WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – Longwood baseball plated runs in five straight innings, and the Lancers (10-27) rallied for a come-from-behind 8-6 win over William & Mary on Tuesday night.
 
Freshman Mikey Urbaniak capped the rally with a two-run single in the seventh inning that gave Longwood its first and only lead of the game, and the bullpen made it stick.
 
Seven different Lancers had base hits—and seven different Lancers score—as Longwood powered out 10 hits on the day for the third time in four games. Myles Webb led the team with three base hits, and Mac Tufts added two to go with two runs scored.
 
Meanwhile, the bullpen held William & Mary (13-23) scoreless over the final five innings and struck out 10 batters on the evening.
 
SCORING:
               R             H            E
LWU      8             10           0
W&M    6             10           3
 
HOW IT HAPPENED:
 
The Lancer bats were patient, drawing eight walks in addition to the 10 hits, and all nine players in the order reached base safely at least once.
 
However, Lucas Carmichael had a huge day for William & Mary early, swatting a two-run home run in the first inning and a three-run blast in the fourth.
 
Longwood didn't go away though. A double steal put the Lancers on the board in the third, and a two-run single from freshman Jayson Nash tied the game at three apiece in the top of the fourth.
 
Carmichael gave the Tribe the lead again, but Longwood answered. Tufts tapped home a single in the fifth, Webb cut it to one in the sixth, and a wild pitch tied it in the seventh. Urbaniak then drove in two runs with a single up the middle to take the lead.
 
The Lancer bullpen handled its business on the back end to put the game away.
 
Joe Castrichini (1-0) earned the win after pitching a scoreless sixth inning. He struck out two against two walks and no hits. Ethan Plesser started the five-inning scoreless streak with a three-strikeout appearance in the fifth inning, and Caleb Grizzard, Jake Chadwell and Isaiah Brewington combined to close it out. Brewington recorded the last two outs of the game to get the save, his first of the season.
 
Darren Osborne (0-3) took the loss for William & Mary after giving up four runs in one inning of work. He walked two and gave up two hits against while striking out one.

WHAT THEY SAID:

"That was a great road win for the guys today," said Longwood Head Coach Ray Noe. "The pitching staff gave us some really important zeros there in the middle part of the game that allowed us to get back into it and eventually take the lead. Jake Chadwell and Isaiah Brewington shut it down for us in the eighth and ninth. Just overall, this was a really quality team win with high level execution on both sides of the ball."
 
UP NEXT:
 
Longwood returns to action on Thursday to open a three-game series at Charleston Southern. First pitch is set for 6 p.m. on both Thursday and Friday with Saturday's game beginning at 1 p.m., and all three games will air on ESPN+.
 
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