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PENSACOLA, Fla. – The UWF baseball team will play host to Shorter in a weekend series, continuing a 6-game homestand. The set will begin on Friday at 5 p.m., followed by a doubleheader on Saturday at 1 p.m.
 
ABOUT THE ARGONAUTS
* UWF completed a 3-game sweep of West Georgia last week to open Gulf South Conference play and improve to 5-4 overall.
* UWF is hitting .257 - up from .196 last week - as a team and has 21 extra base hits (16 2B, 1 3B, 4 HR) for 30 percent of their 70 total hits. The pitching staff has compiled a 4.11 ERA (49th nationally) and held opponents to a .220 batting average. In the field, UWF has a .982 fielding pct. to rank ninth in the country and has turned six double plays.
* On the base paths, the Argonauts are 19-for-22 in stolen base attempts. In steal attempts that were thrown to the plate, UWF is 19-for-20, led by Chris Johnson's 8-for-8 and Trent Jeffcoat's 6-for-6 efforts.
* UWF went 37-11 in 2021 and finished second in the Gulf South Conference at 28-8. The Argos won the GSC Tournament title and hosted the NCAA South Regional as the No. 1 seed where they lost in the regional final.
* The Argos return 15 letterwinners and eight starters from a year ago. They have added 11 transfers, one redshirt freshman and nine true freshmen.
 
TRENT JEFFCOAT PERFORMING AS ADVERTISED
* UWF sophomore transfer Trent Jeffcoat has performed very well through nine games, collecting a hit in each game with a team-high .405 batting average, two RBI and eight runs scored. He has three errors in 51 chances for a .941 fielding pct. He has a .463 on-base pct.
* Last week against West Georgia, he hit .538 with four runs, a double and an RBI.
 
42ND SEASON OF UWF BASEBALL
* UWF enters the weekend with an all-time mark of 1289-858-1 dating back to the first season in 1981. Jim Spooner went 688-521-1 in 23 seasons from 1983-2005, while Mike Jeffcoat has compiled a 545-290 in 16-plus seasons since taking over for Spoon.
* UWF has made eight NCAA Regional appearances with one National Championship in 2011. The team has won six GSC regular-season titles and two GSC Tournament crowns.
 
JEFFCOAT ENTERS 17TH SEASON AS UWF HEAD COACH
* UWF alum Mike Jeffcoat has compiled a 545-290 in 16-plus seasons at UWF since taking over for his mentor, Jim Spooner, in 2006. He was an assistant for Spooner from 2001-05 when he served as the pitching coach.
* UWF has made all eight of the program's NCAA postseason appearances under Jeffcoat, including the program's first national championship in 2011. 
* He was the head coach at Alabama Southern CC from 1995-99 where he went 107-138.
* Jeffcoat received his bachelor's degree in Sports Science from UWF in 1991 and his master's in Sports Science in 1994.
 
SERIES BUSINESS
* The Argonauts have won 29 of their last 35 3-game series over the past 3-plus seasons.
* Of the six series they have lost, two are to Florida Southern (2019 & 2020), two at Rollins (2019 & 2022), one to Shorter (2021) and one to Lee (2019).
* In GSC 3-game series, UWF is 26-2 over that time, leading the conference in series wins.
 
DOUBLE YOUR TROUBLE
* With the start of GSC play last weekend, that meant doubleheaders will dominate the season. The Argos will play 30 dates through the rest of the regular season, with 10 of those being a doubleheader.
* Over the last four seasons (2019-present), UWF has played 29 DHs, sweeping 16, splitting 12 and being swept just once. UWF has not lost a DH in 28 of the last 29 DHs.
* In the last seven seasons, UWF has not been swept in a DH even once in four of those and has never been swept more than they have swept an opponent.
 
UWF'S WEEKEND ROTATION
* UWF is scheduled to use the same starting rotation as the first two weeks of the year.
* UWF will send right-hander Josh Pahlad to the mound on Friday in game one. The fifth-year senior from Kissimmee, Fla. is 1-2 with a 3.93 ERA over 18.1 innings. He has allowed allowed eight runs on nine hits with 14 strikeouts (7 in his last start against UWG on Saturday). Pahlad has been primarily a reliever in his four seasons at UWF, posting an 11-3 record with seven saves and a 3.36 ERA over 114.2 innings and 55 appearances. Last year he went 3-0 with three saves and a 3.76 ERA in 16 appearances over a career-high 40.2 IP. He is 0-1 against Rollins after allowing 2 runs on 2 hits in 1.0 IP in a 9-8 loss in 2019.
* Long Island transfer Salvatore Ferro has a 3.31 ERA after picking up his first win as an Argo against the Wolves last week. He went 6.1 innings and struck out six while allowing four runs on seven hits. The week before at Rollins, he went 6.0 innings and allowed zero runs on five hits with a strikeout and a walk. In the season-opening week versus Florida Southern, he received a no decision in the 5-3 win, allowing two runs on five hits while striking out four in 4.0 IP. The left-hander is a junior from Middle Village, N.Y. He went 0-1 with a 2.16 ERA in 17 innings over 16 games in 2021 for the Sharks. He struck out a career-high five in a career-high four innings against Merrimack on May 22.
* Tyler Dowdy had a strong freshman season in 2021, compiling a 7-1 record, 3.38 ERA with 55 strikeouts and 18 walks in 85.1 innings. Twice he struck out eight batters – once against Lee in the final weekend of the regular season and against Delta State (2 hits over 8.1 IP) in the second game of the GSC Championship series. The right-hander from Plant City, Fla. also hit .273 at the plate with nine hits, a home run and five RBI. He also walked five times and struck out nine. In 2022 he is 1-1 with a 4.74 ERA. In the Sunday game at Rollins, he worked 7.1 innings for the second-consecutive outing, allowing three runs on six hits with a strikeout and two walks. In the opening weekend against FSC, he fanned three while scattering three hits and allowing one run on a solo HR over 7.1 IP on 87 pitches.
 
WHERE THE RUNS COME FROM
* UWF has averaged 4.8 runs per game this season but 6.2 in six home games.
* Additionally, UWF has scored at least five runs in the last five home games -all wins.
* The big innings for the Argos are the first and fourth, where they have outscored the opponents 13-3 and 9-1, respectively. They have also plated four runs in the ninth while not allowing any.
 
UWF TABBED FIRST IN GSC PRESEASON POLL
* UWF was picked to finish first in the 2022 Gulf South Conference Preseason Coaches Poll. This is the second-consecutive year the Argonauts were picked first and the sixth time in the last 11 seasons.
* In a balanced top-half of the poll, UWF received five of 12 possible first place votes and a total of 136 polling points.
* Delta State and Lee each had three first place votes and were second and third, respectively. Alabama Huntsville in fourth and Valdosta State in fifth had the remaining two first place votes and were in a near dead heat with just one point apart.
* Shorter was voted sixth with West Georgia in seventh. The bottom half of the standings included Mississippi College, Auburn Montgomery, Montevallo, West Alabama, Union and Christian Brothers.