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Tucker Evans posed with his adopted brothers from FIJI during DanceBlue. The 3-year-old has battled Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia for more than a year now.
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DanceBlue raises almost $1.8 million for the kids By Maddi Dyment, Kelsey Mattingly and Bailey Vandiver news@kykernel.com
Twenty-four hours after stepping into Memorial Coliseum, dancers appeared to catch their second wind as cards flipped to reveal the product of their endurance: $1,785,286.96 for the fight against pediatric cancer.
Close to 1,000 dancers took to their feet “for the kids,” for a marathon of dancing and playing with children battling cancer. Brittany Evans’ 3-year-old son Tucker does not understand that he has cancer. Going to the
clinic for tests and “pokes” were just an unfortunate monthly occurrence. Then he met the men of Phi Gamma Delta, who served as his “adopted family” for the past year. “Before, he would not give
the nurses the time of day,” Evans’ said. “We got our adoptive family, the boys from FIJI, and he loves them. They just come and sit with him, keep him occupied, and it gives me a break. He actually looks forward to going to the clinic now.”
Lyon, Boggess promise to serve students in SGA By Lee Mengistu
yawns, the dancers — clothed in everything from Chacos with socks to tutus — showed no signs of slowing down. At the beginning of every hour, dancers lined up for the line dance, which they learned at the beginning of the marathon. Spectators waved Greek letters in the air in support of the dancers. Spanish junior Ashton Hall, a member of Kappa Delta dancing for the first time, was feeling good at the halfway point of DanceBlue. “My feet hurt — I want to cut them off, you know, but I’ve still got a good spirit,” Hall said.
Each hour had a different theme to keep the dancers busy. Some themes included throwback, recess and rave hours. DJ WarrenPEACE took the stage for the rave hour. The Student Activities Board provided glow sticks and the DJ played some eRUPPtion Zone favorites. Throughout the marathon, members of the Family Relations Committee scrambled around to keep participants excited. Kinesiology senior Brant Cornelius, the DanceBlue Fam-
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Childress, Foster stress inclusion in SGA By Bailey Vandiver
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Political science junior Fletcher Lyon said he strives “to be a servant leader,” and for him that means giving the people what they want. “I want to make sure that what people want is always given to them because that’s the beauty of democracy,” Lyon said. The Paducah native and candidate for Student Body President said he practiced democracy at the YMCA Kentucky Youth Assembly program, where he now serves on the Board of Directors. “I don’t know if I’ll ever run for office, but if the time comes and leadership is needed, then I’m going to try to be that leader,” Lyon said. Community and leadership development sophomore Ross Boggess is a self-described people person. Not just because he spends his spare time as a Wildcat mascot, but because of his sense of purpose to be a community builder. Boggess said running with Fletcher was “a God thing.” He was filling out his SGA application, unsure of what position to apply for, when his friend and former KYA associate Lyon called and asked him to run as his vice president. The Lexington native has dreams of becoming a downtown development planner and serving the public. “I pledged myself I was always going to be a civically engaged citizen. I may not be in
Evans said her son was given an 85 to 90 percent chance of living past 5 years after his diagnosis. She said he exceeded all of his doctors’ hopes and while the realities of cancer can seem discouraging, her son has inspired her family to keep fighting with his energy and perserverance. “It’s rough, but he’s done so well with it that it has made it easier on us as a family,” Evans said. “He’s still your active, happy (child). Earlier he was running and you wouldn’t even know he was sick just looking at him.” Though there were a few
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PHOTO BY JOSHUA QUALLS I STAFF Student Government Association candidates Ross Boggess (left) and Fletcher Lyon (right) pose for a photo near William T. Young Library.
