BOWLING GREEN — A standing-room-only crowd comprised of hundreds of Western Kentucky basketball fans thirsty for national success filled the Harbaugh Stadium Club on Monday morning to greet Steve Lutz, who was introduced as the 16th head coach in Hilltopper history.
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BOWLING GREEN — A standing-room-only crowd comprised of hundreds of Western Kentucky basketball fans thirsty for national success filled the Harbaugh Stadium Club on Monday morning to greet Steve Lutz, who was introduced as the 16th head coach in Hilltopper history.
Former Hopkinsville High School pitcher Easton McGee has been optioned to the Mariners’ Triple-A affiliate and will start the season with the Tacoma Rainiers of the Pacific Coast League (PCL).
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Kentucky’s 2022-23 season came to an end Sunday in Greensboro as sixth-seeded UK fell 75-69 to third-seeded Kansas State in the NCAA Tournament’s Round of 32.
The biggest storyline of Kentucky’s Round of 64 NCAA Tournament matchup with Providence is former Wildcat turned Big East All-First Team selection Bryce Hopkins facing his former team, but the game will also feature a battle between two former Naismith College Coach of the Year honorees.
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Former Hopkinsville High School pitcher Easton McGee has been optioned to the Mariners’ Triple-A affiliate and will start the season with the Tacoma Rainiers of the Pacific Coast League (PCL).
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Kentucky’s 2022-23 season came to an end Sunday in Greensboro as sixth-seeded UK fell 75-69 to third-seeded Kansas State in the NCAA Tournament’s Round of 32.
The biggest storyline of Kentucky’s Round of 64 NCAA Tournament matchup with Providence is former Wildcat turned Big East All-First Team selection Bryce Hopkins facing his former team, but the game will also feature a battle between two former Naismith College Coach of the Year honorees.
LEXINGTON — A familiar face will stand in the way of Kentucky’s attempt to win its first NCAA Tournament game since 2019 when the sixth-seeded Wildcats take on the 11th-seeded Providence Friars in Greensboro, North Carolina, Friday in an East Region Round of 64 matchup.
The Hopkinsville Tigers and Christian County Colonels are getting ready for their respective baseball seasons. The Tigers finished 13-16 last season while the Colonels finished 29-8. Colonels’ head coach Cole Isom said they’d like to win the district and the region again this season. Hopkins…
FAYETTEVILLE, ARK. — In a chippy battle between the Wildcats and Razorbacks at Bud Walton Arena that featured an ejection and three technical fouls called, Kentucky came up victorious, earning a 88-79 win and locking down the No. 3 seed in next week’s SEC Tournament.
LEXINGTON — Kentucky extended its winning streak to four Saturday in dominant fashion as it defeated the Auburn Tigers 86-54 at Rupp Arena.
LEXINGTON — Kentucky missed yet another opportunity to improve its NCAA Tournament resume Tuesday as it suffered a 88-73 home loss to Arkansas in a Quad 1 battle.
Backed against the wall and in desperate need of victories over the final 10 games, Kentucky overcame injury and adversity to record a 75-66 win at Ole Miss on Tuesday.
LEXINGTON — The Kentucky Wildcats overcame an eight-point halftime deficit to pick up its second straight win as it defeated the Georgia Bulldogs 85-71 at Rupp Arena Tuesday night.
LEXINGTON — In what has been a year of a disappointment thus far, Kentucky may have hit rock bottom Tuesday as it lost 71-68 to last-place South Carolina in a game it trailed all night to fall to 10-6 overall, 1-3 in conference play and suffer its first home loss of the season.
The Tennessee Titans hosted the Cincinnati Bengals Sunday afternoon at Nissan Stadium in front of 69,441 as they looked for their third straight win after a 27-17 victory in a Thursday Night Football game at Green Bay Nov. 17 and fell 20-16.
The Tennessee Titans (6-3) hosted the Denver Broncos (3-6) Sunday afternoon in front of 69,240 at Nissan Stadium as they looked to get back to their winning ways and did just that by claiming a 17-10 victory.
The Tennessee Titans welcomed the Las Vegas Raiders to town on Sunday in a battle of two teams both searching for their first win of the season, with the Titans coming out on top 24-22.
The WKU Hilltoppers (3-1) returned to their home field Saturday afternoon at Houchens-Smith Stadium in Bowling Green to take on the FIU Golden Panthers (1-2) in the Hilltoppers Conference USA opener and dominated start to finish with a 73-0 throttling of the Golden Panthers in front of 15,127 fans.
