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PENSACOLA, Fla. – Following wins over two ranked teams last weekend, the University of West Florida women's soccer team will head to Miami Shores, Florida, to face top-seeded Barry for the South Region title on Friday. Game time between UWF (18-4) and the Bucs (11-3-2) is set for 5 pm ET.
 
The game will be the 15th matchup all-time against Barry and it will be the fourth time the teams have met in postseason play. The winner of Friday's match will face the winner of the 7:30 pm match between North Georgia and Columbus State in the NCAA Quarterfinal on Sunday in Miami Shores.
 
Live stats and a live video broadcast of all three of the games over the weekend will be available, with links at GoArgos.com.
 
We Are Good

• West Florida leads the GSC in points per game (7.73), scoring offense (2.73 goals per game), total goals (60) and total points (170). UWF ranks 10th or better nationally in each of those categories.
• Freshman Marjorie Boilesen has made an immediate impact in the league, ranking fourth or better in the Gulf South Conference in goals (12), assists (14), points (38) and game-winning goals (5).
• Argonauts make up several top-15 spots in individual statistical rankings in Division II. Sara Helgadottir is second in DII in total assists (15) and third in assists per game (0.68), Boilesen is third in assists (14) and fourth in assists per game (0.67), Emily Vogler is fifth in game-winning goals (7), and Katelyn Burkhart is fifth in goals against average (0.34).
• The Argonauts' win on Friday against Nova Southeastern marked the team's 16th shutout this year, which ranks as the second-most in GSC history.

 
In the NCAA Tournament

• West Florida has reached the NCAA Tournament a total of 14 times, and 13 times in Joe Bartlinski's 16 years at the helm.
• UWF leads all Gulf South Conference teams in tournament appearances (14) and wins (21). West Florida has 11 NCAA Tournament wins over the last five years.
• The Argonauts defeated Saint Leo 2-1 in Dade City on Sunday, following a 1-0 win over Nova Southeastern on Friday. Each of those team's top goal-scorers were held without a shot.
• UWF is 7-5-2 all-time against Barry, with a 3-4-1 record at Buccaneer Field.
• Entering this year's NCAA Tournament, teams from the Gulf South Conference had played seven total games in the NCAA Tournament over the last two years and all seven of those were decided by 1-0 scores.
• Lower-seeded teams have seen some success in the NCAA Tournament, as East Stroudsburg won its region as a 6-seed last year, and 5-seed Cal State Chico advanced to the national semifinal in 2011.

 
Last Week

• A 6-seed coming into the NCAA Tournament, West Florida was the only team in Division II to win twice last week. Fort Hays State is the only other advancing team that played on both Friday and Sunday, getting a win on Friday and advancing after PKs on Sunday against Minnesota State.
• West Florida shut out Nova Southeastern on Friday and took a 1-0 win over the Sharks in the NCAA Tournament for the second consecutive year, and the Argonauts won 2-1 over SSC Champions Saint Leo on Sunday.

 
Wow, This Defense

• West Florida ranks fourth in the country in shutout percentage, recording clean sheets in 16 of the team's 22 games (73 percent). Only No. 3 Central Missouri, No. 2 Grand Valley State have more shutouts.
• Against the top 15 goal-scorers in the Gulf South Conference in the regular season, UWF allowed just six shots, one shot on goal and no goals. Notably, UWF held GSC Co-Player of the Year Summer Lanter without a shot, and did the same against TeMia Pride, who ranked second in the league with 13 goals. UWF continued the trend by holding Nova Southeastern's Hannah Christophe and Saint Leo's Arielle Kabangu without a shot over the weekend. Christophe was the Sunshine State Conference's Freshman of the Year and Kabangu was the SSC Player of the Year, and the pair leads the conference with 10 and 16 goals, respectively.
• The Argos' .54 goals against average is tops in the conference, and West Florida has put up five more shutouts than Lee, which ranks second in the league with a .58 GAA and 11 shutouts.
• UWF allowed just one goal in conference play, which has been done five times in GSC history.
• UWF's scoreless minutes streak reached 723 before coming to an end against Mississippi College. The streak was the sixth-longest in conference history.
• West Florida holds seven of the 11 longest shutout streaks in the history of the conference.
• Current UWF goalkeeper Katelyn Burkhart ranks fifth in DII in GAA at .34, which would rank third in GSC history. Her career GAA of 0.49 would rank second in GSC history.

