HARROGATE, Tenn. -- The Lady Railsplitters (20-15) welcome the Queens Royals (16-22, 2-10 SAC) to Dorothy Neely Field on Saturday for a crucial South Atlantic Conference doubleheader. First pitch in game one is set for 1 p.m., while game two will start at approximately 3 p.m.
 
Lincoln Memorial, who had its midweek doubleheader against Brevard postponed and a trip to King cancelled, are returning to action after swapping a pair of 2-1 decisions at Catawba last Saturday to split its third straight doubleheader. Queens is hoping to rediscover its early-season form, as the Royals have lost 14 of their last 16 games after a 14-9 start.
 
Schedule/Gameday Links:
 
Saturday, April 8 vs. Queens
Game One (1pm) – Live Stats  
Game Two (3pm) – Live Stats  
 
Quick Hits:
 
-Lincoln Memorial went 2-for-11 with runners on base and left six runners stranded in a 2-1 loss to Catawba in the early game on Saturday in Salisbury. The Lady Railsplitters outhit the Indians 7-5, with Ty-Kella Goins and Allie Jones accounting for two hits apiece, but Ashley Wagoner laced a pitch-hit RBI double in the bottom of the seventh to give Catawba the walk-off victory.
 
-Brianna Taylor allowed just six hits and one run while striking out three over seven innings of work in the late game to lead the Lady Railsplitters to a 2-1 win over the Indians. Kristen McAndrew plated the game-winning run in the top of the fourth with a sacrifice fly out. Dakotah Fraley went 2-for-4 with a pair of singles to produce two of LMU's four hits in the contest.
 
-Fraley drew a walk in game one and tallied a pair of hits in game two at Catawba to extend her reached base streak to 15 consecutive games. The Walkersville, Maryland native hit just .283 in the month of March, but has drawn the seventh-most walks in the SAC with 18 to compile a .453 on-base percentage (13th in the SAC).
 
-In its 20 wins this season, Lincoln Memorial has hit .369 with a .564 slugging percentage, averaged 8.7 runs per game and racked up 62 extra-base hits. In their 15 losses, the Lady Railsplitters have hit .231 with a .311 slugging percentage, averaged 2.2 runs per game and accounted for just 16 extra-base knocks.
 
-Goins is 37-for-90 (.411) in her last 29 games with 12 multi-hit performances, which leads the team. The freshman middle infielder is leading the Lady Railsplitters in batting average, home runs and RBI, and is tied for the team lead in doubles and steals.
 
-Taylor needs one more win to post the highest single-season win total of her career. The Ooltewah, Tennessee native, who improved to 12-7 with the victory in game two at Catawba, went 12-13 in 2016 and 11-10 in 2015. Taylor is currently in seventh place in program history with 35 career victories, which are seven away from matching Julie Hodge for No. 6.
 
Notes on the Royals:
 
-It's been a season of peaks and valleys for Queens. After starting 1-7, the Royals won 13 of 14 from February 14-March 5, a stretch that was capped by a 20-0 win at Virginia State. However, Queens is 2-14 since that win over Virginia State. That includes a doubleheader sweep at Carson-Newman where they were outscored 17-1, a sweep at Coker where they were outscored 12-2 and a sweep at Tusculum where they were outscored 14-4.
 
-Most recently, Queens dropped a SAC doubleheader at Newberry by scores of 3-0 and 6-2. In game one, Abby Lathan went 2-for-3 with a double while the rest of the team finished 1-for-19 with a single off of Newberry's Devon Morrison. The Royals and Wolves were tied at 2-2 entering the sixth inning of game two, but Newberry hung up four runs that inning to complete the sweep.
 
-Queens has been a mostly ineffective offense, ranking second-to-last in the SAC in batting average (.252), on-base percentage (.340), slugging percentage (.346), hits (241) and extra-base hits (54). The Royals also lead the SAC in strikeouts by a wide margin with 203 and have hit just .203 in league play.
 
-Sophomore utility player Sydney Ditto and freshman utility player Kelly Winter lead the Royals with 36 hits apiece. Ditto is hitting .310 with four doubles, three home runs, 18 RBI and a team-leading 21 steals and 26 runs. Winter is batting .346 with six doubles, two dingers and a team-best 20 RBI. Junior Elaina Frantellizzi is the only other Queens player hitting above .300 with a .368 average, five doubles and 14 RBI.
 
-Winter is the only Royal hitting over .300 in SAC play with a .313 average.
 
-Queens' pitching staff has a 5.75 earned run average and a .332 batting average against in SAC play. Freshman Courtney Pearson has started 20 of the team's 38 games and thrown 139.1 of a possible 242 innings. Over that span, Pearson has compiled a 2.96 ERA, an 11-13 record and 114 strikeouts. Her ERA jumps to 3.88 in SAC play. Junior Evie Scott has tossed 66 innings with a 5-5 record and a 6.68 ERA.
 
-Freshman Alyssa Strickler leads the Royals with four home runs, but is batting a mere .245 with only 24 hits this season. The utility player is hitting .207 against SAC opponents.
 
Series History:
 
-The Lady Railsplitters will be looking to exact some revenge as the Royals ended Lincoln Memorial's 2016 season with a heartbreaking 3-2 walk-off win in the SAC Championship. Jones hit the game-tying two-run home run in the top of the seventh, but Lyndey McCurry drove in the winning run with a single in the bottom of that inning.
 
-Lincoln Memorial is 7-3 all-time against Queens. The two teams split last season's doubleheader at Queens, but the Lady Railsplitters had won the previous five meetings before that.
 
-Queens run-ruled the Lady Railsplitters 11-3 in the first game of last season's doubleheader, piling up four home runs and 16 total hits in the contest. Lincoln Memorial salvaged the split with a 6-3 win in game two. Jones and Meredith Johnson both went deep to power that victory.