For the second time in school history, the University of Kentucky baseball team is headed to the N-C-Double-A super-regionals. In an elimination game Monday night at a sold-out Kentucky Proud Stadium, the Wildcats beat Indiana University, 4 to 2. Tim Bernal is an executive associate athletics director at U-K. He said head coach Nick Mingione has done a great job recruiting good players and good teammates.
“Nick and the staff, they do a great job very thorough in what they do as far as watching, watching video and checking on personalities, which is a big, big part of it. You know, Nick is a, he's a culture guy.”
Mingione came to U-K in 2016, and three years later, Kentucky Proud Stadium opened. Bernal said attendance has grown because of the newer baseball field – and because the Big Blue Nation loves winners.
“We are never out of a, out of a baseball game and I think that's kind of, that's kind of fun to be a part of. Everybody that was there last night, I heard that in the dugout after the game as they were celebrating from four or five players about, ‘Hey the crowd, man, who knows how many runs they were worth?’”
The Cats won’t have that edge Saturday, as they take on the L-S-U Tigers in the Baton Rouge Super Regional at 3 p.m.
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