HARROGATE, Tenn. -- The Railsplitters (16-6) scored in seven of their eight plate appearances and scattered 18 hits to power a 14-9 win over the King Tornado (9-15) in NCAA Division II baseball action on Tuesday at Lamar Hennon Field.
 
With the win, Lincoln Memorial bounces back from its worst offensive performances of the season, an 11-0 loss in the series finale with Wingate, and avenges a 13-11 loss to King in Bristol, Tenn. from back on March 2.
 
Six different players finished with at least two hits in the game. HD Dillard (Woodstock, Ga.) led the way by going 4-for-5 at the plate with a home run, a double, three RBI and three runs scored. Peyton Sawyer (Knoxville, Tenn.) went 3-for-4 with three RBI and two runs scored, while Seth Hunt (Knoxville, Tenn.) had a triple and two doubles with a career-high four RBI. Wes Neiderland (Thompson Station, Tenn.) registered a pair of triples with two RBI, while Logan Augustine (Urbandale, Iowa) and Jean Rodriguez (Caguas, Puerto Rico) had two hits apiece.
 
Senior Zac Butler (Blue Springs, Mo.) picked up the win for the Railsplitters after allowing five earned runs and 10 hits over his five-inning start. Chase Randolph (Harriman, Tenn.) was perfect in relief for Lincoln Memorial, tossing 1 2/3 innings and allowing just one hit with two strikeouts.
 
The Railsplitters and Tornado traded a pair of runs in the bottom of the first and the top of the second, but Lincoln Memorial scored eight unanswered runs over the next three frames to build a commanding 10-2 lead.
 
Hunt drove home three runs with a bases-loaded double in the bottom of the third, while Neiderland tripled home a pair of runs and Sawyer plated two with a single in the bottom of the fourth.
 
King hit a solo home run in the fifth and a two-run home run in the sixth, but those long balls were sandwiched around Dillard's two-run blast in the bottom of the fifth.
 
The Tornado scored three runs in the top of the eighth to close the gap to 13-8, but Hunt doubled in another run in the home half of that inning to provide the Railsplitters with some breathing room.
 
Anthony Hunt hit a solo home run for King in the top of the ninth, but that would be the extent of the Tornado offense in the Railsplitters' 14-9 win.
 
Not to be outdone by the LMU offense, King produced 16 hits and belted five home runs. Dylan Sligh went 4-for-5 with a home run and three RBI, while Preston Douglas hit two home runs to account for a pair of RBI. Hunt went 3-for-5 for the Tornado with a home run and three runs scored.
 
P.J. O'Brien was saddled with the loss after serving up six earned runs and seven hits over three innings of work.
 
The Railsplitters are back in action this weekend when they travel to Salisbury, N.C. to face the Catawba Indians - the 2015 National Runners-Up and reigning South Atlantic Conference regular-season champions - for a three-game SAC set. That series commences at 6 p.m. on Friday, March 18.