ANDERSON, S.C. – The Lincoln Memorial baseball team completed its dominant South Atlantic Conference-opening series at Anderson by sweeping a doubleheader from the Trojans 6-4 and 8-0 on Monday at Memorial Stadium.
 
For the first time since joining the SAC prior to the 2007 campaign, the Railsplitters (9-6, 3-0 SAC) have swept the first conference series of the season. Lincoln Memorial accomplished that feat in overwhelming fashion, outscoring Anderson (6-6, 0-3 SAC) by a combined 23-4 margin. The Railsplitters also out-hit the Trojans 35-18.
 
Lincoln Memorial will complete its eight-game road trip on Tuesday afternoon with a single game at Lee University. First pitch is set for 3 p.m.
 
Game One: Lincoln Memorial 6, Anderson 4
 
Chris Salvey hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the top of the fourth inning and Hudson Widrig pitched 4.1 scoreless innings in relief to lead the Railsplitters past the Trojans to clinch the SAC-opening series.
 
Lincoln Memorial scattered 11 hits and saw four different players finish with multiple hits. Alex Allen went 3-for-5 with an RBI and a double, while Salvey drove in three runs as part of a 2-for-5 effort. Brent Richey registered a pair of singles, and Will Reddick had two singles with a run as well. Nate Stinson doubled, drove in a run and walked twice, while Seth Hunt drew two free passes also.
 
Eli Wright made the start for the Railsplitters and the freshman righty kept Anderson scoreless through the first two frames. However, a three-run, game-tying homer for Chandler Castleberry followed by a hit batter and a single chased Wright from the game in the bottom of the third.
 
Widrig was called into the game at that point and limited the Trojans to only two singles over the next 4.1 innings. The junior right-hander struck out three and walked one over that span to pick up the first win of his tenure in the Blue and Gray. Devin Morris earned the save after allowing only one run and two hits with four strikeouts in the final two frames.
 
The Railsplitters took the lead in the top of the first inning when Hunt and Joe Stucky drew back-to-back walks in front of Salvey, who drove Hunt home with a single.
 
Lincoln Memorial was right back at it in the second inning, tacking on two more runs thanks to a fielding error in right field and an RBI fielder's choice for Stinson. Allen scored on the error after leading off the inning with a single, while Marco Rios scored on the next play after singling as well.
 
Castleberry's three-run home run erased the Railsplitters' lead in the bottom of the third, but Salvey put Lincoln Memorial ahead for good with a two-run homer in the next half inning. Stinson scored on Salvey's swing after sparking the rally with a one-out walk.
 
The next four innings were uneventful as the two teams traded nothing but zeroes, but things got interesting again in the ninth.
 
The Railsplitters added an insurance run in the top of the inning with an RBI single by Allen to extend the lead to 6-3.
 
With two outs in the bottom of the ninth, Cody Adams sparked an Anderson rally with a double. Adams scored in the very next at-bat compliments of a Jackson Strange double, cutting the deficit to 6-4. Dillon Carpenter stepped to the plate after that representing the tying run and promptly laced a pitch into right field, but Tanner Head made a sliding snag at the wall to end the game.
 
Trevor Weisner was the only Anderson player with multiple hits, going 2-for-4. Seven other Trojans recorded a hit apiece as the team compiled nine total. John McMicking took the loss after giving up three runs with four hits over 5.2 innings of work.
 
Game Two: Lincoln Memorial 8, Anderson 0
 
Less than 24 hours after Ethan Elliott's otherworldly 17-strikeout shutout of the Trojans, Matt Mullenbach turned in a similar performance, tossing a complete-game, three-hitter to power the Railsplitters in the sweep-clinching victory.
 
Mullenbach kept Anderson off balance all game, carrying a no-hitter into the fifth inning while striking out nine. The Trojans ended Mullenbach's no-hit bid with a pair of singles in the bottom of the fifth, but that was more or less all that Anderson could manage against the senior flamethrower.
 
The offense did its part to back Mullenbach's stellar start, scattering a series-high 14 hits, including five extra-base knocks. Seven different players registered multiple hit for the Railsplitters.
 
Reddick and Richey both homered and combined for five RBI, while Allen drove in a pair of runs as part of a 2-for-3 effort. Salvey went 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI. Hunt, Stinson and Dedas also produced a pair of hits apiece.
 
Joseph Strange accounted for two of Anderson's three hits with a pair of singles. Tyler Berry notched the only other Trojan hit of the game.
 
Richey's two-run home run in the top of the second kick-started the scoring for the Railsplitters, while Salvey drove in his fourth run of the doubleheader with a two-out RBI single in the top of the third.
 
Allen kept it rolling in the fourth frame, lacing a two-run single to score both Richey and Dedas after that duo singled and doubled to start the inning.
 
The Railsplitters maintained a 5-0 lead until the top of the seventh, when Stinson singled and Salvey reached via an error in front of Reddick, who belted a three-run homer to put the game out of reach.
 
A two-out single was all Anderson could muster in the final inning as Mullenbach capped off the sweep.