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Softball vs. Wingate
S and S Pix
1
Wingate WU 5-4
2
Winner Young Harris YHC 6-1
Wingate WU
5-4
1
Final
2
Young Harris YHC
6-1
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
Wingate WU 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 6 0
Young Harris YHC 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 5 0

W: Davis, Sam (2-0) L: Sydney Kale (4-1)

4
Wingate WU 5-5
8
Winner Young Harris YHC 7-1
Wingate WU
5-5
4
Final
8
Young Harris YHC
7-1
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Wingate WU 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 4 10 0
Young Harris YHC 4 0 4 0 0 0 X 8 6 2

W: Shope, Haylie (2-0) L: Raechel Cutcher (3-3)

Game Recap: Softball | | Michael MacEachern
Assistant Director of Athletics for Sports Communications

No. 5 YHC sweeps doubleheader from Wingate

Mountain Lions win by scores of 2-1 (8 inn.) and 8-4

YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. | Jill Torres smacked two home runs as the fifth-ranked Young Harris College swept a non-conference doubleheader from Wingate University Saturday (Feb. 20) afternoon at the YHC Softball Field.

Torres connected one a home run to left-center field in the bottom of the eighth as the Mountain Lions took a 2-1 victory. YHC scored eight runs in the first three innings as they took the nightcap 8-4.

Young Harris improved to 7-1.

INSIDE THE BOXSCORE:

Game 1
  • The Mountain Lions took a 1-0 lead in the fourth inning as Haylie Shope led off the frame with a home run to left field.
  • Shope led YHC with two hits, while Emily Harris, Torres and Ashley Autuori each had one.
  • Three of the five hits by the Mountain Lions went for extra bases. In addition to the long balls from Shope and Torres, Autuori smacked sixth inning double.
  • Sam Davis improved to 2-0 as she scattered six hits and struck out six in the complete-game effort.
Game 2
  • Young Harris scored four times in the first and third innings as the Mountain Lions jumped out to a quick 8-1 lead.
  • Torres connected on a two-run homer to left and Biz Walters added a two-run single up the middle in YHC's four-run first inning.
  • Alanna Dunson stroked a three-run homer in the third for the Mountain Lions. Carly Rigsbee had a RBI double earlier in the inning.
  • Five of the six hits by Young Harris in the nightcap went for extra bases. Rigsbee contributed two doubles along with Torres, while Dunson and Torres had homers.
  • Shope (2-0) earned the win in relief as she allowed one unearned run and struck out four in four innings.
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