CLEARWATER, Fla. – Tori Perkins threw West Florida's first no-hitter since 2017, Teala Howard hit an inside-the-park home run, and Kelsey Sweatt threw a dominant relief effort on a busy Saturday for the UWF softball team, when the team swept California University of Pennsylvania and No. 18 Palm Beach Atlantic. With the wins, UWF improved to 7-1. 

Howard finished the day going a combined 7-for-8 with 7 RBIs, 4 runs scored, and the home run, while Rhiannon Sassman, Perkins, and Jibrasha Moore each also had multi-hit days. 

West Florida will wrap up its run at the NFCA Leadoff Classic with a game against No. 8 West Chester at 11 a.m. ET on Sunday. 

Game 1: UWF 8, Cal (Pa.) 0
Perkins' no-hitter was the first for an Argonaut since Sarah Maloney no-hit No. 22 Missouri-St. Louis on February 5, 2017. The senior from Tate HS went six innings, struck out seven and walked only two, and she improved her record for the season to 3-0 with a 1.08 ERA. 

Perkins retired the first seven batters she faced, getting three strikeouts. 

The Argonauts helped Perkins early, scoring a run in each of the first two innings. Howard scored on a sacrifice fly from Rhiannon Sassman in the first, before Perkins tripled and scored on a sac fly from Ashley McNally. 

UWF then used a three-run fourth inning to stretch the lead to 5-0, getting RBIs from Rachel Wright and Howard, and with Jibrasha Moore scoring when Sassman intentionally got in a run-down. 

Perkins continued to dominate in the circle all the while, despite issuing each of her two walks in the third inning. She got three groundouts in the third, an infield popout and a strikeout in the fourth, and a pair of strikeouts to go along with a popout in the fifth. 

UWF scored another two runs in the fifth on a Perkins single and a grounder from McNally that brought Perkins in. After the senior breezed through the top of the sixth, the game's most exciting play came in the bottom half. Howard – already 2-for-3 with a run and an RBI – hit a line drive into left-center, when Cal U misplayed it and allowed the freshman to come all the way around for an inside-the-park home run. 

It was Howard's first career home run, and she went home-to-home in 11.1 seconds. 

Game 2: UWF 11, No. 18 Palm Beach Atlantic 5
Howard stayed hot and Kelsey Sweatt dominated in relief in Game 2, pushing UWF to an 11-5 win over No 18 Palm Beach Atlantic. 

After Sweatt entered the game in the second, it was all UWF and the Argos scored nine unanswered runs over the next three innings. The sophomore was absolutely unstoppable against the Sailfish, going 5.2 innings and striking out 10, while allowing only two hits and walking none. She retired the first 12 batters she faced before finally allowing a single in the sixth inning. 

Howard went 4-for-4 with five RBIs and two runs scored in the game, Rachel Wright scored three times, and Kathleen Smiley tallied three RBIs. 

It was all offense for both sides in the first two innings, with the score a 5-5 tie after two frames. Smiley drove a liner up the middle to score Sassman and Howard in the first, and Howard singled to score Rachel Wright and Mika Garcia, while Ally Merrill scored on a wild pitch. 

Merrill had what turned out to be the game-winning RBI in the third inning, driving in Sassman with a single to second base. UWF continued to pile on after that, with Howard adding three more RBIs, Smiley drawing a bases-loaded walk, and Jacquelynne Poling bringing in a run.