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PENSACOLA, Fla. – With bad weather in the forecast for the weekend, the 24th-ranked University of West Florida softball team will head to Memphis, Tennessee, for a series at Christian Brothers on Sunday and Monday. UWF enters the series having won four in a row and holding a 13-8 record with a 4-4 conference record, and CBU is 5-14 overall and 1-8 in the Gulf South Conference.
 
The series will start with a single game on Sunday at 2 pm at Bland Field in Memphis, before things wrap up with a doubleheader on Monday set to begin at noon.
 
Fans can follow along with live stats and video for each game of the series, and links for those can be found by following the above links or by visiting GoArgos.com.
 
About Last Week
* Everything seems to have been clicking for West Florida since last Saturday against Union. Over the last five games, UWF has hit .370, posted a .441 on-base percentage, slugged .568, scored nearly seven runs per game, and held opponents to a .205 batting average, while going 4-1.
* After dropping the series-opener 5-6 to the Lady Bulldogs, West Florida outscored Union 18-5 in the last two contests of the series. UWF pitching struck out 18 over 20 innings against Union, with Sarah Maloney throwing a 1-hitter and striking out 7 in the series finale. On Saturday, UWF set season highs in runs (12), hits (17), RBIs (12), doubles (3), triples (3), and home runs (2) in the second game of the doubleheader, and Tori Perkins hit her second home run of the day and picked up the win in the circle.
* The Argos were dominant in a midweek doubleheader against Spring Hill. Rachel Wright led all players in the doubleheader with three runs scored, two RBIs, six total bases, a 1.000 slugging percentage, and three hits, all of which were doubles, and Ashley McNally led all players by getting on base four times on the afternoon, doing so in the first game by picking up a hit, drawing a walk, and getting hit by two pitches. The pitching staff did not slack either, with UWF posting a 1.00 ERA across 14 innings with 13 strikeouts and a .149 opponent batting average.
 
Scouting Christian Brothers
* CBU will enter the series with a 5-14 record and a 1-8 Gulf South Conference mark, with that single GSC victory coming in the series finale against West Georgia last Sunday. The Lady Bucs and West Florida have faced two similar opponents in Tuskegee and Shorter, with both teams going 1-1.
* Christian Brothers has a few major offensive threats that West Florida will see, in Holly Oyenhart and Amber Johnson. Oyenhart is third in the GSC with 31 hits and seventh with 12 stolen bases, while Johnson's 26 hits rank seventh in the league. In the CBU series last year, West Florida held that duo to a combined 2-15 at the plate.
* The Christian Brothers pitching staff has a 7.86 ERA through 19 games and opponents have hit .359 against them.
* West Florida is 24-2 all-time against CBU, with an 11-1 record in Memphis. In the series in Pensacola last year, UWF outscored CBU 10-1, and the Argonauts outscored the Lady Bucs 24-7 in a sweep in Memphis in 2016.
 
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* Rachel Wright has been on fire over the last four games, leading West Florida in hitting (.545), runs (5), hits (6), doubles (5), total bases (11), slugging percentage (1.000), and on-base percentage (.583).
* She has hit .500 with runners in scoring position (2-4) and with any runners on (3-6) in the last four contests.
* Wednesday proved to be a huge day for Wright, when she went 3-6 with three doubles, three runs scored and two RBIs in the doubleheader against Spring Hill, leading UWF in each of those categories.
 
Argos in the GSC
* West Florida has played better than its 4-4 Gulf South Conference record might indicate. The Argonauts have hit .273 and slugged .414 -- more than 100 points better than opponents -- in conference play, while holding a 2.41 ERA in eight games.
* Jibrasha Moore (9-24; .375) and Meghan Toney (9-28; .321) have led UWF with 9 hits, and Tori Perkins' two home runs, six RBIs and .500 slugging percentage are all team bests.
* Sarah Maloney has been dominant in 17.2 innings of conference action so far. After struggling a bit against Shorter at the GSC Festival in mid-February, Maloney has recorded a 1.21 ERA and allowed just eight hits in 17.1 innings of GSC play, while striking out 12 and allowing opponents to hit just .143.
 
Callan Taylor Lately
* Sophomore Callan Taylor has started to click at the plate over the last week, tying for the team lead with five RBIs and a .467 on-base percentage over her last five games, and hitting .385.
* The Navarre, Florida, native recorded her first two multi-RBI games of the year against Union over the weekend, driving in two runs in the series opener and series finale. The first was a pinch-hit single up the middle that brought UWF within a run on Saturday, and the second was another single up the middle that turned out to be a game-winner.