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MARCH 4, 2019 COMMUNICATIONS AND PUBLIC RELATIONS UK ATHLETICS SPORTS REPORT THIS WEEK’S SCHEDULE (All Times Eastern) NOTES, RECORDS & RANKINGS Tuesday, Mar. 5 Men’s Basketball at Ole Miss, 9 p.m. No. 6 Men’s Basketball (24-5, 13-3 SEC) Kentucky Wildcats swept Southern Illinois and • Kentucky began its week rallying from a 15-point Murray State to win the 2019 Coach B Classic and Wednesday, Mar. 6 deficit to beat Arkansas 70-66 on Tuesday night. finish the weekend 3-0. Baseball vs. Boston College, 4 p.m. The Wildcats were led by Tyler Herro who had • Senior catcher Jenny Schaper won the first game Friday, March 8 career highs of five 3-pointers and 29 points, of the day over Southern Illinois on a walk-off Rifle at NCAA Championships including two free throws with five seconds sacrifice fly to straight-away center with one out Track & Field at NCAA Indoor Championships remaining. and the bases loaded to score Mallory Peyton to Women’s Basketball vs. Missouri/ Florida/ Ole Miss, 2:30 p.m. • In the win against Arkansas, Keldon Johnson win the game. Autumn Humes recorded the win Baseball vs. Middle Tennessee, 4 p.m. added 13 points, and Nick Richards came off the in game one, pitching in relief of Grace Baalman Women’s Tennis at Alabama, 5 p.m. Men’s Tennis vs. Alabama, 5 p.m. bench to grab 15 rebounds for the Wildcats, who in the seventh. Humes also picked up the win in Softball at South Carolina, 6 p.m. shot 50 percent from the field. game two – as she started the game and went five Gymnastics vs. #39 Central Michigan, 7 p.m. • Kentucky fell to No. 5 Tennessee 71-52 inside innings. Thompson-Boling Arena. PJ Washington scored 13 Saturday, March 9 points and grabbed three rebounds, while Nick No. 25 Women’s Tennis (12-1, 2-0 SEC) Rifle at NCAA Championships Richards had eight points and seven rebounds, • No. 25 Kentucky defeated Arkansas Friday 5-1 Track & Field at NCAA Indoor Championships Baseball vs. Middle Tennessee, 1 p.m. and Immanuel Quickley also had eight points. in the opening dual match of the conference Softball at South Carolina, 2 p.m. Keldon Johnson had seven points and seven schedule. In the process, freshman Tiphanie Men’s Basketball vs. Florida, 2 p.m. boards for the Cats. Fiquet exhausted opponents in her doubles and • Kentucky won the rebounding battle 39-36 and singles matches to remain unbeaten through 10 Sunday, March 10 outscored Tennessee 13-11 in second-chance matches apiece. Women’s Tennis at Auburn, 12 p.m. points. The Cats also held a 13-9 edge in bench • Freshman Tiphanie Fiquet and redshirt-sophomore Men’s Tennis vs. Auburn, 1 p.m. Softball at South Carolina, 1 p.m. points. Lesedi Jacobs finished their doubles match within Baseball vs. Middle Tennessee, 1 p.m. seconds, earning a win on court two. While the No. 13 Women’s Basketball (24-6, 11-5 SEC) win did not affect the final score, the duo remains LAST WEEK’S RESULTS The Kentucky women’s basketball team fell to unbeaten in nine doubles matches this season, the Men’s Basketball No. 19 Texas A&M 62-55 on Thursday night at best doubles record among the team. def. Arkansas, 70-66 • Fiquet didn’t disappoint in the singles when she fell to Tennessee, 52-71 Memorial Coliseum. Maci Morris scored 11 points, Tatyana Wyatt, the only other Kentucky player rallied a 7-5, 6-4 finish over Laura Rijkers on court Women’s Basketball in double figures, scored 10 for the Cats. Taylor four to finish third. UK’s fifth player in Diana fell to No. 21 Texas A&M, 55-62 Murray had nine points and five assists. Tkachenko, who is also unbeaten in 10 singles def. Georgia, 58-53 • Kentucky came out strong later in the week with a matches, crafted a 6-3, 6-2 decision over Lauren win against Georgia, 58-53. Tatyana Wyatt scored Alter. Gymnastics • Kentucky women’s tennis tabbed their second Fell to No. 19 Missouri, 196.000-196.250 a season-high 17 points. • Kentucky played without starting forward KeKe conference victory Sunday, this time defeating Softball McKinney, who missed the game due to injury. Missouri to the tune of a 4-1 outcome. def. Southern Illinois at Coach “B” Classic, 6-5 The Cats struggled from the field for most of the • The match began in Kentucky’s favor when the def. Murray State at Coach “B” Classic, 14-4 game, hitting just 21 of their 56 shots, but UK did Wildcats clinched the doubles point. Led by the def. Saint Louis at Coach “B” Classic, 10-0 (5 innings) hit six of 13 from behind the arc. 50th-best pair in the nation in upperclassmen Men’s Tennis • Kentucky has earned a double bye and No. 4 seed Justina Mikulskyte and Akvile Paražinskaite, the def. No. 48 Ole Miss, 4-3 in the 2019 Southeastern Conference Tournament. duo fired a flawless set, forming a 6-0 outcome Fell to No. 9 Mississippi State, 0-7 Kentucky is scheduled to play in the quarterfinals over Tigers’ Macken Middlebrooks and Ellie Friday, March 8 at approx. 