LEXINGTON ? In a game added to the schedule this past weekend, the Kentucky baseball team welcomes Northern Kentucky to Cliff Hagan Stadium for a 6:30 p.m. start on Tuesday.

The contest was added to help Kentucky (18-16) replace the four games it has had rained out earlier this year. This will be the third added game of the year, the previous two being victories over Cumberland and Georgetown.

?We added the game because we need to play,? Kentucky coach John Cohen said. ?We have a young team and I feel like we?re very close to getting over that hump right now. Every time we step on the field we get better as a team, so adding this game is something we felt could help us.?

This will be just the seventh meeting all time for the two schools, which reside less than 90 miles apart, and first since 1980. Kentucky has won all of the previous match ups, with only one being decided by fewer than four runs.

Northern Kentucky (21-16) plans to start sophomore left-hander Adam Bell (1-0, 0.00 ERA), who hails from Alexandria, Ky. The Norse have won four straight and five of their last six games overall. Each of those games has come since Thursday as they played doubleheaders on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.

The Wildcats have yet to name a starter after throwing 11 different pitchers in its weekend series against No. 23 Auburn.

Kentucky will play two mid-week games this week as it travels to Cincinnati Wednesday for a game with the Bearcats at 6:30 p.m. at the UC Baseball Stadium. The game is the first of four straight on the road for the Wildcats, which travel to Mississippi State this weekend for a three-game set with the 29th-ranked Bulldogs.