MOBILE, Ala. – The University of West Florida softball team cruised to two nonconference wins at Spring Hill on Wednesday afternoon, headlined by a no-hitter in Game 1 from starting pitcher Kelsey Sweatt. The 3-0 victory in the first game and the 2-0 win in Game 2 pushed West Florida to 24-11 on the year.
 
Sweatt's afternoon was the big story, as she struck out eight over seven innings in the no-hitter, and Montana Young was just as dominant in her own shutout performance. The duo combined to strike out 16 Spring Hill batters in 14 innings, with just four total hits and four total walks allowed, good for a .093 batting average on the day.
 
Teala Howard led UWF with four hits and a .500 batting average in the doubleheader, and Erin Moon hit .429. Howard, Madelyn Vasquez, and Kayanna Perez each had an RBI.
 
West Florida starts a series at Delta State on Friday with a doubleheader, followed by a single game on Saturday in Cleveland, Mississippi.
 
GAME 1: UWF 3, Spring Hill 0
Kelsey Sweatt cruised to her 10th win of the season, with 7 no-hit innings against the Badgers. It was Sweatt's third career no-no at UWF – she was part of a combined no-hitter in 2020, and she threw one against Hillsdale in February 2021.
 
The senior was dominant, striking out eight batters in the outing. While Sweatt walked four, she scattered that across her start, with two in the first, one in the fourth, and one in the seventh.
 
Sweatt had no trouble after the first inning, as she struck out the side in the second and retired the side in order in the second, third, fifth, and sixth innings. The no-hit effort took 97 pitches from Sweatt, of which 60 were strikes, and she got six groundouts and seven flyouts.
 
The UWF offense took care of business early on. Teala Howard led off the game with a single and a stolen base, and a Kayla Mayo double turned into two runs when she and Howard both scored following a Spring Hill error in the outfield.
 
Howard stretched the lead to the final 3-0 in the top of the second when she singled and brought in Angela Agurkis, who drew a walk to start the inning.
 
West Florida got a three-hit game from Erin Moon, her second of the year, and a two-hit game from Howard, who now has 18 multi-hit games this season. It was also Moon's fourth multi-hit game in UWF's last nine games.
 
GAME 2: UWF 2, Spring Hill 0
The back half of the doubleheader was a scoreless pitcher's duel until West Florida broke through in the fifth inning.
 
The go-ahead run came on a Madelyn Vasquez single to center field that scored Teala Howard, and a single from Kayanna Perez in the sixth scored Brett Leiva, who led off the inning with a double.
 
Montana Young was as sharp as she has been all season, striking out eight and allowing just four hits scattered across seven innings. The Slidell, Louisiana, native improved to 9-1 on the year, throwing 55 of her 84 pitches for strikes.
 
Spring Hill threatened in the first inning, with a leadoff single and stolen base from Lindsey Mecom. UWF center fielder Jessica Ford ended the inning on a Macy Holt single, when she threw out Mecom trying to score.
 
West Florida got another big defensive boost in the fourth, when Paityn Desormeaux grounded into a 6-3 double play to end the threat.
 
Howard and Morgan Zettle each had two hits in Game 2, and Brett Leiva drew a pair of walks and added a double.