PENSACOLA, Fla. – The University of West Florida women's soccer team finished a long week of play with a 5-1 win over Gulf South Conference leader North Alabama at the UWF Soccer Complex on Sunday. The Argonauts went a perfect 3-0 over a five-day stretch dating back to Wednesday, scoring 13 total goals and allowing just one.
 
UWF's win on Sunday improved its overall record to 10-3-1 and 7-2-1 in the Gulf South Conference, and North Alabama fell to 10-3-1 and 9-2-1 in league play.
 
Sophomore Leonie Kreil and senior Kaljit Atwal, who each recorded a goal and an assist in the match and finished the week with seven points, led the Argonauts again on Sunday. Kreil's seven points this week came from three goals and an assist, whereas Atwal had a pair of goals and three helpers over the three-game stretch.
 
UWF took a 3-0 lead into the half, and the scoring starting Kreil's goal – her seventh of the year – on which Atwal earned an assist. Kreil returned the favor only a minute-and-a-half later, when Atwal used her left foot to finish a pass from Kreil after a long ball from Shantell Thompson.
 
Jessica Quixley scored the third goal of the day for the Argos, and her seventh of the year, with a header off a corner kick from Georgia Bailey with only nine minutes left on the clock in the first half, giving UWF its 3-0 advantage it took to the halftime break.
 
UNA chipped into the 3-0 deficit early in the second half, but that did not slow UWF's momentum at all. In the 35 minutes of play that followed the North Alabama goal from Shelby Wall, West Florida outshot the Lions 7-2 and picked up two more goals.
 
Those goals came from Georgia Bailey, who picked up a pass outside the box and maneuvered through the UNA defense to find the net herself, and from Robyn Herman, who scored the Argos' last goal of the day by ripping a shot into the upper 90 on a pass from Isabella Garcia-Salas with only two minutes left on the clock. The goal was Herman's second of the year and the assist was Garcia-Salas' first.
 
West Florida finished the day with 17 shots and 11 shots on goal, compared to 10 and 4 in the same categories for North Alabama.
 
After their goals on Sunday, Kreil and Quixley rank sixth in the GSC with seven goals apiece, and Kreil's seven assists rank second in the conference. Thompson (6) and Atwal (5) rank third and fourth in the league in assists.
 
After a 7-0 win against West Georgia on Friday and the 5-1 win on Sunday, UWF maintained its GSC lead in goals scored (45), scoring average (3.2 goals per game), and shots (280).
 
UWF will head to Memphis, Tennessee, for a GSC fixture at Christian Brothers on Friday, October 20, before visiting Union in Jackson, Tennessee, on October 22.