GSC TOURNAMENT HOMEPAGE
 
PENSACOLA, Fla. – The University of West Florida softball team capped off the regular season with a flourish on Sunday, taking a 10-2 win over Lee in five innings to win the series.
 
The Argonauts improved to 30-13 and 21-8 in the Gulf South Conference with the win, and Lee fell to 27-21 and 17-12 in the GSC.
 
UWF also locked up the 3-seed for the Gulf South Conference Tournament, which begins on Wednesday, May 4, at Choccolocco Park in Oxford, Alabama.
 
Over the weekend, Kayanna Perez led UWF with six hits, followed by Teala Howard with five, and five more Argonauts with four hits. Howard led the team with a 1.182 slugging percentage, and she and Madilynne Webb each had two home runs. Kayla Mayo was the team's RBI leader, driving in five runs in the series.
 
West Florida wasted no time getting going on Sunday, scoring three runs in the top of the first inning. Those runs came from a Madelyn Vasquez single that scored Teala Howard, and a Brett Leiva two-run double to right-center, scoring Vasquez and Erin Moon.
 
Kayla Mayo added another Argonaut run in the second with a double to left-center to score Kayanna Perez, and Lee got on the board in the bottom of the second with a two-run homer from Annalyn Ormsby, putting the score at 4-2 after two innings.
 
But it was in the third when UWF broke the game open. After Morgan Zettle drew a walk with pinch-runner Landry Dupont on third, Dupont scored on a wild pitch.
 
Perez followed with another RBI single, and Howard hit her second home run of the weekend, stretching the lead to 8-2.
 
The offense kept going when Vasquez hit a leadoff homer to start the fourth inning, and Morgan Zettle lifted a sacrifice fly to left field and brought in Madilynne Webb to give UWF a 10-2 advantage.
 
The Argonauts also used the entire pitching staff on Sunday afternoon. Kelsey Sweatt got the start and threw 2.0 innings, striking out one and allowing just the two-run home run in the second inning.
 
Jeya Prasad followed and gave an inning of scoreless relief with a strikeout, before Katelin Booker made her collegiate debut in the circle and also threw a scoreless inning of relief. Montana Young finished off the game in the fifth, retiring the side in order.
 
West Florida starts its postseason run on Wednesday with the Gulf South Conference Tournament in Oxford, Alabama. UWF, seeded No. 3 for the week, will start off the tournament with a 10 a.m. game against 6-seed Montevallo.
 
Links for live stats, live broadcasts, and the tournament homepage can be found at GoArgos.com.