LEXINGTON, Ky. ? Georgia spurned nine runs to overcome a feisty Kentucky softball team on Sunday at the UK Softball Complex. The Bulldogs claimed the third game of the series with a 9-4 win on Senior Day for the Wildcats.
Prior to the start of the game Kentucky honored its five seniors, Samantha Allen, Lindsay Brogdon, Ashley Dimkich, Megan Jolly and Audrey Meyer who all appeared at home for the final time in their career.
The Wildcats trailed early after the visitors jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning. Georgia plated two scores off of three hits to open the scoring.
UK evened the score in the bottom half of the third thanks to four walks and a Georgia error. Freshman Annie Rowlands led off with a walk. Meyer followed with a walk of her own. Freshman Meagan Yocke advanced the runners with a sacrifice bunt, to put runners in prime scoring position. After a fly-out, Georgia intentionally walked Molly Johnson who went 4-for-5 in the two games on Saturday, to load the bases. Freshman Meagan Aull singled up the middle to score Rowlands from third, and then Dimkich stood in the batters box and drew four balls to walk in the second run of the inning making the score 2-2.
Georgia fired back with a run in the top of fourth and then scored three runs in the fifth to take a 6-2 edge.
Kentucky still had some fight, as they came back with a pair of scores in the bottom half of the fifth to move within two runs at 6-4.
Aull led off with another walk, putting a runner on base with one out on the scoreboard. Dimkich drew her second consecutive walk putting runners on first and second. Sophomore Destinee Mordecai singled to load the bases, and then freshman Sam DeMartine corralled the ninth walk of the game for the Blue and White to bring in the first score. Junior Katie McCarty?s groundout to first base allowed Dimkich to cross the plate.
The visitors added a score in the sixth and two in the seventh to make the final margin, 9-4, in a game that was much closer than the score indicated.
Five Wildcats recorded a hit in the game: Meyer, Yocke, Aull, Mordecai and McCarty. Aull also registered her 13th stolen base of the season.
UK will take a week off from action before finishing the 2008 campaign on the road at Auburn. The two squads with play two games Saturday, with a single game on Sunday. First pitch is slated for 1 p.m. CT each day.
