softball team travels to Presbyterian for a three-game Big South series Friday and Saturday on ESPN+.
SHORT HOPS
▪ Longwood is 36-12 all-time against the Blue Hose since the series began in 2002. Longwood is 26-9 versus PC in the Big South and 19-3 in Clinton, S.C.
â–ª Second baseman Lauren Faulkner was named Big South Freshman of the Week for a second time this season on Monday. She batted .467 with three home runs, one double, nine RBIs and eight runs scored. She knocked in a career-high four runs in a 9-5 game two loss against USC Upstate on Saturday and posted three two-hit games, a 1.133 slugging percentage and .529 on-base percentage for the week. Faulkner became the first Longwood player to score four runs in a game in 11 years in the March 25 13-6 game two win at N.C. Central.
â–ª Junior first baseman Maggie Hiatt batted .588 with two doubles, a home run, two walks and four RBIs last week. She slugged .882 and got on base at a .632 clip. Hiatt tallied multiple hits in four of five games, including a career-high-tying three in both contests at N.C. Central.
â–ª Longwood leads the Big South in strikeouts per seven innings as a team at 5.48 though games of April 1. Maggie Chapin leads the league individually with 134.
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.
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 Wednesday's win at N.C. Central. It was the first time a Lancer did it since Megan Baltzell (March 28, 2015 vs Presbyterian).
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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 on Sunday. Chapin struck out five, walked four and hit one batter, using 100 pitches for the Lancers' first no-hitter since 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.
CHAPIN IN NCAA RANKINGS
Longwood right-handed pitcher Maggie Chapin ranks third in NCAA Division I with 14 complete games, just four behind Maya Johnson of Belmont for the national lead. Chapin is also ninth in the country in innings pitched (122 1/3), 11th in strikeouts (134) and 49th in saves (two) through games of April 1.
IN THE ANNALS
Maggie Chapin is currently fifth all-time at Longwood in career strikeouts with 422. She is 13 from breaking into the all-time top 10 for strikeouts in a single season for the Lancers as Sydney Gay fanned 147 batters in 2017.
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 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 1. She is 15th in all of the NCAA in games started with 86, while being 15th in Division I. She is 28th in career innings pitched at 498 2/3 in all Divisions and 26th in Division I. Chapin is 27th in the country in all Divisions in pitching appearances at 117 and 25th in Divison I. She is also 44th overall in strikeouts per seven innings at 5.92 while ranking 31st in the category in Division I. Finally, she is 41st in career strikeouts at 422 in all Divisions and 32nd in Division I.
LAYING THEM DOWN
Longwood ranks 14th in the NCAA and leads the Big South Conference in sacrifice bunts with 27. South Florida leads the country in the category with 42. Sophia Pisacano is 32nd in the country in sac bunts per game at 0.23, which also leads the Big South.
WE LIKE FREE BASES
Longwood ranks 38th in the NCAA in walks drawn this season with 142 in 40 games. Florida and Oklahoma lead the category with 186 walks apiece.
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 147 wins in five-plus seasons with the Lancers.
HEY, WE KNOW YOU!
Second-year Presbyterian assistant coach Korynna Anderson played in 151 games with 148 starts for Longwood from 2022-24, primarily on the infield. The Los Alamitos, Calif. native was a .264 hitter with 24 doubles, 14 home runs and 69 RBIs before beginning her coaching career in Clinton.
