HARTSVILLE, S.C. – The Lady Railsplitters kicked off the final weekend of the regular season with a 25-21, 19-25, 25-14, 25-15 win over the Coker Cobras on Friday night at the DeLoach Center. 
 
Lincoln Memorial (18-7, 14-5 SAC) was rock solid offensively, compiling 50 kills on a .226 attack percentage to push its winning streak to four and improve to 9-1 over its last 10 matches. Coker (12-16, 4-15 SAC), meanwhile, managed to hit only .095 in the match, committing 26 attack errors to fall to 1-11 all-time against the Lady Railsplitters. 
 
LMU racked up 20 block assists to shut down the Coker attack, good for its third-highest block total of the season. 
 
Tone Gill had a night to remember for the Lady Railsplitters, leading the team with 12 kills without an error on 19 attempts to go along with five block assists and three aces. Lindsey Nartker added 11 kills, eight digs, five blocks and three aces, while Rylee Storms compiled 10 kills and five digs. Kai Wesemann chipped in seven kills. Danielle Ged also finished with five block assists in the match. Emily Walter had a double-double with 22 assists and 17 digs, while Erica Whiteaker led all players with 30 digs. 
 
Olivia Cerick was the only Coker player with double-digit kills, leading all players with 14. Olivia Veith had nine, while Taylor du Bray and Lana Strejcek had eight apiece. Rami Mullen led all players with 35 assists to go along with 15 digs, while Kara Overholt paced the Cobras with 25 digs. 
 
The Cobras were in control early in the first set, jumping out to an 11-7 lead with a flurry of kills. But Lincoln Memorial rallied back to take a 14-12 lead with a 7-1 run capped by a kill from Nartker. A 6-1 spurt put Coker back in front briefly, but the Lady Railsplitters took the lead for good with another 7-1 run fueled by two kills and two aces from Nartker. Another ace – this time from Walter – clinched LMU's 25-21 win. 
 
The Lady Railsplitters had the early edge in the second set, establishing leads of 7-4, 12-10 and 14-12. However, a pair of kills from Veith kick-started a 6-0 run that put the Cobras in front 20-16. Lincoln Memorial never trailed by less than three points after that, while a service error ended a 25-19 win for Coker. The Cobras managed just 11 kills on a .152 mark, but LMU couldn't match that pace with 10 kills and six errors in the set. 
 
Lincoln Memorial turned things around offensively in the third set, though, piling up 14 kills on a sizzling .297 attack percentage to roll in a dominant 25-14 triumph. The Cobras led 12-11 near the midway point, but the Lady Railsplitters used four consecutive kills to ignite a 14-2 closing run. Wesemann accounted for LMU's last four points with kills. 
 
The Lady Railsplitters then dominated set four from start to finish to close out the Cobras, scoring the first five points of the set while building a commanding 9-2 lead in an eventual 25-15 victory. The Lady Railsplitters never led by less than two points after that quick start, while back-to-back aces from Gill put the finishing touch on the four-set win. 
 
Quick Hits
 
- Ged and Alicia Kessler chipped in five kills apiece for the Lady Railsplitters. Abby Higgins finished with a season-high 15 assists. 
 
- Du Bray entered Tuesday's match as the SAC's leader in kills per set, but she finished with only eight kills and 10 errors on 45 attempts. 
 
Up Next 
 
The Lady Railsplitters close out the regular season with a matchup at Wingate on Saturday at 2 p.m. The Bulldogs will be looking to clinch their 12th SAC regular-season title of the past 13 seasons, while Lincoln Memorial aims to win a set at Wingate for the first time since 2009.