Weekend wrap-up

Posted at 7:07 p.m. EDT - Eric Lindsey, UK Media Relations

The weekend isn't quite over with yet, but let's take a look back at some of the UK Athletics highlights of the weekend:

• Who will lose first? Or will they ever lose? Not to jinx either team, but the longer and longer the volleyball team (10-0) and men's soccer team (4-0-0) keep winning, the more you begin to wonder how far these teams can go without losing a game. The Cats on the volleyball court have been nothing short of dominant. Already off to the second-best start in program history and with a No. 17 national ranking, UK improved its season unbeaten streak to 10 games with three wins at this weekend's Kansas State Tournament. The Cats defeated the likes of Purdue and Portland, but the most impressive feat of the weekend was a 3-1 trouncing of No. 21 host Kansas State on Friday. The start sets up a much-anticipated showdown with Louisville on Wednesday.

• Not a lot of people were talking about the men's soccer team coming into the season, but they should be now. After defeating No. 19 Illinois-Chicago and SIU Edwardsville this weekend at the University of Louisville Invitational, the Cats have started the year 4-0-0. Truthfully, it should come as no surprise considering head coach Ian Collins returned a solid core of players in Barry Rice, Jason Griffiths and goalkeeper Dan Williams, but the X-factor this season could be freshman Matt Lodge. The midfielder, who Collins called his best player in the preseason, already has three goals on the year after netting two Sunday afternoon. Lodge leads the team with seven total points.

• There was no pigskin for the football team this weekend, but Rich Brooks' Cats did manage to pick up nine points in the receiving votes category of the USA Today Top 25 Poll. Technically speaking, the Cats are ranked No. 38. UK did not receive any votes in the AP Top 25. It didn't help that Miami (Ohio), who Kentucky blanked 42-0 in its season opener, failed to score against nationally ranked Boise State.

• The Louisville, Florida and Alabama football games have officially been sold out after student picked up all of their single-game tickets, UK announced Sunday. Sellouts have been nothing new for Kentucky program the last few years, but I'm expecting some of the loudest crowds Commonwealth Stadium has ever housed (think LSU and Louisville in 2007) over the next few weeks. Not only are marquee opponents coming to town, but expectations are starting to boil to an all-time high around the Commonwealth after an impressive season-opening win. If the Cats can win two of three, they'll be well on their way to taking that next step up the ladder in the Southeastern Conference.

• And speaking of football, how about former Wildcat Wesley Woodyard? Just days after being named special teams captain of the Denver Broncos, Woodyard recorded his first career interception just an hour up north in Cincinnati. Woodyard's interception in the first half off of a tipped ball halted one of the Cincinnati Bengals' only opportunities inside Denver territory. Woodyard finished the day with three tackles in one of the wackiest, yet most typical Bengals' game. Ex-Cat Jacob Tamme, now of the Indianapolis Colts, also recorded a catch to start off his second year in the NFL.

• Other notes: the women's golf team finished in eighth place at the Mary Fossum Invitational behind a three-round score of 225 from Ashlee Rose, and women's tennis players Christine Johnston, Megan Broderick and Minnette Pienaar all recorded two wins apiece at the SEC Coaches Classic in Nashville, Tenn.