Young Harris, GA| The Mountain Lions softball team has won six of their last seven games, as they fell to Emmanuel University, 12-4, in game one and took game two in thrilling fashion. The Mountain Lions honored their nine seniors in a pregame ceremony: Trinity Aycock, Hannah Carey, Jordan Ratner, Hannah Rizzuto, Kylie Ferguson, Sarah Morris, Teresa Dixon, and Morgan Johnson. 

Quoting Head Coach Jessie Homesley: 

"I'm so proud of the way our team battled after game 1 to get a split on the day. Grace pitched a great game and we put together some gritty at bats in the bottom of the 7th. Bailee, Grace, HC and Gracie did a great job of passing the bat to give Shelby an opportunity to walk it off with a ball off the centerfield wall" 

Young Harris moves to 27-17 overall and 14-6 in Conference Carolinas games. Emmanuel moved to 26-21 overall and 13-9 in conference games. The Mountain Lions will hit the road on Tuesday (Apr. 16) for an afternoon doubleheader with Tusculum University in Greeneville, Tennessee. 

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE:
Game One: Emmanuel 12, YHC 4

• The Lions used a steady offensive attack to take down the Mountain Lions in game one, posting 17 hits. 

• Alyssa Adams recorded 5 RBIs on two hits, with one of those hits being a three-run homerun that put the Mountain Lions out of reach. 

• Shelby Duncan picked up two RBIs in game one, hitting a two-run single in the fifth inning. 

• Maddie Edwards pitched the full game for Emmanuel, giving up four runs (1 ER), striking out four YHC hitters, and surrendering seven hits. Edwards was credited with her 12th win of the season. 

Game Two: YHC 6, Emmanuel 5 

• Emmanuel slowly got out to a two-run lead by the bottom of the fifth inning off of an RBI single by Alyssa Adams and a solo homerun by Adams to boot.  

• The Mountain Lions answered big in the bottom half of the fifth inning, getting three runs off one swing of the bat by Gracie Hughes to take a 3-2 lead.  

• In the top of the seventh inning, the Lions took a 5-3 lead, with RBI doubles coming from Isabel Harrison and Gabby Buffington. 

• The Mountain Lions took advantage of three seventh inning errors by Emmanuel and swung their bats well to come back and win the game by a score of 6-5. 

• With runners on first and third with two outs and the game tied at five, Shelby Duncan came up to the plate and launched a double into CF to win it in walk-off fashion for the Mountain Lions on senior day. 

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