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PENSACOLA, Fla. – The 17th-ranked University of West Florida softball team will make the trip to Cocoa, Florida, for the Florida Tech Invitational this weekend. The Argonauts stand at 2-2 after opening weekend, which included a trip to the Gulf Shores Invitational.
 
All games will be played at the Launch Pad Sports Complex in Cocoa.
 
UWF will face Bentley at 9:30 a.m. ET on Saturday, February 12, followed by a matchup with No. 8 Saint Anselm on noon ET. Sunday will feature games with Barry at noon ET and Florida Tech at 2:30 pm ET.
 
All games will feature live stats, which can be found at the link above or at GoArgos.com/SoftballStats. For all information on the team, follow @UWFSoftball on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
 
ABOUT LAST WEEK
West Florida got off to a 2-2 start last weekend, going 2-1 at the Gulf Shores Invitational and dropping a home contest to Barry to open the season.
 
Teala Howard stood out for UWF, batting .500 (7-14) with a double, a triple, two stolen bases and three runs scored. Kayanna Perez hit an even .300 (3-10) and stole a base, and newcomer Jessica Ford led UWF with three steals and three runs scored.
 
Pitchers Jeya Prasad and Kelsey Sweatt turned in solid starts for the Argonauts and pitched to a 3.37 ERA over 27 innings of work with 24 strikeouts.
 
UWF got wins over Palm Beach Atlantic and Union, with Sweatt earning the victory in both. Prasad had streaks of dominance in both of her outings, against Barry and Union. She delivered three hitless innings of relief against Barry in the opener and went 6.2 innings with 9 strikeouts in a start against Union on Saturday. Sweatt was sharp against PBA, with just one earned run allowed over 7.0 innings.
 
West Florida is now 19-8 at the Gulf Shores Invitational since 2016.
 
THE FLORIDA TECH INVITATIONAL
UWF will play four games over Saturday and Sunday at the Florida Tech Invitational in Cocoa, Florida, this weekend. It will be the first time the Argos have ever faced Bentley or No. 8 Saint Anselm, while Argonaut fans will no doubt be familiar with South Region opponents Barry and Florida Tech.
 
West Florida is 16-16 all-time against Barry after the loss last week but have still won four of the last five matchups dating back to 2017.
 
UWF has more recent history with Florida Tech, having won the last four matchups with the Panthers. Two of those four wins came in the 2019 NCAA South Super Regional, where the Argonauts went 2-0 and finished off two late, come-from-behind victories to advance to the NCAA Championship in Denver, Colorado.
 
CLIMBING THE CAREER LEADERBOARD
Four-year starters and seniors Teala Howard and Kelsey Sweatt have turned in outstanding careers with UWF. They each rank among or close to the top 10 in West Florida history in several categories.
 
Howard is the all-time leading hitter (.460) in UWF and Gulf South Conference history and she ranks in the top five in the program record book in stolen bases (103; 3rd) and slugging percentage (.587; 5th). The lefty is just outside the top 10 in UWF history in hits, runs, total bases, and triples.
 
Similarly, Sweatt ranks second in program history in hits allowed per seven innings (4.60) and is fourth in strikeouts per seven innings (6.66). She is also eighth in strikeouts (360) and winning percentage (.758), while standing just outside the top 10 in wins, with 44.