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PENSACOLA, Fla. – The 21st-ranked University of West Florida softball team will continue its road trip with a three-game series at Mississippi College on Saturday and Sunday. UWF enters the weekend with a 16-8 overall record and stands in fourth place in the Gulf South Conference standings with a 7-4 league record.
 
A doubleheader to start the series will begin at 2 pm on Saturday, before the series finale at 2 pm in Clinton, Mississippi, on Sunday afternoon. All three games of the series will feature live stats and a live video broadcast, and links to those can be found at GoArgos.com or by clicking the links above.
 
Scouting the Choctaws
* Mississippi College holds an 11-9 record with a 6-6 Gulf South Conference mark entering the weekend. The Choctaws took two of three games at Lee and against Shorter, while going 1-2 at West Georgia.
* Brianna Caldwell's six home runs rank fourth in the conference and Kristen Qualls ranks eighth in the league with 21 RBIs.
* Cori Cooper has been the ace of the staff so far, with a 1.99 ERA over 24.2 innings and 27 strikeouts.
* West Florida leads the all-time series against MC with a 6-4 record, and this will mark the second trip UWF has made to Clinton. In 2016, the Argonauts swept the Choctaws in Clinton, outscoring MC 14-5 in the series.
 
Last Week
* West Florida swept Christian Brothers in Memphis last week to extend the team's winning streak to seven games and to improve to 16-8 overall and 7-4 in the Gulf South Conference.
* Things started on Sunday, and Rhiannon Sassman led the Argonauts with one of the best games in recent history. The junior went 4-4 with two doubles, four runs scored, a home run, a walk, and five RBIs. Her five runs driven in were the most since Baleigh Boltz brought in seven at West Alabama on April 8 of last year, and she and Meghan Toney are the first Argos to score four times in one game since Rachel Wright scored four times at Miles in February 2016.
* Callan Taylor led UWF with four hits in the Monday afternoon doubleheader, and Kathleen Smiley, Jibrasha Moore and Wright each added three. The UWF pitching staff combined for a 1.17 ERA on Monday, with 10 strikeouts and just 10 hits allowed over 12 innings in the circle.
* West Florida hit .438 in the three-game series as a team, with Rhiannon Sassman's six hits, seven runs, two home runs, seven RBIs, 16 total bases and 1.455 slugging percentage leading all players. Tiona Hill and Wright both had five hits apiece.
 
Our Streak
* UWF has won seven games in a row, dating back to the home doubleheader against Union on March 3. In that time, the Argonaut offense has come alive, hitting .409, slugging .644 and averaging more than eight runs per game. Rachel Wright leads the team in batting (.550), hits (11), doubles (8), slugging (.950) and on-base percentage over the stretch, and 15 Argos are hitting .300 or better.
* The pitching has been lights-out since the start of the streak, too, with a 1.87 team ERA, 42 strikeouts in 45 innings, and a .196 opponent batting average. Tori Perkins and Sarah Maloney have combined for a 1.31 ERA with 29 strikeouts, a 5-0 record and two complete games in their last seven games.
 
On the Road
* UWF has played all but one series on the road this year, and the Argonauts have not disappointed, with a 10-3 record in pure road contests.
* Meghan Toney and Rachel Wright have been the team's offensive leaders away from home, hitting .343 and .341, respectively. Toney leads the team in batting, on-base percentage (.425) and steals (6), while Wright leads UWF with 14 hits, 7 doubles, 24 total bases, and a .585 slugging percentage away from the friendly confines of the UWF Softball Complex.
* To no surprise, the UWF pitching staff has been outstanding on the road. West Florida has a 1.37 team ERA on the road, and Sarah Maloney has been nearly unhittable, with a 3-0 record, a 0.95 ERA, 28 strikeouts in 29.1 innings and a .194 opponent batting average.