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Thursday at Spring Hill
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Saturday vs. Auburn Montgomery
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PENSACOLA, Fla. – The University of West Florida women's soccer team will conclude its regular season with a Thursday match at Spring Hill and a home contest against Gulf South Conference newcomer Auburn Montgomery on Saturday.
 
The Thursday game will begin at 3:30 at Library Field on the campus of Spring Hill College in Mobile, and West Florida will honor seniors Kaljit Atwal, Georgia Bailey, and Katelyn Burkhart with a Senior Day celebration on Saturday prior to the 3 pm kickoff.
 
Saturday will also mark Argie's Kids Club Day and the annual Fight Cancer Game for the women's team.
 
SCOUTING SPRING HILL
* The Badgers enter the weekend with a 1-16 record but have been playing their best soccer in the last week. After a tough 0-4 loss against Mississippi College at home, the Badger women battled both Shorter and North Alabama through overtime on the road, ultimately falling 0-1 in each contest.
* Spring Hill has struggled in finding the net, but Gabrielle Burmaster has been a threat throughout the year, with a team-high four goals. She has notably scored against Lee, which ranks second in the Gulf South Conference in goals against average, and against Florida Southern, which has the second-best GAA in the Sunshine State Conference.
 
SCOUTING AUM
* Conference newcomers Auburn Montgomery have made a pretty strong first impression on the GSC, with a 5-7 league record. Those five wins include home victories over West Alabama and Alabama Huntsville, and the team battled Mississippi College to a 2-3 loss on the road.
* Ruby Mendez has proven to be a major threat for the Warhawks. The sophomore from San Jose, California, has scored 12 goals in 14 games and has added 5 assists. She also enters the weekend on a bit of a hot streak, with five goals and two helpers in her last three matches, including one of each at Mississippi College last weekend.
* AUM, despite being picked to finish 12th in the GSC, returns 65 percent of its shots and 75 percent of its goals scored, from a team that went 8-7-1 in 2016. The Warhawks may have been better than their record indicated, as the team was just 3-5 in one-goal games last season.
* UWF and AUM faced off last year and the Argos took a 2-0 win, while taking 15 shots and allowing just 2. That is the only time that UWF and AUM have matched up in women's soccer.
 
THE REGIONAL RANKINGS
* UWF jumped up to No. 3 in the South Region rankings on Wednesday, after being ranked No. 5 in the initial regional rankings last week.
* Nova Southeastern led the rankings for the second consecutive week and Mississippi College came in at No. 2. Lee, North Alabama, Barry, Florida Southern and Tampa each followed West Florida. The top six teams in the regional rankings at the end of the season advance to the NCAA Tournament, where the 1 and 2 seeds in each of the country's eight regions serve as a host for the first two rounds.
 
OUR SENIORS
* A forward from Birmingham, England, Kaljit Atwal has totaled 25 points in her two years at West Florida. Those come from six goals and 13 assists across 39 games played with the blue and green. Atwal earned GSC Player of the Week honors just two weeks ago, after scoring twice and tallying three assists over a five-game, three-day stretch for the Argonauts against Montevallo, West Georgia and North Alabama.
* Georgia Bailey has been a major contributor on UWF's back line over the last four years, starting 48 matches and playing in 63, while scoring five goals and adding three assists as a defender. She has set career highs in goals and assists this year with two each, and she added one of both against North Alabama. Bailey is a three-time member of the GSC Fall Academic Honor Roll and has come up with game-tying and game-winning goals in the postseason in the last two seasons.
* At a university that has featured some of the best goalkeepers in GSC history, Katelyn Burkhart stands out. Her 35 career wins and 16 career shutouts each rank fifth in UWF history, and her junior campaign in 2016 will go down as one of the best in GSC lore. The Pace, Florida, native earned 18 wins in goal for UWF and posted a .407 goals against average -- a mark that ranks second in UWF history, while recording 8 shutouts.