HARROGATE, Tenn. – The Railsplitters scattered 16 hits – their third-most of the season – and scored in all but two of their trips to the plate to storm past the Findlay Oilers, 15-1, in game one of a three-game weekend series at Lamar Hennon Field on Friday evening. 
 
After combining for just 15 hits in a doubleheader sweep at Bellarmine on Wednesday, Lincoln Memorial (24-11) needed just eight innings to surpass that total and win the first-ever meeting against Findlay (9-11). 
 
Ten different players recorded at least one hit while six drove in at least one run. 
 
Joe Stucky hit a grand slam, his third home run of the season, while Scooter Ray hammered his first career home run after taking over at catcher in the bottom of the sixth. Nate Stinson went 3-for-3 with two runs scored and Ray finished 2-for-2 at the plate, as did Tyler Adams and Marco Rios. Will Reddick went 2-for-4 with two RBI. 
 
Ethan Elliott was nearly flawless in his five-inning start, as the lefty allowed only two hits and did not issue a walk while striking out eight to improve to 7-2 on the season. Elliott faced the minimum through the first four frames before allowing a single and hit-by-pitch in the fifth. He worked out of the jam to exit without surrendering a run. 
 
A defensive implosion helped the Railsplitters jump all over the Oilers in the bottom of the second inning. With two outs and Stinson on second base after leading off the inning with a single, Findlay committed back-to-back errors to allow two runs to score. After an RBI single from Seth Hunt made it 3-0, Findlay extended the inning with another error and allowed the fourth run of the frame to score via a wild pitch. 
 
The Railsplitters then broke the game wide open in the next inning, as Stinson and Reddick singled and Alex Allen walked to load the bases for Stucky, who delivered the grand slam over the wall in left-center field. LMU did not stop there that inning, though, as Dalton Dedas walked, stole second and scored on Adams' base hit to make it a 9-0 game. 
 
Reddick doubled home two more runs to highlight a three-run fourth inning that increased the Railsplitters' lead to 12-0. 
 
The Railsplitters then added a run apiece in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings. Three straight two-out singles, capped by Rios' knock, scored the run in the sixth, while Findlay's fourth error of the game contributed to another LMU run in the seventh. Ray's solo shot then capped the scoring for the Railsplitters in the eighth. 
 
Findlay scored its only run of the game in the top of the ninth when pinch hitter Greg Kanavel drove home a run with a two-out infield single. 
 
Jake Grenus tossed two innings of three-hit, scoreless relief for the Railsplitters, recording one strikeout without a walk, while Joe Faulkner pitched the final two frames. 
 
Nic Varda was the only Findlay player with multiple hits, going 2-for-3 with a pair of singles. Josh Keller had the team's only extra-base hit with a double in the ninth. 
 
The Railsplitters and Oilers will complete their weekend series on Saturday with a doubleheader beginning at noon at Lamar Hennon Field.