YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. | Young Harris College and No. 10-ranked Georgia College split a Peach Belt Conference softball doubleheader Saturday (Feb. 27) afternoon at E.D. Rivers Field.
 
Sarah Magill hit a three-run homer – her fifth of the season – as the Mountain Lions upset the Bobcats 8-3 in the opener before Georgia College held off the Mountain Lions 3-2 in the nightcap.
 
The Mountain Lions improved to 12-4 overall and to 1-1 in the Peach Belt while the Bobcats fell to 14-3 and 1-1. Young Harris travels to Anderson, South Carolina, Wednesday for a 3 p.m. doubleheader against Anderson (S.C.) University.
 
YHC jumped out to 2-0 lead in the first inning of the opener as the Mountain Lions took advantage of two Georgia College miscues. After the Bobcats got a run back in the third, Young Harris scored three times to take a 5-1 lead. Georgia Webb had an RBI double, while Lindsay Tudor added a sacrifice fly. Chandler Stooksbury closed out the scoring with a run-scoring single to left.
 
The Bobcats scored twice in the top of the sixth inning, but Magill smacked a three-run shot to center field off Bobcat reliever Brooke Taylor in the bottom half of the inning to give the Mountain Lions an 8-3 lead.
 
Murphy Davis and Webb led the Mountain Lions with two hits each.
 
Darby Stanford (9-1) scattered five hits and struck out eight in the complete-game effort while Marisa Boyette (5-2) absorbed the loss.
 
Georgia College took a 3-0 lead with a run in the fourth and two more in the fifth off Young Harris starter Jeanie Perrucci (1-2).  YHC got a run in the sixth on a RBI single by Tudor and a sac fly from Grace Botti an inning later. The Mountain Lions had the tying run at third base but Carly Lewis (8-1) recorded the final out on an infield fly.
 
Davis led Young Harris with two hits in the nightcap.