PEMBROKE, N.C. – Lincoln Memorial's Ethan Elliott and Tyler Adams have been named to the 2018 National Collegiate Baseball Writers of America (NCBWA) All-America honorable mention squad. (2018 NCBWA All-Americans)
 
Elliott and Adams have both reaped the rewards from outstanding individual seasons. Elliott was the South Atlantic Conference Pitcher of the Year, the SAC Championship Most Valuable Player, an All-SAC first team pick and an All-Southeast Region honoree from the D2CCA, the NCBWA and the ABCA. Adams was an All-SAC second team selection, a SAC Championship All-Tournament team pick and a member of the ABCA, NCBWA and D2CCA All-Southeast Region squads. 
 
Elliott and Adams were also two of the heroes of the Railsplitters' run to their second consecutive SAC tournament title, which sent Lincoln Memorial, who finished with a program-record-tying 36 wins, to the NCAA tournament for the third time in program history. Elliott threw a 142-pitch, seven-inning gem in a victory over Carson-Newman in game one of the SAC Championship and then returned three days later to hold Catawba scoreless over three innings of relief in an 11-inning win over Catawba in the SAC title game. Adams sent that same game to extra innings with a game-tying, three-run homer in the top of the ninth inning. 
 
A product of Knoxville, Tenn., Elliott went 10-3 with a 2.95 ERA, a program-record 124 strikeouts and a .239 batting average against over 100.2 innings of work. He allowed just 91 hits and walked only 21 over that span. Notching just the third 10-win season in program history and the second of his career, Elliott established the program record with 11.09 strikeouts per nine innings and tossed the second-most innings in single-season history. 
 
Elliott spun three complete games and went at least seven innings in eight of his 14 starts. He finished with double-digit strikeouts on eight occasions, including a season-high 12 in a complete-game two-hitter against Carson-Newman. He fanned 11 in a complete-game victory at eventual SAC champions Catawba, and won his last five appearances, including a complete-game gem against Georgia College in the Southeast Regional opener.  
 
Adams – a shortstop from Woodstock, Ga. – started 56 of the Railsplitters' 57 games and racked up a .356 batting average while leading the team in runs with 72, doubles with a program-record 23, homers with 12, total bases with 132, walks with 32 and stolen bases with 14 on 14 attempts. Adams' 56 starts were the second-most in program history, while his 72 runs fell just two shy of matching the program record. 
 
The sophomore led Lincoln Memorial with 22 multi-hit games and produced 12 multiple-RBI performances. He compiled a 14-game hitting streak from February 19-March 16 with eight multi-hit games over that span.  He ended the season riding a 13-game hitting streak that featured four consecutive multi-hit efforts. Adams reached base safely in each of the last 16 games. 
 
It marks the second straight season that a Railsplitter has collected All-American accolades, as Logan Augustine earned that distinction following the 2017 campaign.