LMU Hires Smith As New Head Coach Of Lady Railsplitter Basketball Program
Less than two weeks after learning that LMU women’s basketball coach Larry Just would leave the program after only one season, Lincoln Memorial University Athletics Director Roger Vannoy officially announced Stephanie Smith as the program’s new head coach at a press conference on Thursday morning.
05/15/2008

Just Leaving Lady Railsplitter Program
Lincoln Memorial University women’s basketball coach Larry Just has decided to make the trip home so to speak.  On Friday morning, University athletics officials made public the announcement that Just, a Louisville, Kentucky native will be leaving the Lady Railsplitter program to take over the helm of the Oldham County High School girl’s basketball position.
05/09/2008

Nicols Named LMU Female Newcomer Of The Year
Lincoln Memorial University women’s basketball guard Shawna Nicols (Milwaukee, WI) was named Female Newcomer of the Year by the University’s head coaches on Tuesday night at LMU’s annual Athletics Banquet.
04/22/2008

LMU Women’s Basketball Recognizes Four At Annual Athletics Banquet
Lincoln Memorial University women’s basketball Head Coach Larry Just presented awards to four of his players at Tuesday night’s LMU Athletics Banquet held on the University’s campus.
04/22/2008

Winney & Wagner Named To All-SAC Teams
Lincoln Memorial University women’s basketball center Andi Winney (Yorktown, IN) and guard Stephanie Wagner (Elkhart, IN) have been named to the All-South Atlantic Conference Women’s Basketball Second Team and to the South Atlantic Conference All-Freshman Team.
03/11/2008

Top-Seeded Tusculum Turns Away Upset Bid, Lady Pioneers Beat No. 8 LMU 71-64
Nikki Van Dine recorded 18 points, including a three-pointer with 40.9 seconds left as top-seeded Tusculum defeated No. 8 seed Lincoln Memorial 71-64 Wednesday night in a quarterfinal game of the 2008 Food Lion South Atlantic Conference Tournament. (Box score)
03/05/2008

LMU Women’s Basketball Team Wins Lucky No. 13
The Lincoln Memorial University women’s basketball team improved to 13-13 on the year Tuesday evening with a 70-45 win over the Bobcats from Lees-McRae College. (Box score)
02/26/2008

Lady Eagles Hold Off Lady Railsplitters
In spite of a strong performance on Saturday evening, the Lincoln Memorial University women’s basketball team dropped a 74-67 decision to the Lady Eagles of Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee. (Box score)
02/23/2008

Lady Splitters Win Last Home SAC Game
The Lincoln Memorial University women’s basketball team knocked off visiting Catawba College 71-60 on Wednesday evening in their last home South Atlantic Conference basketball game of the regular season. (Box score)
Photo: Heather Benton shoots a jumps shot.  Photo by Ray Welch.
02/20/2008

Bears Win Mirror Image Game
In a game that went down to the wire, the Bears of Lenoir-Rhyne College left Lincoln Memorial University’s Tex Turner Arena on Saturday night with a narrow 49-47 win over the Lady Railsplitters, dropping the LMU women below the .500 mark for the first time this season. (Box score)
Photo: Sarah Harrison looks to make a pass to teammate.  Photo by Ray Welch.
02/16/2008

Mars Hill Gets By Lady Railsplitters In Final Minute
Mars Hill College defeated the visiting Railsplitters of Lincoln Memorial University 62-58 Wednesday night in Stanford Arena. MHC improved to 13-9 overall and 4-6 in the SAC. LMU fell to 11-11 on the season and 2-8 in the league. (Box score)
02/14/2008

Tornados Fall In Overtime, 69-66, To Lady Railsplitters
For the second time in less than a month, the Brevard College women's basketball team took the Lady Railsplitters of Lincoln Memorial University to the limit before falling in overtime. On Saturday afternoon, the Tornados battled the Lady Railsplitters for 45 minutes, ultimately falling 69-66 in overtime. (Box score)
02/09/2008

