FARMVILLE, Va. - Charleston Southern completed its weekend in Virginia with a pair of setbacks at Longwood Sunday, April 10. The Lancers earned 7-5 and 3-1 victories over CSU to extend their winning streak to four games.

Charleston Southern now holds a 17-26 record, while Longwood is 23-8 on the season.

The Buccaneers out-hit Longwood, 9-8, in game one, but a three-run fifth inning for the Lancers proved to be the difference in a 7-5 Longwood win. A Hayes Holdsworth home run highlighted CSU's four extra-base hits.

Briana Wells earned her 19th victory of the season, allowing three runs on six hits in six innings pitched. Ashley Cornell finished the game by yielding two runs on three hits in the seventh inning. Kimberly Hobbs (10-11) suffered the loss by allowing seven runs on seven hits in five innings pitched. Holdsworth pitched a scoreless sixth in relief.

Nine Buccaneers registered one hit apiece in game one. Holdsworth recorded her second home run of the season, while Megan Lombard, Kimberly Braxton and Lizzy Olmstead each recorded a double. Courtney Konyk reached base three times, including two walks, and Jasmine Conley scored two runs.

Longwood hit three home runs in the contest, with long drives off the bats of Jordan Cox, Maggie Margadonna and Brooke Short accounting for five out of the Lancers' seven runs. Short and Tricia Nelson recorded two hits apiece for Longwood.

Charleston Southern stroked two hits in the first inning, as Konyk and Matthews singled. Both were stranded on a strikeout for the third out.

Longwood took the lead during its first time at bat. Short singled, and Cox followed with a two-run home run for a 2-0 edge. Ashley Kramer flew out to end the first inning.

A pair of scoreless innings ensued. The Bucs then tied the ballgame with a pair of runs in the fourth inning. With two outs, Holdsworth launched a solo shot to left field to slice the deficit in half. Braxton then hit a double to right center field, and was driven in by a double off the bat of Olmstead. Olmstead was thrown out at third to end the inning.

The Lancers answered CSU's two runs to take a 4-2 lead after four full innings. A Tricia Nelson double plated Ashley Kramer, and Nelson advanced to third on the play. Nelson then scored on a wild pitch for a 4-2 Lancer edge.

CSU inched closer with a run in the top of the fifth. Matthews ground out with the bases loaded to drive in Conley. A strikeout ended the CSU threat. Longwood tacked on three runs on back-to-back home runs by Margadonna and Short in the bottom of the frame to build a 7-3 advantage.

After a 1-2-3 sixth for CSU, Longwood was held off the board as Holdsworth retired the side to hold the deficit to four.

The Buccaneers threatened in their last time at bat, scoring twice. A Lombard double moved Conley to third. Brock and Erin Kegley posted RBI singles to trim the deficit in half to 7-5. CSU had the tying run on base when Cornell recorded a strikeout to end the 7-5 Longwood win.

Game One Box Score.

Longwood recorded just three hits in game two, but scored runs via a home run, a single and a wild pitch in a 3-1 victory.

Wells went the distance for the victory, improving to 20-8 on the season while allowing one run on five hits. Dowdy (7-15) held the high-powered Longwood offense to three hits, yielding three runs.

Lombard led off game two with a home run and added a single for a 2-for-3 performance. She had previously hit a leadoff homer April 17, 2009 against Gardner-Webb. Brock, Kegley and Ari Tedesco posted one hit each.

Margadonna batted 1-for-2 with a home run. Courtney Long and Leta Bressin also recorded hits for Longwood, with Long and Kami Nuckols scoring runs.

A Lombard home run got CSU on the board in an instant, and the Bucs took a 1-0 lead after the first half-inning. Longwood responded with a solo shot off the bat of Margadonna to tie the game at 1-1 in the bottom of the first.

Longwood took a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the third. With runners on first and second, Bressin singled to center. Long scored from second on the play for the Lancers' second run. Dowdy got Longwood batters to pop out and ground out to end the inning.

After a scoreless third inning, Charleston Southern placed two runners on base in the fourth inning. Kegley singled with two outs, and Conley followed with a walk. A Steele groundout ended the rally. Dowdy worked around an error in recording three groundouts in the bottom of the fourth, keeping the score at 2-1.

The Buccaneers received two base runners again in the fifth. Tedesco and Lombard laced back-to-back singles, but were both stranded by a third-out strikeout.

With one Lancer on base in the fifth, Dowdy and Lombard turned a fine 1-6-3 double play to place another zero on the scoreboard.

The sixth inning saw CSU threaten for the third inning in a row. Kegley walked with one out, and Steele reached via a free pass one out later. Stephanie Sbardella fouled out for the third out of the frame.

A leadoff walk to Cox preceded Longwood's run in the bottom of the sixth inning. Pinch runner Nuckols stole second, and then advanced to third on a wild pitch. Nuckols scored on an RBI groundout by Kramer. Dowdy recorded a strikeout, and a groundout kept the score at 3-1 after six.

The Buccaneers went in order in the top of the seventh inning as Longwood sealed the 3-1 win.

Game Two Box Score

CSU will step back in to Big South play on Wednesday, April 13, as the team travels to Conway, S.C. to face Coastal Carolina in a single contest at 4 p.m. Longwood next competes at Georgetown Tuesday, April 12 in a doubleheader starting at 3 p.m.