Softball– Kentucky has advanced to the NCAA Tournament as an at-large bid for the third consecutiveseason.- The Wildcats are one of just 31 teams in the nation to achieve three straight bids. Seventeams from the SEC have matched UK’s feat.- Sophomore Kara Dill led the Wildcats in their opening round loss to eventual-championTennessee in the SEC Tournament. Dill was 3-for-4 with a triple and a run driven in.- Senior Megan Yocke was tabbed to the SEC first team for the second straight season. She is now just the second player in school history to earn All-SEC status in all four seasons.- Senior Meagan Aull was tabbed the SEC Scholar Athlete of the Year. She is the first UKplayer to win the award. Aull and teammate Kara Dill were named to the All-SEC secondteam. Emily Jolly was tabbed to the All-SEC Freshman team.Baseball– Behind the blistering bat of junior Thomas McCarthy and a red-hot offensive attack, theKentucky baseball team posted three wins during a four-game week, including the first serieswin over Georgia since the 2007 season, falling just shy of the first UK sweep of the Bulldogssince the 1993 season.- The Wildcats rode a dynamic offensive approach during the four-game week, batting.393 overall with nine homers, 59 hits and 33 runs scored as a team. UK was led by McCarthy throughout the week, with the third baseman batting .684 during the four games and .714 (10-for-14) during the three-game weekend. McCarthy tallied his first career multi-homer game on Saturday, as UK clinched the series with a dominating 12-5 win.- The Wildcats have been led offensively by McCarthy, who paces UK with a .359 average,adding an SEC-leading 19 doubles, one triple, seven homers and 34 RBI and eight stolenbases. Chad Wright has hit .345 with 14 doubles, six homers and 34 RBI, swiping 16 bags.Shortstop Taylor Black has added a .308 mark with three homers and 37 RBI, while UK’s two-man catching tandem of Luke Maile and Michael Williams have combined for 16homers and 57 RBI.- On the mound, UK has been led by one of the top starting pitchers in the country, juniorright-hander Alex Meyer (6-5, 3.06 ERA), who leads UK and the SEC with 101 strikeouts in94 innings. In relief, UK lefty Alex Phillips (1-2, 2.36 ERA) has appeared in a team-high 26games with two saves and only one walk in 34.1 frames. Freshman Trevor Gott (2-4, 2.73 ERA) has added two saves in 22 relief outings, with 32 strikeouts in 26.1 innings.Men’s tennis– With the score tied 3-3 and a spot in the NCAA Championships Sweet 16 on the line,University of Kentucky men’s tennis junior Alex Musialek downed Louisville’s ViktorMaksimcuk 6-0 in the third set, giving No. 10 Kentucky a 4-3 victory over No. 24 Louisvillein the second round of the NCAA Championships.- The win for Musialek advances Kentucky to its second consecutive Sweet 16 of the NCAAChampionships. It is the first time UK has advanced to consecutive Sweet 16s in 19 yearswhen the 1991 team fell in the round of 16 and the 1992 team fell in the quarterfinals. TheWildcats are now 42-3-1 all-time against the Cardinals.- Kentucky continues to add to its school record for wins in a single season, moving the record to 28 wins. The Wildcat are now 6-2 this year against teams ranked 11-25 in theIntercollegiate Tennis Association rankings and 17-8 overall against ranked foes.- Kentucky finishes the season with an 18-3 record at the Boone Tennis Center andimproves its home record to 46-9 since the start of the 2009 season.Track and field– Senior Colin Boevers won his second-straight SEC discus title with a career-best throw of196-00/59.74m on his opening throw of the competition. The title extends UK’s streak ofdiscus champions to four straight dating back to Chase Madison in 2008 followed byRashaud Scott in 2009.- The leading point scorer for the Wildcats was senior Mary Angell, who, after a career performance on Saturday in the discus, put together a personal-best throw of 53-06.25/16.31m in the shot put to finish third. The senior is now third on both UK’s discus and shot put all-time lists.- Keith Hayes finished third in the 110m hurdles with a career-best time of 13.70, which rankssecond all-time at UK. Hayes continued his streak of personal records in the 400m hurdles with a time of 50.96, improving his place on UK’s all-time list to third.- In two grueling long-distant events, the 3,000m steeplechase and 5,000m run, junior Luis Orta claimed top-five finishes in both. Orta added to his second-place finish in the steeplechase with a fifth-place performance in the 5,000m run with a time of 14:25.68.- The men’s team finished seventh overall with 54 points while the women’s team finishedeighth with 42 points.Upcoming scheduleTuesday, May 17Baseball hosts Western Kentucky – 6:30 p.m.Thursday, May 19Men’s tennis vs. Florida – 3 p.m. (Stanford, Calif.)Baseball at Florida – 7 p.m.Friday, May 20Softball vs. Notre Dame – 5:30 p.m. (Ann Arbor, Mich.)Baseball at Florida – 7 p.m.Saturday, May 21Softball vs. Michigan/W. Michigan – Noon/2:30/5 p.m. (Ann Arbor, Mich.)Men’s tennis vs. Southern Cal/Ga. Tech – 3 p.m. (Stanford, Calif.)Baseball at Florida – 4 p.m.Sunday, May 22Softball vs. Michigan/W. Michigan/Notre Dame – 1 p.m./3 p.m. (Ann Arbor, Mich.)