BREVARD, N.C. – The Railsplitters (7-9, 2-1 SAC) took both ends of a South Atlantic Conference doubleheader from the Brevard Tornados (5-10, 1-2 SAC) on Saturday at Gil Coan Field.
 
Brandon Jean (Franklin, Tenn.) and Chase Randolph (Harriman, Tenn.) combined for 11 strikeouts and didn't allow an earned run, while AJ Weed (Hendersonville, Tenn.) drove in the go-ahead run in a 4-1 win in game one. Game two saw the Railsplitters uncork 14 hits with Logan Augustine (Urbandale, Iowa), Muta Crusoe (Bellwood, Ill.) and Timmy Wages (Molin, Ill.) hitting home runs in a 17-4 shellacking.
 
Lincoln Memorial returns to Lamar Hennon Field next weekend to host the Coker Cobras for a three-game SAC series beginning at 4 p.m. on Friday.
 
Game One: Lincoln Memorial 4, Brevard 1
 
The Railsplitters were limited to just two hits through the first five innings, but Jean turned in his best performance of the young season to keep the visitors afloat. The senior righty only allowed seven hits and one unearned run over six innings of work while striking out a season-high nine batters to pick up his first win of the season.
 
Lincoln Memorial's offense came to life in the top of the seventh inning and Randolph made that lead stand up, throwing three innings of one-hit, no-run ball with two strikeouts to nab his first save of the season.
 
Russell Clark (Wexford, Pa.) went 2-for-4 with the game-tying home run, while Tyler Adams (Woodstock, Ga.) also contributed two hits with a double and an RBI. Weed, Crusoe and Eric Kalman (Brooklyn, N.Y.) also had hits.
 
Brevard's Tyler Konzen baffled the LMU offense for six innings, but Clark's solo home run opened the floodgates in the top of the seventh and chased Konzen from the game. After Clark's lead-off blast, Wages walked, Adams singled and Crusoe reached on a throwing error. Weed then put the Railsplitters ahead for good with a single through the left side of the infield. Joe Stucky (Powell, Tenn.) flew out in the next at-bat to plate Adams and make it a 3-1 lead for LMU.
 
Konzen exited after recording just a single out in the seventh, falling to 0-3 on the season after allowing five hits and two earned runs with six strikeouts.
 
The Railsplitters tacked on an insurance run in the top of the eighth off of reliever Tyler Timms, as Kalman reached on a fielder's choice and scored on Adams' two-out double.
 
That 4-1 lead was more than enough for Randolph, who retired nine of the 10 batters he faced upon entering the game with a runner on in the bottom of the seventh. Josh Hall recorded the lone hit off of Randolph with a two-out double in the eighth frame.
 
Lincoln Memorial committed four errors in the contest and allowed Brevard to muster its only run of the game in the bottom of the fourth, when the Railsplitters made three errors alone. Brayden Morris, who singled following a dropped foul ball, scored on an RBI fielder's choice by Brian Kahn.
 
Hall, Kyle Morrison and Schuyler Martire had two hits apiece for Brevard. Four-hole hitter Blaine Durham went 0-for-4 with three strikeouts and two left on base.
 
Game Two: Lincoln Memorial 17, Brevard 4
 
The Railsplitters trailed 4-1 heading into the top of the fourth, but scored three runs in each of the next three innings and tacked on six more in the seventh to clinch the series.
 
Augustine went 2-for-4, drove in five runs, walked twice and homered for the fourth time in four games, while Crusoe went 2-for-4 with four runs scored, three RBI and hit his first career dinger. Wages also went deep and finished with two hits, four RBI and a walk. Weed went 2-for-3 with an RBI and two walks. All told, nine of the 10 LMU hitters to come to the plate finished with at least one hit, while all nine starters reached base at least once.
 
The 17 runs were the most Lincoln Memorial has scored against a SAC opponent since racking up 20 at Brevard on March 23, 2013.
 
Six Brevard pitchers combined to walk 12 batters in the contest. Stater Teke Scudder was tagged with the loss after serving up eight hits, eight runs and four walks over 4.2 innings of work, falling to 1-1 in the process.
 
Matt Mullenbach (Urbandale, Iowa) made the start for the Railsplitters, but was pulled after allowing three earned runs and four hits with four walks in just 1.2 innings. But Dominic Morabito (Vienna, Va.) was nearly flawless in 5.1 innings of relief, giving up only one hit while striking out six and not issuing a walk to nail down his first win of the season.
 
Morabito retired 16 of the 19 batters he faced. The only Brevard hitters to reach off of Morabito besides Martire, who singled in the bottom of the fourth, were Joseph Nelms and Brandon Loran. Those two reached via a hit-by-pitch and an error, respectively.
 
The Railsplitters took an early lead on Kalman's two-run double in the top of the first, but the Tornados scored three runs in the bottom of that inning and added another in the home half of the second on Durham's RBI single.
 
Lincoln Memorial changed the course of the game in the top of the fourth, as Crusoe doubled and Seth Hunt (Knoxville, Tenn.) walked in front of Augustine, who hammered a two-out, three-run home run to put the Railsplitters ahead for good.
 
In the fifth frame, Wages doubled and Kalman walked to set the stage for Crusoe's three-run dinger. The Bellwood, Ill. native now has six extra-base hits in 21 at-bats this season.  
 
Lincoln Memorial scored three more runs in the sixth stanza on an RBI double from Adams and a run-scoring single from Weed. A throwing error on Weed's hit also allowed Crusoe to score.
 
The Railsplitters then piled it on in the visitor's half of the seventh, as Wages hit a grand slam to push his season RBI total to 17, which trails only Augustine's 20. Augustine picked up RBI 19 and 20 in that same inning with a two-out, two-run single.