HARROGATE, TENN. – Senior Jordan Adcox (Lawrenceville, Ga.) tossed his second career complete game with seven strong innings in a 2-1 road win at Lincoln Memorial University, but the Railsplitters forced a doubleheader split with a 6-5 game-two decision on Saturday, March 13, at Lamar Hennon Field.
 
GAME 1 INFORMATION
Score: Limestone 2, Lincoln Memorial 1
Records: Limestone (6-8, 4-5), Lincoln Memorial (6-12, 5-8)
Location: Lamar Hennon Field
 
INSIDE THE BOXSCORE
 

• Adcox went seven full innings, allowing just one run on five hits, to go with a pair of strikeouts
• Graduate Trace Whetsell (Gilbert, S.C.) tripled and scored the winning run
• Senior Devon Cantey (Half Moon Bay, Calif.) went 1-for-2 with an RBI
• Senior Josh Evans (Indian Land, S.C.) added a base knock and a steal for the Saints
• Junior Benjamin Huber (Pendleton, S.C.) drove in the game winner with a sac fly
• Lincoln Memorial outhit the Saints, 5-3, but left four men stranded on the base paths

 
HOW IT HAPPENED
 
Adcox worked around a one-out single and a two-out walk in the bottom of the first, leaving a pair stranded, but the Railsplitters jumped in front, 1-0, with a two-out solo blast in the second. Limestone's defense avoided falling behind 2-0 as a one-out single was caught stealing just before the homer to left.
 
Offensively, the Blue and Gold struggled in the early stages as Lincoln Memorial starter Evan Porter retired 10 straight Saints, including six by strikeout. Evans put Limestone in the hit column with a one-out single back up the middle in the top of the fourth but was left in scoring position after stealing second.
 
The Saints took advantage of a pair of defensive miscues by the Railsplitters in the top of the fifth as freshman Dylan Shugan (Alpharetta, Ga.) and senior Brian Forbes (Rocky Point, N.Y.) both reached on errors to put runners on the corners. Cantey followed with an RBI single to pull Limestone even at 1-all.
 
Adcox kept LMU off the board in the fifth, and then Whetsell laced a rocket into the rightfield gap for a leadoff triple in the sixth. Huber put Limestone on top, 2-1, with a long sacrifice fly to right before Adcox used a 4-6-3 double play to get around a single in the seventh to improve his record to 2-0 on the year.
 
GAME 2 INFORMATION
Score: Lincoln Memorial 6, Limestone 5
Records: Lincoln Memorial (7-12, 6-8), Limestone (6-9, 4-6)
Location: Lamar Hennon Field
 
INSIDE THE BOXSCORE
 

• Senior Alex Cornell (Columbia, Conn.) went 3-for-5 with a pair of doubles in game two
• Whetsell added two base knocks and an RBI while Huber finished with a hit and an RBI
• Senior Tyler O'Dell (North Hanover, N.J.)doubled and scored a run
• Freshman Kyle Raynor (Rock Hill, S.C.) chipped in a hit, two RBIs and a stolen base
• Graduate starter Eric Mullinax (Greenville, S.C.) went six innings but took a no-decision
• He allowed five runs on six hits and two walks
• Senior reliever Justin Greider (Ridgeway, S.C.) took the loss to fall to 1-2 on the year
• He gave up the go-ahead run on three hits and two walks in an inning of work
• Limestone tallied 11 hits, but was a victim of 15 strikeouts while leaving 14 runners stranded

 
HOW IT HAPPENED
 
Whetsell started the nightcap with a single right back up the middle, but the Saints could not advance him as a lineout and the first two of 15 team strikeouts ended the inning. Lincoln Memorial capitalized on a leadoff double in the bottom half as the runner scored on a balk a few batters later to make it a 1-0 game.
 
With a runner already on first to begin the second, Limestone loaded the bags with nobody out following back-to-back singles from Forbes and Cantey. The Saints would tie things up at 1-all two batters later as Raynor hit a sacrifice fly to rightfield, but the visitors would leave two runners stranded on the base paths.
 
The Saints grabbed its first lead in the third after a one-out walk by Huber and a double into left by Cornell put runners on second and third. Limestone pulled ahead, 2-1, on a sacrifice fly by junior Brandon Banks (Rock Hill, S.C.), but did not take full advantage of the situation as the fifth strikeout would end the threat.
 
The Railsplitters then used a pair of two-out doubles in the home half of the third to retake the lead before a leadoff two-bagger in the fifth came around to double up the Saints, 4-2. However, the Blue and Gold would send nine batters to the plate in the top of the sixth to score three runs and move back in front, 5-4.
 
Canty started things off with an infield hit before Raynor came through with an RBI single up the middle two batters later. With two on and nobody out, Whetsell tied the game with an RBI single before Huber put the visitors in front with a one-out RBI single, but two more strikeouts ended a potentially big inning.
 
The lead was short-lived through as a leadoff double in the home half of the sixth scored as Lincoln Memorial used some small ball to push the tying runner home. The Saints had something working in the seventh following a one-out double by O'Dell, but a strikeout turned into another missed opportunity.
 
The go-ahead run was given a free pass on five pitches to start the seventh before the Railsplitters jumped ahead, 6-5, behind an RBI triple. Limestone had one more golden chance in the eighth after a one-out single by Cornell help load the bases, but strikeouts continued to haunt the Saints as both the tying and winning runs were both left stranded on the bags following the team's 14^th strikeout of the game.
 
UP NEXT
 
Limestone and Lincoln Memorial will continue their four-game weekend series with another doubleheader on Sunday, March 14 at Lamar Hennon Field.