an elected role, but I’m going to do what I can because I know if I don’t, there’s a chance that somebody else might not do it either,” Boggess said. One platform they have taken a firm stance on is the issue of steadily increasing tuition, which the two SGA presidents before President Rowan Reid voted to raise. “SGA was not doing what people were asking it to do. Nobody was calling for accountability within SGA,” Lyon said. For Lyon, this campaign is about adapting to an ever-changing campus, quoting leadership expert John C. Maxwell: “Change is inevitable, growth is optional.” Lyon said part of that growth involves changes to campus parking that will benefit students. Boggess was told recently that he was the first student to ever attend a Parking and Transportation meeting as a member of the Parking and Transportation Advisory
Committee. This year’s campaign has been marred by unusual gossip, such as a rumor that their team accepted financial support from a conservative organization known as the Leadership Institute, contradicting their claims of a self-funded campaign. Lyon said the rumors were baseless. “We want to represent the student body as Fletcher and Ross. We’re not some organization that has an agenda that they want us to fulfill,” Lyon said. Despite assumed tension after a Childress-Foster poster near Funkhouser was ripped next to an untouched Lyon-Boggess poster, Lyon and Boggess said the campaign is friendly between themselves and their opponents Ben Childress and Elizabeth Foster. Foster even attended junior prom with her longtime friend from KYA, Fletcher Lyon. Students will vote for SGA candidates March 1 and 2 online at uksga.org.
Veteran SGA representatives Ben Childress and Elizabeth Foster are running together for Student Government Association president and vice president, respectively. Childress, an economics senior, was a senator during his freshman year, senate president his junior year and currently serves as vice president. Foster, an electrical engineering junior, served as director of events her sophomore year and is currently chief of staff. Despite, or perhaps because of their background with SGA, the candidates said they know that SGA needs improvement. Childress remembered when he first became involved with SGA. “Student government was really just a homogenous group of people, and there wasn’t a lot of diversity in thought and diversity in background and opinion,” Childress said. “I think that’s an issue.” Childress and Foster said they want to work to make SGA an accurate representation of the UK student body, with people from all over campus connecting with SGA as a “vessel,” Childress said. In order to reach this goal, Childress and Foster encourage their fellow students to reach out to them. The candidates’ campaign includes four integral platforms based on the ideology
PHOTO BY JOSHUA QUALLS I STAFF Student Government Association candidates Elizabeth Foster (left) and Ben Childress (right) pose for a photo at UK.
of campus inclusion and connectivity: expansion of the WildCab program to alleviate parking issues, integrating a fall break into the academic calendar, increasing the availability of mid-sized funding grants and working with professors to compile a syllabus bank. Despite their passion for SGA, neither candidate has plans to go into politics. But as the candidates became more involved with SGA and got to know each other as underclassmen, they knew they could form a good ticket together. Childress said that he believes his involvement with SGA comes largely from his experience as an identical triplet. Childress said he has always been the mediator to keep his brothers from fighting. “I think that started this lifelong habit of trying to mediate between people and form consensus,” Childress
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said. He said being a triplet also taught him empathy. Being a woman in STEM has influenced Foster’s desire to advocate for all students to feel comfortable in UK classrooms. She said the UK electrical engineering program is only about 10 percent female. “I have a little bit of insight into being someone in a room with people I don’t necessarily look like, and I’ve seen how that can affect confidence and performance in the classroom,” Foster said. Childress and Foster hope to improve UK’s campus regardless of the election results. “Whether I’m elected or not, that doesn’t change my vision and my goal and my hope for the rest of my undergraduate career at this university, and that’s to try to serve this student body as best as I can,” Childress said. Voting for all SGA positions will be on March 1 and 2 at uksga.org.
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PHOTO BY MICHAEL REAVES I STAFF UK DanceBlue committee members reveal the amount raised in the 24-hour dance marathon.
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ily Relations Coordinator, works with the families at the DanceBlue Clinic. “My main role and my top priority is to serve the families and make sure they are loved and being taken care of,” Cornelius said. For Cornelius, the months of preparaPHOTO BY ARDEN BARNES I STAFF tion for DanceBlue are all worth it on the A dancer cries as cancer families share their stories during day of the marathon. the Celebrate Life hour of DanceBlue. “It’s really icing on the cake. We work hard all year for this, but none of this is for
us,” Cornelius said. Participants of DanceBlue always hope they are attending their final DanceBlue. “I say I want to keep coming back and I could come back 100 years from now and I could be just as happy here watching from the stands. But I hope in 10 years I don’t have to be coming back because cancer is gone,” chemical engineering senior Will Downer, a Family Relations Committee member, said. When the cards were flipped to reveal the total amount raised, the crowd erupted in celebration of what the dancers had accomplished in those 24 hours.
