Games 1-3 • Longwood (0-0) vs. Wright State (0-0)
Dates & Times	Friday, February 14 | 12 p.m. (DH) • Saturday, February 15 | 1 p.m.
Location	Wise, Va. • Burchell Stallard Baseball Field
Game Notes	Longwood | Wright State | Big South
Statistics	Longwood | Wright State | Big South
Live Stats	All Games
Social Media	@LongwoodLancers | @LongwoodBase

The First Pitch:
•    Longwood opens up the 2025 season with a three-game series against Wright State.
•    It will also be the first three games for Longwood Head Coach Ray Noe since taking the reins of the program this summer following five seasons as an assistant at VMI.
•    The meeting is the first between Longwood and Wright State, and the two teams will play at UVA Wise due to inclement weather impacting Prince Edward County.
•    Noe is the fifth head coach in team history after helping engineer a high-powered VMI offense.
•    The Lancers have a roster of 17 returners to go with 23 newcomers after the team finished tied for fifth in the Big South a season ago.
 
Schedule Outlook:
•    Longwood opens the season with eight straight at home and 12 of its first 13 at home, with the lone road game a matchup at Charlotte on February 25.
•    The Lancers will also host a series against Penn State on the second weekend.
•    The team's longest road swing runs five games, which it does one time (April 30 at Elon, May 2-4 at USC Upstate, May 13 at UNC Greensboro).
•    Longwood opens Big South play on March 21 at UNC Asheville, and the Lancers also travel to Presbyterian, Charleston Southern, and USC Upstate in conference.
•    The Lancers host Gardner-Webb, High Point, Winthrop and Radford in Big South action.

Around The Bases:
•    Longwood baseball opens the season as the home team for a fourth straight season, although it is the first time in that stretch the team will not play at Buddy Bolding Stadium on opening weekend due to the aftereffects of a winter storm.
•    The Lancers last opened on the road in 2021 with a three-game series at The Citadel, where Longwood won two of three.
•    Last year, Longwood swept its season-opening three-game series, taking down Siena three times.
•    The Lancers this season return 17 players while bringing in 23 newcomers, although the team only returns 22 percent of its at bats from a season ago (365 out of 1,660)
•    Among returning position players, Logan Janney (.258 batting average) had the most at bats a season ago as a true freshman and hit a pair of home runs.
•    Casey Gibbs also made 16 starts to go with 32 appearances in his first season after transferring from VCU, hitting .250.
•    James Nelson also returns for his fourth season, and he holds a .294 career batting average with eight home runs. He batted .242 last season with two homers.
•    On the mound, the Lancers return seven pitchers who combined to throw 99 innings a season ago. That total represents 23 percent of the team's innings.
•    Guillermo Garcia, who is projected to start the second game of the series, went 1-3 while making 17 appearances with seven starts. He had a 7.36 ERA after posting a 3.79 ERA in his first season the year prior.
•    Ried Dittner was one of the top relief options a season ago, striking out 32 in 21 innings of work. He made 18 appearances with one start and had a 6.00 ERA.
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