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  • 1 week ago | thenewsenterprise.com | Jim Pickens

    It has been a thrill-packed, record-breaking season for the Western Kentucky baseball team, which captured its first-ever Conference USA Tournament championship and its first league title of any kind since winning the Sun Belt title in 2008. The rally-from-behind Hilltoppers accomplished the feat by producing three walk-off victories — including a 6-5 conquest of Jacksonville State in the championship game Sunday thanks to an 11th-inning RBI single to by ninth-place hitter Joe Siervo.

  • 1 month ago | sports.yahoo.com | Jim Pickens

    Western Kentucky'a amazing odyssey on the baseball diamond this spring continues apace — but it hasn't been all peaches and cream for the Hilltoppers. Two weeks ago, riding the program's highest national ranking in history — No. 17 in the Baseball America poll — WKU traveled to Boca Raton, Florida and dropped three Conference USA games in quick succession to Florida International.

  • 1 month ago | thenewsenterprise.com | Jim Pickens

    Look for the Western Kentucky football team to go back to the future in 2025. The Hilltoppers, who have appeared in six consecutive FBS bowl games under head coach Tyson Helton, should have more aerial octane in the tank this fall, thanks to the arrival of quarterback Maverick McIvor and offensive coordinator Rick Bowie — both arriving from Abilene Christian University. kAmx? E9C66 D62D@?D H:E9 E96 (:=542ED[ E96 e\7@@E\a |4xG@C 4@>A=6E65 edd @7 `[_gh A2DD6D 7@C g[_`a J2C5D 2?5 eb E@F495@H?D :? 2?

  • 1 month ago | sports.yahoo.com | Jim Pickens

    Look for the Western Kentucky football team to go back to the future in 2025. The Hilltoppers, who have appeared in six consecutive FBS bowl games under head coach Tyson Helton, should have more aerial octane in the tank this fall, thanks to the arrival of quarterback Maverick McIvor and offensive coordinator Rick Bowie — both incoming from Abilene Christian University.

  • 1 month ago | sports.yahoo.com | Jim Pickens

    Western Kentucky continued to be a prominent player in the Football Bowl Subdivision last season, winning eight games, reaching the Conference USA championship game, and playing in a bowl game for the sixth consecutive season under head coach Tyson Helton. For the Hilltoppers to remain relevant in 2025, Helton and Co. will have to do so with a wealth of new players — having been hit hard by those wishing to enter the NCAA transfer portal and by a host of graduated senior standouts.

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