Tusculum Women Sweep Lady Railsplitters In Regular Season Play
The Tusculum College women’s basketball team used three point shooting and transition basketball to an 82-67 win over Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday night, sweep the home and away series for the 2007-08 season. (Box score)
Photo: Andi Winney gets past the Tusculum defenders.  Photo by Ray Welch
02/06/2008

Wingate Holds On To Defeat Lady Railsplitters
In a game of runs, the Lincoln Memorial University women’s basketball team watched an eight point second half lead diminish to a 14 point deficit before falling 75-68 in Saturday night’s home conference match-up with visiting Wingate University. (Box score)
02/02/2008

Lady Railsplitters Go Long Range To Defeat North Greenville
It was raining threes as junior Karra Harris set a new school record eight three-pointers as LMU defeated North Greenville 77-64 on Wednesday.  Harris also set a new record for three-point attempts in a game as well with 15.  As a team the Lady Railsplitters also set new school records for three-pointers made (15) and attempted (35) in the win. (Box score)
01/30/2008

Lady Railsplitters Use 3-Point Attack to Defeat Mars Hill
Lincoln Memorial’s women’s basketball team hit 9-21 shots behind the arc in Saturday night’s South Atlantic Conference battle with Mars Hill College to come away with a 72-66 win over the Lions and improve to 2-5 in conference play. (Box score)
Photo: Kara Harris shoots the lay-up on a fast break.  Photo by Ray Welch
01/26/2008

Record Shooting Helps Catawba Beat LMU
Senior NeKeithia Howard scored a career-high 25 points to lift Catawba to an 85-80 win over visiting Lincoln Memorial in women’s basketball action on Wednesday night at Goodman Gym. The Catawba Indians improve to 8-9 overall and 1-4 in the SAC, while the Lady Railsplitters fall to 8-8 and 1-5. (Box score)
01/23/2008

Lincoln Memorial Women’s Basketball Outlasts Late Lenoir-Rhyne Run To Win, 60-59
The Lincoln Memorial University Women’s Basketball Team (8-7, 1-4) went down to the wire to defeat Lenoir-Rhyne College (10-6, 2-3), 60-59, Saturday night at Shuford Memorial Gymnasium in a South Atlantic Conference game. (Box score)
01/19/2008

Defending SAC Tournament Champs Too Much For Lady Railsplitters
With the threat of inclement weather only hours away, the defending South Atlantic Conference Tournament Champion Indians of Newberry College made the trek to Harrogate Wednesday evening and handed the Lady Railsplitters a 64-51 conference loss, dropping the LMU women to 0-4 in league play. (Box score)
01/16/2008

Lady Railsplitters Blow 18-Point Lead But Defeat Brevard In Overtime 79-72
With 14:26 to go in Saturday night’s game with Brevard College, it looked as though the Lady Railsplitters were going to silence the Tornados and capture their seventh win of the season when they opened up an 18 point lead midway through the second half.  However, the Brevard women came roaring back in the late minutes of the game and erased the LMU lead to take the upper hand 58-57 with 5:20 to play.  (Box score)
01/12/2008

Tusculum Wins Eighth In A Row, Pioneers Down LMU 96-72
Freshman Jasmine Gunn’s career-high 28 points led the Tusculum College women’s basketball team to their eighth straight win Wednesday night, defeating South Atlantic Conference rival Lincoln Memorial, 96-72. (Box score)
01/09/2008

Atkinson & Gillis Lead Wingate Past LMU 65-63
Wingate University junior point guard Anna Atkinson (Marion, N.C.) had 20 points, 12 assists and five steals while senior guard/forward Kasey Gillis (Indian Trail, N.C.) added a career-high 19 points to lead Wingtae past Lincoln Memorial University 65-63 in South Atlantic Conference action Saturday afternoon at Cuddy Arena. With the win, WU improves to 7-5 overall and 2-0 in the SAC. LMU falls to 6-5, and 0-2 in the league. (Box score)
01/05/2008

