Rain falling, wind blowing and two tough losses on their mind, the Kentucky Wildcats returned to their home field.The matchup with a tough South Carolina team was a big one, with precious few opportunities remaining for resume-building wins ahead of the NCAA Tournament. Even though the conditions were far from ideal, the Cats weren’t about to be deterred. The result was an important victory.”It was definitely huge for us,” Courtney Raetzman said. “It showed a lot about our character and coming out here to fight. That’s what we came to do.”To Michelle Rayner — filling in for Jon Lipsitz on Friday night as the head coach served a one-game suspension for a red card given in a loss at Texas A&M on Sunday — it was that fight that made all the difference for UK (8-5-0, 3-3 Southeastern Conference) in a 1-0 win.”Loved it. Loved it,” Rayner said. “And I think that’s really kind of what we’ve been lacking, is not only the fight but winning the first and second balls and the battle in the midfield and primarily up top, to keep the ball for us. And I think we did a much better job of that today.”The fight was on display in a tough first half, as UK managed to make it out in a scoreless tie with South Carolina (9-4-1, 2-3-1 SEC) in spite of playing into the wind and rain. In the second, Raetzman put away the winner in the 66th minute.”Cara Ledman crossed it, it goes past everyone and I slid to get it before anyone,” Raetzman said. “But big credit goes to my team for that because they built that whole play up.”Raetzman deserves some credit too. She executed the game plan to perfection with her finish.”As you can see by the goal, Cara Ledman got into the final third, slipped a ball through and we were talking about sliding and diving in the final third to get on the end of things and (Raetzman) did the exact same thing to them,” Rayner said. “A good couple adjustments and they did it well.”