Harrogate, TN - Three days after exacting its revenge on Lee University at home, the Lincoln Memorial baseball team is slated to be back in action this weekend against Emory & Henry. It will be the only conference series that the Railsplitters play across a stretch of nine straight home games which began with Lee at home on Tuesday. Lincoln Memorial swept Emory & Henry last season, out scoring the Wasps by a combined score of 30-14. The Railsplitters enter the series 10-9 overall on the season with a 4-5 mark in conference play and are 6-2 at home this season. Emory & Henry enters the series 3-15 on the season with a 1-8 mark in conference play.
Kasten Harvey leads not only the team, but the conference in home runs with eight on the season. He is also third in the conference in hits, and ninth in the conference in RBI with 20. He is batting .360 with a .800% SLG% and a 1.267 OPS. In 75 at-bats this season, he has only been struck out eight times and has connected on 27 hits, including: five doubles, two triples, and eight long bombs. He's also added 21 runs on the season.
Archer Wong-Shasteen follows Harvey closely in hits with 24, which is good for ninth in the conference. He has driven in nine runs so far this season.
Sam Mast,
Alex Kowalski, and
Trace Simmons each have 10 or more RBI on the season. Mast is second on the team with 16, Kowalski then follows with 13, and Simmons adds 10 to see the Railsplitters with four batters who have double digit RBI on the season.
Brooks Hagedorn has come on as of late after being interjected into the line-up recently. In 36 at-bats, he's batting .306% with a .905 OPS with a .500 SLG%. He has 11 hits, including: five doubles and a triple, driving in six runs. Wong-Shasteen is batting .333% on the season with a .741 OPS and .361 SLG%. Mast is batting .262 with a .756 OPS and .443 SLG%. Kowalski is the team's doubles leader with six.
First pitch between Lincoln Memorial and Emory & Henry is slated for 4:00 PM on Friday at Lamar Hennon Field.
Watch game one:
https://www.flocollege.com/live/153937
Watch games two and three:
https://www.flocollege.com/live/153958
Live stats game one:
http://statb.us/b/575031
Live stats game two:
http://statb.us/b/575032
Live stats game three:
http://statb.us/b/575044
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