Erskine College Athletics

DUE WEST, S.C. – The Erskine College softball team (13-29, 11-17 CC) was defeated by Young Harris College (31-15, 23-5 CC) in both games of a doubleheader at the Erskine Softball Complex on Saturday to finish the regular season.

THE ESSENTIALS 
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HOW IT HAPPENED
Game 1: Young Harris 6-4 Erskine
Closing the regular season with a tall test on Saturday, the Fleet and Young Harris played a pair of scoreless innings to begin the afternoon before YHC opened up a 5-0 lead with a big top of the third inning. But, in the bottom half, Savannah Koester and Ava Rogers led off with base hits as the Fleet looked to respond. Two batters later, Gabby Burroughs launched a big three-run home run to cut the deficit to 5-3 with her third home run in the last five games. Moments later, Kennedy Crouch crushed her second big fly of the season and the Fleet went back-to-back for the first time this year, answering with a four-run bottom of the third to get within a run. That 5-4 scoreline remained until the visitors got an insurance run in the seventh, and Erskine was unable to complete the comeback in the final frames.

Game 2: Young Harris 6-3 Erskine (Final / 8 innings)
The final game of the regular season saw Young Harris score in the first and third innings to put the Fleet in a 2-0 deficit. But, Kinsley Kay settled in after a slow start in the circle and kept YHC to just the two runs through the regulation seven innings. Meanwhile, an RBI groundout from Gabby Burroughs got the Fleet on the board in the third, and Kennedy Crouch's run-scoring single in the fifth tied the game at two. Erskine had a chance with the winning run in scoring position and less than two outs in the bottom of the seventh but could not scratch across the run and the game went to extras. In the top of the eighth, YHC got a pair of two-RBI base hits to regain its lead. Emily Johnson's two-out RBI single in the bottom half scored Crouch and brought the tying run to plate, but the Fleet could not get any closer to wrap up a pair of hard-fought affairs with one of the premier teams in Conference Carolinas.

WHAT'S NEXT?
Erskine turns its attention to the 2026 Conference Carolinas Softball Championships in Duncan, where the Fleet will be the No. 11 seed and start their week in the Play-In Round against the No. 6 Seed Chowan University (29-18, 17-11 CC) on Thursday at 1:30 p.m. The Fleet and Hawks did not meet in the regular season.

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