PHOTO BY JOSHUA QUALLS I STAFF Economics and marketing senior Kate Borelli dances during the fifteenth hour of DanceBlue. Borelli has been on the DanceBlue committee for two years.
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North campus still without parking HAYDEN HOOPER Kernel Columnist
An exhausting 30-minute walk in the dark, rain, snow or wind is what it takes for many students and faculty to park on UK’s campus. From day one as a student, many find this to be a frustrating aspect regarding university and campus life. Over the past few years, UK has experienced a construction boom with a new football facility, dorms on north and south campus, other dorms currently in the works and a student center. These improvements are welcomed by all, but they have not generated new parking opportunities for faculty and students. Commonwealth Stadium is the hub of parking for many at UK. During the week, students abandon their cars in the stadium lots, with frustrating stipulations during football season. Living on south campus provides a short, easy walk to retrieve your car, but students who reside on north campus are forced to face a grueling challenge, especially when weather provides complications. There should be additional parking on UK’s north campus to withstand the demand of more students residing in that area. UK works to make parking “easier” on students by providing free Lextran bus services from 6:45 a.m.- 8 p.m. on weekdays and free parking in E Lots on weekends. Even with these services, parking on campus is still a difficult task. Locating parking spots wastes valuable study time as students must travel long distances to get their cars. Driving across campus can also be strenuous with many traffic hassles near the hospitals and on Avenue of Champions. Staff are affected as well. Teachers are forced to park long distances from their offices, leading students to lose valuable instruction time due to teachers exploring campus in search of a spot. One solution to add additional parking can be at the new student center site. Rather than building a parking lot, the university should construct a new substantial parking garage in its place. We should also seek new parcels of land in order to create new parking structures on north campus. Although expensive, multi-story parking structures result in an efficient use of land. Having a parking garage at the student center could be useful in serving as a parking hub for north campus, just as Commonwealth Stadium serves on south campus. This would increase both student and faculty parking, relieving both of stress. Parking on UK’s campus has been a great conversation starter for years, but it is time to stop talking and start planning. Email opinions@kykernel.com.
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‘Lake Street’ dives into Lexington
By Matt Wickstrom
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Molding together a wide array of influences including 60s pop, soul, r&b, motown and indie-rock, Boston’s Lake Street Dive has garnered a massive audience since it’s start in 2004, opening on tour for newgrass pioneers Yonder Mountain String Band and playing at The White House and countless morning and late night TV shows. Lake Street Dive was founded while vocalist Rachael Price, drummer Mike Calabrese, bassist Bridget Kearney and Mike “McDuck” Olson were enrolled at the New England Conservatory of Music. The group became a viral sensation in 2012 when they made a YouTube video covering the Jackson 5’s “I Want You Back” and haven’t looked back since. Lake Street Dive’s two most recent records, 2014’s ‘Bad Self Portraits’ and 2016’s ‘Side Pony’ have both been massively successful despite having two distinct identities. ‘Bad Self Portraits’ has more of an acoustic, intimate vibe, whereas ‘Side Pony’ encompasses more realms of soul,
PHOTO PROVIDED BY BIG HASSLE MEDIA | DANNY CLINCH Boston-based four-piece Lake Street Dive return to Lexington for the first time since October 2015 on Feb. 28 for a show at Manchester Music Hall.
