FARMVILLE, Va. – The sophomore class ignited Longwood's offense on Saturday afternoon and led the way past Binghamton 7-2 at Buddy Bolding Stadium. Cullan Wadsworth, Hunter Gilliam, Drayven Kowalski and Andrew Gorham combined for nine hits and Maceo Campbell delivered a strong effort on the mound in his first collegiate start as the Lancers (3-8) evened the series.
 
Wadsworth continued his blistering start to 2020 by racking up his fourth multi-hit game of the young season and second in a row. The left-hander is 5-for-7 in the series after going 2-for-3, and he has hit for the cycle through the two games against Binghamton.
 
Gilliam tied a career high with a team-best three hits while going 3-for-3 at the plate, and Kowalski equaled a career-best with two hits. Gorham added two hits as well for his third multi-hit game of 2020.
 
Campbell pitched into the fifth inning, and the redshirt-sophomore struck out five in his longest collegiate outing. He danced around four hits and two walks without surrendering a run or an extra-base hit.
 
"It was great to see us put all three facets of the game together for the first time all year," Longwood head coach Ryan Mau said. "And it started on the mound. Maceo Campbell gave us a great start. It was something that we were searching for, and it just went from there. "
 
Gilliam and Kowalski had RBI singles in the first and second innings before the Lancers cracked the game open with a four-run third that chased Binghamton starter Jack Collings. Wadsworth led off with a monster home run to right field, his first homer of the season and third of his Longwood career. After Gilliam and Gorham singled, Ricky Jimenez cranked a one-out triple to the right-center gap, and he scored on Kowalski's line-drive single to left field for a 6-0 lead.
 
"Wadsworth and Gilliam had great days at the plate," said Mau. "Ricky Jimenez had a really timely triple, and Drayven Kowalski put a couple good swings on the baseball at crucial times to give us a substantial lead there early on."
 
Binghamton put a pair of runners on to start the fourth, but Longwood redshirt-senior Nick Fuchs stepped in to relieve Campbell and escape the jam without any damage. The right-hander earned the win after pitching into the seventh inning while striking out three against a walk and three hits.
 
After Binghamton's Sam Freedman cut Longwood's lead to 6-2 with a two-run home run in the sixth inning off Fuchs, but the Lancers added one more in the seventh when Gorham poked an RBI single to right field.
 
Josh Longabaugh relieved Fuchs with a runner on first in the top of the eighth and mowed down six straight before Dillon Champagne sealed the deal with a 1-2-3 ninth.
 
"The bullpen was outstanding," said Mau. "Nick Fuchs came in and got us out of a troubled situation, and then Longabaugh and Champagne were electric today."
 
Collins (0-2) took the loss after surrendering six runs, five earned, on eight hits with three walks and three strikeouts in 2.2 innings.
 
The two teams square off for the series finale on Sunday afternoon at noon at Buddy Bolding Stadium. Freshman Dominick D'Ercole takes the mound for Longwood opposite Binghamton junior Josh Kopcza.
 
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