Kentucky Concludes 2017 Regular Season at Georgia on Thursday
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Kentucky women’s soccer team will continue its fight to book a ticket to Orange Beach on Thursday night as the Wildcats travel to Athens, Georgia for a match with the UGA Bulldogs. It is the final regular season match of the 2017 season with kick-off slated for 7 p.m. ET from the UGA Soccer Stadium, which is newly remodeled for 2017.
The SEC Network+, WatchESPN and the ESPN app will be Big Blue Nation’s home for the match, as the SEC season comes to a close on Thursday night. All seven matches in the league will be shown live on the ESPN family of networks.
The Wildcats enter Thursday night sitting on six Southeastern Conference points – which is three below the current cutoff to make Orange Beach. If UK were to beat Georgia, the Wildcats could just be bound for Orange Beach with some help around the SEC. The following are UK’s clinching scenarios:
-UK wins AND Mississippi State loses AND LSU/Missouri tie OR
-UK wins AND Mississippi State loses AND LSU beats Missouri
The Georgia Bulldogs enter the last match of the season winless in the SEC, but have perhaps one of the best results of the season in their back pockets with a 1-1 draw at SEC-leading South Carolina on Sunday in Columbia. The Bulldogs got a 90th-minute equalizer and then held off the Gamecocks in the overtime session for the point. The Bulldogs are 0-8-1 in the SEC this season and have four non-conference wins to show for, including a 9-1 win against Coastal Carolina back in mid-September. Last year, these two sides met on Senior Night in Lexington with UGA taking a 3-1 road victory over the Wildcats back to Athens with them.
UGA leads the all-time series with Kentucky, 12-7-3. The win by the Bulldogs in 2016 snapped a three-match winning streak for UK over Georgia. The last time UK played in Athens, UK won, 2-0.
The current SEC standings have Mississippi State on nine points, so if the Bulldogs pick up a result against Texas A&M – that eliminates UK, LSU and Mizzou from Orange Beach. If Texas A&M were to win, all three teams then become factors, as they can all reach nine points and tie Mississippi State with a win.
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