pop and psychedelia. “We decided with [‘Side Pony’] to let the studio be our instrument and throw in some things that we knew wasn’t going to lead to the same performance on stage as on the record, but for us we see that as something to take advantage of rather than to avoid,” Kear-
ney said. “The studio and live are two completely different animals. Each has something special about them you can accentuate to make it most enjoyable for the listener.” After the success of ‘Side Pony,’ Kearney says the group is currently writing and record-
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Increased border security has adverse effects MEGAN BROWN Kernel Columnist
A lonely service member ships a package from Stuttgart, Germany to his college daughter who is in a different country. It is one of their only forms of communication because of long distance phone calls and a six hour time difference. The box travels over the ocean until it arrives at a United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) location. Here, the box that was once Twizzlers, granola bars, trail mix and a handwritten note is desecrated to a point that it is unrecognizable. The granola bars have bite marks, the Twizzlers and trail mix
The granola bars have bite marks, the Twizzlers and trail mix are open and the handwritten note is ripped in half making it illegible. are open and the handwritten note is ripped in half making it illegible. All that’s left is for the tape covered box to reach a disheartened receiver. The receiver would soon express their disappointment with the way the organization that is here to protect “the public from dangerous people and materials” haphazardly went through their package. President Donald J. Trump has signed an executive order to increase border security by hiring 5,000 additional border patrol agents and “operational control” to prevent unlawful entries, like illegal contraband, into the U.S. However, this executive order ironically is hindering more than it is helping. There is a sense of professionalism that needs to be upheld by CBP agents. Safety is always CBP’s number one priority, but sometimes it seems like it’s their only priority. They will search through packages and damage the contents all to look for contraband that may not even be there. Meanwhile, all the receiver is left with is a damaged box and unanswered questions. Often, people will argue “they are just doing their job.” Yes, they are “doing their job,” but there is protocol that needs to be set and followed. CBP’s reckless behavior toward people’s belongings is completely unacceptable, especially against service members who are abroad fighting for their country. On the CBP website, they boast daily about the hundreds of apprehensions of illegal packages through the system they have at the border, but how many are false alarms? How many packages are virtually destroyed when there are no dangerous materials present? When are we going to find the solution to a broken system? The very people protecting this country are the ones falling victim to this lack of professionalism and concern. Now, whenever I get a package, I am hopefully optimistic, but cautious for fear that I will have another package tampered with by reckless CBP agents. Border security needs to be decreased because innocent people are being affected. It has gone too far. Email opinions@kykernel.com.
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Lexington goes Cajun for Mardi Gras
By Matt Wickstrom features@kykernel.com
Lexington may not be where the Americanized version of Mardi Gras was born, but several bars and restaurants around town will take their own spin on the celebration this upcoming Fat Tuesday. One restaurant champion of the Cajun and creole culture is throwing a party to ring in the festivities how only Kentucky can. For 13 years, Bourbon N’ Toulouse has treated Lexington to authentic Cajun and creole foods. Their goal starting off, according to co-owner Kevin Heathcoat, was to have as much Mardi Gras styled fun they could every day. “When we started we didn’t think we would make it,” Heathcoat said. “Mardi Gras isn’t 365 days for a reason. So now, it’s more about providing
PHOTO BY JOSHUA QUALLS I STAFF Ornaments decorate the dining area of Bourbon N’ Toulouse, a Cajun and Creole restaurant located at 829 Euclid Ave.
a fun atmosphere. Mardi Gras is our Christmas.” This year, Bourbon N’ Toulouse will partner with the Chevy Chase Inn to put together a Mardi Gras celebration with food, music and beer. Party-goers can start their day
with Bourbon N’ Toulouse at their restaurant located at 829 Euclid Avenue, where merrymaking begins at 11 a.m. Late into the evening there will be a crawfish boil featuring 500 pounds of crawfish flown in from a Louisiana
farm. Afterward, festivities move to the Chevy Chase Inn where there will be alcohol from Hurricanes to beer from Abita Brewing Company. Additionally, there will be a performance from The Tallboys, a blues band based out of Kentucky. Heathcoat said that although the restaurant does about 12 hours of business during this single event, the next upcoming days of business will not be as prosperous. This reality, however, does not affect Heathcoat’s mood about celebrating. “For us it’s about the enjoyment of the holiday, having fun, the party,” Heathcoat said. “The money doesn’t mean much. We just want everyone to have a good time.” For everyone to have that good time, Bourbon N’ Toulouse owners will get started as early as 6 a.m. to set up for
IF YOU GO What: Bourbon N’ Toulouse Mardi Gras celebration When: Tuesday, Feb. 28 at 11 a.m. to Wednesday, March 1 at 11:30 p.m. Where: 829 Euclid Ave. the party. Heathcoat joked that he and co-owner Will Pieratt will start the day with shots, in full Mardi Gras spirit. The real work comes in early however, before the day even arrives. The cooks spend almost two weeks preparing and cooking food for the event.
