The seventh-ranked and second-seeded Kentucky baseball team opens play in the Southeastern Conference Tournament on Wednesday at 11 a.m. ET when it squares off with No. 7 seed South Carolina at the Hoover Metropolitan Stadium.

The Wildcats tied Alabama for the SEC Championship, but lost the tiebreaker based on the team’s record against third-seeded Georgia.

Kentucky plans to send sophomore left-hander Tommy Warner (3-0, 3.09) to the mound against South Carolina’s Mike Cisco (5-4, 4.19).

The game will be televised by CSS in Kentucky markets as well as in Lexington on Insight channel 70. On the radio, fans can listen in the Lexington area on WXRA 1580-AM or online at www.UKathletics.com . CSS has also channels in Elizabethtown, Paducah, Hopkinsville, Campbellsville, Murray and Somerset among other markets in the state.

Earlier in the year, the Wildcats roughed up Cisco for six runs on seven hits in just 4 1/3 innings en route to winning game one of the series. Kentucky went on two sweep the Gamecocks with two six-run comebacks on Saturday and Sunday.

The series was the catalyst this year as UK went on to win its next three series, including two sweeps. The run carried the Wildcats to the SEC crown.

The tournament appearance is the first for the Wildcats in six years. The No. 2 seed is the highest for UK in a tournament.