Different day, different pitcher and different result.The 19th-ranked Kentucky softball team defeated No. 11 Missouri on Saturday, 8-2, to even the three-game series with the rubber match to be played on Sunday. The Wildcats fell to the Tigers in the opening game on Friday, 2-1, in a game they let get away and as two-time All-American pitcher Chelsea Thomas dominated.Saturday was a different story as UK freshman pitcher Kelsey Nunley was the one in the circle controlling the game. She gave up just one earned run in a complete-game effort, while striking out four UM hitters. The Soddy Daisy, Tenn., native did what she has been doing all season, working the corners and keeping hitters guessing at the plate.Nunley lived on the inside corner, jamming several Missouri batters while painting the outside corner from time to time leaving the Tigers with little chance to connect the barrel of the bat with the ball. Location has been key for Nunley, who leads the Wildcats with a 22-7 record on the season. She lives and dies by painting the black of the plate and knows just where the zone is by figuring out the umpire early in the game.”She’s been doing that her whole life,” head coach Rachel Lawson said. “The one thing she does exceptionally well is she has great command and she locates it well. Once she figures out an umpire’s zone she’s pretty good at attacking it and locating the ball where she wants to and that’s really the name of her game is being able to locate and attack batters and giving the umpire what they want.”After Missouri tied the game in the top of the fourth at 1-all, the Tigers filled the bases with two outs in the inning. Nunley threw a pitch on the inside corner that UM’s Rachel Hay could do nothing with but fly out to left to end the threat. That pitch looked to be the turning point in the game as Kentucky plated two runs in the bottom half of the inning to stretch its lead to 3-1, taking command the rest of the way. Nunley hurled 120 pitches in the game and has now thrown over 200 pitches in less than 24 hours after tallying 91 in four innings on Friday. That’s a lot of pitches for anyone but to ask out of a freshman is saying a lot. The right hander has been huge for UK all season and is a large reason for its success this year.”She’s a very strong girl and she’s been exceptional for us, especially for a freshman to be able to throw as many pitches as she does a game and as many games as she has,” Lawson said. “We have been really lucky this year but she has been able to step up and act like a real veteran.”The Cats’ offense came alive on Saturday after recording just five hits and one run in nine innings against Thomas on Friday. Senior Alice O’Brien regained the lead for UK, connecting on a long homerun to right center in the bottom of the fourth inning. Junior Ginny Carroll and freshman Christian Stokes charted two RBI each as the Wildcats had nine hits and eight runs on Saturday.UK is going to need that same offensive-minded attack on Sunday as they will most likely see Thomas in the opposing circle again on Sunday. Having already faced the two-time Big 12 Pitcher of the Year once, Lawson feels the Cats can make some adjustments the second time around.”I think yesterday we made contact with some balls but we didn’t hit them square and stay behind them,” Lawson said. “We hit a lot of balls but they were just ground balls in the infield and we swung around a lot of pitches. We are going to have to do a better job hitting the higher dropball that she brings and second when she does bring it a little  bit lower we have to do a better job of staying behind it and driving through it as opposed to moving it around and trying to run.”Sunday is meaningful because the winner of the game will take the series and have the tiebreaker when it comes to seeding for the SEC Tournament. However, Sunday also marks Senior Day for two Wildcats. Kara Dill and O’Brien have been key components for Kentucky over their four years. Dill, who is a former all-league performer, broke her hand earlier in the year and has been limited. That hasn’t stopped her from competing as she will enter the game as a pinch runner and is willing to help out the team in any way possible. O’Brien has had a great year at the plate for UK, hitting in the cleanup position for the majority of the season. “Senior day is always a big day,” Lawson said. “This year is a little bit different because it won’t be our last game on this field for them. With that said, Kara and Alice have meant so much to the program. They have been starters for four years, they’re awesome contributors on offense but more importantly they are great people. They are great students, they do exceptionally well in the classroom, they do well in the community and they have been an asset to Kentucky.”

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