COLUMBUS, Ga. | The Young Harris College softball team swept their two games Saturday (Feb. 13) afternoon at the CSU Cougar Classic held at the South Commons Softball Complex.
 
The Mountain Lions took their opener 3-1 against Bellarmine University and a 6-2 decision over Lincoln Memorial University.
 
Young Harris, which improved to 8-2 with the sweep, will face Miles College at 11:30 a.m. Sunday (Feb. 14) before wrapping up action with a 2 p.m. contest against Bellarmine.
 
The Mountain Lions made the most of their five hits against Bellarmine. YHC took a 1-0 lead on a Murphy Davis single that scored Jeanie Perrucci, who had reached base on a single of her own. Young Harris took a 3-0 run with two more runs in the third. Grace Botti doubled home Perrucci, who started the inning with a single. Botti later scored on an error by the Knights.
 
Darby Stanford earned the complete-game win for the Mountain Lions as she scattered 10 hits and stranded 12 base runners while striking out three.
 
Young Harris jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning against Lincoln Memorial. Hannah Harrison led off with her first home run of the 2016 campaign. Sarah Magill, who went 3-for-4, doubled, stole third and came around to score on Lindsay Tudor's sacrifice bunt.
 
The Railsplitters tied the game at 2 with two runs in the top of the fifth; however, Magill smacked the first of her two home runs in the game, in the bottom half of the inning against Railsplitter reliever Alicia Raymond (0-2) to regain the lead for the Mountain Lions at 3-2. Magill added three insurance runs an inning later on her second long ball of the day.
 
Stanford (5-1) earned the win with 2 1/3 innings of scoreless relief against the Railsplitters.
 
Harrison and Perrucci each collected two hits against LMU, Davis added a double in the nightcap as the Mountain Lions clubbed 10 hits.