HARROGATE, Tenn. – The Lady Railsplitters (16-7) kicked off a six-game home stand by sweeping a doubleheader from the Trevecca Trojans (10-12) on a cold and breezy Thursday afternoon at Dorothy Neely Field.
 
Lincoln Memorial scattered at least 10 hits for the fifth time in its last nine games, while all nine starters reached base in a 5-3 win in game one. The offense stalled in game two, but freshman right-hander Justice Smith (Rockmart, Ga.) threw a complete-game shutout to lead the Lady Railsplitters to a 1-0 win.
 
Lincoln Memorial improved to 7-1 in Harrogate this season following the two wins.
 
The Lady Railsplitters open South Atlantic Conference play on Saturday with a doubleheader against the Wingate Bulldogs at 1 p.m. at Dorothy Neely Field.
 
Game One: Lincoln Memorial 5, Trevecca 3
 
Eight of the Lady Railsplitters' nine starters finished with at least one hit, while Jennifer Moose (Statesville, N.C.) and Ashlea Hunter (Woodruff, S.C.) combined to go 4-for-6 with two singles apiece. Moose also drove in two runs. Meredith Johnson (Kenly, N.C.) hit her first home run of the season, while Dakotah Fraley (Walkersville, Md.) drove in a run as well.
 
Brianna Taylor (Ooltewah, Tenn.) allowed 10 hits, but surrendered just two earned runs and retired seven of the last eight batters she faced to finish off her complete game. Taylor didn't issue a walk and struck out three to improve to 9-3 on the season.
 
The Trojans drew first blood with a run in the top of the first frame. Makray Odum sparked the rally with a single and advanced to second on an infield error. She then scored on Caitlyn Hudgins' single down the left-field line that hopped just over third base in fair territory.
 
The Lady Railsplitters erased that run in the bottom of the second on Johnson's line-drive home run over the wall in right field, and eventually took the lead in the third inning, as Moose drew a leadoff walk and scored two batters later on Ty-Kella Goins' (Ramseur, N.C.) infield single.
 
Trevecca pulled back even in the top of the fourth on Bailey Alexander's run-scoring double, which plated Mary Collins, who singled. However, the Lady Railsplitters took the lead for good in the home half of the fourth.
 
Jacie Pittman (Travelers Rest, S.C.) sparked the rally with a single, while a throwing error and a single by Hunter loaded the bases with no outs. Fraley brought the eventual game-winning run home on a sacrifice fly out to left, while Moose added another with a two-out single.
 
The Trojans got a run back in the top of the fifth on a two-out, RBI single from Hudgins, but the Lady Railsplitters erased that on another run-scoring single by Moose in the bottom of the sixth. Hunter scored on the play after reaching on a fielder's choice two batters earlier.
 
Hudgins, Alexander and Danielle Tyson led Trevecca with two hits apiece, while Hudgins drove in two of the team's three runs. Savannah Carr suffered the loss after allowing 10 hits and four earned runs with three strikeouts in six innings of work.
 
Game Two: Lincoln Memorial 1, Trevecca 0
 
After lasting less than an inning in two of her last three starts, Smith turned in arguably the best performance of her young career by allowing just two harmless singles in a complete-game shutout. Smith didn't walk a batter and struck out one to move to 7-4 on the season.
 
Tyson blooped a two-out single into shallow left field in the top of the first, but Smith retired the next 11 batters she faced. Alexander broke that streak up with an infield single in the top of the fifth, but Smith sat down the last eight batters after that to finish off her complete game.
 
The Lady Railsplitters mustered the only run of the game in the bottom of the first, as Fraley led off with a single and scored on a two-out double from Goins.
 
Lincoln Memorial threatened several times after that, but was unable to push a run across. The Lady Railsplitters loaded the bases in the second after Pittman and Hunter singled around a Kristen McAndrew (Belmont, N.C.) walk, but back-to-back groundouts ended that rally.
 
Singles from Johnson and Allie Jones (Ooltewah, Tenn.) put two runners on in the bottom of the sixth, but a groundout and a strikeout halted that rally as well.
 
Raygn Hall suffered the hard-luck loss for the Trojans, allowing just one run and eight hits with five strikeouts over six innings of work to fall to 2-7 on the season.