MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. - The sixth-seeded Lander softball team made the most of its rebuilding season under first year coach Glen Crawford, but after making it to the Peach Belt Conference Tournament for the first time since 2010, the Bearcats fell to third-seeded Young Harris, 9-2, Friday afternoon in a quarterfinal-round contest at Georgia College's Peeler Complex.

Lander finishes the year at 26-21, its first winning season since 2003. Young Harris improves to 32-17 and advances to Saturday's semifinal against seventh-seeded USC Aiken. USCA upset No. 2 Armstrong State, 5-3, in eight innings.

The Mountain Lions' Darby Stanford (25-5) picked up the win after striking out four and allowing two earned runs on five hits in the complete seven innings.

The Bearcats' McKenzi Ferguson (17-10) was tagged with the loss after striking out four, walking three and allowing four earned runs on four hits in 4.1 innings of action.

Hannah Harrison put YHC up 3-0 in the third inning with a three-run homer to right field, her sixth roundtripper of the season.

Young Harris stretched the lead to 4-0 in the fourth when Sara Beth Marquis advanced home on a fielding error, then made it 7-0 in the fifth after Murphy Davis' RBI single plated Sarah Magill and Harrison, and Marquis drove in Davis.

Lander trimmed the margin to 7-2 in the sixth after Halie Sorrow and Dariean Ward each had RBI doubles that plated MaKenzie Smith and pinch runner Bryanna Vasquez.

The Mountain Lions concluded the scoring in the bottom half of the sixth on Harrison's RBI double and Davis' RBI single.

Sorrow batted 2-for-3 for the Bearcats.

Harrison, Davis and Lindsay Tudor had two its apiece for Young Harris.