ENKA, N.C. – The Lady Railsplitters split a South Atlantic Conference doubleheader with Mars Hill on a wild day at Enka High School on Tuesday afternoon. 
 
It was a brutal afternoon for both pitching staffs as the two teams combined for 49 runs, 62 hits and 20 walks in the twinbill. Lincoln Memorial (21-19, 4-10 SAC) jumped out to a 9-1 lead in game one before squandering it late. However, the Lady Railsplitters outlasted Mars Hill (13-15, 4-10 SAC) in 10 innings, 16-13. The Lions salvaged the series and secured the split in game two, though, by rallying from deficits of 7-4 and 9-7 to win 11-9. 
 
The loss in game two snapped LMU's nine-game winning streak against Mars Hill that dated back to April 2014. 
 
The Lady Railsplitters are back in action on Saturday, April 14 as the team heads to Wingate for the final road trip of the season. That SAC doubleheader is set for a 1 p.m. start. 
 
Game One: Lincoln Memorial 16, Mars Hill 13 (10 innings) 
 
Ty-Kella Goins hit a go-ahead, three-run homer in the top of the 10th inning to power the Lady Railsplitters to victory in a bonkers back-and-forth, four-hour marathon. 
 
The game-winning blast put the finishing touches on a sensational individual performance for Goins, who went 5-for-7 at the plate and matched the program record with seven RBI. She racked up two doubles as well to finish with 10 total bases while becoming the first player with seven runs driven in since Meloney Rogers established the program record in 1988. 
 
The Lady Railsplitters set a new season-high mark for runs and hits, tallying 19 in the contest. In addition to Goins, Allie Jones went 3-for-7 with two RBI and three runs scored, Emma Webb finished 3-for-6 with a double and Kelsie Hocutt finished 3-for-5 with two RBI and a double. Jacie Pittman added a pair of singles as well. 
 
Lincoln Memorial scored early and often, building a 9-1 lead midway through the fourth inning and clinging to an 11-6 cushion midway through the seventh, but no lead was safe against a Mars Hill team that piled up 16 hits and took advantage of eight walks. 
 
Five players produced multiple hits for the Lions. Kayleigh Jonas went 3-for-5 with two runs while Ragan Broome was 2-for-4 with three walks, a home run, one RBI and four runs scored. Addison Harris doubled twice as did Jordan Harris. Emiley Burriss drove in four runs as part of a 2-for-4 performance. Ashley Evans reached base four times with a single and three walks. 
 
Justice Smith picked up the win despite allowing 10 hits and nine runs – five earned – with three strikeouts and five walks over 5.0 innings. Smith moved to 12-6 on the season with the victory. Brianna Taylor didn't fare much better but earned her third save after allowing six hits, four runs and three walks with four strikeouts over 5.0 frames. 
 
After Mars Hill pushed a run across in the bottom of the first, the Lady Railsplitters busted the game open with a six-run flurry in the top of the second. Back-to-back doubles by Bella Buccellato and Goins scored the first three runs of the frame before back-to-back RBI singles by Hocutt and Ashlea Hunter capped the six-run rally. 
 
Jones drove in a run in the third and Goins plated two more with a double in the fourth to put the game in run-rule territory at 9-1, but Mars Hill continued to plug away. The Lions scored one in the bottom of the fourth and two in the fifth and sixth innings to close the gap to 9-6. 
 
With the Lions charging, the Lady Railsplitters seemingly put the game away by pushing two more runs across in the seventh, as Hocutt singled in a run and Grace Cochran made it 11-6 with a sacrifice fly out. 
 
But that wasn't enough as the Lions plated five runs in the home half of that inning to force extra innings. Hollie Norris got the scoring started with a two-run single. After a pair of groundouts took Mars Hill down to its last out, Burriss laced a two-run single to cut the deficit to one and Harris tied it up with an RBI double. After Harris' double, the Lions had a chance to win it in regulation with runners on second and third but Jonas grounded out to send the game to extras. 
 
Both teams scored a run apiece on RBI singles in the eighth inning to send the game to the ninth tied at 12-12. Lincoln Memorial again reclaimed the lead in the ninth with an RBI groundout by Hunter. The Lions quickly answered, though, knotting the game with a single from Burriss. Mars Hill then threatened to win the game that same inning with a two-out single and walk, but Casey Stanek struck out to strand the bases loaded. 
 
Goins put the game away once and for all in the top of the 10th, hammering her second home run of the season over the wall in left-center to give the Lady Railsplitters a 16-13 lead. Mars Hill went down in one-two-three order in the bottom of that inning to complete far and away the longest game of the season for the Lady Railsplitters. 
 
Mars Hill ran four pitchers at Lincoln Memorial and all four allowed at least two earned runs. Jonas was saddled with the loss after surrendering three hits and five runs – two earned – with one strikeout and one walk over 3.2 innings. 
 
Despite the 29 combined runs and 35 combined hits, both teams squandered multiple opportunities at the plate. Lincoln Memorial left 14 runners stranded in the contest while Mars Hill left 16 on the bases, including the bases loaded twice down the stretch. 
 
Game Two: Mars Hill 11, Lincoln Memorial 9 
 
The Lady Railsplitters' offense was more than good enough to win, as the team scattered 14 hits. Cochran hit her first career home run and drove in five runs as part of a 2-for-4 effort while Hocutt again produced three hits with a pair of RBI and runs scored. Jones, Hunter and Audrey Petoskey added two hits as well. 
 
But Mars Hill's hot bats carried over from game one as well. The Lions piled up 13 hits, led by a 3-for-3 effort by Evans that included three doubles, three runs and an RBI. Harris, Broome and Taylor Lail each had a double and a homer in the contest. 
 
There were only three half innings that did not feature a run. 
 
The Lady Railsplitters took the lead in the top of the first on an RBI single for Hocutt, but solo shots by Broome and Lail gave Mars Hill a 2-1 lead in the bottom half of that inning. 
 
Jacie Pittman tied the game with an RBI single in the visitor's half of the second before the Lions tacked on two more runs on an RBI double and run-scoring RBI in the home half. 
 
The Lady Railsplitters took the lead shortly after that, though, as Teddi Collins singled in a run in the third, Hocutt drove in another in the fourth and Cochran lifted a three-run shot that same inning to put Lincoln Memorial up 7-4. 
 
That lead was short-lived as Mars Hill answered with three runs in the bottom of the fourth, tying the game on a two-run double by Lail. 
 
Cochran put the Lady Railsplitters back ahead with a two-run single in the fifth but Mars Hill took the lead for good in the bottom of that inning on a two-run double from Burriss and another run-scoring error. 
 
Mars Hill plated the final run of the game in the bottom of the sixth as Harris led off with a solo homer. 
 
Webb singled and Cochran walked to put the tying run on base in the top of the seventh but Petoskey struck out looking to end the threat and the game. 
 
Smith took the loss this time around after giving up six hits and five runs over 4.0 innings. Taylor surrendered seven hits and four earned runs in her 2.0 innings of action. 
 
Four pitchers again threw for Mars Hill, with Brittany Duncan earning the win with 2.2 innings of two-hit, no-run ball.