Sports Infomation Department
University of West Florida
April 13, 2013
Argonauts take two games from the
top-ranked team in the Gulf South Conference
Pensacola, Fla. – The University of West Florida
softball team swept Alabama-Huntsville at home on Saturday in the team’s first
home game in nearly four weeks. The Argonauts held on for a 6-5 game-one win
before shutting out the Chargers 5-0 in game two.
“Alabama-Huntsville is a very
good team and they have been winning several games lately so it was really good
for us to get the wins,” head coach Tami Cyr said.
“These wins will hopefully boost our team’s confidence and help them believe
that they can beat anybody. It’s just two great wins for a very deserving team.
We've never let up and never stopped practicing hard and it’s just a tribute to
this teams’ work ethic.”
Redshirt freshman Lauren Register
(Vernon, Fla./Vernon HS) got the start in game one and earned the win after
pitching 4.2 innings in the circle and striking out three batters. Senior Jordan Ratliff
(Petersburg, Mich./Owens CC) appeared in relief and allowed only one hit in 2.1
innings and held the Chargers offense scoreless en route to earning her first
save of the season.
West Florida kicked things
off in the bottom of the first inning as Hannah Camp
(Hoover, Ala./Spain Park HS) hit an RBI single through the left side to score Danielle Sanders
(Leesburg, Fla./St. Petersburg College). Sanders led off the inning with a
stand-up triple off the fence in deep center field off the first pitch she saw.
UWF extended their lead in
the bottom of the third inning as Kasie Buckley
(Little Rock, Miss./East Central CC) hit a RBI double to center field to score Caroline Kaston
(Niceville, Fla./Wallace CC). Hannah Dowling
(Irvine, Calif./Santa Ana College) would go on to hit a RBI single through the
right side to score Buckley to increase the lead to three runs.
In the bottom of the fourth
inning UWF used a two-out rally to score three runs off of four hits. Kaston
started things off with a RBI single to left field. West Florida junior first
baseman Elizabeth
Nugent (Ruskin, Fla./East Bay HS) would add to the rally with a 2-RBI
single to extend the Argo lead to six runs.
The Alabama-Huntsville
Chargers used four hits to score five runs in the top of the fifth inning to
end Registers day in the circle. Ratliff pitched 2.1 innings in relief to seal
the win for West Florida.
UWF junior pitcher Taylor Bailey
(Austin, Texas/University of Louisiana Monroe) earned her ninth win of the
season in the 5-0, game-two win. Bailey pitched a complete game and scattered
two hits and struck out six batters to improve her season ERA to 1.84.
“I felt really good out there
today,” Bailey said. “Those were two really big wins for us and it was a team
effort all the way around.”
West Florida tacked on a run
in the first inning for the second-straight game as Nugent hit a RBI double to
left field to score Kaston.
UWF added two runs in the
bottom of the third inning off of two hits. With runners on the corners and one
out Audrey Harner
(Celina, Ohio/Cypress College) scored from third as the Alabama-Huntsville
catcher tried to throw out Kaston as she attempted to steal second base. The
Argo’s added another run as H. Camp doubled to left field to score Buckley and
increase the lead to three runs.
The Argos scored a run in the
bottom of the fifth as Sanders scored on a UAH throwing error after stealing
third base. West Florida added an insurance run in the following inning as
Sanders hit a RBI double down the right field line to score Bianca Lopez
(Stuttgart, Germany/Patch American HS).
West Florida will play host
to West Alabama on Sunday, April 14 for a doubleheader starting at 2 p.m. CT.
For information on all UWF athletics, visit www.GoArgos.com.
