Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 MIAMI SHORES, Fla. – The University of West Florida softball team fell in both ends of a doubleheader at Barry on Friday afternoon, despite strong pitching performances.
 
Montana Young and Jeya Prasad totaled a 1.75 ERA against the Bucs over 12 innings of work, but the duo fell in a pair of close games.
 
Madelyn Vasquez led the Argonaut offense with a double in each game. Jessica Ford, Erin Moon, and Hannah Harper each added a hit in Game 1, as well.
 
UWF heads to Palm Beach, Florida, for a doubleheader at Palm Beach Atlantic on Saturday, beginning at noon ET.
 
GAME 1: UWF 0, Barry 2
Montana Young turned in a good outing in the season-opener, allowing just three hits and striking out four across six innings. She took the tough-luck loss, as Barry's Cassandra Lee brought in a run in both the first and third innings to put Barry ahead.
 
Young allowed just two baserunners – one a single and another from a walk – over her final 3.1 innings of work.
 
West Florida struggled to get the offense going against Maci Barnhart, who struck out nine batters and walked just one over seven innings.
 
The Argonauts did outhit the Bucs in Game 1, as Madelyn Vasquez and Jessica Ford each had a double, and Erin Moon and Hannah Harper each had a single.
 
GAME 2: UWF 0, Barry 1
Jeya Prasad put together a strong performance in her season-opener, going the distance and allowing just one run across six innings. She struck out three batters and walked just two, while Prasad retired seven of the final eight batters she faced.
 
The UWF offense had a few chances to get going, with the best of those opportunities coming in the fifth inning. Madelyn Vasquez led off the inning with a double to left-center field but was picked off by Barry catcher Harper Bunn for the first out of the inning.
 
In the top of the seventh, Jessica Ford led off by reaching on a Barry error and advanced to second on the play. Kayla Mayo put down a sacrifice bunt to push Ford to third with just one out. West Florida was unable to scratch across a run in the inning, however.