JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. – The Lincoln Memorial baseball team overpowered Carson-Newman to sweep a South Atlantic Conference doubleheader on Sunday afternoon at the Silver Diamond Baseball Complex. 
 
The Railsplitters (14-8, 6-2 SAC) never trailed at any point and combined for 27 hits across 16 innings, winning game one 14-5 and game two 4-3 to improve to 13-1 in their last 14 games against Carson-Newman (17-6, 2-2 SAC). The Eagles, who entered the weekend with a streak of six straight SAC wins dating back to last season, were limited to just 12 hits over that same span. 
 
Lincoln Memorial will try to lock down its second SAC sweep of the season on Monday when the series concludes at 2 p.m. in Jefferson City. 
 
Game One: Lincoln Memorial 14, Carson-Newman 5 
 
Seth Hunt entered the day with just four career home runs, but nearly doubled his career home run total in game one of Sunday's doubleheader, recording the fifth three-home run game in program history and first since 2016 to lead a dominant offensive performance for the Railsplitters. 
 
Hunt homered in three consecutive at-bats in a span of four innings. The senior's grand slam powered a seven-run fifth inning, and he followed that up with a two-run blast in the top of the sixth. Hunt capped his career-high seven-RBI effort with a two-out solo home run in the top of the eighth. 
 
Hunt becomes the first LMU player to homer three times against a conference opponent. The last to accomplish the feat at all was Mason Ewers against Davis & Elkins in March 2016. 
 
Hunt was one of seven LMU players that recorded multiple hits as the Railsplitters racked up a season-high 20 compared to only nine for the Eagles. 
 
Nate Stinson went 4-for-6 with two RBI and a run, Dalton Dedas went 3-for-4 with three runs, an RBI and two walks, and Will Reddick finished 3-for-6 with two RBI and a home run. Tyler Adams, Chris Salvey and Joe Stucky also chipped in two hits apiece. 
 
The Railsplitters scored in every inning aside from the second, seventh and ninth. In addition to that, Lincoln Memorial put multiple runners on base every inning but the second and ninth, which was its only three-up, three-down inning of the game.  
 
Ethan Elliott bounced back from a rough outing against Catawba to improve to 4-2 on the season. The lefty struck out eight, walked two and allowed three earned runs and seven hits before being pulled following a two-out single in the bottom of the sixth. 
 
The quartet of Hudson Widrig, Joe Bobiak, Jack Ryan and Matt Walczak combined to allow just two hits without a run over the final 3.1 frames. 
 
Stinson accounted for the first two runs of the game, staking the Railsplitters to a 2-0 lead with RBI singles in the first and third innings. 
 
The Eagles answered in bottom of the third when Ethan Goforth hit a game-tying, two-run home run, but the Railsplitters blew the game open by scoring two in the fourth and seven more in the fifth. 
 
Reddick led off the fourth with a home run, while Dedas tacked on another run with an RBI single that inning. 
 
Salvey was hit by a pitch, Stinson singled again and Brent Richey reached via an error to load the bases with no outs in the fifth. Reddick drove home the first run with a single, which was followed two batters later with a run-scoring single by Stucky. Hunt then cleared the bases with a grand slam. 
 
A walk and a hit-by-pitch quickly kept the rally going for the Railsplitters, and Salvey plated the seventh run of the inning with a single to left field. 
 
An RBI double from Micah Genter followed by an RBI single for Goforth put the Eagles back on the board in the bottom of the fifth. Tyler Thompson added a run-scoring single that same frame to cut the Railsplitters' lead to 11-5, but LMU quickly answered in the top of the sixth with Hunt's two-run dinger. 
 
Hunt's solo shot in the eighth capped the scoring for either side. 
 
Goforth went 2-for-4 with three RBI and a walk to lead Carson-Newman offensively. Thompson and Genter added two hits apiece. 
 
Kyle Cagle took the loss for the Eagles after surrendering nine hits and four runs with three walks over 3.1 innings of work. He was the first of six pitchers to take the mound for the Eagles in the game. 
 
Game Two: Lincoln Memorial 4, Carson-Newman 3 
 
Lincoln Memorial's Matt Mullenbach narrowly outclassed Carson-Newman's Matt Bradley in a pitcher's duel to clinch the series for the Railsplitters. 
 
Mullenbach allowed only three hits and struck out eight while walking three across six-plus innings of work to improve to 2-2 on the season. The senior righty surrendered only a bunt single without a run through the first five innings until Carson-Newman scored a pair of runs in the sixth. 
 
Mullenbach limited the damage to just two runs that inning, though, before turning it over to Devin Morris in the bottom of the seventh after issuing a lead-off free pass. An RBI groundout put the Eagles on the board in that inning, but Morris struck out Goforth to end the game, pick up the save and complete the doubleheader sweep. 
 
Bradley dazzled for the Eagles as well. 
 
The Railsplitters did nearly all of their damage early against the Eagles' right-hander as RBI singles from Salvey and Stinson put two runs on the board in the top of the first, while another run-scoring knock from Stinson extended the lead to 3-0 in the top of the third. 
 
But after Stinson's third-inning single, Bradley retired 12 consecutive Railsplitters to send the game to the seventh with Lincoln Memorial nursing a 3-2 lead. 
 
Stucky snapped Bradley's streak with a two-out walk, which proved pivotal to the final outcome, as Hunt added a massive insurance run in the next at-bat with an RBI single to left center. That run proved to be the difference after Carson-Newman scrapped for a run in the bottom of the seventh. 
 
Bradley took the hard-luck loss after tossing 6.2 innings of seven-hit, four-run ball with seven strikeouts, falling to 0-1 on the season. 
 
Stinson went 2-for-3 with two RBI, while Dedas added a pair of hits with two runs. 
 
Carson-Newman mustered just three hits without an extra-base hit. Jordan Griffin had the biggest hit of the game for the Eagles with a two-out, two-run single in the sixth, while Genter drove in their only other run of the game.