First Pitch

•   Longwood wraps up a four-game homestand with a three-game homestand against UNC Asheville, the first of back-to-back weekends at home in Big South play.
•   The Lancers are 130th in the nation in RPI, one of six teams in the Big South in the top 150 nationally.
•   Longwood is 13-3 at home, with the team's three losses by a combined four runs (and one in extra innings).
•   The Lancers are tied for fifth in the Big South standings, with the top six teams in the league advancing to the Big South Tournament.
•   UNC Asheville is one game back of Longwood and Radford and half a game behind Gardner-Webb in the standings.

Last Series

•   Longwood fell 6-4 in 10 innings to VCU on Tuesday in a midweek matchup on Tuesday at Buddy Bolding Stadium.
•   VCU plated four runs in the early stages of the game, but Longwood's lineup battled back.
•   The Lancers cut the lead to 4-1 on a Jayson Nash RBI poke that had some help from the sun in the fourth, and Jack McMullan and Max Lawson knotted the score at four with back-to-back RBI base knocks in the sixth.
•   However, VCU scratched across two runs in the 10th inning to nudge ahead of the Lancers.
•   Longwood brought the tying run to the plate, but VCU turned a double play to end it.
 
Around the Bases

•   Longwood leads the Big South in ERA at 4.24, a mark that is 37th in the nation.
•   The Lancer pitching staff has done so by limiting walks to 3.24 per nine innings, which also leads the Big South and ranks 10th nationally.
•   Longwood has had two games this season where the pitching staff did not surrender a walk, and the team has had five more games with only one walk allowed, including the first matchup against VCU on March 31, although the team is 3-4 in such contests.
•   Longwood also ranks atop the Big South in strikeout-to-walk ratio at 2.66, a mark that is 23rd nationally.
•   Longwood also is first in the Big South in strikeouts per nine innings at 8.6.
•   Lancer pitchers have combined to strike out at least 10 batters in a game 13 times this season, and Longwood is 10-3 in those games.
•   The Lancer offense, meanwhile, ranks third in the Big South in home runs (33) and leads the league in stolen bases (83).
•   The 83 stolen bags also ranks 19th nationally.
•   Longwood is second in the Big South in walks drawn per game with 178, which ranks 43rd nationally.
•   Tre Keels has drawn the most walks on the team with 29, which ranks third in the Big South and 48th nationally, although his 1.07 walks drawn per game is 17th in the nation and second in the Big South.
•   Freshman Ben Pulliam is tied for first in the Big South with 13 doubles, which ranks is tied for 25th nationally.
 
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