GREENEVILLE, Tenn. --- Tusculum College baseball team swept a South Atlantic Conference doubleheader over visiting Lincoln Memorial University, while TC head coach Doug Jones recorded his 600th career victory in the process.

Tusculum scored the first 11 runs of the game and posted a season-high 14 hits in a 14-4 victory in the opener. In the night-cap, the Pioneers rallied from a 3-0 deficit as John Topoleski singled home the game-winning run in the fifth inning in a 7-6 victory over the Railsplitters.

Tusculum (21-10, 15-5 SAC) extends its winning streak to six in a row, while LMU (18-6, 10-10 SAC suffers its fourth straight set-back.

Jones' 600 wins are the most in program history as the Tusculum mentor is in his 18th season at Tennessee's most historic college. He has a 600-338-1 record, which includes 14 consecutive winning seasons, entering this year.

Game 1: Tusculum 14, Lincoln Memorial 4 (Box Score)

The Pioneers erupted for seven runs in the third inning, including Kevin Victoriano's grand slam as Tusculum won Monday's first game, 14-4.

Tusculum plated three runs in the first inning, including back-to-back run-scoring doubles from Jim Tolle and Victoriano. Jeovanny Tolentino's RBI single in the second frame extended the TC lead to 4-0.

The Pioneers opened the flood gates in the third inning as 11 batters went to the plate as TC scored seven runs on five hits in the frame, including Victoriano's grand slam, his second homer of the season.

LMU got on the scoreboard with two runs in the fourth and two more in the fifth before chasing off TC starter Zach Slagle. Reliever Dalton Boslooper came aboard and pitched the final three innings of the game to record his first save of the season.

Andrew Bowerman, Jeremiah Tullidge, Tolentino, Tolle, Topoleski and Victoriano all finished with two hits each. Victoriano posted a season-best five RBI, while Tolentino scored three runs in the contest.

Slagle (3-2) posted his third win of the season as he went four innings, allowed seven hits, four runs, five walks and five strikeouts. Boslooper scattered two hits, a walk and two strikeouts in the his three-inning relief effort.

Game 2: Tusculum 7, Lincoln Memorial 6 (Box Score)

Tusculum had to rally from a pair of deficits, while TC closer Devan Watts pitches 3 1/3 innings of shutout relief in the Pioneers' 7-6 win in Monday's second contest.

Trailing 3-0 after the first inning, the Pioneers plated a run in the first and three more in the second to take their first lead of the game.

In the second, Jalen Shuffler led off with his SAC-leading fifth triple of the season. Scott Gibson was hit by a pitch to put runners on the corners and Topoleski made it a 3-2 game with his sacrifice fly out. Tolentino reached on a bunt single and Bowerman came through with a two-run double to put the Pioneers ahead 4-3.

LMU tied the game at 4-4 thank to Kyle Floyd's RBI double, his ninth of the season. TC retook the lead in the bottom of the third as the Pioneers capitalized on a LMU error to go up 5-4. The Railsplitters responded with a two-run fourth inning, including RBI hits from Floyd and Logan Augustine to lead 6-5.

Tusculum tied the game at 6-6 when Bowerman scored from third base on a LMU fielding error on a fly ball to right field that was dropped. In the fifth inning Chris Waylock led off with a single and later scored on Topoleski's two-out single to left field and a 7-6 lead.

Watts (3-1) scattered two hits and recorded five strikeouts in the Tusculum victory. He lowers his earned run average to a SAC-best 0.99, having only allowed four earned runs in his 36.1 innings on the mound.

In Jones's last 11 seasons, he has an impressive 407-166-1 record with the Pioneers, which has included five South Atlantic Conference Championships, three SAC Tournament titles and six trips to the NCAA Division II Tournament.

The Pioneers return to action this Friday as they travel to Hartsville, South Carolina to take on Coker College.

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