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Jackson Nash storms off the mound after a strikeout
Reagan Bakalov
17
Winner Longwood LWU 30-26
7
Radford RAD 25-26
Winner
Longwood LWU
30-26
17
Final
7
Radford RAD
25-26
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Longwood LWU 5 3 0 0 0 2 4 0 3 17 15 0
Radford RAD 0 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 14 2

W: Nash, Jackson (4-2) L: LEFEVERS, M. (5-3)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Lancers Persevere, Power Past No. 5 Radford 17-7

Nash Delivers Gem on Mound, Carter Powers Offensive Eruption as Lancers Advance

ASHEVILLE, N.C. – It may have taken a late night, a little help pulling a tarp, and plenty of guts, but Longwood baseball stayed alive at the Big South Tournament on Thursday morning.
 
After seeing two rain delays suspend the team's elimination game against Radford last night, weather again delayed the start in the morning. But Longwood (30-26) just kept on cruising, shaking off all obstacles to roll past the fifth-seeded Highlanders (25-26) 17-7 to get their first conference tournament win in a decade.
 
Jackson Nash delivered a career-best outing with six scoreless relief frames, and Jae'dan Carter led an explosive offense that matched a season-high with five home runs. Carter had a career-best six RBI, but he had plenty of help too. Ben Pulliam swatted two doubles and a home run as part of a four-hit day, and Jon Howard and Tré Keels also had multi-hit days that included homers.
 
SCORING:
               R             H            E
LWU      17           15           0
RAD       7             14           2
 
HOW IT HAPPENED:
 
Last night, Longwood jumped all over Radford in the first inning with five runs. Carter opened the scoring with an RBI single beforeKeels hit a two-run shot for his seventh homer of the season. Brogan Jones immediately followed it up with an inside-the-park home run on a ball down the line.
 
After a rain delay stalled the game, Longwood added three more runs in the top of the second thanks to a two-run double by Carter and a wild pitch two batters later. The inning started last night, but rain delayed it so that Carter's RBI knock came this morning.
 
Radford erupted for seven runs in the next two frames to erase Longwood's lead, but Nash came on and went to work.
 
The big righthander quieted down the Radford bats by limiting the rest of the damage in the third and then following it with five straight scoreless frames. Nash (4-2) earned the win while working around eight hits without a walk. His seven strikeouts were two shy of a career high.
 
Meanwhile, the Lancer offense recalibrated and dominated the late innings. Pulliam blasted a solo home run, his fifth of the season, to dead center in the sixth, and Longwood scored in three of the final four innings to pull away as Nash kept putting up zeros.
 
Pulliam doubled a run home in the seventh before Carter cranked a three-run home run to make it 14-7. Pulliam added to it with an RBI single in the ninth, and Howard capped the scoring with a towering two-run home run to center.
 
Matthew Lefevers (5-3) took the loss for Radford. He gave up five runs in the first inning against four hits and a walk with one strikeout.

WHAT THEY SAID:

"What a crazy 24 hours for our guys," said Longwood Head Coach Ray Noe. "The response from our game one loss last night in the first inning and dealing with all the weather delays to finding a way to save our season today. I've told our guys multiple times that during the tournament, someone has to step up on the mound and deliver when it's needed the most. Jackson Nash was that guy. Incredible performance."

"The offense was relentless last night and today," Noe added. "Quality AB after quality AB, and we had some big swings when we needed to extend it there late. Carter, Keels, Pulliam and Howard are really dangerous right now at the plate and super poised in their approach and discipline."

"Thirty wins is a special number to get to, and all credit goes to the players, staff, our families and everyone else connected to Longwood baseball," Noe said.
 
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
  • Howard hit his 14th home run of the season, one shy of tying for third-most in a single season in team history.
  • Pulliam now has 22 doubles, which is tied for the second-most in a single season in team history. He is tied with Alex Lewis, who reached the mark in 2016. The team record is 24, set by Phil Cerreto in 2010.
  • Longwood reached the 30-win plateau for the first time since 2016.
  • Pulliam scored five runs, the most by a player in a game this season.
  • Carter's six RBI matched the team's season-high, with both Jon Howard and Jack McMullan reaching the mark as well.
  • The five home runs tied a season high for the Lancers. The team also hit five home runs on March 22 against USC Upstate.
  • The 17 runs scored tied the season high, set against UMBC on March 21, 2026.
 
UP NEXT:
 
Longwood will play again today, with its opponent to be determined. The Lancers will play the lowest seed among the losing teams between No. 1 High Point, No. 2 Winthrop, No. 3 USC Upstate and No. 4 Charleston Southern.
 
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