PENSACOLA, Fla. – West Florida's regular season came to a close on Sunday with a 1-0, nine-inning loss to Shorter on Sunday afternoon. The Argonauts finish the regular season with their highest winning percentage before postseason play since 2010.
 
UWF will begin its run in the Gulf South Conference Tournament as the 3-seed on Thursday and will face Shorter at 10 a.m.
 
Sunday's game featured a textbook pitchers' duel, as Kalyn Chapman and Payton Lippert went blow-for-blow in the circle. After the first four innings, UWF totaled three hits against Lippert and Shorter tallied two against Chapman.
 
West Florida threatened in the second inning, but fell victim to a 1-2-3 double play with the bases loaded. Shorter put together its own threat in the top of the third with a single from left fielder Tiffany Holland and a walk from Kendall Johnson. With two on and two away, Rhiannon Sassman backhanded a sharp ground ball from Shorter home run leader Kameron Carter and tagged third for the final out to strand two runners.
 
UWF strung together a rally again in the fourth, this time with two outs. Rachel Wright singled with two away and Chapman drew a walk, before Jessica Wilkinson hit a hard grounder of her own to third base that was snagged for the final out. Things slowed down a bit for UWF offensively from there, as the Argos added only three hits in the last five innings.
 
A final Argonaut threat came in the eighth inning, beginning with an infield single from Meghan Toney that led off the inning. Toney was advanced to second on a bunt from Sassman, but Lippert was able to force a flyout and pick up a strikeout to end the inning.
 
Chapman finished the day with just the one run allowed and four strikeouts, while allowing just seven hits over nine innings. The performance resulted in Chapman's 15th complete game of the year, and her .208 opponent batting average is the lowest for a UWF pitcher since Jillian Lafrance matched that number in 2009.
 
Emily Pettigrew and Wright chipped in with two hits apiece, while Chelsy Krantz reached on a single and a walk. The game marked Pettigrew's 16th and Wright's 14th multi-hit games of the season.