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Adidas
Adidas
Jill Torres
S and S Pix
8
Winner Young Harris YHC 28-8, 15-2 PBC
2
Francis Marion FMU 10-19, 6-11 PBC
Winner
Young Harris YHC
28-8, 15-2 PBC
8
Final
2
Francis Marion FMU
10-19, 6-11 PBC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Young Harris YHC 3 3 0 0 0 0 2 8 10 1
Francis Marion FMU 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 5 1

W: King, Sara (7-2) L: Rachel Davis (5-6)

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Winner Young Harris YHC 29-8, 16-2 PBC
0
Francis Marion FMU 10-20, 6-12 PBC
Winner
Young Harris YHC
29-8, 16-2 PBC
8
Final
0
Francis Marion FMU
10-20, 6-12 PBC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Young Harris YHC 1 0 0 5 1 0 1 8 13 1
Francis Marion FMU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1

W: Dixon, Jill (10-1) L: Taylor Florea (4-8)

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

No. 9 Mountain Lions sweep doubleheader from Patriots

FLORENCE, S.C. | The ninth-ranked Young Harris College softball team swept a Peach Belt Conference doubleheader from Francis Marion University Sunday (April 25) afternoon at the FMU Softball Stadium.

The Mountain Lions improved to 29-8 overall and to 16-2 in the Peach Belt after recording 8-2 and 8-2 wins over the Patriots, who fell to 10-20 and 6-12.

INSIDE THE BOXSCORE:

Game 1
  • Young Harris jumped out to a 6-0 lead after scoring three runs in both the first and second innings.
  • Jill Torres hit a two-run homer - her 10th of the season - to center field in the first. Haylie Shope also her 10th long ball of 2021 with a solo shot to right-center field.
  • Morgan Curley led off the second with a home run to center field. It was her third of the season. Biz Walters drove in a run on a ground out and another run scored on a wild pitch.
  • The Mountain Lions added two more runs in the seventh on back-to-back RBI doubles from Carly Rigsbee and Shope.
  • Walters, Torres, Shope and Curley each collected two hits.
  • Walters clubbed a triple in the seventh inning.
  • Sara King (7-2) earned the win. She allowed two unearned runs in 5.2 innings.

Game 2
  • Jill Dixon (10-1) twirled a three-hit shutout in her complete-game victory. She recorded six strikeouts.
  • Torres gave YHC a 1-0 lead in the first on her RBI ground out.
  • The Mountain Lions broke the game open with a five-run fourth inning, Curley, Emily Harris, Natalie Corbin and Torres had run-scoring singles, while Walters drove in a run on her ground out.
  • Young Harris added solo runs in the fifth and seventh innings. Harris had an RBI single up the middle in the fifth and pinch hitter Lindley Bruce added a sactifice fly in the seventh.
  • Curley led the Mountain Lions' 13-hit attack with three hits, while Harris and Corbin had two apiece.
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