The UK athletics program could do no wrong this weekend. At a combined 49-5 on the season, we already knew a few weeks ago that something special was brewing on the hardwood. But now baseball and softball? Talk about an athletics program hitting its stride.If you happened to get caught in the excitement of the basketball teams’ wins this weekend and didn’t hear about baseball and softball’s perfect weekends, let me catch you up.The baseball team kicked off the 2010 season with a perfect weekend at the Caravelle Resort Invitational in Myrtle Beach S.C. The Cats defeated Virginia Tech, West Virginia and No. 12 Coastal Carolina in a three-day span.Meanwhile, the softball team notched five straight victories in Boca Raton, Fla., en route to winning the Kickoff Classic championship. Rachel Lawson’s ballclub toppled Maryland, Pittsburgh, Minnesota and Florida Atlantic twice.For those of you keeping count, that’s a 10-0 weekend for the basketball, baseball and softball teams. So how’d the baseball and softball teams do it? Pitching, pitching and pitching. Both teams were nothing short of dominant from the rubber.In helping Gary Henderson to the first 3-0 start in his head coaching career, the baseball team surrendered just eight runs (seven earned) in three stellar outings. Alex Meyer, Logan Darnell or Braden Kapteyn – you could do no wrong in picking them as pitchers of the week. But how about the debut of freshman lefty Taylor Rogers? (Check out this story on Rogers by PGCrossChecker.com.) The southpaw made his collegiate debut in sparkling fashion, tossing 7.2 shutout innings in the win over West Virginia on Saturday. The 6-foot-3, 170-pounder allowed just six hits in the 6-0 win, fanning two and walking one. It was just one game, but if Rogers can pitch like that on a routine basis, Henderson is going to easily have one of the best pitching staffs in the Southeastern Conference.As good as the baseball team was on the mound, though, it might have been outdone by the softball team. The stats say it all: Five games, three runs, two shutouts. That’s dominance, folks. Lawson received stellar outings from all three of her starting pitchers as Chanda Bell, Rachel Riley and Amber Matousek all picked up wins.Riley picked up a pair of shutouts over the weekend, Matousek matched a career high with 10 strikeouts and Bell notched her third and fourth victories behind a 23-strikeout weekend. With the pitching prowess of both teams, the UK baseball team starts the season 3-0 and the softball team improves to 8-2. The old adage in sports is that defense wins championship, but when it comes to baseball and softball, it’s all about the pitching. Based on what we’ve seen in the first two weekends of the spring season, both teams have it.