Leading Off
•Longwood begins a stretch of seven consecutive games on the road, all in the state of Virginia, to close out the month of April.
•Longwood has posted a 6-7 record in April, the best record for the Lancers in a month this season.
•In April Longwood is hitting .242 and averaging 5.9 runs in the month, up nearly 20 points from the team's season average and more than 1.5 more runs per game.
•Longwood has been led in April by
Sammy Miller and
Grant Keller, who each are hitting better than .300 in the month. Keller is hitting .387 in 11 games this April, while Miller is hitting .400 in a span of 13 games.
•As a team the Lancers have picked up 11 of their 16 home runs this month.
The Lancers play 12 of their remaining 16 games on the road.
Last Time Out
•Longwood hosted the top team in the Big South, but the Lancers were swept by first-place Campbell. Longwood played Campbell even Friday night in the latter part of the game, but a 4-0 early lead turned to a 8-4 Campbell win. Campbell took Saturday, 15-1, and Sunday by a 6-2 final.
By The Numbers
•For his outing against UNC Asheville on April 14 Tyler Morgan was named Big South Pitcher of the Week April 16.
•Morgan tossed a complete game shutout, Longwood's first since Aaron Myers did it against Ohio University in 2014. Morgan struck out 13 batters and allowed just five base runners.
•Morgan leads the Big South with a .192 batting average against.
•Longwood is on a home run kick as of late with 14 of its 16 home runs on the season coming in the last 16 games. The Lancers are 7-9 in that stretch.
•Sammy Miller, Justin Mitchell, and Antwaun Tucker each got in on the power party against Radford.
•Miller's home run in the eighth inning of the first game in Sunday's doubleheader - the first of Miller's career - tied the game at three. Miller then tagged a grand slam April 10 against VMI.
•Nate Blakeney picked up his first two home runs the week starting April 9.
•Tucker, Blakeney, and Mitchell combined for Longwood's first three-homer game of the season in the series finale against UNC Asheville, a 5-0 win.
•Longwood won via walk-off for the first time in 2018 when Nate Blakeney hit a walk-off single against Niagara on February 24.
•Blakeney did it again with a walk-off RBI reaching on a fielder's choice in the first game of a doubleheader against Radford April 8.
•Longwood has posted seven quality starts on the season with Cody Boydstun posting three in his first season as a starter.
•Farkas and Tyler Morgan each collected quality starts in shutout wins against UNC Asheville.
•Farkas struck out a school record 14 batters in 7.0 scoreless innings on April 13.
•After Farkas' gem, Morgan struck out 13 batters in a complete game shutout for his first career quality start.
•Longwood scored a season-high 15 runs in its 15-12 win against UNC Asheville in game one on April 14. In that game the Lancers set season highs in runs (15), RBI (15), doubles (5), triples (2), and total bases (27).
•The Lancers set the season high with three home runs in game two of the doubleheader.
•Sammy Miller went 3-for-5 against James Madison, continuing his torrid pace in April.
•Miller is hitting .400 (16-for-40) with three doubles, his first two career homers, 10 RBI and 17 runs scored, plus 17 walks.
•Grant Keller is hitting .387 (12-for-31) this April with a pair of doubles, seven RBI, and a .537 OBP.
•Junior left-handed starter Steven Farkas sits second in the Big South with 73 strikeouts. The Lancers are second in the Big South with 365 as a team in 2018.
•Tyler Morgan picked up the Big South Pitcher of the Week award on April 16, becoming the 10th Lancer to win a weekly award.
Big South Player of the Week
Date Player
3/10/14 Alex Owens
4/27/15 Kyri Washington
Big South Pitcher of the Week
Date Player
3/10/14 Aaron Myers
3/7/16 Cody Boydstun
3/20/17 Cody Wager
4/17/17 Cody Wager
4/16/18 Tyler Morgan
Big South Relief Pitcher of the Week
Date Player
3/5/18 Eric Harp
Big South Freshman of the Week
Date Player
4/24/17 Antwaun Tucker
5/15/17 Antwaun Tucker
Scouting VCU
•Longwood last met VCU March 21, 2017 and the 19th meeting between the two Commonwealth foes lasted 13 innings, VCU taking the marathon, 5-4.
•Longwood led at several different points, leading 3-1 through three innings and scoring a go-ahead run in the 11th on an RBI single by
Sammy Miller, part of his three-hit night.
•VCU is led in hitting by Paul Witt, who is hitting .331 with a team-leading 34 RBI and is tied for the team lead with two home runs.
•Witt, Haiden Lamb (.324), and Daane Berezo (.305) are each hitting better than .300.
•VCU's top pitcher has been Connor Gillispie, who sports a 1.90 ERA, one of eight VCU pitchers with a sub-4 ERA. VCU is third in the Atlantic 10 with a 3.50 staff ERA.
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