Kentucky’s Meagan Prince Awarded SEC Pitcher of the Week

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Kentucky softball
junior pitcher Meagan Prince earned the Southeastern Conference’s Pitcher of
the Week award, it was announced by the league office on Monday. The honor is
the first-career award for Prince from the league office in her three years as
a Wildcat.

The weekly award is the third already garnered
by UK this season, with Katie Reed earning SEC Freshman of the Week on Feb. 22
and Abbey Cheek collecting SEC Freshman of the Week honors last Monday for her
sensational performance at the Winthrop Invitational. Kentucky has won a Player
of the Week award in three of the five weeks of the season so far.

Prince picked up another two wins and her
first save of the season this week, collecting wins over Indiana on Wednesday
night and South Carolina on Saturday afternoon to lock up the series. Against
the Gamecocks on Sunday, she came on with two on and no outs to pick up the
save by retiring all the batters she faces to preserve the shutout. Against
Indiana, Prince had a perfect game through 6.1 innings before an infield single
gave the Hoosiers their first baserunner of the game.

Prince now leads the UK pitching staff with
64.1 innings pitched on the season and only nine walks to 62 strikeouts. The
junior pitcher also leads the UK staff with five complete games and three
shutouts so far in 2016. She also has two no-hitters in non-conference action.

The Wildcats sweep of South Carolina marked
the first sweep of an SEC team since April 11-13 when UK swept Ole Miss. UK
sits at 22-3 overall and 3-0 in the SEC, perched atop the league standings with
Tennessee as the only two teams to sweep the opening weekend series.

Kentucky returns to the road on Wednesday
afternoon at 4 p.m. ET in Huntington, W. Va., as the Wildcats are at Marshall.

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