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SOFTBALL 2016 Schedule at Presbyterian Carolina Classic - Columbia, S.C. April 23-24, 2016 F 19 vs. Ohio ^ L, 2-1 F 19 vs. UNCG ^ W, 9-1 Clinton, S.C. • PC Softball Complex F 20 vs. Winthrop ^ W, 7-1 F 21 at South Carolina ^ / SECN+ L, 2-0 Longwood Spring Fling - Farmville, Va F 26 HARTFORD# W, 10-2 (6) THE MATCHUP F 27 MONMOUTH # W, 2-1 F 27 HARTFORD # W, 7-4 F 28 HARTFORD # W, 10-0 (5) Longwood Lancers (26-15, 12-3 BSC) F 28 MONMOUTH # W, 4-3 Head Coach: Kathy Riley Bulldog Slamboree - Starkville, Miss. Riley’s Record: 682-398-1 (23nd year) M 4 vs. Central Arkansas ! L, 4-0 -- At Longwood: 604-325-1 (19th year) M 4 vs. Northwestern State ! W, 2-1 Current Streak: W 5 M 5 vs. UT-Chattanooga ! W, 7-6 (8) M 5 at Mississippi State ! / SECN+ L, 3-1 Last Game W, 9-0 (5) at Gardner-Webb M 6 vs. Northwestern State ! L, 2-1 2015 Record / Postseason 34-25 / NCAA Regional M 8 at No. 4 LSU L, 4-0 M 8 at No. 4 LSU L, 1-0 M 9 at No. 5 Louisiana-Lafayette CANCELED Presbyterian College (22-22, 8-10 BSC) M 15 NORTH CAROLINA / ESPN3 L, 5-3 M 18 *CAMPBELL W, 7-2 Head Coach: Britne Stubs M 18 *CAMPBELL W, 6-1 Cavallo’s Record: 47-47 (Second Season) M 19 *CAMPBELL / BSN W, 10-4 M 23 VIRGINIA / BSN W, 7-1 -- At Presbyterian: Same M 23 VIRGINIA / BSN L, 6-3 Current Streak: W 1 M 25 at *Charleston Southern W, 4-2 Last Game W, 4-1 vs. Winthrop M 26 at *Charleston Southern L, 5-4 M 26 at *Charleston Southern L, 9-5 2015 Record / Postseason 25-25 / None M 29 at East Carolina W, 8-2 (8) M 29 at East Carolina W, 6-2 Leading Off A 1 *WINTHROP W, 8-2 • Longwood captured a three-game series • Longwood is led by its three seniors -- A 2 *WINTHROP W, 1-0 sweep over Gardner-Webb throughout the Carly Adams, Jamie Barbour and Emily A 2 *WINTHROP W, 8-5 weekend. That extended the Lancers win- Murphy -- at the plate. Murphy leads all A 5 *LIBERTY / BSN L, 2-1 ning streak to five straight games. players on the Longwood roster with a .347 A 5 *LIBERTY / 92.9 WVHL W, 3-1 • Junior Elizabeth McCarthy and freshman batting average with Barbour and Adams A 6 *LIBERTY / 92.9 WVHL W, 6-3 A 8 at No. 2 Auburn / SECN+ L, 2-1 Sydney Gay were sensational against the also hitting above the .330 mark for the A 9 at No. 2 Auburn / SECN+ L, 5-2 Runnin’ Bulldogs. The two pitchers gave season. A 10 at No. 2 Auburn / SECN + / 92.9 WVHL L, 6-5 up a combined nine hits in the three-game • Junior pitcher Elizabeth McCarthy was A 13 VIRGINIA TECH / 92.9 WVHL W, 4-1 series. Longwood’s dominant pitching duo named Big South Co-Pitcher of the Week A 13 VIRGINIA TECH / 92.9 WVHL W, 7-4 combined for 29 strikeouts throughout the Monday. It marks the conference-leading A 16 at *Gardner-Webb W, 3-1 weekend. third time this season that McCarthy has A 16 at *Gardner-Webb W, 3-1 picked up the honor. A 17 at Gardner-Webb W, 9-0 (5) THE LINEUP A 19 NORFOLK ST.(DH) / 92.9 WVHL CANCELED A 23 at *Presbyterian 1 pm THE PITCHERS A 24 at *Presbyterian 1 pm Pos. Name W-L ERA IP K’s Notables A 27 at James Madison (DH) 5 pm RHP Jenna Carnes 1-1 3.50 16.0 1 Has posted a win and a save so far this season A 29 *RADFORD / 92.9 WVHL 7 pm RHP Sydney Gay 11-5 1.78 106.1 111 Leads BSC with one of league’s two sub-2.00 ERA A 30 *RADFORD (DH) / BSN 1 pm LHP Elizabeth McCarthy 14-8 2.39 140.1 121 Big South Preseason Pitcher of the Year RHP Sydney Mundell 0-1 2.47 11.1 8 Transfer from UNLV M 7 at *Coastal Carolina (DH) 3 pm PROJECTED BATTING ORDER M 8 at *Coastal Carolina 1 pm Pos. Name GP-GS Avg. Runs RBI Notables M 11-14 Big South Tournament TBD 1B Jamie Barbour 38-37 .340 22 10 Slap hitter, has recorded a hit in 12 of last 14 games 2B Carly Adams 33-33 .330 20 15 Has hits in 19 of last 25 games, Home games in BOLD CAPS SS Emily Murphy 41-41 .347 20 32 Third all-time in career home runs at Longwood (43) *Big South Game C Kaylynn Batten 41-40 .282 11 18 Leads the team with 21 walks ^ Game played in Columbia, S.C. CF Glenn Walters 41-41 .282 31 16 Leads the team in stolen bases and total bases 3B Karleigh Donovan 34-31 .318 9 15 Hits in 15 of last 19 games, six extra base hits in span # Longwood Spring Fling LF Krista Kelly 38-38 .262 14 15 Has played four different defensive positions this season ! Game played in Starkville, Miss. DP Kelsey Sweeney 31-28 .291 8 16 Has started at DP in last 17 games All times Eastern and subject to change RF Justina Augustine 41-40 .198 20 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. Credentials at Longwood and more than 600 in her are issued at the discretion of the Long- 22-year career at Longwood and Mount wood athletics department and may be Olive. revoked at any point due to inappropri- • In her 22 seasons of coaching, Kathy ate behavior, inappropriate use of the Riley has posted 20 consecutive sea- credential, non-sanctioned transfer of sons above the .500 mark. Her only two the credential or other reasons deemed seasons below .500 were Riley’s first at worthy of credential revocation by the department. Mount Olive. • Longwood softball signed two players to PRACTICE AVAILABILITY National Letters of Intent during the fall All Longwood softball practices are signing period.