The LMU Railsplitter basketball team celebrated its senior members before each contest on Saturday, February 26. The senior members honored on the Lady Splitters 2011 team were Whitney Holmes and LaChelle Hyatt and they proved to be an important part of the Lady Railsplitter’s big win against Lenoir-Rhyne’s Lady Bears. Hyatt was a force on the boards as she led LMU with 7-rebounds. Holmes helped her team out with 19-points to go along with Dayshallee Salaman’s 24-points as the Lady Splitters won by a score of 81-77.

The two-loss Railsplitter men took the court and honored their senior members Kierre Jordan, Sheldon Oliver and D’Mario Curry. The Railsplitters were led to a 65-47 victory by Desmond Johnson’s double-double consisting of 18-points and 12 rebounds. Curry scored 15 with Cameron Carden and Brandon Armstrong also scoring in double figures with 13 and 10 respectively. It was LMU’s 24th win of the season against the two losses. LMU finished conference play with a 16-2 record and will now set its sights on the South Atlantic Conference tournament. The number one-seeded Railsplitters will play the eighth-seeded Carson Newman Eagles in their third rivalry game of the season on Wednesday, March 2, at 7:00 pm.

Railsplitter fans need to come out and support their local team as they begin to battle for the SAC tournament championship. With the tournament foremost on their minds the Railsplitters did take a minute to celebrate the SAC regular season championships by cutting the net down at Tex Turner Arena but those nets are not the ones that this team would prefer to cut down as they want so passionately to cut the nets down in Hickory, North Carolina.