FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – UWF Softball is coming away from their opening day with two big road wins over the Nova Southeastern Sharks in their home stadium. 
 
UWF earned their first victory of the season in a 6-2 win to start the doubleheader, with Haley Guffey (1-0) picking up her first win of the season. Hannah Harper started in the circle in game two, picking up a 3-2 win in a close game. She was aided by the pitching efforts of freshman Brianna Adams, who pitched four innings and added four strikeouts. 
 
In both games the Argos came back from being down 1-2 early to take the lead and secure victories. The Argos also kick a three-game losing streak to the Sharks dating back to 2020. They last beat the Sharks in Fort Lauderdale in February 2018 with a 5-0 road win.
 
Individual Highlights:
 
Star senior Emma Brice had an impressive day, batting .500 with three hits, two runs, and two doubles in the combined two games. 
 
Jessie Baughan homered in game one and added an RBI. Nicole Mergen also added a home run, a hit, and three RBI in her first action of the season, putting the Argos up big in game one. Senior Olivia Keith made the most of both her at-bats on the day, gaining two hits and two runs, as well as an RBI-triple.
 
Freshmen Miranda Harmon and Meg Fountain started both games and contributed well for the Argos, with Harmon earning two hits and a run, and Fountain hitting .429 with three hits on seven at bats and a double.
 
UWF 6, NSU 2
 
The game was scoreless till the second when Baughan scored Brice on a single to right center but was called out at second. NSU tied the game on an RBI single in the bottom of the inning. 
 
NSU took the lead on a sacrifice flyout to go up 2-1 in the third,  and held the lead until the sixth inning. Harmon and Whitfield took bases on a single and a fielder's choice, leading to Mergen at the plate. Mergen sailed a ball to left field for her first home run of the season, scoring three RBI and giving UWF a 4-2 lead. 
 
Baughan continued the success in the sixth inning, adding insurance runs on a 2-RBI home run of her own, scoring Brice. The Sharks went down on groundouts in the bottom of the inning, and managed two hits in the seventh, but a strikeout and two more groundouts gave UWF its first victory of the season, 6-2.
 
 
UWF 3, NSU 2
 
Game two went similar to game one to start, with the first couple innings being scoreless until the third. Harper reached on a fielder's choice and an error allowed Keith to score unearned. NSU wasted no time in the bottom of the third, taking a 1-2 lead on a fielder's choice scoring a runner, and a sacrifice flyout to left center field. 
 
The score remained 1-2 until the fifth when Fountain doubled to center to score Keith for the second time in the game. The score remained tied at 2-2 until the seventh, when Keith continued her stellar game and hit an RBI triple to score Kyndal Cornelius. 
 
Harper, who entered for Brianna Adams in the fifth inning, clinched the win along with the UWF defense with a three up, three down seventh inning to win 3-2 and improve to 2-0 as a team on the season.  
 
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The Argos now face the Barry Buccaneers and Nova Southeastern once again in their second day in south Florida. Their bout with the Bucs begins at 2:00 CT. For news updates, meet results, rosters, bios, schedules, and more, visit GoArgos.com or follow @UWFSoftball on X, Instagram, and Facebook.