HARROGATE, Tenn. – Shannon McGuire picked up her third win in four appearances, Sydney Ditto tripled home the game-winning run, and the Queens University of Charlotte softball team (14-6) upset its second top-25 conference opponent within the past week on Saturday in a doubleheader split at No. 23 Lincoln Memorial. The Royals dropped the first leg of the doubleheader in the final inning, 5-4, before bouncing back to take game two, 3-2. 
 
 Game One: Lincoln Memorial 5, Queens 4
 
Entering the game as winners of its last seven of eight games, Queens battled back to tie the game in the top of the seventh inning at four-runs apiece before dropping game one to Lincoln Memorial, 5-4, thanks to last-inning heroics from the Railsplitters. 
 
After falling behind, 1-0, in the second inning, the Royals struck for three runs in the top of the third inning behind a triple from Ditto to center field, followed by a two-run home run down the left field line from McKenzie McCullen, her team-leading sixth of the season. 
 
Lincoln Memorial struck back in the fifth inning with three runs of their own, regaining a one-run lead, 4-3. Queens manufactured a run in the top of the seventh when Sabrina Martinez stole third base and scored on a throwing error, but the Railsplitters walked it off in the bottom of the inning with a single to left-center field to score the winning run. 
 
Ditto and Gerlea Patton led Queens with two hits each, while the Royals accumulated seven hits overall as a team. Sara Ingoldsby and Grace Valchar also both recorded hits for the Royals.
 
Courtney Pearson (8-2) suffered only her second loss of the season and the first in her last seven outings. 
 
Game Two: Queens 3, Lincoln Memorial 2 
 
Not being held down for long, Queens bounced back immediately in game two, picking up another top-25 victory to add to its 2019 resume. McGuire pitched a complete-game, seven-hit, two-run performance to improve to 5-3 on the season, and the Royals picked up its 14th win on the season in game two on Saturday. 
 
Trailing 1-0 through four innings, the Royals jumped on the board for three runs in the fifth to take the 3-1, and deciding, lead. Following a sacrifice fly from Kelly Winter to tie the game at one-all, scoring teammate Cierra Robinson, Ditto smacked her second triple of the day, this time scoring two – Patton and Breanna Martinez – to take the two-run lead. 
 
From there, McGuire held down the No. 23 Railsplitters at the plate, allowing them only one more run for the game, completing her fourth complete-game of the season in eight appearances for her fifth win of the season. 
 
The Royals finished with six hits to the Railsplitters' seven. McGuire struck out five. 
 
Queens will be back in action in another conference doubleheader on Wednesday, March 27 as it continues its road trip at Newberry. First pitch of game one is scheduled for 1 p.m.