SOFTBALL at Coastal Carolina
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SOFTBALL 2016 Schedule at Coastal Carolina Carolina Classic - Columbia, S.C. F 19 vs. Ohio ^ L, 2-1 May 7-8, 2016 F 19 vs. UNCG ^ W, 9-1 Conway, S.C. • CCU Softball Stadium F 20 vs. Winthrop ^ W, 7-1 F 21 at South Carolina ^ / SECN+ L, 2-0 Big South Network 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 (32-15, 18-3 BSC) F 28 MONMOUTH # W, 4-3 Bulldog Slamboree - Head Coach: Kathy Riley Starkville, Miss. Riley’s Record: 688-398-1 (23nd year) M 4 vs. Central Arkansas ! L, 4-0 -- At Longwood: 610-325-1 (19th year) M 4 vs. Northwestern State ! W, 2-1 M 5 vs. UT-Chattanooga ! W, 7-6 (8) Current Streak: W 11 M 5 at Mississippi State ! / SECN+ L, 3-1 Last Game W, 5-1 vs. Radford 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 M 15 NORTH CAROLINA / ESPN3 L, 5-3 Coastal Carolina Chanticleers (33-19, 16-5 BSC) M 18 *CAMPBELL W, 7-2 Head Coach: Kelley Green M 18 *CAMPBELL W, 6-1 M 19 *CAMPBELL / BSN W, 10-4 Green’s Record: 586-298 (17th Season) M 23 VIRGINIA / BSN W, 7-1 -- At Coastal: 240-164 (Seventh Season) M 23 VIRGINIA / BSN L, 6-3 Current Streak: W 11 M 25 at *Charleston Southern W, 4-2 M 26 at *Charleston Southern L, 5-4 Last Game W, 4-3 M 26 at *Charleston Southern L, 9-5 2015 Record / Postseason 33-24 / 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 sweep over Radford to • Longwood is led by its three seniors -- A 2 *WINTHROP W, 1-0 conclude its home slate for the 2016 season. Carly Adams, Jamie Barbour and Emily A 2 *WINTHROP W, 8-5 A 5 *LIBERTY / BSN L, 2-1 The three wins extends the Lancers winning Murphy -- at the plate. Murphy leads all A 5 *LIBERTY / 92.9 WVHL W, 3-1 streak to 11 straight games entering the players on the Longwood roster with a .376 A 6 *LIBERTY / 92.9 WVHL W, 6-3 series against the Chanticleers. batting average with Barbour and Adams A 8 at No. 2 Auburn / SECN+ L, 2-1 • The weekend series against Coastal also hitting above the .350 mark for the A 9 at No. 2 Auburn / SECN+ L, 5-2 Carolina will determine the Big South season. A 10 at No. 2 Auburn / SECN + / 92.9 WVHL L, 6-5 regular season championship. Longwood • The Longwood pitching staff enters the A 13 VIRGINIA TECH / 92.9 WVHL W, 4-1 needs to win one of the three games to three-game weekend series against A 13 VIRGINIA TECH / 92.9 WVHL W, 7-4 clinch their second straight while Coastal Coastal ranked 11th in the nation with a 2.07 A 16 at *Gardner-Webb W, 3-1 needs to sweep the series. team-ERA. A 16 at *Gardner-Webb W, 3-1 A 17 at Gardner-Webb W, 9-0 (5) A 19 NORFOLK ST.(DH) / 92.9 WVHL CANCELED THE LINEUP A 23 at *Presbyterian W, 2-1 THE PITCHERS A 23 at *Presbyterian W, 7-0 Pos. Name W-L ERA IP K’s Notables A 24 at *Presbyterian W, 8-2 RHP Jenna Carnes 1-1 3.29 17.0 1 Has posted a win and a save so far this season A 27 at No. 6 James Madison (DH) CANCELED RHP Sydney Gay 14-5 1.71 123.0 134 Leads BSC with one of league’s two sub-2.00 ERA A 29 *RADFORD / 92.9 WVHL W, 10-2 (6) LHP Elizabeth McCarthy 17-8 2.19 162.2 150 Big South Preseason Pitcher of the Year A 30 *RADFORD / BSN W, 9-3 RHP Sydney Mundell 0-1 2.27 12.1 9 Transfer from UNLV A 30 *RADFORD / BSN W, 5-1 PROJECTED BATTING ORDER M 7 at *Coastal Carolina (DH) 3 pm Pos. Name GP-GS Avg. Runs RBI Notables 1B Jamie Barbour 44-43 .375 31 12 Slap hitter, has recorded a hit in 17 of last 20 games M 8 at *Coastal Carolina 1 pm 2B Carly Adams 39-39 .357 27 22 Has hits in 22 of last 31 games, M 11-14 Big South Tournament TBD SS Emily Murphy 47-47 .376 30 40 Third all-time in career home runs at Longwood (46) C Kaylynn Batten 47-46 .285 12 23 Leads the team with 23 walks Home games in BOLD CAPS CF Glenn Walters 47-47 .291 34 21 Leads the team in stolen bases and total bases *Big South Game 3B Karleigh Donovan 40-37 .324 10 19 Hits in 21 of last 25 games, seven extra base hits in span ^ Game played in Columbia, S.C. LF Krista Kelly 44-44 .271 17 16 Has played four different defensive positions this season # Longwood Spring Fling DP Kelsey Sweeney 37-33 .271 10 19 Has started at DP in 21 of last 23 games ! Game played in Starkville, Miss. RF Justina Augustine 47-46 .207 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. 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 Series History department.