HARROGATE, Tenn. – The Railsplitters close out the LMU Lacrosse Complex on Saturday afternoon when the Lenoir-Rhyne Bears pay a visit for a late-season South Atlantic Conference matchup. 
 
Lincoln Memorial (3-8, 1-4 SAC), who will honor seven seniors prior to Saturday's match, aims to snap a two-game losing streak and bounce back from an 18-7 loss to No. 18 Wingate last Saturday, while Lenoir-Rhyne (3-7, 2-2 SAC) looks to build off a 17-3 demolition at Alderson Broaddus on Sunday. 
 
Schedule / Game Day Links 
 
Saturday, April 6 vs. Lenoir-Rhyne – 4pm 
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Quick Hits 
 
- The Railsplitters were tied with Wingate at 1-1 late in the first quarter, but the Bulldogs rattled off 13 unanswered goals to assume a 14-1 lead midway through the third quarter. Lincoln Memorial closed the match with a 5-2 run to cut the final deficit to 11, remaining winless all-time against the SAC foe. 
 
- Joe Conklin, Ian Cook and Chris Tucker led the way with two goals apiece in the loss to Wingate. The two goals pushed Cook's team-leading total to 30, while Tucker extended his season total to 16. For Conklin, it was his seventh and eighth goals of the 2019 campaign. 
 
- Robert Tucker handed out an assist in the loss to Wingate and now needs only one more point to become the fifth player in program history with 100 career points. He would join Adam Golia (225), Kyle Arcuri (177), Billy Kopsky (119) and Dylan Neisler (103) as the only players to accomplish that feat. 
 
- The Railsplitters will honor seniors Patrick Rowe, Kyle Arcuri, Byran Halona, Kameron Andrews, Cole Atkinson, Nathan Caldwell and Andrew Gallagher prior to Saturday's regular-season home finale. 
 
- Hunter Clark has been one of the more underrated players in the South Atlantic Conference this season as the junior has won the fourth-most face-offs with 119 and accounted for the fourth-most ground balls with 70. He is 33 ground balls away from breaking the program record he set last season. 
 
- Goals have been hard to come by for the Railsplitters this season. Despite boasting the second-highest shots on goal percentage with a 64.1 percent clip, Lincoln Memorial is tied for last in the league with 10.55 goals per match. The Railsplitters have been limited to single-digit goals in three of their last five matches. 
 
- With three regular-season matches remaining, the Railsplitters are in eighth place in the SAC standings. Lincoln Memorial will need to get into the top six in order to make the conference tournament. 
 
Notes on Lenoir-Rhyne 
 
- After going 17-3 and making a run to the national semifinals last season, where they were handed a devastating 12-11 loss by Saint Leo, Lenoir-Rhyne opened the season ranked No. 4 in the preseason USILA poll. The Bears were unable to live up to that hype, though, dropping the first five matches of the season against a gauntlet of nationally-ranked opponents. The Bears have since won three of their last five to get back in the hunt to make the SAC tournament. 
 
- Lenoir-Rhyne played both Mercyhurst and Alderson Broaddus last weekend in Philippi, W.V., falling to Mercyhurst 19-11 before rebounding with a 17-3 shellacking of the host Alderson Broaddus. 
 
- The Bears have struggled defensively, ranking seventh in the SAC with a 13.17 goals against average. Offensively, Lenoir-Rhyne is near the top of the league rankings with 13.4. 
 
- L-R boasts two of the SAC's top-10 point scorers in Eric Dickinson and Joe Buduo. Dickinson has produced 45 points on 32 goals and 13 assists, while Buduo has amassed 36 points with 27 goals and nine assists. Quinn Kuhn is the team's only other player with 20-plus points with 15 goals and six assists. 
 
- Lenoir-Rhyne goalie Noah Johnson has struggled this season, conceding an average of 13.51 goals per match while recording a 47.5 save percentage. 
 
- Two of Lenoir-Rhyne's three wins have come on the road, including a 21-16 victory at Newberry on March 23. The Bears also nearly pulled off an upset at nationally-ranked Queens, falling 12-11 in overtime. 
 
Series History 
 
- The Railsplitters have never beaten Lenoir-Rhyne. Last season, Lincoln Memorial gave the then No. 3 ranked Bears a scare in a 14-11 loss in Hickory. The season before that, the 'Splitters suffered a 12-7 loss to the No. 5 ranked team in Division II in Harrogate. 
 
- LMU was shut out for the only time in program history in the first meeting against Lenoir-Rhyne in 2015, falling 8-0 in Gatlinburg.