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Winner Young Harris YHC 23-20
6
Georgia Southwestern GSW 33-21
Winner
Young Harris YHC
23-20
8
Final
6
Georgia Southwestern GSW
33-21
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Young Harris YHC 1 1 5 0 0 1 0 8 7 0
Georgia Southwestern GSW 2 1 0 0 1 1 1 6 14 3

W: Dixon, Jill (7-8) L: Regan Lee (8-4) S: Davis, Sam (4)

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

Young, Curley homers Mountain Lions past Georgia Southwestern 8-6 in PBC Tournament

GREENWOOD, S.C. | Morgan Curley and Grace Young each homered as Young Harris College outlast Georgia Southwestern State University 8-6 in the first round of the Peach Belt Conference Softball Tournament Saturday (May 7) afternoon at Doug Spears Field on the campus of Lander University.

The Mountain Lions improved to 23-20 and moves to the 10 a.m. semifinal Sunday (May 8) against top seed and national ranked No. 17 University of North Georgia., while the Hurricanes ended their season at 33-21.

INSIDE THE BOXSCORE:
  • Curley led off the game with home run to center field to give YHC a 1-0 lead on her seventh long ball of 2022.
  • The Mountain Lions tied the game at 2  in the second on Karah Straub's RBI single to center field.
  • YHC broke open the game with a five-run third inning. Ashley Autuori tied the game at 3 with a bases-loaded walk before Young connected on a grand slam down the left field line to give the Mountain Lions a 7-3 lead. It was Young's second homer of the season.
  • The Mountain Lions added an insurance run in the sixth on a Georgia Southwestern throwing error.
  • The Hurricanes, who left 13 runners on base, got as close as 8-6, but Sam Davis earned her fourth save of the season as she came in the bottom of the seventh with the bases loaded and recorded the final two outs on a strikeout and a pop up.
  • The Mountain Lions had seven hits. Three from Young and two more from Curley. Jess Jaruszewski and Straub accounted for the other hits.
  • Jill Dixon (7-8) earned the win with 4.1 innings of relief.
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Scoring Summary

Score By Innings
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YHC TOP 1st Curley homered to center field, RBI (2-1 BKB). 1 0
GSW BOT 1st Lacey Rutled homered to right center, RBI (2-1 KBB). 1 1
GSW BOT 1st Zoe Willis homered to left field, RBI (3-2 KFFBBB). 1 2
YHC TOP 2nd Straub singled to center field, advanced to second on the throw, RBI (0-0); Jaruszewski advanced to third, out at third cf to c to 3b; Young scored. 2 2
GSW BOT 2nd Zoe Willis singled to left field, advanced to second on the throw, RBI (2-2 BFFFB); Lacey Rutled advanced to third; Kimmy Singer scored. 2 3
YHC TOP 3rd Autuori walked, RBI (3-0 BBBB); Aycock advanced to second; Bayreuther advanced to third; Curley scored, unearned. 3 3
YHC TOP 3rd Young homered down the lf line, 4 RBI (1-1 BK); Autuori scored; Aycock scored; Bayreuther scored. 7 3
GSW BOT 5th Morgan Mulli doubled to left center, RBI (2-2 FBFB); Allyson Murd advanced to third; Isabel Marco scored. 7 4
YHC TOP 6th Bayreuther reached on a throwing error by 3b (2-2 KFFBB); Curley advanced to third; Straub scored, unearned. 8 4
GSW BOT 6th Hailey Pinet flied out to lf, SF, RBI (0-0); Katelyn Wood out at second lf to c to 2b to 3b to 1b to ss; Zoe Willis scored. 8 5
GSW BOT 7th Zoe Willis walked, RBI (3-1 BBKBB); Kimmy Singer advanced to second; Jacie Johns advanced to third; Morgan Mulli scored. 8 6

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