HARROGATE, Tenn. – The Lincoln Memorial University baseball team completed its first South Atlantic Conference series sweep of the season and clinched the No. 4 seed in the SAC Championship by winning both ends of Saturday's doubleheader over Mars Hill (21-26-1, 10-17 SAC) at Lamar Hennon Field. The Railsplitters (31-18, 15-12 SAC) concluded their regular season with wins of 13-3 in game one and 5-4 in walk-off fashion in game two. 
 
LMU reached 30 regular-season wins for the first time since 2009 and 23 home wins for the first time since 2007.
 
Before the start of game one, the team honored its nine seniors: Logan Augustine, Muta Crusoe, Mason Ewers, Jack Gomersall, Dominic Morabito, Chase Randolph, Timmy Wages, Jake Watkins, and student assistant coach Kaleb Savage. 
 
The Railsplitters begin their SAC Championship title defense against Carson-Newman in their opening game of the double-elimination tournament on Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Smokies Stadium in Kodak, Tennessee.
 
Game One: Lincoln Memorial 13, Mars Hill 3
 
Ewers celebrated Senior Day in style with a pair of home runs and five RBI. Four other Railsplitters notched two hits: Seth Hunt, Will Reddick, Tyler Adams and Dalton Dedas. Dedas doubled twice, and Hunt hit an RBI triple. Joe Stucky drew three walks and reached base four times.
 
LMU plated the 13 runs on 12 hits. The offense was aided by eight free passes and five Mars Hill errors.
 
Joe Bobiak received more than enough run support to pick up his seventh win of the year and improve to 7-1 overall. The lefty allowed three earned runs in five-plus innings and struck out six. Kevin Norton followed with 3.2 scoreless innings in relief.
 
Christian Stampler doubled and homered for the Lions. Lance Edwards and Daniel Vitello also each recorded two hits. Brett Brubaker walked three times.
 
Ewers' two-run shot put the Railsplitters on the board in the second inning, and Hunt later added a sac fly. Ewers again went deep in the third with a three-run blast to put LMU ahead 6-0.
 
Mars Hill cut that lead in half with a pair of runs on an RBI double and groundout in the fifth and Stampler's leadoff solo homer in the sixth. Norton got an inning-ending punchout with the bases loaded to squash any further rally.
 
Lincoln Memorial pulled ahead over the next three innings with two runs in the bottom of the sixth, three in the seventh and two more in the eighth. Hunt scored on a wild pitch, and Chris Salvey had an RBI groundout to account for the sixth-inning runs. Dedas doubled, Hunt tripled and Reddick singled to each drive in runs the next inning. A fielding error and Stucky sac fly pushed across the final two runs.
 
Zac Brown took the loss to fall to 4-3 with eight runs allowed in 6.0 innings, though only five were earned.
 
Game Two: Lincoln Memorial 5, Mars Hill 4 (8 innings)
 
Wages delivered a walk-off single in the bottom of the eighth in his final home game, and Matt Mullenbach went the distance and struck out 14 to aid LMU's victory in game two to complete the sweep.
 
Mullenbach's 14 strikeouts are the most by a Railsplitter pitcher since 2002. The junior righty struck out eight of the first nine batters he faced and recorded multiple punchouts in five of his 8.0 innings pitched—also a career high. Mullenbach surrendered four earned runs on six hits and a walk and improved to 6-2.
 
Wages was the only LMU player to tally multiple hits and finished 2-for-4. He narrowly missed a home run in the fourth inning and settled for a double off the left field wall. It was Wages' second walk-off hit of the year—he singled in the winning run in the bottom of the ninth of LMU's 12-11 comeback win over Carson-Newman on March 25.
 
Adams notched his 21^stdouble of the year in the fourth inning to tie the program single-season record. Hunt again tripled and drove in two runs.
 
Matt Honeycutt was the only Lion with two hits with a 2-for-4 game. Stampler again homered, and Vitello also went deep.
 
Stampler's home run broke Mullenbach's no-hitter with two outs in the top of the fourth inning and put Mars Hill ahead 2-0. Salvey hit a sac fly in the bottom half to give LMU its first run.
 
Vitello's solo shot in the fifth increased the Lions' lead to 3-1, but Hunt's two-run triple in the bottom half tied the score. The tie was brief, as Reddick hit a sac fly to drive in Hunt and give LMU its first lead of the game.
 
Mars Hill tied the score in the sixth after Honeycutt doubled and later came around to score on an RBI groundout.
 
The 4-4 score held until the bottom of the eighth. The Lions got two quick outs, but a throwing error and walk set up Wages' walk-off. The hit was Bryson Bailey's only one allowed in 2.2 innings of relief. He took the loss, though the run was unearned.