UK student brings energy to ‘Family Feud’
By Matt Wickstrom
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On Feb. 20, UK student Caroline Miller was featured on ‘Family Feud’ alongside her parents, grandfather and aunt. The freshmen neuroscience major auditioned for the show in Atlanta, Georgia among dozens of other families. The process required the Miller’s to play the game against other families to find out if they would be selected to be on the show. They were selected, being one of the most energetic families to audition. “The producers were encouraging all of the other families to bring more energy, but for my family they actually told us to tone it down,” Miller said. Prior to being chosen to appear on the show, Miller had never watched a full episode of ‘Family Feud.’ Miller admitted that she had never been interested in game shows, but she watched all of the ‘Celebrity Family Feud’ episodes in the weeks prior to filming to gain a better understanding of how the game show worked. The Miller Family filmed in August, just one day before Caroline left for UK to move into her dorm. Directly after
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 ing new material and will likely jump back into the studio later this year. In the meantime, Kearney is set to release a solo record on March 24 titled ‘Won’t Let You Down.’ On the record Kearney steps outside the familiar confines of the stand-up bass, illustrating her talents on electric bass, keys, organ, synthesizers and acoustic and electric guitars along with layers of backup vocals she attributes to
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ative answers to earn points. “Name something a girl might grow up to be if her parents named her Bambi,” host Steve Harvey said. “A stripper!” responded Miller’s mother, who then ran back to her family’s side to provide more answers, with Miller answering, “A trophy wife!” The Millers won this question to bring the game score to PHOTO PROVIDED BY FAMILY FEUD 88-86, with the WinUK Neuroscience freshman Caroline Miller and her family filmed an epi- ter family ahead. The Winter family sode of Family Feud last August, with the episode airing on Feb. 20. went on to win the following two quesfilming, Miller went home of film did not make the epito finish packing so that she sode, which was upsetting to tions, bringing the game to an end. would be ready to leave the her family. The Millers did not leave next morning. The Miller family felt conMiller said that the set was fident going into the round that ‘Family Feud’ empty handed, much smaller than she imag- would be filmed and aired on earning a prize of $500 and an ined, and despite being a little TV. They had won all of their unforgettable experience, acnervous to be on TV, she and audition and practice rounds, cording to Miller. Miller said her family had a great experi- according to Miller. However, that she enjoyed being on the ence. they knew that their compe- show and that she would parDuring the hour that it took tition, the Winter family, was ticipate in something like it to film, Miller told Harvey good from watching them again if given the opportunity. Miller is the second UK stuabout her future plans, includ- practice. ing the fact that she was to The Winter family went on dent to be featured on a game begin school at UK within the to win the game, but not before show this month, following seweek. However, this segment the Miller’s voiced several cre- nior Zach Atwell’s appearance on ‘Jeopardy!’. her 13 years with Lake Street Dive. According to Kearney, whether she’s writing material for Lake Street Dive or her solo gig, one constant required to get her creative juices flowing is isolation. “The biggest enemy to my own creativity is having other people around,” Kearney said. “You really have to carve out that time when you’re alone. For me, I prefer if nobody were even in the building, because I want to be able to scream or do something crazy and see what it sounds like and not worry about
someone listening and judging it when it’s unfinished.” Lake Street Dive will perform at Manchester Music Hall on Tuesday, Feb. 28, the group’s first show in Lexington since a sold-out show at Cosmic Charlie’s with Holy Ghost Tent Revival in Oct. 2015. Joey Dosik will be providing support for Lake Street Dive, with a soul and popfilled sound accompanied with a heavy dose of keys. Dosik is known for his collaboration on funk group Vulfpeck’s 2015 album ‘Thrill of the Arts,’ where he received songwriting credits
When asked what Fat Tuesday means to him, Heathcoat had only a few words to say. “A hangover and a hardnext day,” Heathcoat said. Plenty of other places are also participating in Mardi Gras this year. If you cannot make it to Bourbon N’ Toulouse, try checking out the scene at Soundbar from 9 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. where there will be a live DJ and plenty of beads to go around. Willie’s Locally Known is hosting Cajun and zydeco band Paw Paw Gumbo at 7 p.m. Willie’s is also hosting a crawfish boil, with either chicken or crawfish etouffee, a vegan black bean dish and as tradition calls for, king cake. Lexington has a variety of options for safe and fun partying this Fat Tuesday, and it’s sure to be a good time anywhere you land.
