Men’s basketball– Kentucky fell 59-57 at Robert Morris in the opening round of the NIT, after advancing to postseason -play for the 22nd-consecutive year.- Freshman Archie Goodwin led the team in scoring with 18 points, while junior Jarrod Polson logged 10.- Goodwin went 8-of-8 at the free throw line, which was the second-most made free throws in an NIT game in UK history.Women’s basketball– DeNesha Stallworth scored 18 points and Jennifer O’Neill added nine of her 12 points in the second half to lead the second-seeded Wildcats to a 61-41 win over 15th-seeded Navy on Sunday in the opening round of the NCAA women’s tournament.- After trailing by a point at halftime, UK outscored Navy 35-16 in the second half to move onto the second round of the NCAA women’s tournament.- The 20-point win is the largest margin of victory for Kentucky in a NCAA Tournament game.- The 41 points surrendered by UK is the lowest total for an NCAA Tournament game in school history.Gymnastics– The No. 19 Kentucky gymnastics team placed eighth with a 194.6 team score at the SEC Championship.- Kentucky finishes the regular season with a school-record regional qualifying score of 196.06.- The Wildcats now await their NCAA regional fate, which will be revealed on the NCAA GymnasticsChampionship Selection Show on Monday, March 25 at 3 p.m.- UK tied its season-high floor score with a 49.125, a total which also tied for highest at session I.- Kayla Hartley’s floor routine turned plenty of heads as she produced a career-high tying score of 9.9.Softball– The No. 21 Kentucky softball team got back to its winning ways over the weekend with a three-game sweep of Mississippi State at home. The series win was the second of the season for UK, who is now 5-4 in Southeastern Conference play heading into its bye weekend. UK also earned a 7-1 midweek win over WKU on Tuesday.- The Wildcat offense was the difference in the weekend series, scoring 15 runs on 24 hits with two doubles and seven home runs against a MSU pitching staff that entered the weekend ranked 22nd nationally in earned-run average. Senior Alice O’Brien paced the Wildcats with a .500 average with one double, two home runs – one a walkoff, 10th-inning home run – and three RBI. Freshman Nikki Sagermann also hit .500 in the series with a home run and two runs scored. The other four home runs came from sophomore catcher Griffin Joiner, junior outfielder Emily Jolly and two from freshman Maisie Steed. – In Tuesday’s 7-1 victory over Western Kentucky, Nikki Sagermann was the offensive star in the game for Kentucky, going 2-for-3 with two runs batted in, including her first collegiate home run.- True freshman pitcher Kelsey Nunley was impressive in the series, going 2-0 and not allowing a run the entire weekend. Nunley pitched nine innings in relief Friday night to get the win before throwing a complete-game shutout in game two Saturday. Junior pitcher Lauren Cumbess went 1-0 on the weekend with a 2.62 ERA after earning a no-decision Friday night and a win in game one Saturday, allowing two runs on five hits over seven innings.Baseball– The eighth-ranked Kentucky baseball team completed a four-game week with a series win over No. 14 Mississippi State, spurred by a doubleheader sweep on Saturday.- Kentucky won its second consecutive series to open league play, also claiming the conference lidlifter at Florida last weekend.- Freshman outfielder Kyle Barrett hit .385 (5-for-13) with a pair of doubles and RBI, drawing two walks and stealing a base, starting all four games of the week. He contributed to UK’s walk-off win in the rubber match vs. the Bulldogs, starting the bottom of theninth inning with a double and scoring the game-winning and series-clinching win.- Jerad Grundy worked eight strong innings to lead UK to a series-evening win over No. 14 Mississippi State, in the front end of a doubleheader on Saturday. The senior worked into the ninth inning of UK’s 3-2 win, allowing five singles and a solo homer, with two runs scoring- On the mound, UK has a 2.55 ERA, walking just 55 and striking out 176 in 205 innings.Men’s tennis– No. 31 Anthony Rossi picked up one of the biggest wins of his career on Sunday as he collected a 6-3, 6-3 win over No. 7 KU Singh as UK fell 4-2 to Georgia. The win for Rossi was his 98th-career win and he now is just two wins shy of becoming the 15th player in UK tennis history to eclipse the 100-win mark.- UK returns to action on Friday as the Wildcats take on No. 29 Alabama at 2:00 p.m. ET at the Hilary J. Boone Varsity Tennis Center. The weekend will continue on Sunday as Kentucky faces off against Auburn.Women’s tennis– The Kentucky women’s tennis team went 0-2 over the weekend, falling to Ole Miss 4-3 on Friday before defeating Mississippi State 7-0 on Sunday.- Freshman Nadia Ravita won two singles matches in the No. 1 singles slot, improving her record to 15-2. – Sophomore Stephanie Fox and freshman Kirsten Lewis both went 2-0 in singles over the weekend.Women’s golf– The UK women’s golf team competed in their third tournament of the spring, finishing eighth in the 14-team field at the 2013 LSU Tiger Golf Classic.- Senior Ashleigh Albrecht recorded her second top-10 finish of the year, placing tied for seventh at 9-overpar. She was 7-over after the first round before firing team-lows and back-to-back rounds of 1-over-par to climb the leaderboard- Kentucky returns to the links April 5-7 at the Rebel Intercollegiate in Oxford, Miss.Swimming and diving– Sophomores Christa Cabot and Christina Bechtel each made their NCAA Championships debut over the weekend in Indianapolis, Ind. Cabot competed in all three diving events while Bechtel swam in the 100-butterfly.- Bechtel was unable to qualify for the finals in the 100-butterfly, but finished in 25th overall with a preliminary time of 53.06, her best prelim time of her career.- Cabot’s best finish came in the 3-meter springboard where she finished in 18th place with a six-dive score of 307.60.Upcoming scheduleMonday, March 25Men’s golf at Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate (Awendaw, S.C)Tuesday, March 26Women’s basketball vs. Dayton – 7:00 p.m. (Queens, N.Y.)Softball at Western Kentucky – 8:00 p.m.Men’s golf at Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate (Awendaw, S.C)Wednesday, March 27Baseball hosts Marshall – 3:00 p.m.Softball at Lipscomb – 7:00 p.m.Track and field at Texas Relays (Austin, Texas)Thursday, March 28Swimming and diving at Men’s NCAA Championships (Indianapolis, Ind.)Track and field at Texas Relays (Austin, Texas)Friday, March 29Men’s tennis hosts Alabama – 2:00 p.m.Women’s tennis at Alabama – 4:00 p.m.Softball hosts Tennessee – 5:00 p.m.Baseball hosts Georgia – 6:30 p.m.Track and field at Texas Relays (Austin, Texas)Swimming and diving at Men’s NCAA Championships (Indianapolis, Ind.)Track and field at Oliver Nikoloff Invite (Cincinnati, Ohio)Track and field at Stanford Invitational (Palo Alto, Calif.)Saturday, March 30Baseball hosts Georgia – 2:00 p.m.Track and field at Texas Relays (Austin, Texas)Swimming and diving at Men’s NCAA Championships (Indianapolis, Ind.)Track and field at Oliver Nikoloff Invite (Cincinnati, Ohio)Track and field at Stanford Invitational (Palo Alto, Calif.)Sunday, March 31Women’s tennis at Auburn – 12:00 p.m.Men’s tennis hosts Auburn – 1:00 p.m.Baseball hosts Georgia – 1:00 p.m.

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