FARMVILLE, Va. -- The Longwood softball teamreturns to Bank of the James Park on Tuesday to host Norfolk State at 2:30 p.m. The teams met at NSU Softball Field on March 11 when Longwood earned a 11-1 win.
SHORT HOPS
â–ª Seven different players secured hits and
Maggie Hiatt and
Sophia Knock hit home runs against the Spartans to stay unbeaten at 27-0 in the all-time series.
â–ª Freshman center fielder Ava Abromavage batted .500 (4-for-8) at Presbterian last weekend. She posted two RBIs and two runs scored with a .500 slugging percentage and .500 on-base percentage. Abromavage was 3-for-3 with an RBI and run scored in the second game of the Friday doubleheader.
▪ Senior right-hander Maggie Chapin pitched to a 2-0 record with a 2.69 ERA in two starts at Presbyterian. She posted her 15th complete game of the season in a 3-2 win on Saturday. Chapin struck out 11 against five walks, allowing six hits. She also went six innings in the opener, scattering seven hits and six walks while fanning five for a 4-3 victory.
â–ª Longwood leads the Big South in strikeouts per seven innings as a team at 5.59 though games of April 5. Maggie Chapin leads the league individually with 150.
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 Longwood played five teams that advanced to the 2025 NCAA tournament in 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.
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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.
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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).
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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 March 29. 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 fourth in NCAA Division I with 15 complete games, five behind Maya Johnson of Belmont for the national lead. Chapin is also seventh in the country in innings pitched (135 1/3), ninth in strikeouts (150) and 58th in saves (two) through games of April 5.
IN THE ANNALS
Maggie Chapin is currently fifth all-time at Longwood in career strikeouts with 438. She is now 10th all-time for strikeouts in a single season at Longwood with 150, after passing Sydney Gay, who 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 5. She is 13th in all of the NCAA in games started with 88, while being 13th in Division I. She is 28th in career innings pitched at 511 2/3 in all Divisions and 25th in Division I. Chapin is 26th in the country in all Divisions in pitching appearances at 119 and 25th in Divison I. She is also 44th overall in strikeouts per seven innings at 5.99 while ranking 33rd in the category in Division I. Finally, she is 46th in career strikeouts at 438 in all Divisions and 29th in Division I.
LAYING THEM DOWN
Longwood ranks 11th in the NCAA and leads the Big South Conference in sacrifice bunts with 31. South Florida leads the country in the category with 44. Sophia Pisacano is 23rd in the country in sac bunts per game at 0.23, which also leads the Big South. Sarah Terrell ranks 79th nationally and is second in the conference at 0.18.
WE LIKE FREE BASES
Longwood ranks 36th in the NCAA in walks drawn this season with 150 in 43 games. Oklahoma lead the category with 205 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 149 wins in five-plus seasons with the Lancers.
