YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. – Young Harris College won a pair of Peach Belt Conference softball games over Flagler College, 6-2 and 7-4, Wednesday afternoon at E.D. Rivers Field.
Young Harris improved to 17-7 overall and 6-2 in the Peach Belt. Flagler dropped to 7-24 overall and 0-8 in conference play.
In the first game, Sydnee Weaver led off the bottom of the fifth with a triple. Jeanie Perrucci followed with a fly out to score Weaver and break the 2-all tie. Sarah Magill added an insurance run with a solo home run right after the sacrifice fly. It was Magill's second home run of the game. She hit another solo homer in the first.
That would be all Darby Stanford (10-2) would need. She scattered six hits, allowed one earned run, walked one and struck out five to earn a complete game victory.
Magill went 3-for-3 with the two home runs and two runs batted in. Murphy Davis went 2-for-3 with a double and she scored a run. Chandler Stooksbury collected two singles and drove in a run.
Haleigh Corbally (2-5) tossed five innings and allowed eight hits and three earned runs. She struck out four batters.
Malloree Escue singled twice for the Saints.
Hollianne Dohrn hit a two-run home run in the fifth inning to tie the game at 2-all.
In game two, the Mountain Lions used a three-run fifth inning to rally to a 7-4 win.
Magill and Sarah Webb started the inning with back-to-back doubles. Webb's drove in Magill to tie the game at 4-all. Later in the inning, Lindsay Tudor belted a two-run home run to give Young Harris a 6-4 lead.
Rachel Benson (1-0) picked up the win in relief after tossing three innings. She scattered four hits and allowed one run. Stanford came on to close the game and earned the save after pitching two scoreless innings and striking out two batters.
Webb went 2-for-4 with a double, three RBI and she scored a run. Magill collected a single, double and scored a run.
Katelynn Smith (2-7) surrendered eight hits and five earned runs in five innings of work. She walked four and struck out four.
Kayla Fuller went 3-for-4 with a double and scored two runs for the Saints.
Mackenzie Conley went 2-for-4 with a double, an RBI and scored a run.
Tori Volz hit a two-run double in the second inning.
Flagler led 4-2 after three innings of play.
Flagler will take tomorrow off as its game at No. 8 (NFCA Division II Top 25) University of North Georgia was moved to Friday (March 20) at 1 p.m. due to the forecast of rain on Thursday.
