HARROGATE, Tenn. -- The 11th-ranked Railsplitters (23-4, 18-3 SAC) used a 15-0 first-half run and 43 combined points from Chris Perry (Bartow, Fla.) and Trevon Shaw (St. Helena Island, S.C.) to defeat the Anderson Trojans 93-71 in the regular-season home finale on Wednesday night at Tex Turner Arena.
 
The victory extends Lincoln Memorial's winning streak to 13 and gives the Railsplitters a chance to clinch at worst a share of their fifth straight South Atlantic Conference title in the regular-season finale on Saturday.
 
"Workman-like would be the best way to describe it," LMU head coach Josh Schertz said of the 22-point win. "We did enough good things on both sides of the ball to get the job done. I was disappointed in our defense in the second half, but we did enough to get the job done. It wasn't one that you get great satisfaction from because I don't think we played great. We played really well in spurts, but the overall performance was very uneven."
 
Shaw had 22 points on a 3-for-3 mark from three and a perfect 9-for-9 effort at the free-throw line to go along with three assists and two rebounds, while Perry posted 21 points on 7-for-11 shooting with 10 rebounds to notch his seventh double-double of the season.
 
Along with that duo, Luquon Choice (Laurens, S.C.) accounted for his third double-double of the season with 12 points and 10 rebounds while also limiting Anderson's Randall Shaw - the SAC's leading scorer - to just 14 points on a dreadful 3-for-17 effort. Cornelius Taylor (Claxton, Ga.), Emanuel Terry (Enterprise, Ala.) and Paul Woodson (Cincinnati, Ohio) chipped in 10 points apiece.
 
The Railsplitters shot 54.8 percent from the field despite going 4-for-13 from three-point range. Lincoln Memorial also converted 21 of its 26 free-throw attempts for an 81 percent clip.
 
The Trojans used six early points from Carlos Dotson to take an 8-7 lead into the first media timeout, but the Railsplitters turned up the heat defensively for the next passage of play, holding Anderson scoreless for a more than seven-minute stretch.
 
Over that span, Lincoln Memorial reeled off 15 unanswered points to take a 22-10 lead with 8:33 left in the half. Shaw scored the first six points of that run, while Perry scored the last nine.
 
The Trojans made a brief run and cut Lincoln Memorial's lead to seven on a jumper by Dotson with 4:43 remaining, but the Railsplitters ripped off a 12-1 flurry to assume a 40-22 lead on two Choice free throws at the 1:31 mark. Choice buried a three-pointer as time expired in the half to send the Railsplitters into the break with a 45-26 lead.
 
When it was all said and done, the Railsplitters went 16-for-31 (51.6 percent) from the field in the half while holding Anderson to a 12-for-34 (35.3 percent) effort over that same span.
 
Lincoln Memorial let Anderson make 47 percent of its shots in the second half, but the outcome was never in jeopardy.
 
The Trojans whittled the deficit down to 11 points at 59-48 on a triple by Andrew Boynton with 12:54 left in regulation. However, two quick buckets from Shaw and Woodson pushed the lead back to 15 quickly after that.
 
Boynton hit another three to cut the Railsplitters' lead to 14 with just over 10 minutes left, but a 10-0 LMU run made it 77-53 and forced the Trojans to burn a timeout at the 7:39 mark.
 
The Railsplitters' lead crested at 29 on a breakaway dunk for Woodson with 4:33 left.
 
Dotson punished the Railsplitters on the interior and led Anderson with 24 points on 11-of-17 shooting to go along with eight rebounds. Dotson and Shaw were the only two Trojans to reach double figures, while Boynton had nine points and Shawn Benard produced seven in 32 minutes off the bench.
 
Now Lincoln Memorial directs its attention to Saturday's regular-season finale at Catawba, who obliterated the Wingate Bulldogs by 32 points on Wednesday night in Salisbury, N.C. Wingate entered that contest with wins in 15 of its last 16 games and ranked seventh in the latest Southeast Region poll.
 
"Going in there is going to be a really, really difficult test," said Schertz. "They've got a great team, they are well coached and they've got really good players. They've been knocking on the door all season."
 
A win would secure the Railsplitters at least a share of the South Atlantic Conference regular-season championship and the No. 1 seed for the upcoming SAC Tournament. It would be Lincoln Memorial's fifth straight SAC title.
 
"Certainly I would have taken it before the season if you would have told me that we would have a one-game shot to clinch a fifth straight league title," Schertz said. "I would have signed up for that. We've got a lot of preparation and we've got to do our work to make sure we are prepared and ready. As well as Catawba just played, we will have to be as focused, tough and energized as we have all season."
 
Quick Hits
The Railsplitters outrebounded the Trojans by a narrow 39-34 margin and scored 15 second-chance points on eight offensive boards…Anderson never led by more than two points, and that was 27 seconds into the game…It marked LMU's eighth straight win over Anderson and the fifth straight decided by double figures…LMU's four three-pointers matched a season-low mark. The Railsplitters also hit just four threes against Bellarmine (12/31) and Alabama-Huntsville (11/19)