SOFTBALL Big South Tournament
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SOFTBALL 2016 Schedule Big South Tournament Carolina Classic - Columbia, S.C. F 19 vs. Ohio ^ L, 2-1 May 11-14, 2016 F 19 vs. UNCG ^ W, 9-1 F 20 vs. Winthrop ^ W, 7-1 Rock Hill, S.C. • Terry Field F 21 at South Carolina ^ / SECN+ L, 2-0 Longwood Spring Fling - Big South Network / ESPN3 (Semifinals & Championship) Farmville, Va F 26 HARTFORD# W, 10-2 (6) F 27 MONMOUTH # W, 2-1 THE MATCHUP F 27 HARTFORD # W, 7-4 F 28 HARTFORD # W, 10-0 (5) F 28 MONMOUTH # W, 4-3 Bulldog Slamboree - Longwood Lancers (33-17, 19-5 BSC) Starkville, Miss. Head Coach: Kathy Riley M 4 vs. Central Arkansas ! L, 4-0 M 4 vs. Northwestern State ! W, 2-1 Riley’s Record: 689-400-1 (23nd year) M 5 vs. UT-Chattanooga ! W, 7-6 (8) -- At Longwood: 611-327-1 (19th year) M 5 at Mississippi State ! / SECN+ L, 3-1 M 6 vs. Northwestern State ! L, 2-1 Current Streak: L 2 Last Game L, 9-2 at Coastal Carolina M 8 at No. 4 LSU L, 4-0 M 8 at No. 4 LSU L, 1-0 2015 Record / Postseason 34-25 / NCAA Regional M 9 at No. 5 Louisiana-Lafayette CANCELED M 15 NORTH CAROLINA / ESPN3 L, 5-3 M 18 *CAMPBELL W, 7-2 M 18 *CAMPBELL W, 6-1 Leading Off Entering the Tournament M 19 *CAMPBELL / BSN W, 10-4 M 23 VIRGINIA / BSN W, 7-1 • Longwood clinched its second straight Big • Longwood enters the Big South Tournament M 23 VIRGINIA / BSN L, 6-3 South regular season crown Saturday at as the league’s reigning champions and has M 25 at *Charleston Southern W, 4-2 Coastal Carolina in a 1-0 contest. The captured the championship in two of the M 26 at *Charleston Southern L, 5-4 M 26 at *Charleston Southern L, 9-5 Lancers dropped two of three games in the three previous seasons it has been in the M 29 at East Carolina W, 8-2 (8) series to drop just its fifth series since league. M 29 at East Carolina W, 6-2 entering the Big South. • Longwood opens the tournament Wednes- • Elizabeth McCarthy was named the Big day at 2:30 p.m., against the winner of A 1 *WINTHROP W, 8-2 A 2 *WINTHROP W, 1-0 South Pitcher of the Year for the second play-in game between Gardner-Webb and A 2 *WINTHROP W, 8-5 straight season Tuesday by the league host Winthrop. That game will be played A 5 *LIBERTY / BSN L, 2-1 office while head coach Kathy Riley was Wednesday morning at 9 a.m. A 5 *LIBERTY / 92.9 WVHL W, 3-1 named the league’s Coach of the Year for • Depending on the result of Wednesday’s A 6 *LIBERTY / 92.9 WVHL W, 6-3 A 8 at No. 2 Auburn / SECN+ L, 2-1 the second straight year. games, Longwood will either play Radford A 9 at No. 2 Auburn / SECN+ L, 5-2 • Longwood placed eight players on the or Campbell Thursday. The Lancers swept A 10 at No. 2 Auburn / SECN + / 92.9 WVHL L, 6-5 all-conference teams, including McCarthy, each of those teams throughout the A 13 VIRGINIA TECH / 92.9 WVHL W, 4-1 Carly Adams, Jamie Barbour and regular season. A 13 VIRGINIA TECH / 92.9 WVHL W, 7-4 with first-team honors. A 16 at *Gardner-Webb W, 3-1 Emily Murphy • Longwood returns Carly Adams who has A 16 at *Gardner-Webb W, 3-1 Sydney Gay and Karleigh Donovan were made the All-Tournament last season. A 17 at Gardner-Webb W, 9-0 (5) each named to the second-team while Adams owns a .351 career batting average A 19 NORFOLK ST.(DH) / 92.9 WVHL CANCELED Krista Kelly and Glenn Walters were named in the tournament and was a team-leading A 23 at *Presbyterian W, 2-1 honorable mention. In addition, A 23 at *Presbyterian W, 7-0 Kelsey 7-for-12 in the tournament last season. A 24 at *Presbyterian W, 8-2 Sweeney was named to the league’s all-ac- A 27 at No. 6 James Madison (DH) CANCELED ademic team. A 29 *RADFORD / 92.9 WVHL W, 10-2 (6) A 30 *RADFORD / BSN W, 9-3 THE LINEUP A 30 *RADFORD / BSN W, 5-1 THE PITCHERS M 7 at *Coastal Carolina W, 1-0 Pos. Name W-L ERA IP K’s Notables M 7 at *Coastal Carolina L, 7-4 RHP Jenna Carnes 1-1 3.29 17.0 1 Has posted a win and a save so far this season M 8 at *Coastal Carolina L, 9-2 RHP Sydney Gay 14-6 2.11 133.0 140 Second-Team All-Big South M 11 Winthrop / Gardner-Webb 2:30 p.m. LHP Elizabeth McCarthy 18-9 2.32 172.0 160 Big South Pitcher of the Year M 12 Campbell / Radford TBD RHP Sydney Mundell 0-1 2.27 12.1 9 Transfer from UNLV M 13 Semifinals TBD M 14 Championship TBD PROJECTED BATTING ORDER Pos. Name GP-GS Avg. Runs RBI Notables Home games in BOLD CAPS 1B Jamie Barbour 47-46 .366 33 12 Slap hitter, First Team All-Big South *Big South Game 2B Carly Adams 42-42 .348 27 22 First Team All-Big South ^ Game played in Columbia, S.C. SS Emily Murphy 50-50 .369 32 43 All-Conference honors for fourth straight year # Longwood Spring Fling C Kaylynn Batten 50-49 .281 12 24 Leads the team with 25 walks ! Game played in Starkville, Miss. CF Glenn Walters 50-50 .280 35 21 Honorable Mention All-Big South All times Eastern and subject to change 3B Karleigh Donovan 43-40 .321 11 22 Second-team All-Big South; All Freshman Team LF Krista Kelly 47-47 .272 17 16 Honorable Mention All-Big South DP Kelsey Sweeney 