GREENEVILLE, Tenn. – Two of the top teams in the South Atlantic Conference will collide this weekend in Greeneville, Tenn., when Lincoln Memorial visits Tusculum for the penultimate series of the regular season. 
 
The Railsplitters (28-12, 15-3 SAC) enter the weekend in second place in the SAC standings after sweeping Wingate last weekend at Lamar Hennon Field. Tusculum (26-16, 13-5 SAC) is in fourth place and has won every conference series its played this season, including taking two of three from Anderson this past weekend. 
 
Live stats and video will be available for all three games between the Railsplitters and Pioneers. 
 
Schedule / Game Day Links 
 
Friday, April 12 at Tusculum – 6pm 
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Saturday, April 13 at Tusculum – 1pm
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Saturday, April 13 at Tusculum – 4pm
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Quick Hits 
 
- The Railsplitters were supposed to visit Shorter on Tuesday, but that midweek clash in Rome, Ga., was washed out by rain. There are no plans to make up that contest. 
 
- Wingate took the lead in the top of the first inning of last Friday's series opener in Harrogate, but the Railsplitters promptly rattled off 13 unanswered runs, including four in the first, three in the third and four more in the fourth, to power a 13-3 victory. Brent Richey homered, tripled and drove in five runs, while Seth Hunt went 3-for-5 out of the lead-off spot. Nate Stinson drove in a pair of runs as well, while Ethan Elliott struck out 12 over seven innings of six-hit ball. 
 
- The Railsplitters scored six in the fourth and six more in the fifth to clinch the series against Wingate with a 16-6 win in game two. Richey homered again, while Chris Salvey went deep for the 11th time this season and Tanner Head hit his first career dinger. All told, six players had multiple hits for the Railsplitters, led by Will Reddick's 3-for-5 day at the plate. 
 
- Game three was the most dramatic of the series. After Stinson blasted his second home run of the game with a go-ahead, three-run bomb in the bottom of the fifth inning, Wingate scored twice in the sixth and once more in the seventh to tie the game. The Railsplitters squandered a scoring chance in the bottom of the seventh, but made the most of their opportunity in the bottom of the eighth, as pinch hitter Henry Moore laced a walk-off single back up the middle to lead to the 7-6 sweep-clinching victory. 
 
- Hunt is quietly closing in on a number of program records for the Railsplitters. The senior enters this weekend's series needing just three hits to overtake Logan Augustine for the career hits record at LMU. He currently has 238. He also needs two more triples to break that program career record and is eight runs away from tying that career mark as well. 
 
- Since falling to 3-2 with a loss against Catawba on March 1, senior lefty Ethan Elliott has won five consecutive starts to move to 8-2 on the season, just two wins away from notching his third career 10-win season. The lefty has struck out at least eight in all five starts during his winning streak and ranks second in the SAC with 89 this season. 
 
- The Railsplitters have four of the top 14 hitters in terms of total hits in the SAC in Hunt (59), Stinson (58), Salvey (57) and Reddick (51). Hunt is batting .378 with 12 doubles and a career-high seven home runs, while Stinson is hitting a remarkable .389 with 17 doubles, which is six away from tying the program record Tyler Adams set last season. Salvey is batting .393 with 11 homes (five away from the program record) and 11 doubles. Reddick has hit safely in nine consecutive games to lift his average to .342, compiling six multi-hit efforts over that span. 
 
- Eli Wright will toe the rubber in game two for the Railsplitters. The freshman righty improved to 4-0 on the season with a win over Wingate, allowing seven hits and four runs with two strikeouts over five innings of action. 
 
- Matt Mullenbach will start game three for Lincoln Memorial. He earned a no decision against Wingate after allowing a season-high 13 hits and six earned runs against Wingate last weekend. 
 
- The Railsplitters have not lost a SAC road game this season, sweeping series at Anderson, Carson-Newman and Lenoir-Rhyne. 
 
Notes on Tusculum 
 
- Last weekend, the Pioneers took two of three from Anderson on the road, winning game one 13-4 and game two 9-3 before dropping the finale 4-3. Tusculum has won every conference series its played in the season, but has only swept one of those when it took all three from Queens in mid-March. 
 
- The two most dominant pitchers in the SAC will square off in Friday's opener when Elliott stares down Tusculum ace Charles Hall. Hall is 6-1 this season and leads the league in strikeouts with 118 while ranking second in earned run average with a sparking 1.73 clip. Batters have hit just .180 against Hall this season. Against Queens, he tossed a complete-game, three-hitter while striking out an NCAA Division II record 22 batters. 
 
- The Tusculum offense is batting .293 as a team while ranking third in the league with a .420 on-base percentage. The Pioneers lead the league with 243 walks and rank second with 93 steals. 
 
- Daulton Martin, Bryson Ford and Nate Montgomery lead the Pioneers offensive with over 50 hits apiece. Martin has ranked up a SAC-leading 21 doubles to go along with eight homers, 42 RBI and a dizzying 45 walks. Ford is batting .342 with eight doubles, three homers and 41 RBI, while Montgomery is also at .342 with nine doubles and two homers. 
 
- Senior Jarel McDade is one hit shy of 50, sporting a .301 batting average with 10 doubles, four homers and a team-leading 44 RBI. 
 
- Along with Hall, the Railsplitters will also likely face sophomore arms Zach Sanders and Harbor Jefferson. Sanders is 4-1 with a 4.53 ERA and 48 strikeouts across 47.2 innings, while Jefferson is 3-2 with a 4.14 ERA and 36 strikeouts in 37 innings of work. 
 
- As a staff, Tusculum ranks second in the SAC in batting average against by holding opponents to a .253 mark. In SAC play, that number dips to .241, which leads the league. 
 
- The Pioneers have been nearly unbeatable at home this season with a sparkling 15-2 record in Greeneville. 
 
Series History 
 
- The Railsplitters own a 60-45-3 record all-time against the Pioneers in a series that date as far back as at least 1916. 
 
- Lincoln Memorial has won the last two series against Tusculum, taking two of three last year in Harrogate and two of three in Greeneville in 2017. All told, LMU has won five of the last six meetings, including a win in the SAC tournament in each of the past two seasons.