Kentucky Claims Methodical 6-1 Victory Over Northern Kentucky

It wasn’t the most explosive victory of the season but Kentucky won its fourth consecutive game on Tuesday night, defeating Northern Kentucky 6-1 in the final regular season game at Kentucky Proud Park.

The Wildcats (29-20) will finish their regular season at No. 9 Vanderbilt this Thursday through Saturday.

Kyuss Gargett had two hits and drove in a pair of important insurance runs in the eighth inning and Scott Rouse struck out seven in five innings to tie a season high as the Cats took care of a feisty Northern Kentucky club. James McCoy had a hit and then earned his team-best third save of the season.

Tyler Bell reached safely for the 21^st consecutive game and 48^th time in 49 career games with a clean single and fellow freshman Ryan Schwartz clubbed his first career home run. Bell also stole his 11^th base to go along with Devin Burkes’ 12^th and Luke Lawrence’s 10^th.

NOTES

• Kentucky is 29-20 (13-14 SEC) on the season.
• Kentucky won its 150^th game in Kentucky Proud Park since it opened in 2019.
• UK has hit nine triples in its last seven games.
• UK was hit by one pitch on the day and now have been hit 136 times in 2025.
  • It entered the day ranked third nationally.
  • UK set a new single-season school record for HBP.
  • The last three seasons now are the top three in school history and have totaled 385.
• UK Coach Nick Mingione is in his ninth season at the helm and now owns a 291-186 career record.
  • Mingione is the second-winningest coach in school history.
  • UK is 16-6 this season and 167-50 in total against non-conference opponents in Mingione’s tenure.
  • UK is 52-50 in the month of May under Coach Mingione.
  • Mingione now is 3-1 vs. Northern Kentucky.
• INF Tyler Bell singled to extend his reached base safely to 21 consecutive games.
  • He has reached in 48 of 49 career games.
• UT James McCoy went 1-for-3 with a run and a HBP.
  • He also earned his third save of the season..
• UT Ryan Schwartz has a 15-game reached safely streak.
  • He hit his first career home run.
  • He has a hit in 13 of the 15 straight games he’s reached base.
• IF Kyuss Gargett went 2-for-4 with a run and two RBI.
  • It was his sixth multi-hit and second multi-RBI game of the season.
• C Devin Burkes stole the 42^nd base of his career.
  • He tied Jeff Michael (1990-93), John Shelby (2004-06) and former teammate Ryan Waldschmidt (2023-24) for 10^th on the UK career list.
• RHP Scott Rouse earned his fourth win of the season.
  • He started and worked 5.0 shutout innings, allowing two hits and one walk.
  • He tied his season high with seven strikeouts (vs. Hofstra).

 ON DECK

UK will complete its regular season with a road series at No. 9 Vanderbilt that runs this Thursday through Saturday.