PENSACOLA, Fla. – The University of West Florida softball team provided plenty of offense over the weekend, taking a series win over Montevallo after splitting a Saturday doubleheader. West Florida is now 15-14 overall and 7-10 in the Gulf South Conference.
 
Kayla Mayo led UWF with a .700 batting average in the series, with three doubles and a triple. Kelsey Hodges also had seven hits, Emma Brice hit .600 with a pair of home runs, and Jessica Ford hit .500 with a homer.
 
With a pair of multi-hit contests on Saturday, including the walkoff double in Game 2, Mayo kept her hot streak going and now has four consecutive multi-hit games.
 
UWF hit .461 as a team, with 14 extra-base hits in the series.
 
UWF will visit West Georgia for a Gulf South Conference series next Friday and Saturday in Carrollton, Ga.
 
GAME 1: UWF 8, Montevallo 9
West Florida fell just short of a comeback effort in the first game of the day. Montevallo picked up a run with a single in the top of the second, but UWF got the run right back and added more.
 
West Florida responded with a four-run inning, starting with a line drive single to center from Bella Holliday that scored Jessica Ford. Holliday later scored on a bunt single from Kayla Mayo, and Madelyn Vasquez drilled a two-run double to right field to give UWF a 4-1 lead.
 
The Falcons bounced back with a five-run inning in the third, taking a 6-4 lead. Freshman Alayna Lowery entered the circle for UWF in the third, getting a strikeout to end the inning.
 
Montevallo would add one more run in the fourth and two more in the fifth to extend the lead to 9-4.
 
Laurynn Boggs hit a sharp single up the middle in the sixth, and Mayo drove a triple into right-center field to cut the deficit to 9-5. Hannah Harper followed that with an infield single that scored Mayo, putting the score at 9-6.
 
Freshman Emma Brice hit her second home run of the season in the bottom of the seventh, and the two-run shot cut the score to 9-8, but that would be all the offense UWF could muster.
 
GAME 2: UWF 17, Montevallo 9
The series finale also turned out to be a slugfest. The offense got going early, with a two-run single from Kelsey Hodges in the bottom of the first to give West Florida a 2-0 lead. Montevallo would pick up a pair of runs in the second to even the game at 2-2.
 
West Florida kept the offense going with a seven-run second inning. The Argonauts got home runs from Jessica Ford and Emma Brice in the second – it was Brice's second of the afternoon and Ford's second of the season. Madelyn Vasquez, Kayla Mayo, and Hannah Harper each had a double, and Hodges and Erin Moon singled.
 
Montevallo, however, responded with a seven-run top of the third to square the game at 9-9.
 
Brice came through again for West Florida, hitting a sharp single up the middle with the bases loaded in the fourth to give UWF the 10-9 lead. Laurynn Boggs followed with a single to center that scored two runs, and Mayo added another double to stretch West Florida's lead to 13-9.
 
Erin Moon singled with the bases loaded, and Harper scored on a passed ball to end the scoring for the inning, with UWF ahead 15-9 after four frames.
 
Mayo struck again in the fifth, blasting a double to right-center to score Boggs and Ford and end the game.