| Games 50-52 • Longwood (11-38, 5-16 Big South) vs. Radford (27-23, 13-8 Big South) |
| Dates & Times |
Friday, February 13 | 3 p.m.
Saturday, February 14 | 12 p.m. & 4 p.m.
Sunday, February 15 | 12 p.m. |
| Location |
Farmville, Va. | Buddy Bolding Stadium |
| Game Notes |
Longwood | Big South |
| Statistics |
Longwood | NJIT | Big South |
| Live Stats |
All Games |
| Social Media |
@LongwoodLancers | @LongwoodBase |
The First Pitch:
• Longwood starts the season at home at the Buddy Bolding Stadium for it's first series.
• The Lancers play against NJIT, after last meeting them in 2020 where Longwood won the second game of the series.
• It is the team's first home game since a three-game sweep against Radford to close the 2025 season.
• Longwood takes on an NJIT team that finished second overall in the America East last season and were picked to finish third in 2026.
Coming Into 2026
• Longwood swept Radford 4-2 at home to end the 2025 season.
• The Lancers went 5-4, 15-8 and 4-2 against Radford to finish both Big South and regular season play.
• The Lancers started and finished conference play last season with a sweep of UNC Asheville and Radford.
• Tre Keels led the Big South in stolen bases (35) and ranked 22nd in the nation.
Around The Bases:
• Longwood returns home to host NJIT to start the season after ending the year at Buddy Bolding Stadium against Radford in 2025.
• The Lancers led the Big South in stolen bases last season (116), and ranked 10th in the nation, and the team was seventh in stolen bases per game.
• Longwood also led the conference in sacrifice hits
• Longwood opened and closed Big South play with series sweeps, starting off with UNC Asheville in March and Radford in May.
• Tre Keels lead the Big South on the whole with 35 stolen bases.
• Longwood won four of its final seven games, building late-season momentum heading into 2026.
SERIES HISTORY
All-Time Record vs. Radford 5-2
Under Coach Noe 0-0
Current Streak W1
First Meeting W 9-8 in 2007
Last Meeting L 17-5 2/23/2020
• NJIT took the series last season on the road, winning the first and third games of the series.
• Longwood won the middle game 11-7 after the Highlanders took the opener 13-0. A total of four runs decided the three games.
• In the series finale, NJIT won 17-5, where juniors Julio Marcano and Paul Franzoni combined to drive for the Highlanders' first six runs.
STATS COMPARISON
LWU NJIT
2025 Record 14-38 27-26
Conference 8-16 14-10
Batting Average .257 .282
Opp. Batting Average .330 .272
Hits 427 507
Hits allowed 605 471
Runs 334 329
Opposing runs 551 319
Runs per game 6.4 6.2
Doubles 96 108
Opposing doubles 123 78
Triples 14 16
Opposing triples 14 10
Home Runs 39 37
Opposing home runs 76 52
RBI 293 300
OBP .379 .374
SLG .401 .421
SB-ATT 139-167 69-77
Opposing SB-ATT 89-110 73-85
Walks drawn 252 213
Walks Allowed 296 280
Strikeouts 380 381
Opposing Strikeouts 493 377
Earned run average 9.49 5.75
Innings pitched 435.1 449
Earned runs allowed 459 287
FLD% .952 .973
Errors 88 48
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