BATON ROUGE, La. (LEX 18) — The University of Kentucky men’s baseball team was eliminated Sunday night in the NCAA Super Regionals after losing to LSU 8-3.
The Wildcats lost the best-of-three series to the Tigers 2-0. LSU now advances to the College World Series in Omaha.
Last week, Kentucky defeated Indiana in the Lexington Regional to advance to the Super Regionals.
The Wildcats finish the year with a 40-21 record.
Picked to finish at the bottom of the Southeastern Conference and considered by most college baseball pundits an outside shot to even reach the conference tournament, Kentucky advanced to just its second-ever Super Regional and won 40 games for just the seventh time in program history, which spans more than 100 seasons.
NOTES
- UK Coach Nick Mingione is in his seventh season at the helm and now owns a 216-150 career record.
- UK is 8-6 in the month of June under Coach Mingione.
- Mingione is 8-6 in the NCAA Tournament, 0-4 in the Super Regional round.
- Mingione now is 4-12 vs. LSU.
- UK finished 40-21 on the season, just the seventh time in school history it has won 40 or more games.
- UK’s 1-0 lead early in the game was the first lead ever for the program in a Super Regional.
- Sophomore pitcher Mason Moore pitched 4.1 scoreless innings.
- His NCAA Tournament line: 14.1 IP, 6 H, 0 R, 3 BB, 12 K
- Sophomore catcher Devin Burkes hit a solo home run.
- Senior outfielder Jackson Gray led off the game with a solo home run.
- Sophomore Nolan McCarthy hit a solo home run.