The Tennessee Titans welcomed the New York Giants to Nissan Stadium Sunday afternoon to open the season and fell short by a score 21-20.
LEXINGTON — Sophomore guard Dontaie Allen is leaving the Kentucky basketball program and will enter his name in the transfer portal.
In a loss that was still unfathomable a day later, the University of Kentucky’s once-promising basketball season crashed to a halt roughly 2 hours, 15 minutes after its NCAA Tournament run began in the East Region.
John Calipari nearly always has some complaining to do when the NCAA Tournament brackets are announced.
LEXINGTON — For the sixth time in the John Calipari era, Kentucky finished the regular season undefeated at Rupp Arena after beating Ole Miss 83-72 in the home finale Tuesday. The win improved UK to 24-6 overall and 13-4 in Southeastern Conference play.
DANVILLE — The Hopkinsville Tigers entered Friday night’s contest against Boyle County as the heavy underdogs and the Rebels showed why they are one of the best teams in the state on the field in the game.
Following a 60-yard punt from the John Hardin Bulldogs, the Hopkinsville Tigers — up 14-10 midway through the fourth quarter — were in dangerous territory.
The KHSAA state cross country meet is set to begin on Friday in Paris at Bourbon County Park.
The first round of the Second Region Boys soccer tournament has come to a close, as Christian County fell to Henderson County 4-0 and UHA defeated Lyon County 7-0.
The Christian County Lady Colonels and Trigg County Lady Wildcats were in action on Tuesday night in Henderson, playing for a trip to the Second Region semifinals.
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BOWLING GREEN — Hopkinsville’s Cate Blane and University Heights Academy’s Rheagan Lindsey got in one more tournament in 2020 last week and the pair went to Bowling Green to play in the KHSAA State Golf Tournament.
For University Heights Academy, Tuesday night’s game was just another on the schedule. For Hopkinsville, it was almost like the beginning of the year all over again.
The Christian County Lady Colonels stayed at home this weekend, playing in four volleyball matches in the Wreck at the Plex tournament at the Planter’s Bank-Jennie Stuart Health Sportplex.
Five local teams traveled to Cadiz this weekend to race in the Fenton Dawson Invitational, as all five teams had solid-placing runners in the meet.
After all the dust settled Tuesday at Hopkinsville Golf and Country Club, three local golfers will continue their seasons next week at the state tournament.
MURRAY — Losses like Hopkinsville’s 14-7 loss to Calloway County at Jack D. Rose Stadium on Friday night can teach you a lot about a team.
With Thursday’s All “A” semi-state round against Murray looming, it could’ve been easy for the University Heights Academy Blazers to look over the Hopkins County Central Storm and let their opponents sneak up on them.
With the game tied 1-1, it looked like Hopkinsville was going to get the edge and have the 2-1 lead going into the fourth set.
When the Hopkinsville Lady Tigers needed a goal Tuesday night, Abby Moss stepped up and delivered.
After cruising to victories in its first two contests, the University Heights Academy Lady Blazers had a bigger challenge in front of them.
After losing several players that graduated, the University Heights Academy Lady Blazers had a lot of holes to fill in this year.
Hopkinsville High School Tiger Football coach Craig Clayton is ready for kickoff Friday and wishes it came a lot sooner.
Trigg County Head Coach Mark Peach makes his Wildcat debut on the sidelines Friday night as the team kicks off its season against Ballard Memorial.
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Monday’s rain cast a dreary shadow over athletic fields across the southern Pennyrile but that shadow will remain for the foreseeable future with KHSAA’s mandated dead period for high school athletics.
Tuesday was filled with ups and downs for local teams as the Trigg County Lady Wildcats made history against Caldwell County, and the Hopkinsville Lady Tigers suffered a tough defeat at the hands of the Henderson County Lady Colonels.
The boys’ Eighth District Tournament kicked off at Christian County on Tuesday night.
MORGANFIELD — Christian County did some experimenting in its season finale, trying some new things and maybe adding some wrinkles ahead of the Eighth District Tournament next week.
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Hopkinsville didn’t get out to the start it wanted to Tuesday night, and Lady Tigers’ head coach Anthony Babb made sure his team knew he wasn’t pleased.
Trigg outlasts Dawson Springs in OT
The Hopkinsville Tigers and Lady Tigers walked out of Cadiz with the sweep over Trigg County on Monday night. The boys walked out with a 69-53 win while the girls took home a 40-31 victory.
The Christian County Colonels kept up with Warren Central for the first few minutes of the game, but the experience of the Dragons proved too much for the Cols Monday at CCHS.
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