Winney's Double-Double Helps Put Away The Lady Pumas 82-39
Lincoln Memorial University sophomore Andi Winney's (Yorktown, IN) 24 points and 12 rebounds helped lead LMU to an 82-39 win over Saint Joseph's Thursday evening. (Box score)
12/20/2007

Lady Railsplitters Survive Late Run By Lady Oaks
The Lincoln Memorial University women’s basketball team improved to 5-4 Tuesday evening with a 66-58 win over Oakland City University in Oakland City, Indiana. (Box score)
12/18/2007

Lady Saints Steal 80-69 Win Over Lincoln Memorial
The North Georgia College & State University led by 11 at the break, and followed Syretha Marble's 29-point performance to beat Lincoln Memorial 80-69 here Saturday afternoon in non-conference action. (Box score)
12/15/2007

Lady Railsplitters Survive Late Run By Oakland City To Improve To 4-3 Overall
A late-game run by Oakland City University wasn’t enough to force the Lady Railsplitters into relinquishing the lead in Saturday’s 80-70 non-conference win over the Lady Oaks. (Box score)
12/08/2007

LMU Women Win Close Battle With North Greenville
In a game that see-sawed back and forth much of the contest and had 14 lead changes, the Lincoln Memorial University Lady Railsplitters used patience and ball control to emerge 69-67 winners over the Crusaders of North Greenville University on Thursday evening. (Box score)
Photo: Megan Davis shoots the jumper.  Photo by Ray Welch
12/06/2007

Lady Railsplitters Fall In Conference Opener
The Lady Eagles of Carson-Newman College entered the Tex Turner Arena on Saturday evening and handed the Lincoln Memorial University women’s basketball team its first conference loss of the season in a 72-59 decision. (Box score)
Photo: Bonnie DeBusk drives to the basket.  Photo by Ray Welch
12/01/2007

Lady Railsplitters Improve To 2-2 With Win Over Virginia State University
On the final day of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, the Lincoln Memorial University women’s basketball team improved to 2-2 with a 71-65 win over the visiting Lady Trojans of Virginia State University on Sunday. (Box score)

Photo: Andi Winney shoots the layup. Photo by Ray Welch
11/25/2007

Just And His Lady Railsplitters Secure First Win
New Lincoln Memorial University women’s basketball coach Larry Just and his 2007-08 Lady Railsplitters captured their first win of the season in Tuesday night’s home-opener by defeating the Tornado of King College 79-70 in the Tex Turner Arena. (Box score)
Photo: Heather Benton drives past King's Kristi Moody. Photo by Ray Welch.
11/20/2007

North Georgia Defeats LMU 65-56
The second day of the Eagle Club Classic was almost a carbon copy of the first as turnovers doomed the Lady Railsplitter cause in a 65-5-56 loss to North Georgia. (Box score)
11/18/2007

Second Half Turnovers Prove Costly For Lady Railsplitters
A new era of Lincoln Memorial University women’s basketball began on Friday evening under the helm of first-year coach Larry Just, although the end result was a 74-63 loss for the Lady Railsplitters. (Box score)
11/16/2007

Exhibition With Belmont University Gives Lady Railsplitter Basketball Team Areas To Work On
The NCAA Division I Bruins of Belmont University defeated the Lady Railsplitters of Lincoln Memorial University Thursday evening in exhibition play by the final of 74-36. (Box score)
11/1/2007

LMU Basketball Season Tickets On Sale!
In anticipation of exciting men’s and women’s basketball seasons, the Lincoln Memorial University athletics department announced this week that season tickets for the 2007-08 year are now on sale.
09/21/2007

LMU Women’s Basketball Picks Up Big Late Signee
Lincoln Memorial University women’s Head Basketball Coach Larry Just seemed like a kid in a candy store when he received word recently that Shawna Nicols had decided to finish her career with the Lady Railsplitters.
09/08/2007