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Students have an inviting place to meditate and reflect with the opening of the Interfaith Prayer and Meditation Room in its temporary location, room 76 of McVey Hall. The permanent location will be in the new UK Student Center next fall. The University of Kentucky Board of Trustees met with diverse members from the campus community last October to discuss an idea that developed into the secluded meditation room. The room allows privacy for individuals who want to follow their religious practices, reflect in silence or meditate. It has already been enjoyed by several since its opening earlier this month. Meditation is a daily practice for computer science freshman Luke Miles. “It’s convenient because I don’t have to do the 15-minute bike ride home,” Miles said. The room is open Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Guidelines posted by the entrance are meant to ensure that all individuals feel comfortable. Furnished with pillows and warm lighting, the
on the track “Game Winner,” later releasing a re-done version of the tune under his name. “Music deepens my capacity to feel things,” Kearney said. “For me it’s a very emotional thing and I don’t really experience it with other forms of art, whether it be visual arts or literature. I enjoy those things on an intellectual level – sometimes they tell a good story, but they don’t touch me as deeply emotionally, so I think indulging and letting music really resonate within me has allowed me to reach more emotional depth.”
space brings relaxation to all who enter. “Our shared values of integrity, mutual respect and human dignity, and diversity and inclusion take a step forward with this initiative,” UK interim vice president for institutional diversity Terry Allen said in a recent press release. “We owe a special thanks to the students that challenge this institution to become better.” Diversity can be found throughout the campus ranging from students of all faiths and beliefs, and faculty members also welcome the addition. “I think it is a wonderful opportunity for people to have a quiet space,” graduate admissions officer Maureen Barker said. “I’m delighted that it’s here.” Students of the Islam faith have found the room to be exceptionally welcoming to their practice of prayer five times daily. “I feel like it’s not only a personal convenience for the students, but I also feel like it will make the students feel more included on campus,” journalism freshman Mohammad Ahmad said. “This is a good example of UK’s efforts to promote diversity.”
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UK increasing effort as March approaches By Anthony Crawford sports@kykernel.com
Few would have thought that playing against No. 13 Florida without point guard De’Aaron Fox would be the game where UK took major strides in defining itself as March approaches. But the Cats did just that, flipping the results of the beat down they received at the hands of the Gators in Gainesville and winning the game 76-66. It’s easy to point to the 30-point second half outburst from freshman Malik Monk as being the deciding factor in the Cats win, but the effort the team displayed in the first half led by Bam Adebayo was what teed the game for Monk to take it over. The start of the game for UK was what must would expect from a team without it’s main playmaker. The Cats went without a made field goal for nearly five minutes and became especially turnover-prone. The undisciplined play set the Gators up perfectly for a repeat of the two teams’ last contest. “We were just saying, ‘Don’t let this happen again.’ Because it looked like it was about to be a rerun of what they did to us at
their place,” senior Dominique Hawkins said. “We just said we’ll be able to get stuff going and be patience and things would fall together.” The patience in the first half came in the form of a revamped defensive effort. Hawkins and Adebayo’s energy fueled UK as both seemed to get a hand on every loose ball or rebound. Adebayo himself, came up huge with 11 first half rebounds, which offered a sharp contrast for the rematch as UK was out-rebounded 54-29 in the loss at Florida. The all-out effort from UK allowed them to go on a 17-3 run to get back in the game and go into the half tied despite shooting only 29 percent from the field and turning the ball over 12 times. Monk was a player heavily responsible for the team’s struggles in the first half as he chipped in five turnovers and only scored three points, but in the second half he was a completely different player. After attributing the early struggles to playing too fast, he seemed to have no trouble letting the game just come to him in the second half as he explod-
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ed for 30 points. Realistically what UK showed against Florida Saturday was its most dangerous version of itself as the postseason approaches even without Fox. Counting on Monk to go off is not the best trump card once March rolls around, but now if the team can embrace this gritty style of play it’s shown for two games now, UK has a nice option to fallback on. Adebayo is a player that is key to setting the tone if UK is to continue this play, and he seems to be turning a corner with Saturday’s 18-point and
15-rebound outing being his second straight double-double. UK also can take pride that it pulled this off without Fox, as the Cats surely would not have been in as big as a hole to start with him running the offense instead. Whether they can play to this exact level again or not something has changed for UK since that last meeting with Florida. This victory makes it six straight that the Cats have rattled off and puts them in great possession for the postseason as it leaves UK sitting alone atop the SEC standings.
