PENSACOLA, Fla. – UWF men's soccer cruised to a 4-1 victory over West Alabama Friday evening at the UWF Soccer Complex. Ed Chappe finished with two goals. Sean Hoffstatter finished with two assists.
 
Chappe opened the scoring in the 23rd minute, capitalizing on a UWA turnover to beat keeper Austin Salazar. Ali Brador struck back for UWA 69 seconds later, putting one home off a corner by David Nascimiento to even the score 1-1.
 
Hoffstatter set up Chappe's goal in the 30th minute to make it 2-1. The strike was Chappe's seventh, the fifth most in the GSC. Hoffstatter would pick up a second assist less than two minutes into the second half. This time, he set up Andrew Wentz for his third goal of 2018 to run the Argo lead to 3-1. The assists brought Hoffstatter to a conference-best 27 points.
 
Kam Bethell added his third goal of the year late to put the contest out of reach. West Florida is now 7-3-2 vs. UWA since 2012. Jacob Murray picked up the victory in net. He made one save.
 
The Argos outshot the Tigers 17-9 overall and 6-2 on frame. The win was the first for UWF (8-2-2, 6-0-1 GSC) over UWA (5-5-2, 3-3-1 GSC) since 2014.
 
The Argos will close the regular season home schedule with match vs. Alabama Huntsville (6-5-1, 4-2-1 GSC) Sunday at 3:00 p.m. The regular season home finale will be Senior Day. Barrett Mills, Alik Morgan, Gavin Gillies, Sergio Otalora, Chandler Castleman, Murray and Bethell will be honored. A live stream of the game will be available at goargos.com/live.

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