Back Thru The Wildcat Years
Three Years Ago
*Home runs by Kenny Jackson and Wayne Able highlighted a 13-hit attack and four Kentucky pitchers blanked the Morehead Eagles as Kentucky downed the visitors 11-0. UK scored seven runs in the fifth inning to break the game open. Dan Whelan picked up the win, giving up four hits and no runs in five innings pitched.
*University of Kentucky bound Winston Bennett, to no one's surprise, captured the 'Mr. Basketball' title for the state of Kentucky this year. The Louisville Male senior averaged 25 points and 12 rebounds a game.
?Several basketball records have fallen with the final statistics out on the 1982-83 season. The '82:83 Wildcat team will go down in the record books as being the all-time best
shooting team in the history of the university, shooting 55.6 percent from the field.
*UK signees Winston Bennett and James Blackmon have been named to the prestigious
Winston Bennett
McDonald's and Parade All-American. They will play in the McDonald's Classic in Atlanta.
Seven Years Ago
*Behind the five-hit pitching of Joe Georger, now 6-1 on the year, the UK baseball team came back to win the second game of a doubleheader with Tennessee 7-1. UK lost the first game 7-6 after some crucial errors cost the Wildcats a decision in Saturday's opener. Mike Botkin had a two-run double in the second game while Freddie Smith homered in the opener. The Vols came back to win Sunday's game by a 6-2 score after UK jumped on top 2-0. The Wildcats also split a pair of games with Morehead. UK won 6-4 in the first, while losing the second game, 20-18. The latter game featured seven homers.
Wildcat Quiz
1. True or False. UK had never played Davidson in basketball before last week.
2. Which of the following conferences is Davidson a member?
a] Sun Belt
b] Southern
c] Gulf Star
d] Tans America
3. When was the last time UK participated in the Southeast Regional [formerly Mideast) in the NCAA tournament?
a] 1985
b] 1984
c] 1982
d] 1979
4. How many SEC Tournament titles has UK won during the decade of the 1980's?
a] none
b] one
c] two
d] three
5. What is the nickname of Davidson College?
a] Hubcaps
b] Black Cats
c] Wildcats
d] Stray Cats
6. True or False? Davidson has the smallest school enrollment of all the teams in the NCAA Tournament?
7. UK has previously faced another member of the Southern Conference this season. Who was it?
a] Pepperdine
b] Northwestern State
c] VMI
d] East Carolina
Roger Harden
8. What UK player was named to the All SEC Tourney team?
a] Kenny Walker
b] Winston Bennett
c] Roger Harden
d] James Blackmon
9. After UK defeated Davidson in the NCAA Tournament, the Wildcats overall record was 30-3. How many UK teams have accomplished a 30-win season?
a] none
b] three
c] four
d] five
10. During the SEC Tournament, UK head coach Eddie Sutton was slapped with his second technical foul of the year in the Cats 83-72 championship victory over Alabama. Against which team did Sutton receive his first?
a] Louisville
b] Kansas
c] N. C. State
d] Tennessee
Answers
1. True
2. Southern
3. 1984
4. two
5. Wildcats
6. True
7. VMI
8. Roger Harden
9. five
10. Kansas
*The University of Kentucky will likely be forced to make some alterations at its Joe B. Hall Wildcat Lodge, but the players will not have to move out. That is the present inter-pretaion UK officials have of a NCAA ruling made in the winter meetings. UK. however, is still waiting for a clarification of the ruling.
Tweh.   Years Ago
*The UK tennis team, 12-2 on the season, won its second SEC match in as many day as the Wildcats wiiloped Vanderbilt, 9-0.
*LSU's defeat of Kentucky's tennis squac was the Wildcats' second setback of the week. The loss drops UK's slate to, still, an impressive 12-4 record.
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