Homers, Shepherd Pace No. 20 Baseball to Series-Evening Win

Austin Cousino and Micheal Thomas belted home runs in the first inning and Chandler Shepherd worked into the eighth inning for his fourth consecutive win to open the year, leading No. 20 Kentucky to a series-evening 7-2 win over Alabama in the first game of a doubleheader at Sewell-Thomas Stadium on Saturday afternoon.