LEXINGTON, Ky. -- For most of Wednesday's game at Kentucky Proud Park, it appeared wasted opportunities would come back to haunt the Wildcats.

Kentucky had gone 1-for-11 with runners in scoring position and trailed Northern Kentucky 4-1 entering the ninth inning.

The Cats had one last surge left in them, however, scoring four runs in their final trip to the plate to record their first walk-off win, 5-4, at their new home.

Senior catcher Marshall Gei got the rally started with his third hit of the day, a leadoff single, and one out later Zeke Lewis followed suit with a single of his own. From there, Breydon Daniel, TJ Collett and Dalton Reed each came up with RBI hits to send UK home a winner.

In addition to Gei's career-best day at the plate, the Cats also got two hits from Jaren Shelby, Daniel and Reed. It was the fifth multi-hit game in the first eight games of Shelby’s career at UK.

Kentucky (5-3) received a sensational starting effort from sophomore left-hander Mason Hazelwood, who allowed only one hit and struck out 11 Norse batters over six innings of work. He retired the first 16 batters he faced on the day

Alex Degen (1-0) picked up the win with two innings of scoreless relief.

Cameron Ross (0-2) took the loss for Northern Kentucky, allowing two runs without recording an out in the final inning.

The Norse, who had taken the lead with a four-run inning of their own in the top of the seventh, dropped to 0-7 on the season.

Kentucky returns to action on Friday at 1 p.m. ET against Canisius.