HOOVER, Ala. — LSU went quietly from the Southeastern Conference baseball tournament on Saturday.

The fourth-seeded Tigers managed two hits — none until the seventh inning — while their own pitching struggled to throw strikes in No. 12 seed Kentucky’s 7-2 win in an elimination game.

LSU (38-20) finished the tournament 1-2 as it beat Kentucky 11-6 late Thursday night before being beaten 5-2 by No. 1-ranked Tennessee late Friday night.

“Didn’t play well today,” LSU head coach Jay Johnson said. “We’ll be ready to go next Friday (in the 64-team NCAA Tournament).”

The Tigers, who were trying to do enough in the SEC Tournament to earn a host role for an NCAA Tournament regional, will learn their fate when the field is announced at 11 a.m. Monday.

Kentucky (32-26), considered an NCAA bubble team, advanced to play Tennessee late Saturday night. The Wildcats took two of three from the Volunteers in the regular season.

The Wildcats, who got solo home runs from Jacob Plastiak and Adam Fogel, have won three elimination games and have won multiple tournament games for the first time since 2014.

Kentucky’s Tyler Bosma (4-3), a soft-tossing left-hander, baffled LSU in keeping the Tigers hitless for six innings and finishing with 10 strikeouts.

“He kept us off balance,” said LSU’s Tyler McManus, who broke up the no-hitter. “He went out there and pitched well (but) I think we could have taken a better approach to that and shown up ready to play a little bit better.”

Tré Morgan led off the seventh with a walk and McManus followed with a triple off the top of the wall, missing a home run by inches, but also driving in LSU’s first run.

After a lengthy delay as Kentucky center fielder Josh Thrasher had to be helped off the field after crashing face first into the outfield wall on the play, Braden Jobert got McManus home on a sacrifice fly.

LSU had a chance to make it interesting later in the inning when they got two runners on with Dylan Crews at the plate, but the SEC co-Player of the Year grounded out to second base.

LSU was in a hole early.

Left-hander Jacob Hasty (2-1), a bright spot over the second half of the season but making his first career start, didn’t last the first inning, recording one out while giving up two hits and walking three.

Eric Reyzelman came on to get the inning’s final two outs, limiting the damage to two runs.

But the Wildcats added a solo home run in the second and all but put the game away with pair of runs in the fourth and two more in the fifth.

“He did not have his best stuff, obviously,” Johnson said of Hasty. “Tough for him … but I expect Jacob to be better next weekend.

“I just don’t think we played well. We didn’t get a good start, clearly, from the mound. And then credit Bosma. He just did a nice job.”