GREENEVILLE, Tenn. – Senior Seth Hunt tied the program career hits record while the Railsplitters picked up their 30th of the season by splitting a South Atlantic Conference doubleheader at Tusculum on Saturday. 
 
Hunt accounted for two hits in the opener, which Lincoln Memorial (30-13, 17-4 SAC) won 8-5 to hand Tusculum (27-18, 14-7 SAC) its first SAC series loss of the season, to push his career total to 240. That number matches Logan Augustine for the most hits in the history of the LMU baseball program. 
 
The Railsplitters went on to drop the series finale against the Pioneers, as the home team rallied from a 5-0 first-inning deficit to pull out a 7-5 victory. 
 
The loss in game three snapped a six-game SAC winning streak for the 'Splitters and dropped them two games back of Newberry in the SAC standings, as the Wolves swept Catawba this weekend to maintain their chokehold on the top spot. 
 
The Railsplitters host Newberry this weekend for the final series of the regular season but before that will welcome King to Lamar Hennon Field for a nonconference game at 4 p.m. on Tuesday. 
 
Game One: Lincoln Memorial 8, Tusculum 5
 
Tyler Adams homered and drove in five runs, while Eli Wright pitched 6.2 strong innings to power the Railsplitters in the series-clinching victory. 
 
Five players combined to account for 12 of Lincoln Memorial's 13 hits in the contest. Adams went 3-for-4 with a three-run homer and a pair of RBI singles, while Nate Stinson went 3-for-5 with a double. Hunt notched two hits to tie the all-time hits record at LMU and drew a pair of walks, while Brent Richey and Marco Rios added two hits apiece. Will Reddick had a double to complete the hit count for the 'Splitters.
 
Wright improved to 5-0 on the season after limiting the Pioneers to five hits and two earned runs over 6.2 innings of work, which is a new career-high for the freshman. Devin Morris notched his fifth save of the season after allowing just one hit while notching a strikeout in the bottom of the ninth. 
 
Lincoln Memorial got off to a quick start as Hunt led off the game with a single, stole second and scored on Adams' RBI single to right center. 
 
Tusculum managed just two base runners through the first three innings, but finally broke through against Wright in the bottom of the fourth when Trey Hinton doubled home Bryson Ford, who led off the frame with a single, to knot the score at 1-1. 
 
But the Railsplitters took the lead for good in the visitors half of the fifth, as Rios and Hunt notched back-to-back singles to put two on for Adams, who delivered a three-run shot over the left-field wall. Stinson kept the inning going two batters later with a double, and scored on Reddick's two-out, two-bagger to make it a 5-1 game. 
 
A sac fly gave the Pioneers another run in the fifth, but Adams' second RBI single and a sac fly from Chris Salvey put two more runs on the board for the Railsplitters in the top of the sixth to increase the lead to 7-2. 
 
That five-run lead proved vital for the Railsplitters as Tusculum chipped away at the lead with two runs in the seven and another in the eighth. Both of the Pioneers' seventh-inning runs were scored with two outs on RBI hits from Daulton Martin and Ford, while Wes Reynolds scored on a passed pall in the eighth to close the gap to 7-5. 
 
However, Lincoln Memorial put the game on ice in the ninth, as Adams led off with a walk, advanced to third on a throwing and scored the final run of the game on a 6-4-3 double play. 
 
Martin collected a two-out single in the bottom of the ninth to spark a potential rally for the Pioneers, but Morris struck out Ford looking to end the game. 
 
Game Two: Tusculum 7, Lincoln Memorial 5
 
Almost everything of significance that happened in the series finale occurred in the first inning as the Railsplitters racked up five hits and used an error to plate five runs before Tusculum answered with a six-hit, five-run bottom half of the first. 
 
After that, the two teams combined for only six hits and two runs total, both of which came from Tusculum in the bottom of the fourth. 
 
A sac fly from Adams, an RBI triple from Stinson, an RBI double from Richey, an RBI single from Reddick and an RBI single from Alex Allen comprised the first-run top of the first for the Railsplitters, who brought 11 batters to the plate in the frame to take a commanding 5-0 lead. 
 
However, that lead didn't last through the end of the opening inning as the first five Pioneers hit safely in the home half of the first to spark the five-run response. Hinton had a two-run single, while Reynolds and Zack Finchum also drove in runs. 
 
The game settled into a normal rhythm after that. 
 
Lincoln Memorial threatened to reclaim the lead in the third when Richey and Reddick led off with back-to-back singles, but a fly out and a double play ended the threat. 
 
The Railsplitters left another runner stranded on second in the top of the fourth before the Pioneers took the lead for good in the bottom half of the inning on an RBI single from Ford and a sac fly by Garrett Dupuis, which scored Martin after he drew a walk. 
 
Lincoln Memorial managed just one more base runner the rest of the way and failed to put a runner in scoring position over the final three innings. 
 
Richey and Reddick led the Railsplitters with two hits apiece. Matt Mullenbach was saddled with the loss after allowing 10 hits and seven earned runs while striking out nine over six innings of action, falling to 3-3 on the season.