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Kentucky Wildcats celebrate first-ever World Series birth with dogpile

Screen Shot 2024-05-28 at 9.09.17 AMby: Kaiden Smith06/10/24kaiden__smith
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The Kentucky Wildcats have punched their ticket to the College World Series for the first time in program history, defeating Oregon State in a narrow – victory after the clock struck midnight in front of their home crowd at Kentucky Proud Park.

Kentucky swept their three-game series with the Beavers following a dominant 10-0 win on Saturday. Having to work a little bit harder for the win on Sunday night and celebrating their momentous victory the proper way. With an epic dog pile on their home field which can be seen below.

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Kentucky continues its postseason dominance, sweeping the Lexington Regional along with the Supers and never trailing during the entirety of the NCAA Tournament. Also getting the monkey off of their backs after being the only SEC program to not make an appearance in the College World Series in Omaha prior to Sunday night’s win.

“All I can think of is to God be the glory,” head coach Nick Mingione said following the win with his emotions clearly moved. “Only he could make something like this happen, so that’s all I can think about is how thankful I am. God gets all the glory, only he can write the story, only he can do this.”

“So proud of our players, our coaches, our staff, our current players, our former players, our former coaches. These fans, come on, they deserve this and so does this group of men”

The Wildcats’ win was highlighted by yet another impressive performance on defense after allowing just one hit in their Game 1 matchup against. Allowing just two hits in Game 2 on Sunday largely thanks to Mason Moore, Cameron O’Brien, and Robert Hogan. Who combined for 8.1 innings pitched, struck out 12 batters, and allowed just one hit via a single off of O’Brien in the seventh inning that didn’t result in any runs.

Nolan McCarthy helped produce the majority of Kentucky’s offense after going 2-for-2 with 2 RBIs on the evening. Also scoring on a heads-up play in the seventh inning from second base following a wild pitch to give the Wildcats the 3-2 lead they needed to secure the win.

Kentucky now awaits the winner of the Athens Regional between Georgia and NC State, who face off on Monday at 7:00 p.m. ET on ESPN in a winner-take-all final that will determine the Wildcats opponent in Omaha.