HARTSVILLE, S.C. -- The Railsplitters' (22-18, 14-10 SAC) recent offensive struggles became a distant memory on Saturday as Lincoln Memorial went wild at the plate to sweep a South Atlantic Conference baseball doubleheader from the Coker Cobras (15-24, 6-17 SAC) in Hartsville, S.C. The Railsplitters deposited 15 hits in an 8-2 win in the opener before collecting a season-high 18 knocks in a 12-5 win in the nightcap.
 
Senior Nick Morabito (Vienna, Va.) went 5-for-8 in the twinbill with three RBI and four runs scored, which included a solo home run in game two. The Vienna, Va. native has now accounted for multiple hits in eight of his past nine appearances. Senior Kyle Floyd (Windsor, Ill.) was 5-for-9 over the two-game set, highlighted by a 4-for-5 effort in game two. Additionally, Eric Kalman (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Wes Neiderland (Thompson Station, Tenn.) and Ryan Burlison (Romeoville, Ill.) accounted for two hits in both ends of the doubleheader.
 
The Railsplitters entered Saturday's doubleheader with nine total hits in the previous two games. The doubleheader sweep helped maintain Lincoln Memorial's position at No. 4 in the current South Atlantic Conference standings.
 
Game One: Lincoln Memorial 8, Coker 2
 
The Cobras were the first team on the board as Jack Leech singled and scored on a triple by Taylor Fennewald, who later scored on a two-out error in the infield in the bottom of the second inning.
 
Coker starting pitcher Forrest Arnold befuddled the Railsplitters early, setting down nine straight batters after serving up a one-out single to Logan Augustine (Urbandale, Iowa) in the top of the first inning. Morabito ended that streak with a base knock in the top of the fourth, but Lincoln Memorial would have to wait until the fifth for its breakthrough.
 
Neiderland kicked off that inning by drilling a triple into straightaway center field. The Railsplitters then cut the deficit in half with a sacrifice fly out from Jonathan Lowe (Sidney, Ohio). Burlison put Lincoln Memorial back in business with a single, and he came around to score on a three-bagger by Jean Rodriguez (Caguas, Puerto Rico). Morabito gave the Railsplitters a 3-2 advantage with a two-out, run-scoring single.
 
Coker manufactured a pair of two-out singles in the bottom of the fifth, but came up empty, while the Railsplitters added another run in the sixth on an RBI double from Burlison.
 
A sacrifice fly out by Floyd and an RBI double by Kalman extended the Railsplitters' lead to 6-2 in the seventh, while Scott Miller (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Lowe drove in a run apiece in both the eighth and ninth innings. The Railsplitters combined for 13 of their 15 hits in the final five innings of the contest.
 
Brandon Jean (Franklin, Tenn.) threw 6 1/3 innings and improved to 4-2 with one earned run and nine hits allowed. Jean fanned four batters before giving way to Morabito, who limited Coker to just two hits without a run over 2 2/3 innings down the stretch.
 
The middle of Coker's batting order combined for six of the team's 11 hits, as Will Winslow, Sammy Song and Leech each went 2-for-4 to lead the Cobras' attack. Arnold was saddled with the loss after serving up 10 hits and five earned runs over seven innings.
 
Game Two: Lincoln Memorial 12, Coker 5
 
The Railsplitters scored in five of the game's seven innings, including a pair of late four-run outbursts, to pace the 12-5 triumph.
 
After a foul out and a fly out, Morabito and Floyd doubled in back-to-back at-bats to press the Railsplitters out to a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning.
 
Grant Painter (Knoxville, Tenn.) set the Cobras down in order in the home half of that inning, while singles from Neiderland and Burlison put Lincoln Memorial back in position to score in the second. Neiderland scored on a wild pitch that occurred with Rodriguez at the plate and Burlison came around two batters later on a double by Miller.
 
The Cobras took a run back in that same inning as Winslow walked and scored on a two-out double from Diaz. But the Railsplitters erased that in the third frame on Morabito's leadoff, solo home run. The dinger was Morabito's seventh of the season, which leads Lincoln Memorial and ranks fifth in the South Atlantic Conference.
 
Coker accounted for the remainder of its offensive output and briefly gained the lead in the bottom of the third frame, compiling four hits and using a costly LMU miscue to hang four runs on the board. Morabito's error at third base with two outs allowed the first run of that inning to come across, while a two-run double by Winslow and a run-scoring single by Osik allowed three more unearned runs to come across in the subsequent at-bats.
 
Two innings later, the Railsplitters reasserted the lead. Morabito drew a leadoff walk, Floyd singled and Kalman singled to load the bases with no outs in the fifth for Neiderland, who cleared the bases with a triple to center field. Lowe scored Neiderland in the next at-bat with a sacrifice fly out, giving the Railsplitters an 8-5 lead.
 
The bottom of the fifth and the sixth frames passed without consequence, but the Railsplitters exploded for four more runs in the top of the seventh. The Cobras committed two errors in that inning, while Augustine plated a pair of runs with a single. Rodriguez and Morabito contributed the other two runs of that inning.
 
Painter improved to 5-4 with six hits and one earned runs allowed over four innings. Chase Randolph (Harriman, Tenn.) dazzled in three shutout innings of relief, allowing one hit and striking out two.
 
13 of LMU's 18 hits came against Ryan Milner, who was stuck with the loss. Milner gave up eight runs and struck out four in his five-inning start. Bryson Conner was the only player for Coker with multiple hits in the contest.
 
The Railsplitters and Cobras complete their three-game SAC series with a single nine-inning tilt on Sunday. First pitch is slated for 1 p.m.