GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Rachel Lawson had nearly a week to think about how she wanted game one of Kentucky’s Super Regional against top-seeded Florida to go.It only took a few minutes for that to all go out the window.In the top of the first, the Wildcats were mowed down in order by Lauren Haeger. In the bottom half, the Gators plated four runs, all coming with two outs, against Kelsey Nunley.”It was a tough first inning,” Lawson said. “Things didn’t exactly go our way and it kind of put us in a hole. When you do that to Haeger — who’s outstanding, arguably the best player in college softball — it’s going to be a tough day.”A tough day is exactly what it ended up being, as UK (32-25) fell behind 1-0 in a best-of-three series against Florida (54-6) after a 7-0 defeat at a loud and hot Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium on Saturday. Haeger took a perfect game into the sixth inning, rendering meaningless the fact that Nunley found a rhythm and retired 10 straight batters after a three-run double by Kayli Kvistad in the first.”I thought Nunley did a great job shutting them down after the first inning,” Lawson said. “I thought we stayed in the game tight and then we just let it get out of hand later in the game.”The outcome was decided once and for all when Florida plated three runs in the sixth inning against Erin Rethlake. Rethlake and Meagan Prince came on in relief of Nunley to rest the star junior for Sunday and get the two youngsters some valuable experience in an environment the likes of which neither has ever seen.”I think it was important for Meagan Prince to get in,” Lawson said. “We weren’t really hitting the ball very well. I thought Haeger was doing an outstanding job. She was commanding her pitches; her off-speed looked good. I think it was getting harder and harder for us to barrel up on the ball so I thought was important that Meagan get in the game and I thought she did an outstanding job. “Correspondingly, I thought it was important that Rethlake get in, because this is an outstanding crowd.”With the way Prince performed — retiring the 9, 1 and 2 hitters for Florida in order — she’s likely to play a role come Sunday, when UK will look to sweep a doubleheader and punch a Women’s College World Series ticket for the second season in a row.”What will happen is we’ll go back to the film,” Lawson said. “You can expect Nunley, you can expect Meagan Prince tomorrow. It’s going to be a long day. The nice thing is neither one of them is fatigued. Both of them work extremely hard in the offseason; they work extremely hard during the year. We haven’t over-pitched anybody. So they can throw the innings they need to throw. The key for us is going to be if we can hit Florida’s pitching.”As Saturday proved, that’s a tall order. The Cats, however, have room for improvement. The key to having more success at the plate against Haeger and the Florida staff, Lawson says, is to attack earlier in the count.”I think we over-swang,” Lawson said. “I think we got in there, we took pitches that we should be swinging at and I think they were expecting to see a ball over the white even though she never pitches it there. And then they were swinging at pitcher’s pitches late in the count and they were popping up.”On Sunday at noon, the Cats will try to turn that around.”From this point we just gotta try to recover, get our minds right and get some rest for tomorrow and hopefully we’ll be able to fight through and just try to force the if-necessary game,” said Griffin Joiner, who had one of Kentucky’s two hits on Saturday.The good news for UK is sweeping a doubleheader against a heavily favored opponent on the road with a WCWS trip on the line has been done before. In fact, the Cats did it exactly one year ago against UCLA.”That’s what we’re going to talk about,” Joiner said. “We’ve been in this position before, whether it’s been throughout the season with a doubleheader or last season in the postseason.”