AIKEN, S.C. – The University of South Carolina Aiken softball team split a pair of games against No. 16 Young Harris. The squad lost the opener 6-3 in eight innings before recording a walk-off hit to win the nightcap 3-2.

The Pacers are now 24-14 on the season and 8-8 against league foes. The Mountain Lions are now 29-15 overall and 15-7 against conference competition.

Head coach Jerry Snyder's team jumped on top of game one when Magan Thrower led off the stanza with a 220-foot home run over the left field fence while the wind was blowing in.

The Mountain Lions tied it in the third and pushed across a pair of runs in the fifth for a 3-1 advantage.

USC Aiken, however, roared back to knot the contest at 3-3 in the bottom of the seventh. Chandler Terrapin came in as a pinch hitter and walked to lead things off. Brielle Jungblut came back in for Terrapin after she reached first. Sarah Montei walked to put two on prior to Sydney Murphy roping a single through the left side of the infield to load the bases.

Samantha Chubb lifted a sacrifice fly to center field, making it 3-2. Montei and Murphy each moved up 90 feet on the play. Hannah Price tied the game with a single down the right field line. USC Aiken loaded the bases again after Thrower walked, but the team was unable to push across the game-winning run.

The Mountain Lions had the bases loaded with two outs and managed to score three unearned runs on an error, clinching the 6-3 win.

For the game, Murphy had three hits while Montei tallied two. Taylor Morgan was saddled with the loss. She struck out five and gave up six runs on 12 hits, but only two runs were earned.

In the second game, Terrapin gave up a run in the top of the first, but Snyder's team battled back.

Price reached on a fielding error. Taylor Allen came in as a pinch runner and moved to second on Thrower's sacrifice bunt. Terrapin brought Allen home with a two-run round-tripper, making it 2-1.

After Young Harris plated the tying run in the top of the third, neither team could push across a run until the seventh inning despite having several chances to do so.

Snyder's team left two on in the third, two on in the fourth and one on in the sixth.

The Mountain Lions managed to get a two-out single in the seventh, but Terrapin forced a grounder to Chubb, who easily got the out at first base.

Andrea Daring led off the bottom half of the seventh with a double down the left field line. Lyndie Dorgan came in as a pinch runner and moved to third on Sarah Timmerman's sacrifice bunt.

Montei ripped a pitch up the middle with the infield playing in for the game-winning run.

For the game, Terrpain and Thrower had two hits apiece. Terrapin had two RBI. She also struck out a pair en route to the complete-game victory.

The Pacers return to action tomorrow when they host No. 7 North Georgia at 1 p.m. Live stats, video and audio will be available at PacerSports.com.