CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The College of Kentucky girls’s golf crew is again in motion this week, competing on the Ruth’s Chris Tar Heel Invitational Oct 17-18. Distinctive to this 12 months, the match will happen on the Governs Membership Golf Course in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a par-72, 6,203-yard observe.
The Wildcats will make their first look again on the golf course since successful the Illini Girls’s Invitational final week, whereas the match will mark their final of the autumn season.
The Ruth’s Chris Tar Heel Invitational can be carried out as a 54-hole, stroke-play match, with 36 holes scheduled for a shotgun Monday starting at 9 a.m. ET and 18 holes scheduled for a shotgun Tuesday at 9 a.m. ET.
The sphere options 14 groups, together with two groups in Golfstat’s High 25. The groups are No. 8 Duke, Furman, Kentucky, Louisville, Michigan, Michigan State, host North Carolina, NC State, Princeton, Rollins School, Tennessee, UNCW, Virginia Tech and No. 1 Wake Forest.
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Kentucky is coming of its first match championship since Fall 2020, because the Wildcats recorded a school-record, 30-under-par 830 to high the leaderboard on the Illini Girls’s Invitational at Medinah Nation Membership on Oct 10-11. The Cats additionally broke a faculty file for the bottom crew spherical in program historical past with a 13-under-par 275.
Kentucky will sport the identical fivesome from that match championship this week in Laney Frye, Jensen Fortress, Marissa Wenzler, María Villanueva Aperribay and Ivy Shepherd. The Wildcats have used that mixture in all three of its tournaments up to now this season.
Simply 5 days in the past, Fortress, a senior from West Columbia, South Carolina, put collectively the second-best, 54-hole match whole of her profession on an 11-under-par 205 to earn a share of fourth place. Fortress has paced the lineup within the final two tournaments, averaging a powerful 69.7 scoring common throughout that stretch. 5 of these six rounds have been par-or-better, together with her final 4 straight rounds.
There may be little separation between Fortress and Frye, as each Cats are performing on the high of their sport this season. Frye, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky, has a 70.5 scoring common via 9 rounds in 2022-23. She is coming off a career-best, 54-hole match whole on a 10-under-par 206 to tie for seventh place on the Illini Girls’s Invitational. It marked the second match this fall that she has strung collectively three rounds of par-or-better, whereas it is usually the second top-10 end of the autumn.
Wenzler, who’s second within the lineup for the second straight match, has gotten higher with every match, significantly within the newest occasion. The senior from Dayton, Ohio, who’s taking part in on the high of her sport, pieced collectively rounds of 68, a profession greatest, 69 and 71 final week, taking part in a significant function in Kentucky’s match championship. She scored an 8-under-par 208, a profession greatest, whereas it marked the primary match whole below par of her profession – via 28 rounds in additional than three seasons.
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María Villanueva Aperribay and Ivy Shepherd will anchor the lineup, with Villanueva Aperribay coming off her first 54-hole match whole below par in two seasons and Shepherd ending with a season-best, even par on the occasion. The pair each improved their scoring averages by nearly an entire stroke after their most up-to-date profitable run on the Illini Girls’s Invitational, to the 73.5 and 73.6, respectively.
This can mark the Cats’ seventh all-time look on the Ruth’s Chris Tar Heel Invitational, with their first look occurring in 2007-08. Its greatest end on the occasion got here simply final season, when Kentucky completed in a tie for fifth place on a 1-under-par 863.
The forecast exhibits a slight likelihood of showers and thunderstorms for Monday, nevertheless sunny skies and a excessive of 55 levels for Tuesday.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Clara Strack scored 24 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, Teonni Key had 16 points and 13 rebounds and No. 14 Kentucky defeated Arizona State 77-61 on Tuesday in the Music City Classic to remain unbeaten.
Kentucky nearly had four players with double-doubles as Georgia Amoore added 20 points and nine rebounds and Amelia Hassett had eight points and nine rebounds for the Wildcats (6-0), who shot 42% and scored 13 points off 14 Arizona State turnovers.
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Jalyn Brown scored 16 points and Nevaeh Parkinson added 12 points and nine rebounds for the Sun Devils (3-3). Arizona State shot just 30%.
The Sun Devils cut a 19-point deficit to 11 after three quarters but a 6-0 burst with baskets by Key, Amoore and Strack built the lead back to 15 midway through the fourth.
Kentucky led 42-23 at halftime after outscoring the Sun Devils 27-9 in the second quarter, scoring the first 13 points of the period with Struck putting in the final seven in the run. A couple ASU free throws later, the Wildcats went on an 11-2 run capped by a Hassett 3 and the lead was 20. Strack scored 14 points and Key 10 in the half.
The teams continue play in the Music City Classic on Wednesday with Kentucky playing No. 19 Illinois and Arizona State facing South Dakota.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Rivalry week has finally arrived. The Louisville and Kentucky football program are set to do battle once again, facing off in Lexington for the annual Battle for the Governor’s Cup.
Here are the depth charts for both the Cardinals and Wildcats:
Changes from Louisville’s Depth Chart vs. Pitt:
Quarterback
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9 Tyler Shough (6-5, 230, Gr.) 10 Pierce Clarkson (6-1, 190, R-Fr.) OR 15 Harrison Bailey (6-5, 230, R-Sr.) OR 12 Brady Allen (6-6, 220, R-So)
Running Back
25 Isaac Brown (5-9, 190, Fr.) 21 Donald Chaney Jr. (5-10, 210, R-Jr.) 26 Duke Watson (6-0, 180, Fr.) 22 Keyjuan Brown (5-10, 210, R-Fr.)
Wide Receiver
0 Chris Bell (6-2, 220, Jr.) 81 Cataurus Hicks (5-10, 180, R-Fr.)
Western Kentucky Hilltoppers (3-2) at Kentucky Wildcats (5-0)
Lexington, Kentucky; Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. EST
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BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Wildcats -22.5; over/under is 164
BOTTOM LINE: No. 8 Kentucky takes on Western Kentucky after Koby Brea scored 22 points in Kentucky’s 108-59 win over the Jackson State Tigers.
The Wildcats have gone 4-0 at home. Kentucky is 10th in college basketball averaging 12.6 made 3-pointers per game while shooting 42.3% from downtown. Brea leads the team averaging 4.0 makes while shooting 74.1% from 3-point range.
The Hilltoppers are 0-1 in road games. Western Kentucky ranks third in the CUSA shooting 37.4% from 3-point range.
Kentucky scores 97.0 points, 24.2 more per game than the 72.8 Western Kentucky allows. Western Kentucky averages 9.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.8 more made shots on average than the 6.0 per game Kentucky gives up.
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TOP PERFORMERS: Brea is shooting 74.1% from beyond the arc with 4.0 made 3-pointers per game for the Wildcats, while averaging 16 points.
Julius Thedford averages 2.4 made 3-pointers per game for the Hilltoppers, scoring 11.4 points while shooting 54.5% from beyond the arc.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
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