The First Pitch:
• Longwood will take on Boston College in a midweek game that was added prior to the weekend due to previous cancellations in the team’s schedule already this spring.
• The added game will wrap up a five-game homestand for Longwood following a four-game series against UAlbany.
• The weekend series against UAlbany marked the first time weather had not impacted a weekend game for the Lancers this season.
• The game against Boston College will mark Longwood’s second matchup against a Power Four team after Longwood played Penn State for a weekend series earlier in the spring.
Previous Series
• Longwood lost a trio of narrow games against UAlbany while winning one by run-rule this weekend.
• The three losses all came down to the final innings, with UAlbany plating runs late.
• The Lancers scored at least seven runs in each of the four games and piled up 42 runs in four games, good for 10.5 runs per game.
• Longwood had at least 10 hits in every game, including a season-best 19 hits and season-best 15 runs in the team’s win.
• However, UAlbany scored in the ninth inning in each of the three wins for the Great Danes.
• James Nelson, Mac Tufts and Myles Webb led the charge on offense for Longwood all weekend.
Around The Bases:
• Over the weekend, Longwood baseball put up season highs in runs and hits in its first home weekend series.
• The Lancers rank second in the Big South and 16th nationally with 29 stolen bases, only two behind Charleston Southern in first.
• Both Tre Keels and Mac Tufts rank in the top 10 in the Big South in stolen bases: Keels is second with eight, and Tufts is in ninth with five.
• The two also rank in the top 100 in the nation: Keels 21st, Tufts 98th.
• James Nelson has been scorching hot, batting .545 (12-22) in his past five games.
• Nelson is riding a six-game hitting streak, an dhe has had multiple hits in each game, and he has had an extra-base hit in four of the six.
• For the season, Nelson is batting .429, which is good for 10th in the Big South and 101st in the nation.
• Tufts has also been lights out in the past five games, batting an impressive .500 (8-16).
• Twice in the five-game stretch he has gone 3-3 at the plate.
• The Lancers as a team have four straight games with at least 10 hits, and they have had at least 10 hits five times in six games.
• Longwood also has scored seven or more runs five times in the past six games and has scored at least 10 runs twice.
• The Lancers take on a Boston College side that was picked 16th in the ACC Preseason Poll.
• BC is led by Patrick Roche and Josiah Ragsdale, who are both hitting .333 while starting all eight games. Ragsdale played against Longwood when he was at Iona prior to transferring to Boston College.
SERIES HISTORY
All-Time Record vs. Boston College 0-0
Under Coach Noe 0-0
Current Streak N/A
First Meeting
Last Meeting
• This is the first meeting between Longwood and Boston College.
• The Lancers last played an ACC foe when it played Duke a season ago in a doubleheader on May 5, falling in both games to the 10th-ranked Blue Devils.
• Longwood will face two Power Four conferences this year. The Lancers played a series against Penn State of the Big Ten in addition to the single game against Boston College.
STATS COMPARISON
LWU BC
2025 Record 2-9 4-4
Conference 0-0 0-0
Batting Average .248 .287
Opp. Batting Average .332 .308
Hits 86 82
Hits allowed 132 89
Runs 66 61
Opposing runs 112 59
Runs per game 6 7.6
Doubles 25 13
Opposing doubles 21 17
Triples 3 1
Opposing triples 2 1
Home Runs 4 8
Opposing home runs 18 10
RBI 50 48
OBP .362 .399
SLG .372 .423
SB-ATT 29-34 29-31
Opposing SB-ATT 21-28 6-8
Walks drawn 51 44
Walks Allowed 62 38
Strikeouts 104 73
Opposing Strikeouts 84 73
Earned run average 8.34 7.13
Innings pitched 95 70.2
Earned runs allowed 88 56
FLD% .948 .977
Errors 21 7
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