HARROGATE, Tenn. – Muta Crusoe (Bellwood, Ill.) laced the go-ahead two-run double down the left field line in game two of Wednesday's doubleheader at Lamar Hennon Field to help Lincoln Memorial (13-13, 6-3 SAC) salvage a split with the visiting Bloomsburg Huskies (10-7).

Bloomsberg's Damin Muth launched the go-ahead grand slam to complete a stretch that saw the Huskies score eight unanswered runs in the team's 8-6 comeback win in game one. The Railsplitters jumped out to a 6-0 lead after the first three innings behind Mason Ewers' (Kingsport, Tenn.) RBI double in the first and solo homer down the left field line in the third. Dalton Dedas (Louisville, Ky.) also added a two-run single in the team's four-run third that saw 10 batters come to the plate. Muth finished 2-for-4 with five RBI.

Tyler Benson's two-run double in the fifth inning of game two put the Huskies up 2-1 and knocked starter Matt Walczak (Levittown, Pa.) out of the game. Timmy Wages (Molin, Ill.) held the Bloomsburg offense in check with 2.2 hitless innings and picked up the win after Crusoe's double put the Railsplitters ahead 3-2.

Wages also went 4-for-6 on the afternoon, including 3-for-4 in game one, and was also hit by a pitch for the NCAA-leading 15^th time.

The Railsplitters continue their eight-game home stand with a three-game nonconference series Friday and Saturday against Saginaw Valley State.
 
Game One: Bloomsburg 8, Lincoln Memorial 6

Seth Hunt (Knoxville, Tenn.) and the Lincoln Memorial offense continued their hot-hitting ways from the past week with two quick runs in the bottom of the first. Hunt led off with a single and came around to score on Ewers' double. Ewers advanced to third on a passed ball and scored when Russell Clark (Wexford, Pa.) grounded out.

Ewers' home run kick started another Lincoln Memorial rally two innings later. Logan Augustine (Urbandale, Iowa) followed with a single. After Clark again grounded out, four straight Railsplitters reached, capped by Dedas' two-run single, to put four more runs on the board.

The Railsplitters would only muster two more singles the rest of the way—both by Wages.

Derek Trainor-Fogleman (Gaithersburg, Md.) coasted through the first five innings, as the Huskies were sent down in order four times.

He issued back-to-back walks to open the sixth, followed by an Austin Edgette RBI single, to conclude his afternoon. Cody Hinson (Taylor Ridge, Ill.) came on in relief and allowed both inherited runners to score. He also allowed an earned run of his own as the Huskies cut the Railsplitter lead to 6-4.

Chase Randolph (Harriman, Tenn.) relieved Hinson for the seventh inning and allowed four more runs to score. Three of the first four Bloomsberg batters he faced reached base before Muth's towering grand slam that hit off the light post in left field.

Jeremy Zezza only allowed a Ewers single in three scoreless innings of relief to finish the game and pick up his first career win.
 
Game Two: Lincoln Memorial 3, Lincoln Memorial 2

Lincoln Memorial again scored first as Hunt laced a two-out single in the bottom of the third and came around on another Ewers double.

Walczak made his first career start on the mound for the Railsplitters and held the Huskies hitless through the first four innings. Bloomsburg finally broke through against the freshman lefty in the fifth with two runs and three hits.

Blake Gular and Nate Krizan led off with singles, and Edgette walked two batters later to load the bases. Benson then doubled down the right field line to plate the game's first two runs and end Walczak's day after 4.1 innings. Wages came on in relief end got Lincoln Memorial out of the inning without any further damage.

Those would be the only runs and hits the Huskies would muster for the game.

Ashton Raines also posted a strong outing for Bloomsburg, as the righty allowed four hits and the one run through his first five innings.

He ran into trouble in the sixth as he hit Wages with a pitch and Eric Kalman (Brooklyn, N.Y.) followed with a single. Crusoe then doubled to score both and put the Railsplitters ahead 3-2.

Wages walked Bloomburg's leadoff batter in the top of the seventh but retired the next three to secure his third win of the year. Raines took the tough-luck loss to fall to 2-1.

Augustine went hitless in three at bats to see his on-base streak end at 29 games dating back to 2016.