40-36 .267 10 19 Named to Big South All-Academic Team RF Justina Augustine 50-49 .197 23 11 Posted 28 RBI last season batting leadoff 2016 Longwood Softball LONGWOOD GAMEDAY > Notes BY THE NUMBERS LONGWOOD SB Media Information • Entering its ninth season playing at the MEDIA CONTACTS Division I level, Longwood has never QUICK FACTS Todd Lindenmuth, Assistant Director of posted a season below the .500 mark. Athletic Communications In those nine seasons, the Lancers have UNIVERSITY Email: [email protected] won at least 30 games in five seasons, Name .......................................... Longwood University Cell: 919-724-8161 including five of the past six seasons. City/Zip ........................................Farmville, Va. 23909 Chris Cook, Assistant VP/Athletics • Longwood will play perhaps its most Founded ...............................................................1839 Communications daunting schedule in school history. The Enrollment (Undergraduate) ................................4,507 Email: [email protected] Lancers will face four teams that hosted Nickname .........................................................Lancers Office: 434-395-2718 2015 NCAA Regionals, including a com- Colors .......................... Navy Blue (PMS 289) & White Cell: 434-808-5127 bined five games against Women’s Col- Fight Song ................................... Hail to Longwood U! Darius Thigpen, Assistant Director of lege World Series semifinalists Auburn Affiliation ............................................. NCAA Division I Athletics Communications and LSU. Conference ...................................................Big South President ..................W. Taylor Reveley IV (Princeton) Email: [email protected] • In addition, the Lancers will play 16 games Office: 434-395-2345 Director of Athletics .........................Troy Austin (Duke) against 10 teams that participated in the Cell: 813-299-7578 Athletics Phone ....................................(434) 395-2057 2015 NCAA Regionals. Tim Castaneda, Athletic Tickets Phone ......................................(434) 395-2138 Communications Staff Assistant • For the first time since joining the Big Website ...........................www.LongwoodLancers.com Email: [email protected] South, Longwood was tabbed to win the Twitter ..........................................@LongwoodLancers Office: 434-395-2716 league. Despite capturing two Big South Championships in its three previous sea- PROGRAM HISTORY INTERVIEW REQUESTS sons in the Big South, the Lancers have Seasons of Softball.............................. .....................34 All interview requests for Longwoo soft- never entered the season as the league First Season................................................ .........1981 ball players and coaches will run through favorite before this season. All-Time Record............................... ............ 788-526-3 the Longwood athletics communica- • Junior southpaw Elizabeth McCarthy was Division I Eligible..... ............2007 (2008 First Season) tions office. Contact Todd Lindenmuth tabbed 2016 Preseason Pitcher of the Division I Record.................. ................. .........267-157 to set up an interview. Year by the league’s nine head coach- NCAA Appearances..................... ...........1 (Division I) es. McCarthy, who was named 2015 Big LONGWOODLANCERS.COM South Pitcher of the Year, has captured at TEAM INFORMATION For unparalleled coverage of the entire least 20 victories in her first two seasons 2015 Overall Record ........... ................................34-25 intercollegiate athletics department at with Longwood. Big South Record ............... ..................................20-4 Longwood, access LongwoodLancers. • Longwood returns five players who were Home Recod ................ .........................................10-2 com. The official site of Longwood ath- named to Big South All-Conference last Away Record ............. .........................................17-14 letics features in-depth coverage of Starters Returning/Lost............................. .........5/4 Longwood players, coaches and staff as season. Elizabeth McCarthy, Justina Pitchers Returning/Lost............................ ..........2/1 well as game notes, player biographies, Augustine and Emily Murphy were each Letterwinners R/L.................................... ..............15/5 statistics and updates on the Longwood named First-Team All-Big South, while Newcomers.................................................. ...............6 softball program. Kelsey Sweeney and Glenn Walters were each named to the second-team. GAMEDAY CREDENTIALS • Longwood softball head coach Kathy Credentials to Longwood softball home Riley enters her 19th season leading the games are available upon request program. Longwood’s all-time winningest through the Longwood athletics com- coach, Riley has amassed 599 victories munications department.