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05-20-2006, 11:10 AM
CHAMPIONS! Baseball Wins First SEC Title
LEXINGTON – The fourth-ranked Kentucky baseball team put the finishing touches on the most improbable championship in Southeastern Conference history on Friday night when it beat No. 11 Georgia, 8-3, at Foley Field to clinch the first conference title in school history.
The Wildcats, who were picked to finish dead last in the SEC by every preseason publication, completed an historic worst-to-first turnaround – something that had never been done in the conference before this year. Kentucky stands at 42-12 overall and 20-9 in the league. Both win totals are school records and the 20 conference wins come one year after a 7-22 last-place mark a year ago.
“To come into the situation we came into three years ago and to think where we were and where we are now, it’s a little overwhelming,” Kentucky head coach John Cohen said. “These players that have been at Kentucky for the past few years have been at the very bottom and scratched their way to the top of the best league in America. It’s been something amazing to watch and I’m proud to have been a part of it.”
Kentucky did it as it has all season, with timely pitching and big hitting. Craig Snipp hurled his third career complete game, all coming this season, while striking out a career-high 11, including Jonathan Wyatt to end the game and set off a wild celebration in the UK dugout and on the infield grass.
Link (http://www.ukathletics.com/index.php?s=&url_channel_id=36&url_article_id=1786 1&change_well_id=2)
LEXINGTON – The fourth-ranked Kentucky baseball team put the finishing touches on the most improbable championship in Southeastern Conference history on Friday night when it beat No. 11 Georgia, 8-3, at Foley Field to clinch the first conference title in school history.
The Wildcats, who were picked to finish dead last in the SEC by every preseason publication, completed an historic worst-to-first turnaround – something that had never been done in the conference before this year. Kentucky stands at 42-12 overall and 20-9 in the league. Both win totals are school records and the 20 conference wins come one year after a 7-22 last-place mark a year ago.
“To come into the situation we came into three years ago and to think where we were and where we are now, it’s a little overwhelming,” Kentucky head coach John Cohen said. “These players that have been at Kentucky for the past few years have been at the very bottom and scratched their way to the top of the best league in America. It’s been something amazing to watch and I’m proud to have been a part of it.”
Kentucky did it as it has all season, with timely pitching and big hitting. Craig Snipp hurled his third career complete game, all coming this season, while striking out a career-high 11, including Jonathan Wyatt to end the game and set off a wild celebration in the UK dugout and on the infield grass.
Link (http://www.ukathletics.com/index.php?s=&url_channel_id=36&url_article_id=1786 1&change_well_id=2)
