LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Kentucky softball team has earned the No. 9 seed in the 2023 Southeastern Conference Softball Tournament and will face eighth-seeded Florida on Wednesday in the opening round of the event.
Wednesday’s game will be at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT from Bogle Park in Fayetteville, Arkansas as the University of Arkansas will serve as hosts for the event. The SEC Network will carry the game along with the ESPN app.
No. 23 Kentucky is fresh off a series win over No. 16 Florida this weekend in Lexington with a 7-6 win Saturday afternoon and a 1-0 win on Sunday. It marked Kentucky’s first series win over the Gators since 2011.
In Sunday's victory over the Gators, Kentucky's Grace Lorsung hit a solo home run in the bottom of the sixth inning and teammate Alexia Lacatena threw a complete-game shutout. In a game that took just one hour and 44 minutes to play, UK earned its biggest series win of the season on just five hits, while only allowing the Gators offense to register four hits in the ballgame. Lacatena went all seven innings with four walks and a strikeout and needed just 102 pitches to close out the game.
For the regular season, Kentucky finished with a 30-19-1 overall mark (10-14 in SEC). Florida completed its regular season with a 35-19 overall record (11-13 in SEC).
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