 
All-South Region Awards

• UWF earned six First Team D2CCA All-South Region honorees on Wednesday morning. The six were the same as the All-Gulf South Conference first teamers, and Marjorie Boilesen was named the South Region Player of the Year. Six is the most Argonauts to make the All-South Region team since 2013, when seven Argos earned the nod.
• Freshman Marjorie Boilesen continued to add to her trophy case after being named the D2CCA South Region Player of the Year. She is the sixth Argonaut to earn the honor and earned a spot on the first team as a midfielder. The Sao Paolo, Brazil, native leads the South Region in points (38), ranks second in assists (14) and fifth in goals (12) and has also been named the GSC Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year.
• Sara Helgadottir also earned a first-team spot as a midfielder, with 15 assists and five goals. She ranks second in DII with 15 helpers this season, and her 33 career assists rank fourth among all active Division II players and lead all GSC players over the last four years. She led all GSC players with 10 assists in conference play, had the lone goal in Friday's 1-0 win over Nova Southeastern and had an assist on Sunday against Saint Leo.
• Kaley Ward ranks second in goals in the South Region (14), and ranks third with 31 points. She had two tremendous point-streaks during the year. From September 9 to October 2, she scored a goal in seven of eight games and tallied an assist in the lone game she didn't score. She concluded the season by scoring six goals in her final six games. Ward has scored a goal in 13 different games this year, which is more than any other player in the South Region.
• Svenja Burkhardt, an all-region first team defender for the second time in her career, has been a staple of the UWF defense for the last four years, helping the Argonauts to 16 shutouts in her senior season. In Burkhardt's four years on the back line, UWF has kept its opponents to a 0.73 goals against average.
• Emily Vogler joins Burkhardt on the All-South Region first team and has played a key role on the UWF defense for three years. This year, the team has held opponents to just six shots per game and has kept four of the top goal-scorers in the region (Saint Leo's Arielle Kabangu, West Alabama's TeMia Pride, Lee's Summer Lanter and Nova Southeastern's Hannah Christophe) without a shot in the five total games played against them. Vogler has also added a stunning 12 goals as a defender, which ranks fourth in the Gulf South Conference.
• Burkhart, the junior from Pace, Florida, saved more than 80 percent of the shots she faced and is 17-2 in goal. She has recorded seven solo shutouts and played a part in 15 this season, allowing a league-best 0.34 goals against average. As things stand now, Burkhart's GAA for this season would rank third all-time in the GSC, and her career GAA of 0.47 would rank second in conference history.

 
Boilesen: Player of the Year

• Freshman Marjorie Boilesen was named the D2CCA South Region Player of the Year on Wednesday morning. She led the conference in assists and points in the regular season and also earned Gulf South Conference Player and Freshman of the Year honors.
• As a five-time winner of the GSC's Freshman of the Week honor, Boilesen holds the record for the most individual honors in the award's history, passing Kylie Huey from North Alabama, who earned the nod four times last year.
• Boilesen has scored at least one point in 17 of her 21 games played. She started her career by scoring at least a point in her first nine games.
• The last UWF player to have an assist in five consecutive games or score a point in nine games in a row was 2012 NSCAA National Player of the Year Chelsea Palmer, who accomplished both feats in 2013.
• Her hat trick against West Georgia was the first for a UWF freshman since Sara Helgadottir found the net three times in a game in the 2013 season, and Boilesen's 12 goals give her the most for a UWF freshman since Brianna Oeser matched that total and set the UWF freshman record for goals in 2001. The UWF freshman record for assists belongs to Jill Rice, who helped on 17 goals in 2001.

 
About Barry

• Barry leads the Sunshine State Conference in shutout percentage (.500) and stands in the top three of the conference in goals against average (.780), assists per game (1.5) and points per game (5.0).
• Midfielder Amanda Traynor and defender Katie Turner were the Bucs' two All-South Region honorees. Barry saw five players, including Traynor and Turner, named to the All-Sunshine State Conference team. The three others were midfielder Molly Sharpe, defender Breia Pierce and keeper Paula Forero.
• Most recently, Barry defeated Rollins 2-1 in overtime on Sunday to advance to the Third Round of the NCAA Tournament. The Bucs also defeated Rollins 4-0 to end the regular season, before winning over Florida Tech in the SSC Tournament and falling to Nova Southeastern 2-1 in the conference tournament semifinals.

 
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