UK softball dominates in Florida By Chase Campbell sports@kykernel.com
After a relatively shaky start to the season, the UK softball team took Boca Raton, Florida by storm, sweeping the weekend with a perfect 5-0 record. They averaged more than six and a half runs per game, scoring a monstrous 12 in their final game of the weekend, a shutout against Memphis on Sunday. The Cats didn’t have any trouble with their opponents either, averaging a run differential
of 5.6 for the weekend. These are the same Cats that coach Rachel Lawson was bragging about so much at the beginning of the season, and while they weren’t all top 10 teams that the Cats beat, their were displays of athleticism and skill by a talented team that expects to compete with the best, especially as the conference schedule begins. After the win over the Huskies, UK took down Florida A&M 2-0 for their second shutout of the season with the first shutout also coming against
UK baseball picks up first W’s of 2017 By Chris Angolia
PHOTO BY CARTER GOSSETT I STAFF Kentucky Wildcats guard Malik Monk shoots over Florida Gators forward Kevarrius Hayes during a game against the Florida Gators on Saturday.
Florida A&M. The real dominance began Saturday, as UK piled on 17 runs in two games: a 9-1 thrashing of the Memphis Tigers and a 6-2 cruise-control victory against the hosts, Florida Atlantic. It’s hard to lose when a team hits .500 on the day, and that’s exactly what the Cats did, netting 25 hits on the day. Katie Reed contributed five hits of her own, helping to propel the rest of the team, while Sarah Rainwater put up three runs of her own, just as she did in the
Memphis game. The Cats cleaned up the weekend in their most dominant game all season, with a 12-run shutout of the now 4-6 Tigers. There were 11 different players that scored for UK, proving that the entire team has the capability to put runs on the board. Pitcher Erin Rethlake is now 3-0 on the season, showing her consistent contribution to the team. UK will play in Carbondale, Illinois for its next game against NIU on Friday.
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Following a sweep at No. 9 North Carolina last weekend, and a loss on Wednesday at Liberty, UK baseball headed into this past weekend’s set of games looking to get coach Nick Mingione his first career win as head coach. The Cats were able to do just that, and pick up a pair of wins beginning with a 16-9 victory over St. Joseph’s (PA) on Friday and then a 19-2 rout of Old Dominion. Game three of the weekend against Delaware however saw UK take a 3-0 lead into the eighth, but fall 4-3 to finish the week at 2-2. Despite the big margin of victory in Friday’s game, the game did not begin in the most ideal way as the Hawks jumped out to a 5-0 lead but the Cats responded in a big way including a seven-run fourth inning to put them ahead. In Friday’s game, six UK players had multiple hits after only five players had managed that feat in the teams’ first four games combined. The offense continued to rake in game two on Saturday against Old Dominion, exploding for 19 runs on 20 hits, but changed the way it started the game. UK jumped on ODU starter Morgan Maguire for seven runs over two and one-thirds innings, and never looked back. Zach Logue turned in six good innings for his first win of the year, allowing just one run on four hits with four strikeouts.
On Sunday, the Cats were looking to complete the weekend sweep in their game with Delaware and turned to Justin Lewis to finish it out, and Lewis turned in nothing short of a gem. In seven innings of shutout ball Lewis struck out four and allowed just two hits, but unfortunately, Delaware was able to get to the UK bullpen and mount a comeback taking the finale. Overall, this past weekend showed that UK despite its struggles, can be a good team. Along with Logue and Lewis’ solid outings, Zach Pop fired 3.2 scoreless innings in relief on Friday to allow the Cats to come back. Not only was it pitching, but senior outfielder Marcus Carson continued his torrid start to the season going 1018 in the teams four games this week to bring his season average to .500. With all of that however, up until Sunday’s game, the Cats were without All-American first baseman Evan White who was being held out for precaution to heal a sore hip. White went 2-2 in his return to the lineup Sunday with an RBI and will be a big boost to the Cats who have struggled out of the gate. At 2-5, this upcoming week will have the Cats return home to face a pair of in-state rivals, Eastern and Western Kentucky on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively, along with 2016 College World Series participant UC Santa Barbara coming to town on Friday.
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