Leading Off
•Longwood is set for Wednesday's game at JMU after Tuesday's scheduled game against VCU was rained out. Longwood enters 1-9 against in-state opponents.
•Freshman outfielder
Antwaun Tucker was named the Come Ready Nutrition Co-Freshman of the Week, splitting the honor with Liberty's Trey McDyre.
•Tucker hit .375 with a pair of homers, including a game-tying homer in the bottom of the ninth of Friday's walk-off.
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Michael Osinski is the top hitter by average in the Lancer lineup, hitting .299 with a team-high 15 extra-base hits and leads the team with 32 RBI.
•Each of the last two wins for the Lancers were walk-offs.
Ryan Shull lifted Longwood with a walk-off single on April 13 against Presbyterian, taking game one.
•Longwood won game one against Winthrop, winning on
Michael Osinski's walk-off homer.
Last Time Out
•Longwood took game one against Winthrop before dropping the series. Longwood trailed 7-6 going into the bottom of the ninth when
Antwaun Tucker hit a homer to tie it. After a pinch-hit single by
Jon Peterson,
Michael Osinski homered to win it. It was Longwood's first ninth-inning comeback in 2017.
By The Numbers
•After leading the conference for the first two months, Longwood is second in the conference in punchouts with 361.
•Cody Wager leads the Big South with 62 strikeouts and Zach Potojecki is second with 57.
•Potojecki is 18th in the country with 12.21 strikeouts per nine innings.
•Longwood is 10th in the country with 9.7 strikeouts per nine innings as a team.
• Michael Catlin leads the Big South with a league-low 2.08 ERA, has a batting average against of .203 which is fourth-lowest in the conference, and has allowed league-lows 12 runs and nine earned runs, in 39.0 innings of work across 19 appearances.
•Freshman outfielder Antwaun Tucker picked up the first Big South Freshman of the Week award in program history on 4/24.
•In the week starting 4/17, Tucker hit .375 with two home runs, picked up four RBI, and stole three bases.
•On 4/21 Tucker hit a game-tying homer to lead off the bottom of the ninth inning in Longwood's walk-off win against Winthrop.
•Longwood has placed around the top 30 in several statistical categories in the NCAA.
NCAA • Team Strikeouts Per 9 Inn.
Rank K/9
10. Longwood 9.7
NCAA • Strikeouts Per 9 Inn.
Rank K/9
18. Zach Potojecki 12.21
NCAA • Stolen Bases Per Game
Rank Steals Per Game
34. Sammy Miller 0.44
NCAA • Triples
Rank Triples
9. Antwaun Tucker 5
Scouting JMU
•The Dukes took the first game of the home-and-home series, 4-3, in Farmville by holding off Longwood in the late innings. After JMU took a 4-0 lead in the fourth inning, Longwood trailed 4-0 until the eighth inning when the Lancers rallied for three runs.
•JMU boasts a lineup with five hitters averaging better than .300, led by Fox Semones, who is hitting .333.
•Brett Johnson is the power threat in the JMU order, hitting .295 with nine home runs and seven doubles and a .574 slugging percentage.
•JMU is third in the CAA with a .282 batting average. JMU is second in the league in homers and second in RBI.
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