YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. | The Young Harris College softball team split a Peach Belt Conference doubleheaderr with Flagler College Saturday (April 2) afternoon at the YHC Softball Field.
The Saints won game one 13-2 in six innings and the Mountain Lions took the nightcap 7-5.
Young Harris improved to 16-15 overall and 7-8 in the PBC, while Flagler College fell to 19-16 and 5-7. The Mountain Lions return to action Tuesday (April 5) with a 1 p.m. doubleheader against the University of Alabama in Huntsville at home.
INSIDE THE BOXSCORE:
GAME TWO
- Jillian Vitamanti tied the game up at one in the second inning with a sacrifice groundout to second base that scored Trinity Aycock.
- Flagler scored three runs in the third inning to take a 4-1 lead.
- YHC answered back in the bottom of the third with a two-run RBI single up the middle from Grace Young, and a single through the left side by Erin Chambliss to tie the game up at 4.
- Shea Bayreuther put the Mountain Lions up 5-4 with a solo home run – her sixth of the season – to center field in the fourth.
- A Morgan Curley double to right center in the sixth scored Bayreuther to give YHC a 6-4 advantage.
- Amber Divine gave the Mountain Lions its final run with a RBI single in the sixth that scored Karah Straub.
- The Mountain Lions totaled 13 hits. Young led with three, and Bayreuther, Curley, Divine, and Chambliss recorded two apiece.
- Kylie Ferguson (5-4) earned the win in the circle for YHC.
GAME ONE
- Aycock led the Mountain Lions with two hits, while Bayreuther, Ashley Autuori, Young, and Divine had one hit each.
- Young drove in the only YHC runs with a two-run home run to left center in the third inning.
- Flagler College scored seven in the second inning, added one in the fifth, and five in the sixth to win the game.
- Jill Dixon (6-6) recorded the loss for YHC.
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