How to select among overlapping linear features by create date?

I have a table which has overlapping linear data; for example:

A----------C and B---------C.  

Of these two records I would only like to return the record with the latest create date; in other words, the record created last. How do I set up up my Search Cursor to produce the desired result? Really what I’m attempting to perform is dynamic segmentation depending on the create date. My end result can be A---B then B---C or if the create date of the first record (which is from A-----C) is newer than the create date for B-----C, I should just return record A----C.