PENSACOLA, Fla. – The offense for the 17th-ranked University of West Florida softball team kept rolling on Friday, with 20 total hits and a .388 team batting average in a doubleheader sweep over West Georgia. The wins pushed UWF into fourth place in the Gulf South Conference standings with an 11-7 record.
 
Meghan Toney led the team with five hits, a .625 batting average and four steals, and Callan Taylor slugged 1.250 for the day with a home run and two RBIs. Grace Gilbert led all players with three runs driven in, and Taylor and Tiona Hill each scored four times. Kathleen Smiley hit .571 (4-7) for the day with a double, raising her season average to .327.
 
Gilbert also threw 2.1 innings and earned the pitching win in Game 2. Opponents hit just .125 against the freshman.
 
Toney stretched her on-base streak to 14 consecutive games with a pair of multi-hit contests on Friday.
 
Game 1: UWF 8, UWG 7 (8 innings)
Smiley delivered the game-winner in an eight-inning slugfest with a single to right field, scoring Toney after she led off the inning with a single and stole second. The walkoff was UWF's second in a row, dating back to last Sunday's series finale against Alabama Huntsville.
 
Callan Taylor got West Florida on the board in the second inning with a game-tying home run, before Rachel Wright hit a two-out triple and came around to score on Mika Garcia's single down the left field line to give UWF its first lead of the day. Taylor's home run gave her one in three consecutive games, making her the first Argonaut to accomplish that feat since Melissa Chastang in 2010 on March 14-15 – also against West Georgia and Alabama Huntsville.
 
After UWG evened it with a third-inning Madison Chambers RBI single, starting pitcher Tori Perkins got out of a bases-loaded jam to keep things even in the fifth. Perkins threw better than her final line suggested, with only three runs allowed through the first six innings of action. Gilbert entered the game in relief in the seventh, ultimately earning the win after throwing an inning-and-a-third and allowing just one hit. She improved to 5-2 on the year and has allowed just one earned run in her last 5.2 innings.
 
UWF opened the game up in the fifth with five runs, coming on an RBI single from Taylor, pinch-runner Courtney McLellan scoring on a wild pitch, a two-run double from Perkins and a Jibrasha Moore bunt single.
 
The Wolves bounced back with a run in the sixth and a four-spot in the seventh before Smiley's single scored Toney to give West Florida the walkoff victory.
 
Toney had her first three-hit game of the year, and Hill, Smiley, Taylor, Perkins and Garcia each also had two hits.
 
Game 2: UWF 12, UWG 8
The Argonauts tied their season high with 12 runs scored in Game 2, tying efforts against Union on March 3 and Christian Brothers on March 11, and the team's seven stolen bases are the most in a single game this year.
 
Both teams traded zeroes for the first two innings, but things did not look good for West Florida after the third. UWG scored four runs on just two hits and three Argo errors before the top of the West Florida order got things moving to take the lead in the bottom half of the inning.
 
Moore led off with a single and stole second, then Toney drew a walk and the pair performed a double steal to put two runners in scoring position with no outs. Moore scored on a wild pitch to make it 4-1, and a double from Gilbert a few batters later brought in Taylor and pinch-runner Harley Tagert. UWF got its first lead of Game 2 when Jacquelynne Poling reached on an error and Gilbert and Hill came around, putting West Florida ahead 5-4.
 
West Georgia put another three runs on the board but UWF did not slow down, scoring another four in the bottom of the fourth to take a 9-7 lead. Smiley singled through the left side to bring in Toney, and Hill drove in the game-tying run with a double down the left field line. Smiley soon scored on a wild pitch, and Gilbert drove in the game-winning run with a single to left field.
 
The Argonauts got three insurance runs in the sixth, with Perkins scoring on a wild pitch, Hill coming around on an error, and Sara Spears scoring on a double into the left-center gap from Garcia.
 
Olivia Printiss got the win after going six innings and striking out four, while allowing seven hits. Gilbert threw a perfect seventh inning to wrap up the day.
 
UWF goes for the sweep on Saturday with a 1 pm first pitch at the UWF Softball Complex.