Kentucky began the bounce-back process on Friday night.On the heels of back-to-back overtime defeats, the Wildcats took care of business in a 3-0 win over Mississippi State. Their mission for the weekend, however, was far from complete.On Sunday, UK finished the job with a 2-1 win against Auburn.”Pepperdine and Arkansas really stung,” head coach Jon Lipsitz said. “We needed to find a way to not only win two games, but win a game like this. This is exactly the kind of game that we’ve been letting get away from us. To play a great team like Auburn and such a well-coached team and to find a way says that there’s something in us that we want to find a way to respond.”The game, as Lipsitz said, was hard-fought from start to finish, but UK came out on top. In doing so, the Cats (7-3-0, 2-1-0 Southeastern Conference) swept a crucial conference home weekend.”We had to,” Lipsitz said. “Sometimes your back is up against the wall and you have to find out who you are. When you fall, the question is, are you going to continue to fall or are you getting up?”UK claimed a first-half lead when Jade Klump scored her fifth goal off a rebound from a shot by Arin Gilliland. It was the second goal the Cats scored off a loose ball in the box this weekend.”It’s not an accident,” Lipsitz said. “We do a lot of drills that work on that.”But less than three minutes later, the Tigers (6-4-1, 0-2-1 SEC) responded with a game-tying goal. For the next 36 minutes the two teams would battle to a standstill before Zoe Swift headed in a Cara Ledman corner kick that Alex Carter served back in front of the net.”I was wide open,” Swift said. “I was like, ‘If I miss, Jon’s going to yell at me.’ No, I’m just kidding. I saw I had to put it in the goal, do the details that we talk about in practice.”Open as she may have been, Swift delivered on a week of hard work with the game-winning goal.”Zoe’s been in a little bit of a lull right now and she’s very hard on herself,” Lipsitz said. “So we’ve been building her up and saying, ‘Look, we know you can do this,’ but it comes from work, it comes from doing the basics and she’s really had an amazing week of training. I’m not surprised at all that she got one.”UK wasn’t surprised to win either, but the Tigers – a “great team,” according to Lipsitz – didn’t make it easy. In the tougher moments, the Cats remembered they were playing for something bigger on Sunday.”We just knew that Auburn was a great team and we’ve been training hard all week,” Klump said. “We really enjoyed battling against them, but this was a Kick Cancer Match so we really wanted to come out and battle like those who have battled with cancer.”As part of the annual Kick Cancer Match, UK wore special Nike Volt jerseys that will be auctioned off to benefit the Dance Blue Clinic at the University of Kentucky Children’s Hospital. The team also honored cancer sufferers by placing yellow roses on the goal line after the game.The postgame ceremony was the second of the night, as UK President Eli Capilouto, Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart and Honda’s manager of corporate community relations Erik Wedin were in attendance to present Arin Gilliland with the Honda Inspiration Award.Entering the weekend, Lipsitz didn’t hide from the importance of games against Mississippi State and Auburn to his team. What happened after the game served as a reminder that there are more important things still.”Win or lose, that is secondary,” Lipsitz said. “The game is secondary.”