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PENSACOLA, Fla. – After a 2-3 weekend to start the season in Gulf Shores, the No. 3 University of West Florida softball team will visit south Florida for a trio of doubleheaders at Palm Beach Atlantic, Nova Southeastern and Barry on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
 
Each game can be followed along with a live video broadcast and live stats, and links for all can be found at GoArgos.com. The Thursday doubleheader against Palm Beach Atlantic will begin at 3 pm ET, Friday's contests at Nova Southeastern will start at 5 pm ET, and it will be a noon ET first pitch against Barry on Saturday.
 
A Look at Last Week
* West Florida went 2-3 at the Gulf Coast Invitational in Gulf Shores, Alabama, last week, taking wins over Nova Southeastern and Tuskegee. That 2-3 record can be a little deceiving at first glance, as the Argonauts scored more runs than the opposition, recorded more walks than strikeouts, had a 2.10 team ERA, and had a team .374 on-base percentage, which nearly equals the .377 mark the squad had last year.
* UWF split each of the first two days of the Invitational, with a win over Nova Southeastern and an extra inning loss to No. 23 Saint Leo on Friday. West Florida cruised to an 11-0 win against Tuskegee on Saturday before falling late to Eckerd, and UWF then dropped a game against No. 7 North Georgia.
 
Captain Clutch
* Tiona Hill picked up in 2018 right where she left off last year, hitting a game-winning three-run home run in last Friday's season-opener against Nova Southeastern. After the first five games of the year, Hill leads West Florida with 6 RBIs and ranks second on the team with 7 total bases.
* The heroics started in last year's GSC Tournament against Shorter, when she lifted a two-run single into left field to bring in Meghan Toney and Rhiannon Sassman and give UWF a walkoff win in the tournament's first round.
* She followed that act with another walkoff single in the South Regional, driving a single up the middle and putting UWF on top of Valdosta State with a 7-6 victory.
* After April 1 last year, Hill hit .417 with 6 RBI in late and close situations -- after the fifth inning, with the score within two runs.
 
That Pitching
* The UWF pitching staff ranks as one of the best in the GSC after the first weekend of softball action around the league, with a 2.10 ERA that is the fifth-best in the conference.
* All four UWF pitchers posted an ERA below 3.00 for the weekend, with newcomers Grace Gilbert and Olivia Printiss going a combined 9.1 innings without allowing an earned run.
* Gilbert threw 3.1 of one-hit ball in her collegiate debut against Nova Southeastern and followed that with two hitless innings against Tuskegee in her first college start, earning the win in each of those two games.
* Printiss, a Gulf Breeze native, earned the save after going 3.0 innings and allowing just one hit against Tuskegee on Saturday.
* Junior transfer Tori Perkins struck out eight batters against Eckerd a day after allowing just two earned runs over 7.2 innings against No. 23 Saint Leo.
 
Heading to Miami
* Palm Beach Atlantic first up for UWF on the trip to South Florida. The Sailfish are 2-0 after beating Mississippi College 5-4 in extra innings and beating Georgia Southwestern 8-4 at the team's season-opening trip to Columbus, Georgia.
* Loren Kilgore and Michaela Hynes lead PBA with 4 hits and 3 runs through those first two games, and All-American outfielder Magnolia West hit .300 during the opening weekend.
* West Florida hasn't played PBA since 2013, when the Argonauts took a 6-2 win in Clearwater, Florida. UWF holds a 4-2 all-time record against the Sailfish.
 
We've Seen Nova Southeastern Already
* UWF kicked off its season with a 4-2 win over Nova Southeastern last week, and the teams will face off again on Friday afternoon. Last week, Meghan Toney and Rhiannon Sassman each had a multi-hit game, Sarah Maloney allowed just one earned run in 3.2 innings, and Tiona Hill led the offense with a game-winning three-run home run in the fifth inning.
* Dana Edmundson leads NSU with a .389 batting average, 7 hits, 3 doubles, 5 RBIs, a .556 slugging percentage, and a .542 OBP after the team's first six games of the season.
* Lexie Storrer has thrown all 42 innings in the circle for Nova Southeastern. She put together a 2.67 ERA at the Gulf Coast Invitational, with 17 strikeouts and a .259 opponent batting average at the tournament.
* Last year, West Florida cruised to 7-2 and 3-1 wins over the Sharks. Sarah Maloney struck out 11 in 5.1 innings in the second half of the doubleheader.
 
Vs. Barry
* West Florida will wrap up the trip with a doubleheader against Barry on Saturday. UWF is 3-8 all-time against the Bucs, but won both ends of a doubleheader in Pensacola against Barry just last year. Prior to last year, UWF and Barry had matched up only once in the last five years.
* Barry was also at the Gulf Coast Invitational last weekend and fell to North Alabama, Auburn Montgomery, Alabama Huntsville, Lee and West Georgia.
* The Bucs lead the Sunshine State Conference with 14 stolen bases through six games and hit .289 as a team with a .377 on-base percentage. The struggles for the Bucs came in the circle, where Barry pitching combined for a 4.85 ERA and allowed an average of seven runs per game.
* Four players -- Lynsey Duncan, Madison VonHagel, Sam Busekrus, and Anieliese Palmeiro -- hold the team lead with six hits, and Duncan has a team-best .471 OBP.
* In last year's doubleheader, West Florida won 6-0 and 5-4 and went a perfect 8-for-8 in stolen base tries. Additionally, the UWF pitching staff combined for a 0.50 ERA and struck out 12 batters over 14 innings.