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Sports Release                                                                                                           March 26, 2008

LMU Softball Sweeps Tusculum

HARROGATE, TN -- The third inning was kind to the Lincoln Memorial University softball team in both games as they combined for 16 total runs in that inning to help them sweep Tusculum College 9-1 and 20-2 in a South Atlantic Conference doubleheader Wednesday afternoon.

LMU (24-9, 3-3 SAC) picks up their first-ever home wins and first season sweep of a team since becoming eligible for SAC competition this season.

Game #1 – Lincoln Memorial 9, Tusculum 1

The Lady Railsplitters picked up eleven hits and sophomore pitcher Sara Henn (Kettering, OH) improved her season record to 7-3 as she went the distance in the first game of the afternoon.

Senior Amanda Wampler (Powell, TN) led the way with two runs off of three hits and had 3 RBI. Teammates Alisa Burk (Blaine, WA) and Sammy Jo Garrett (Wartburg, TN) each added two runs to the total.

The score was tied 0-0 until the bottom of the third when Wampler put LMU on the board with a two RBI single up the middle.  The Lady Railsplitters would add three more runs in the fourth and one more in the fifth inning to put the game away. 

Tusculum's lone run came in the fourth inning when Jess Greer scored on an LMU error.  The Pioneers had four hits in game one.  Pitcher Megan DuBois took the complete-game loss and dropped her season record to 2-4.

Game #2 – Lincoln Memorial 20, Tusculum 2 

Sara Henn led the way from the plate in game two as she went 4-for-4 with five RBI to lead the Lady Railsplitters in a 20-2 rout of Tusculum. 

It is the most runs scored by LMU over Tusculum in the decades-old series and also the largest margin of victory by either team.

Tusculum got on the scoreboard first as leadoff hitter Taylor MacDonald scored off an RBI double by Greer.  Tusculum's other run came in the second inning when MacDonald returned the favor with an RBI double down the left field line which allowed Shanda Kimbrough to score. 

MacDonald led the Pioneers in the game, going 3-for-3 from the plate.

LMU's hits came early and often as they scored four runs in the first inning.  Burk started things off with a two RBI double to right center. 

In the fourth inning the floodgates opened as LMU picked up 11 runs off of 12 hits.  Three players had multiple-RBI hits that inning, including a 2 run home run to center field by Burk.

LMU would score five more runs in the bottom of the fourth including a three-run blast by Henn to left center.

Wampler (9-4) went the distance for LMU as she picked up her 9th win of the season.

Pioneer pitcher Holli Cadenhead picked up the loss to drop her season record to 5-5.

Tusculum (10-16, 1-6 SAC) will host Catawba in a South Atlantic Conference doubleheader on Saturday.

LMU will host Missouri Science & Technology (formerly Missouri-Rolla) in non-conference action on Thursday at 3 p.m.

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