2:30 p.m. ET inside Bon Wright. The undefeated Wildcats in freshman Women’s Tennis def. Arkansas, 5-1 Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, S.C. Tiphanie Fiquet and redshirt-sophomore Lesedi def. Missouri, 4-1 Jacobs formed a 6-2 mark over Marta Oliveira and No. 13 Gymnastics (5-6, 3-4 SEC) Lisa Fukutoku. Fiquet and Jacobs are unbeaten Women’s Golf • Kentucky ended its 197 streak with a loss at No. in 10 doubles matches as a pair, while Fiquet has Placed 6th at Gold Rush Invitational 16 Missouri, 196.250-196.000, in its last regular- recorded 11 doubles wins. It’s the largest winning Baseball season conference meet of 2019. streak among doubles pairs on the team this def. Eastern Kentucky, 7-3 • A 9.875 for Mollie Korth led the nation’s 10-th season. def. Northern Kentucky, 5-4 ranked vault team and earned her a 16th career • Fiquet earned the Wildcats their first singles def. Canisius, 10-2 win on the apparatus. point of the match, a 6-3, 6-1 victory, pushing her def. Canisius, 12-3 • Balance beam was the Cats’ strongest rotation at unbeaten singles stretch through 11 matches this def. Canisius, 4-3 49.200, with seniors Sidney Dukes and Alex Hyland season. Parazinskaite followed with an impressive sharing scores of 9.875. 6-2, 6-4 win and Jacobs finished off the dual • UK is set to return home next weekend for the match after winning by a 7-6, 6-0 outcome. season’s final home meet against No. 39 Central • Kentucky has a perfect record over Missouri, 7-0. Michigan. Men’s Tennis (7-6, 0-0 SEC) No. 17 Softball (12-7, 0-0 SEC) • Kentucky began conference play with a win • Senior Abbey Cheek broke the Kentucky RBI against No. 30 Ole Miss on the road, 4-3. record on Friday afternoon in a 10-0 win over • In singles play, Cesar Bourgois defeated Ole Miss’s Saint Louis at Frost Stadium in Chattanooga. Karlo Kranic 6-3, 6-4. Kevin Huempfner defeated • In the win against Bethune-Cookman, Abbey Simon Junk 3-6, 6-4, 6-1. Parth Aggarwal beat Jan- Cheek, Jenny Schaper and Lauren Johnson all had Soren Hain 5-6, 6-4, 6-3. two hits in the game. • Senior co-captain Enzo Wallart defeated Filip • Kentucky won the game aganist Saint Louis, 10-0 Kraljevic 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (2), which earned the win for in five innings, as UK struck for three runs in the the Cats by ending the match 4-3. first and fourth innings, and scored at least one run in every other inning of the game. Freshman Women’s Golf pitcher Tatum Spangler earned her first-career • Kentucky finished strong with a 291 in the final win in the circle, going three full innings without round -- UK’s best round of the spring -- to move allowing a run on two hits and striking out three. up to 6th place in the 15-team field at the Gold • Rachel Lawson won her 500th game as an NCAA Rush Invitational in Seal Beach, Calif. softball coach on Saturday night, as the No. 17 • www.UKathletics.com www.UKathletics.com www.UKathletics.com www.UKathletics.com www.UKathletics.com NOTES, RECORDS & RANKINGS • Individually, freshman Casey Ott and junior Sarah Shipley tied for 6th and 9th, respectively. • Ott shot a career-best 217 strokes. It was Ott’s second consecutive top-10 finish after placing No. 7 the previous week at the Reynolds Lake Ocoee Colegiate Championship. • Shipley’s 219 was only one stroke off her career best. Baseball (8-3, 0-0 SEC) • Kentucky baseball opened its new home – Kentucky Proud Park – on a picture-perfect afternoon. The result was even better, as the Wildcats defeated Eastern Kentucky, 7-3, in front of 4,074 fans eager to experience the facility. • The Cats got a single run in the second after Dalton Reed doubled and scored before breaking it open in the fifth when junior designated hitter T.J. Collett sent a Jacob Ferris offering the opposite way and over the left-centerfield fence for a two-run home run. • The Wildcats stole seven bases in the game, including five by junior OF Jaren Shelby.