UK baseball coach Nick Mingione reacted to his team being left out of the NCAA Tournament. Jon Hale, Louisville Courier Journal
LEXINGTON, Ky. - The morning after the Kentucky baseball team learned it would not be playing in the NCAA Tournament, coach Nick Mingione had an emotional meeting with his ace.
A week earlier, junior right-handed pitcher Sean Hjelle, the 2017 Southeastern Conference Pitcher of the Year, had done his best to keep Kentucky’s season alive with 7 1/3 scoreless innings of relief on short rest in an SEC Tournament loss to Auburn.