2008 Season Notes
Team Notes
UK won 40 games for just the fourth time in program history and the second time in three years.
UK made just its sixth NCAA Tournament appearance and its second in three years.
Besides the 2006 season, UK had not finished as high as fourth in the SEC since 2000.
44 wins equals the school record for wins in a season, set in 2006.
Equaled the record for the longest winning streak (19) in school history.
UK?s 19-0 start tied the school record for the best start in the 104-year history of the UK baseball program.
UK has won 16 SEC games only four times in program history, twice in the last three years.
Won first SEC tournament game since 2000, equaling UK?s highest finish ever.
Four-year group exits the program as the winningest class in the history of the program, posting 151 wins during their tenure, seven more wins then the 1991-94 club?s 144.
UK was only one of two teams in remain ranked every week of the 2008 season.
Set school team records for highest fielding percentage (.974) ?
putouts (1687)
at bats (2157)
runs scored (510)
doubles (152)
RBI (461
sac bunts (75)
sac flies (38)
innings pitched (563)
Kentucky?s 62 games played are the second most in UK history.
Individual Notes
UK had two All-Americans and a first-team All-American for the third consecutive year, a school record.
UK led the way with four first-team All-SEC picks, the most in 30 years at Kentucky.
Sawyer Carroll ends his career as the record holder for career batting average (.386), with a .419 2008 average that ranks fifth all-time.
Carroll?s 83 RBI is a new school record
With 97 hits in 2008, Carroll finishes with the second most hits in UK history, five shy of Jeff Abbott?s 102.
Carroll?s 22 doubles ranks sixth in season history.
Carroll, in just two years, finishes 10th in career RBI (139).
Carroll ranks sixth in career slugging (.656).
Carroll ranks second in career on-base percentage (.483).
Brock Baber ranks second all-time in appearances (98).
Baber finished with a 3.68 career ERA, eighth best in UK history.
Greg Dombrowski, who has started the fourth-most games in UK history, finishes with a .821 winning percentage, a school record.
Dombrowski totaled a 3.86 career ERA.
Dombrowski claimed 23 career wins, second best in UK history.
Carroll and Collin Cowgill finished with 19 home runs, tied for eighth all-time in UK season history.
Cowgill?s 60 RBI is the 10th most in UK season history.
Cowgill ranks third in career home runs (37) and ninth in RBI (140).
In season history, Cowgill set the school season record for runs scored in a season (80).
Cowgill?s 140 career RBI ranks ninth all-time.
Cowgill scored 166 career runs, fourth-best.
Cowgill was named a first-team Academic All-American
Ryan Wilkes ranks as one of the more prolific players ever at UK ranking among the career record holders in games played (215; 3rd), games started (208; 3rd), at bats (723; 7th), walks (119; 3rd), sac flies (19; 1st) and sac bunts (40; 1st).
Tyler Howe set the school record with 27 hit by pitches.
Aaron Lovett finishes with a 3.38 career ERA, fourth-best in UK history.
Brian Spear finishes with a .459 on-base percentage in his career, fourth-best in UK annals.
Freshman Chris Wade set the school record for sac bunts in a season (20).
Wade?s SEC-high 24 doubles are the second-most in UK season history.
Andrew Albers? 81 career appearances is fourth-most in UK history.
Albers finished with the third-most saves in UK history (12).
Albers 20 career wins are the fourth-most in UK history.
